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Bible in Basic English

For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

King James Version

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Holman Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

International Standard Version

Indeed, the LORD your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God."

A Conservative Version

For LORD thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Amplified

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His].

Darby Translation

For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Julia Smith Translation

For Jehovah thy God he is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

King James 2000

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for Yahweh your God [is] a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Modern King James verseion

For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.

NET Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

The Emphasized Bible

seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, - a jealous GOD.

Webster

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

World English Bible

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Youngs Literal Translation

for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

is a consuming
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

קנּא 
Qanna' 
Usage: 6

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Context Readings

Worshiping The True God

23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you. 24 For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other. 25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:


Cross References

Exodus 24:17

And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is an all-burning fire.

Exodus 20:5

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Deuteronomy 6:15

For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

Exodus 34:14

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

Nahum 1:6

Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Deuteronomy 32:16

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

Psalm 78:58

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:

Isaiah 30:33

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

Jeremiah 21:12-14

O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Zephaniah 3:8

For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

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