Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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].

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.

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.

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 Watch [out] for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had {made} with you and make for yourselves a divine image [of] the form of anything that Yahweh your God {has forbidden}, 24 for Yahweh your God [is] a devouring fire, a jealous God. 25 "When you have had children and {grandchildren} and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image [of] the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, [thus] provoking him to anger,

Cross References

Exodus 24:17

And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh [was] like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the {Israelites}.

Deuteronomy 9:3

You should know {today} that Yahweh your God is the one crossing {ahead of you} [as] a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, {just as} Yahweh {promised} you.

Hebrews 12:29

For indeed our God [is] a consuming fire.

Exodus 20:5

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I [am] Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing [the] guilt of [the] parents on the children on [the] third and on [the] fourth [generations] of those hating me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for Yahweh your God [is] a jealous god in your midst, {so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled}, and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.

Exodus 34:14

For you will not bow in worship to another god, for 'Yahweh [Is] Jealous' is his name, he [is] a jealous God,

Deuteronomy 29:20

Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.

Isaiah 33:14

Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized [the] godless: "Who of us can {live} [with] devouring fire? Who of us can {live} [with] everlasting consuming hearths?"

Isaiah 42:8

I [am] Yahweh; that [is] my name, and I do not give my glory to another, nor my praise to the idols.

Nahum 1:2

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and {full of wrath}. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.

Nahum 1:6

His indignation--who can stand before it? Who can endure {his fierce anger}? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.

Deuteronomy 5:9

'You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, [am] a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon [their] children and upon [the] third and upon [the] fourth generation of [those] hating me,

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They annoyed me with [what is] not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with [those] not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

Isaiah 30:27

Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning [with] his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full [of] indignation, and his tongue [is] like a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood {abundant}. The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.

Jeremiah 21:12-14

O house of David, thus says Yahweh, "Execute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from [the] hand of [the] oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no [one who] quenches [it] because of the evil of your deeds.

Zephaniah 3:8

"Therefore, wait for me"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision [is] to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

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