Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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

References

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Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Worshiping The True God

23 Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. 25 If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him.


Cross References

Exodus 24:17

And the fashion of the glory of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Therefore shalt thou know this day, that the LORD thy God goeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.

Exodus 20:5

See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Deuteronomy 6:15

For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you - lest the wrath of the LORD thy God wax hot upon thee and destroy thee from the earth.

Exodus 34:14

for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called jealous, because he is a jealous God:

Deuteronomy 29:20

"And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven,

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners at Zion are afraid, and a sudden fearfulness is come upon the hypocrites. "What is he among us," say they, "that will dwell by that consuming fire? Which of us may abide that everlasting heat?"

Isaiah 42:8

Even I am the LORD, and this is my name: and my glory will I give to none other, neither mine honour to graven images.

Nahum 1:2

The LORD is a jealous God, and a taker of vengeance: yea, a taker of vengeance is the LORD, and wrathful. The LORD taketh vengeance of his enemies, and reserveth displeasure for his adversaries.

Nahum 1:6

Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Deuteronomy 5:9

Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me:

Deuteronomy 32:16

They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

Psalm 21:9

Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

Psalm 78:58

And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

Isaiah 30:27

Behold, the glory of the LORD shall come from far, his face shall burn, that no man shall be able to abide it, his lips shall wag for very indignation, and his tongue shall be as a consuming fire.

Isaiah 30:33

For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Jeremiah 21:12-14

O house of David, for thus sayeth the LORD: Minister righteousness, and that soon. Deliver the oppressed from violent power: before my terrible wrath break out like a fire, and burn so that no man may quench it, because of the wickedness of your imaginations.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore ye shall wait upon me, sayeth the LORD, until the time that I stand up: for I am determined, to gather the people and to bring the kingdoms together, that I may pour out mine anger, yea all my wrathful displeasure upon them. For all the world shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

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