Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD 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.

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.

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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Watsons

Context Readings

Worshiping The True God

23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. 25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger;


Cross References

Exodus 24:17

The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Know therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Isaiah 42:8

"I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

Nahum 1:2

The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth [generation] of those who hate me;

Deuteronomy 32:16

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Isaiah 30:27

Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The LORD's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Jeremiah 21:12-14

'House of David, thus says the LORD, "Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Zephaniah 3:8

"Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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