Deuteronomy 9:4

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Summary

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Speak not

For the wickedness

General references

Deuteronomy 18:12

Bible References

Speak not

It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

For the wickedness

You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you.

Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

General references

For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you.