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

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land. But for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the Word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jehovah did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.

and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

But if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it is of works, then it is no more of grace; otherwise work is no more work.

for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for 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 given us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

For the wickedness

You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

For all that do these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Do not defile yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

General references

For all that do these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.