Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Bible References

Ye cannot

Joshua 24:23
"Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."
Ruth 1:15
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."
Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
Luke 14:25
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

Holy

Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
Leviticus 19:2
"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
1 Samuel 6:20
The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"
Psalm 99:5
Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
Isaiah 5:16
but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 6:3
One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

A jealous

Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh 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,
Exodus 34:14
for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

He will not

Exodus 23:21
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
1 Samuel 3:14
Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever."
2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.