Thematic Bible: Evil example to be shunned


Thematic Bible



Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.

And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out {from before you}, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate; lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself.


"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.

Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.


Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.

And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out {from before you}, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate; lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself.


"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.

Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.