Joshua 24:16

Joshua 24:16
The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

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Genesis 2:16
Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

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Genesis 2:17
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Exodus 19:8
All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

Exodus 35:29
The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

Deuteronomy 26:17
You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 26:18
Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 29:10
All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11
your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

Deuteronomy 29:12
that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

Deuteronomy 29:13
that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29:14
Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

Deuteronomy 29:15
but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

Psalms 95:7
for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Psalms 100:3
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalms 105:7
He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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Genesis 18:25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 34:10
“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

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Exodus 34:13
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

Exodus 34:14
for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Deuteronomy 8:19
It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

Deuteronomy 11:16
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

Deuteronomy 28:14
and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 30:17
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Joshua 23:7
that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Joshua 23:16
when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”

Judges 2:19
But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

Judges 10:13
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do to you.

1 Kings 9:6
But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Exodus 20:2
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

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 20:6
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Exodus 34:12
Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

Leviticus 19:4
“ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 26:1
“ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 7:4
For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

1 Samuel 26:9
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:10
David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 26:11
Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

1 Chronicles 11:19
and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

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1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

1 Kings 18:23
Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

1 Kings 18:24
You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”

1 Kings 18:36
At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

1 Kings 18:37
Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

1 Kings 18:38
Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

1 Kings 18:39
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

Isaiah 43:9
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

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2 Kings 17:32
So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

2 Kings 17:33
They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

2 Kings 17:41
So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

Hosea 7:8
Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Revelation 3:16
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

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Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Isaiah 56:4
For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

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Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Joshua 24:26
Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

Joshua 24:27
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

Joshua 24:28
So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

Ruth 1:8
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Luke 14:25
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.

Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

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Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Romans 11:1
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:11
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Galatians 2:17
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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