Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.