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Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Forbidden

17 verses · 51 aspects

Verses on Forbidden

  1. You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods.

  2. Be careful not to make a covenant with the people living in the land where you are going, so that they won't become a snare within your own borders.

  3. When he does this, when ADONAI your God hands them over ahead of you, and you defeat them, you are to destroy them completely! Do not make any covenant with them. Show them no mercy.

  4. Don't intermarry with them -don't give your daughter to his son, and don't take his daughter for your son.

  5. "If your brother the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife whom you love, or your friend who means as much to you as yourself, secretly tries to entice you to go and serve other gods, which you haven't known, neither you nor your ancestors -

  6. you are not to consent, and you are not to listen to him; and you must not pity him or spare him; and you may not conceal him.

  7. "Therefore be very firm about keeping and doing everything written in the book of the Torah of Moshe and not turning aside from it either to the right or to the left.

  8. Then you won't become like those nations remaining among you. Don't even mention the name of their gods, let alone have people swear by them, serve them or worship them;

  9. you, for your part, are not to make any covenant with the inhabitants of this land but must tear down their altars.' However, you have paid no attention to what I said. What is this you have done?

  10. Therefore, you are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons; and you are not to promote their peace or prosperity ever. Only in this way will you grow strong, enjoy the good things of the land and leave it as a lasting inheritance to your children.'

  11. My son, if sinners entice you, don't go along with them.

  12. my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their path;

  13. Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness?

  14. What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

  15. What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said, “I will house myself in them, . . . and I will walk among you. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

  16. Therefore Adonai says, “‘Go out from their midst; separate yourselves; don’t even touch what is unclean. Then I myself will receive you.

  17. Have nothing to do with the deeds produced by darkness, but instead expose them,