Bible Verses About Company: Evil

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

They are not to live in your land; otherwise they will make you sin against me by ensnaring you to serve their gods."

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.

Rather, you are to demolish their altars, smash their standing-stones and cut down their sacred poles;

because you are not to bow down to any other god; since ADONAI -whose very name is Jealous -is a jealous God.

Do not make a covenant with the people living in the land. It will cause you to go astray after their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Then they will invite you to join them in eating their sacrifices,

"Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!"

They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?"

ADONAI answered Moshe,

"Tell the assembly to move away from the homes of Korach, Datan and Aviram."

Moshe got up and went to Datan and Aviram, and the leaders of Isra'el followed him.

There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins."

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.

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

For he will turn your children away from following me in order to serve other gods. If this happens, the anger of ADONAI will flare up against you, and he will quickly destroy you.

"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.

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;

but cling to ADONAI your God, as you have done to this day.

This is why ADONAI has driven out great, strong nations ahead of you; and it explains why no one has prevailed against you to this day,

why one man of you has chased a thousand - it is because ADONAI your God has fought on your behalf, as he said to you.

"Therefore take great care to love ADONAI your God.

Otherwise, if you retreat and cling to the remnant of these other nations remaining among you, if you make marriages with them and have children with them and they with you,

know for certain that ADONAI your God will stop driving out these nations from your sight. Instead, they will become a snare and a trap for you, whipping your sides and pricking your eyes, until you perish from this good land which ADONAI your God has given you.

Now the angel of ADONAI came up from Gilgal to Bokhim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt, led you to the land I swore to your fathers and said, 'I will never break my covenant with you;

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?