Deuteronomy 9:5

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Not for thy righteousness {H6666}, or for the uprightness {H3476} of thine heart {H3824}, dost thou go {H935} to possess {H3423} their land {H776}: but for the wickedness {H7564} of these nations {H1471} the LORD {H3068} thy God {H430} doth drive them out {H3423} from before {H6440} thee, and that he may perform {H6965} the word {H1697} which the LORD {H3068} sware {H7650} unto thy fathers {H1}, Abraham {H85}, Isaac {H3327}, and Jacob {H3290}.

It is not because of your righteousness, or because your heart is so upright, that you go in to take possession of their land; but to punish the wickedness of these nations that ADONAI your God is driving them out ahead of you, and also to confirm the word which ADONAI swore to your ancestors, Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Cross-References

  • Titus 3:5 (7 votes)

    Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

  • Genesis 26:4 (5 votes)

    And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

  • Genesis 17:8 (5 votes)

    And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • Genesis 15:7 (4 votes)

    ¶ And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

  • Genesis 12:7 (4 votes)

    And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

  • Genesis 13:15 (4 votes)

    For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

  • Ezekiel 20:14 (3 votes)

    But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.