But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

go back

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Ezekiel 18:24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

Matthew 12:45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

John 6:66 After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

Hebrews 10:38,39 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. . . .

2 Peter 2:18-22 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: . . .

1 John 2:9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

cleave

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 34:3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

1 Samuel 18:1-3 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. . . .

1 Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

shall make

Exodus 34:12-16 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: . . .

Deuteronomy 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

1 Kings 11:4 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

Ezra 9:1,2,11,12 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Nehemiah 13:23-26 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:15-17 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? . . .