Speak not

Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not by 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 will drive out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 7:7, 8
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:17
You may say in your heart, "The power and the strength of my hand has made this wealth for me."

Ezekiel 36:22, 32
Therefore, tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. . . .

Romans 11:6, 20
And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:4, 7
My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me. . . .

Ephesians 2:4, 5
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, . . .

2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our own works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time eternal.

Titus 3:3-5
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. . . .

for the wickedness

Deuteronomy 12:31
You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12
For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

Leviticus 18:24, 25
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. . . .