Bible Cross References
go back
Psalm 36:3
Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.
Psalm 125:5
But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!
Isaiah 1:4
You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.
Ezekiel 18:24
"But if a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing all the evil, disgusting things that evil people do, will he go on living? No! None of the good he did will be remembered. He will die because of his unfaithfulness and his sins.
Zephaniah 1:6
I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."
Matthew 12:45
Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."
John 6:66
Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.
Hebrews 10:38
My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."
Hebrews 10:39
We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.
2 Peter 2:18-22
18
They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
19
They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits---for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.
20
If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
21
It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
22
What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."
1 John 2:9
If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.
cleave
Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.
Genesis 34:3
But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.
1 Samuel 18:1-3
1
Saul and David finished their conversation. After that, Saul's son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself.
2
Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him go back home.
3
Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him.
1 Kings 11:2
He married them even though the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.
Romans 12:9
Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good.
shall make
Exodus 34:12-16
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Do not make any treaties with the people of the country into which you are going, because this could be a fatal trap for you.
13
Instead, tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.
14
"Do not worship any other god, because I, the LORD, tolerate no rivals.
15
Do not make any treaties with the people of the country, because when they worship their pagan gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you to join them, and you will be tempted to eat the food they offer to their gods.
16
Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.
Deuteronomy 7:3
Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,
1 Kings 11:4
and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
Ezra 9:1
After all this had been done, some of the leaders of the people of Israel came and told me that the people, the priests, and the Levites had not kept themselves separate from the people in the neighboring countries of Ammon, Moab, and Egypt or from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Amorites. They were doing the same disgusting things which these people did.
Ezra 9:2
Jewish men were marrying foreign women, and so God's holy people had become contaminated. The leaders and officials were the chief offenders.
Ezra 9:11
that you gave us through your servants, the prophets. They told us that the land we were going to occupy was an impure land because the people who lived in it filled it from one end to the other with disgusting, filthy actions.
Ezra 9:12
They told us that we were never to intermarry with those people and never to help them prosper or succeed if we wanted to enjoy the land and pass it on to our descendants forever.
Nehemiah 13:23-26
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At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
24
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or some other language and didn't know how to speak our language.
25
I reprimanded the men, called down curses on them, beat them, and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath in God's name that never again would they or their children intermarry with foreigners.
26
I told them, "It was foreign women that made King Solomon sin. Here was a man who was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him and made him king over all of Israel, and yet he fell into this sin.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
14
Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together?
15
How can Christ and the Devil agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16
How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, "I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
17
And so the Lord says, "You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you.