Deuteronomy 9:4-5

Not Because of Righteousness

4 c "Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is d because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. 5 e Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm f the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:17
    Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:12
    For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
    Leviticus 18:24 - 25
    Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean.
    Leviticus 20:23
    And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
    Deuteronomy 20:18
    That they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.
  3. Cross References
    Titus 3:5
    He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 50:24
    And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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