Deuteronomy 12:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Deuteronomy 12:8 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Ye do not do according to all that we are doing here to-day, each anything that is right in his own eyes,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 12:8 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
- Joshua 3:9So Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”
- Joshua 5:5Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
- Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 21:2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
- Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).