Psalms 81:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.”
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“There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 81:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.
- Deuteronomy 6:14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
- Deuteronomy 32:12The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
- 1 Kings 22:19Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
- Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- Psalms 50:7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
- Isaiah 28:23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.
- Isaiah 43:12I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
- Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
- Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
- 1 Corinthians 8:5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
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