Deuteronomy 13:6

Even a beloved family member or closest friend who secretly entices Israel to serve other gods must not be spared. Loyalty to God outweighs every human tie.

Cross-references · 28

• Deut 17:2–7If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
• Eph 4:14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
• 2 Pet 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• 1 Jn 2:26–27These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
• Mic 7:5–7Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
• Prov 18:24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
• 1 Sam 18:1And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• Deut 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Rev 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
• 1 Sam 18:3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
• Matt 12:48–50But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
• Deut 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
• 1 Kgs 11:5–7For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
• 1 Sam 20:17And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
• Judg 2:13And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
• Judg 10:6And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
• Job 31:27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
• Gal 2:4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• Rev 13:14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
• Deut 32:16–18They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
• 2 Cor 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
• Col 2:4And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
• Judg 5:8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
• Gen 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
• 2 Kgs 17:30–31And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
• 2 Sam 1:26I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
• Prov 5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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