Cross references

Deuteronomy 9:4

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:4 BSB

Deuteronomy 9:4 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 8:17 (6 votes) and Deuteronomy 9:5 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 15 to Titus 3.

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Which verses does Deuteronomy 9:4 point to?

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  1. You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

  2. It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  3. When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, …

  4. He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

  5. Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. …

  6. For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  7. In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

  8. The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  9. You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  10. And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

Which verses point to Deuteronomy 9:4?

The 10 strongest of 12.