Leviticus 18:3 Cross References
Leviticus 18:3
3: So do not act like the people in Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am taking you. You must not imitate their way of life.
Ezekiel 20:7
- Then I said to them, `Each of you, get rid of your idols. Do not defile yourselves with the Egyptian gods, for I am the LORD your God.'
- "But they rebelled against me and would not listen. They did not get rid of their idols or forsake the gods of Egypt. Then I threatened to pour out my fury on them to satisfy my anger while they were still in Egypt.
Exodus 23:24
- Do not worship the gods of these other nations or serve them in any way, and never follow their evil example. Instead, you must utterly conquer them and break down their shameful idols.
Leviticus 20:23
- Do not live by the customs of the people whom I will expel before you. It is because they do these terrible things that I detest them so much.
Ezekiel 23:8
- For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians satisfied their lusts with her and robbed her of her virginity.
1 Peter 4:2
- And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
- You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
- Of course, your former friends are very surprised when you no longer join them in the wicked things they do, and they say evil things about you.
Deuteronomy 12:30
- do not be trapped into following their example in worshiping their gods. Do not say, `How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.'
- You must not do this to the LORD your God. These nations have committed many detestable acts that the LORD hates, all in the name of their gods. They have even burned their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:4
- "Do not worship the LORD your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods.
Romans 12:2
- Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.
Jeremiah 10:2
- This is what the LORD says: "Do not act like other nations who try to read their future in the stars. Do not be afraid of their predictions, even though other nations are terrified by them.
- Their ways are futile and foolish. They cut down a tree and carve an idol.
Psalms 106:35
- Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.
Ephesians 5:7
- Don't participate in the things these people do.
- For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it!
- For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
- Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
- Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.
Leviticus 18:24
- "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
- As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
- You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
- "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
- Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.