Deuteronomy 6:15 “For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise t…”

Deuteronomy 6:15

For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

World English Bible

for the LORD your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

American Standard Version

for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Geneva Bible 1599

(For the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

Darby Translation

for Jehovah thy God is a jealous God in thy midst; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from the face of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

for a zealous God [is] Jehovah thy God in thy midst — lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

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Cross references

“is a jealous”

Deuteronomy 4:24 Exodus 20:5 Amos 3:2 1 Corinthians 10:22

Deuteronomy 4:24 · BSB

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Amos 3:2 · BSB

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

“lest”

Deuteronomy 7:4 Deuteronomy 11:17 Numbers 32:10–15 2 Chronicles 36:16 Psalm 90:7 Psalm 90:11

Deuteronomy 7:4 · BSB

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 11:17 · BSB

or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

Numbers 32:10–15 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

2 Chronicles 36:16 · BSB

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Psalm 90:7 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalm 90:11 · BSB

Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

“destroy”

Genesis 7:4 Exodus 32:12 1 Kings 13:34 Amos 9:8

Genesis 7:4 · BSB

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

Exodus 32:12 · BSB

Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

1 Kings 13:34 · BSB

And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

Amos 9:8 · BSB

Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

Also

Deuteronomy 5:9

Deuteronomy 5:9 · BSB

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

Read Deuteronomy 6