Deuteronomy 5:7
You shall have no other gods before Me.
BSB
ASV
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
KJV
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
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Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
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Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.
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“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
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John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
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Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.