Alliance and Society With the Enemies of God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 2 Chronicles 19:2 OT

  Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

• Ezra 9:13 OT

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Ezra 9:14 OT

  shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?

• Psalms 106:29 OT

  Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

• Psalms 106:40 OT

  Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

• Isaiah 2:6 OT

  For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

• Joshua 23:12 OT

  “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

• Joshua 23:13 OT

  know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land…

• Judges 2:1-3 OT

  Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you. You shall make no covenant with the…

• Exodus 23:33 OT

  They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

• Numbers 25:18 OT

  for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of…

• Deuteronomy 12:30 OT

  be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

• Psalms 106:36 OT

  They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

• 2 Peter 2:18 NT

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

• 2 Peter 2:19 NT

  promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

• Ezra 9:1 OT

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the…

• Ezra 9:2 OT

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Isaiah 1:23 OT

  Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Proverbs 29:24 OT

  Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

• Hebrews 12:14 NT

  Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

• Hebrews 12:15 NT

  looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

• 2 Peter 3:17 NT

  You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

• 1 Corinthians 15:33 NT

  Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

• Proverbs 12:11 OT

  He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.