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Exodus 20:3

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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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Deuteronomy 5:7Rank 1 from verse 3
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⁷Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Matthew 4:10Rank 2 from verse 3
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¹⁰Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Psalms 81:9Rank 3 from verse 3
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⁹There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Isaiah 46:9Rank 4 from verse 3
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⁹Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Deuteronomy 6:14Rank 5 from verse 3
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¹⁴Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Deuteronomy 6:5Rank 6 from verse 3
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⁵And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Jeremiah 25:6Rank 7 from verse 3
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⁶And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Joshua 24:18–24Rank 8 from verse 3
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¹⁸And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.
¹⁹And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
²⁰If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
²¹And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord.
²²And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
²³Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
²⁴And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
1 John 5:20–21Rank 9 from verse 3
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²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
²¹Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Jeremiah 35:15Rank 10 from verse 3
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¹⁵I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
1 Corinthians 8:6Rank 11 from verse 3
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⁶But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Colossians 2:18Rank 12 from verse 3
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¹⁸Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Ephesians 5:5Rank 13 from verse 3
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⁵For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Exodus 15:11Rank 14 from verse 3
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¹¹Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Isaiah 26:4Rank 15 from verse 3
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⁴Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Philippians 3:19Rank 16 from verse 3
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¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Revelation 19:10Rank 17 from verse 3
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¹⁰And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Exodus 20:23Rank 18 from verse 3
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²³Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Isaiah 43:10Rank 19 from verse 3
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¹⁰Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 44:8Rank 20 from verse 3
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⁸Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Psalms 29:2Rank 21 from verse 3
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²Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms 73:25Rank 22 from verse 3
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²⁵Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
2 Kings 17:29–35Rank 23 from verse 3
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²⁹Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
³⁰And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
³¹And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
³²So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
³³They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
³⁴Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
³⁵With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
Revelation 22:9Rank 24 from verse 3
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⁹Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
1 Corinthians 8:4Rank 25 from verse 3
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⁴As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Isaiah 45:21–22Rank 26 from verse 3
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²¹Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

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Exodus 20:3

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thou

The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

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before

Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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^20:1AND God spake all these words, saying,

^20:2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

^20:3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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^20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

^20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

^20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

^20:7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

^20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

^20:9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

^20:10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

^20:11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

^20:12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

^20:13Thou shalt not kill.

^20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

^20:15Thou shalt not steal.

^20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

^20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.