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Deuteronomy 12:8
Deuteronomy 12:8 is verse 8 of Deuteronomy chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
King James Version
Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
World English Bible
You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
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Deuteronomy 12:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
7 There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
8 You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
9 For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 21:2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?