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Exodus 23:21
Exodus 23:21 is verse 21 of Exodus chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
King James Version
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
World English Bible
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
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Exodus 23:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
20 Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
21 Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
22 But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
23 For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
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Hebrews 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Psalms 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
Hebrews 3:16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
Exodus 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
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Joshua 24:19But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
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Hebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Hebrews 10:26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
Hebrews 10:27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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1 John 5:16If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
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Exodus 34:5And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
Exodus 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
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Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.