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Psalms 81:9
Psalms 81:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 81, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
King James Version
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
World English Bible
There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
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Psalms 81:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
1 Corinthians 8:5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
1 Corinthians 8:6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
Deuteronomy 6:14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
Deuteronomy 32:12The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
Isaiah 43:12I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.