Exodus 23:29-33
29 aI will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 bAnd I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, ▼▼Hebrew the River
for dI will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 eYou shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, fit will surely be a snare to you.” Numbers 33:52-56
52then gyou shall drive out hall the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their ifigured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. 54 jYou shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. kTo a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. 55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as lbarbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. 56And I will do to you mas I thought to do to them.”Joshua 15:63
63But the nJebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, othe people of Judah could not drive out, pso the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.Joshua 16:10
10However, qthey did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made rto do forced labor.Judges 1:27-28
Failure to Complete the Conquest
27 sManasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 28When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.Romans 6:12-14
12Let not tsin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 uDo not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but vpresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For wsin xwill have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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