Deuteronomy 9:4
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4 (A)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is (B)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.
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Deuteronomy 9:5
New King James Version
5 (A)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may [a]fulfill the (B)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Joshua 3:10
New King James Version
10 And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that (A)the living God is among you, and that He will without fail (B)drive out from before you the (C)Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites:
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