Deuteronomy 5:7
You shall not have strange gods in my sight.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
In Context
6‘I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude.
Cross References
Exodus 20:3You shall not have strange gods before me.
Deuteronomy 11:16Be careful, lest perhaps your heart may be deceived, and you might withdraw from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.
Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan. For it has been written: ‘You shall adore the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”
1 John 5:21Little sons, keep yourselves from false worship. Amen.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →