“Know therefore that the LORD your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 9 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.