Deu 7:1-2 "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them . . . ."
Let's view this as the nations representing our corrupt natures. They are not peoples we are to conquer, but our tendencies toward corrupt, unkind actions and words.
We do need to destroy those things. We do need to wipe them off the face of our personality. We are to war ruthlessly against ways that are not God's ways, and thoughts which are not God's thoughts. We can leave none of them alive. They will destroy us if we do.
