1 Samuel 12:22

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Summary

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

For his great

It hath

General references

Lamentations 3:31

Bible References

For his great

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and relent of this evil against thy people.

And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?

Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it. For how should [my name] be profaned? And I not will give my glory to another.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

It hath

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, do thou go in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations LORD thy God drives them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which LO

For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God, and LORD has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

I have loved you, says LORD. Yet ye say, How have thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,

Yea, Father, because this way it was done pleasing in thy sight.

Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

General references

For LORD will not cast off forever.