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 say, "He brought them out with an evil intention to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your anger and change your mind about the calamity against your people.

But Moses responded to the LORD, "When Egypt hears that you've brought this people out from among them with a mighty demonstration of power,

"I said, "I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race,

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, will surround us, and eliminate us from the earth! Then what will you do about your great reputation?"

He delivered for the sake of his name, to make his power known.

"because I will defend this city and deliver it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!'"

"I, I am the one who blots out your transgression for my own sake, and I'll remember your sins no more.

For my own sake Yes, for my own sake! I'm doing it; indeed, how can I be profaned? Furthermore, I won't give my glory to another."

LORD,even though our iniquities testify against us, do something for the sake of your name. Indeed, our apostasies are many, and we have sinned against you.

I did this so my reputation might not be tarnished among the nations where they were living, among whom I made myself known in their presence when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

It hath

And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,

"It wasn't because you were more numerous than other people of the earth that the LORD committed himself to you and chose you. In fact, you were the least numerous of all the nations.

On the contrary, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you to confirm what the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the nations of the earth."

"I've loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, "How have you loved us?'

Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

So it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

For God's gifts and calling never change.

For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

General references

Indeed, the Lord will not always reject us