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}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people.

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power,

I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear [of this], and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?"

Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.

'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'"

I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.

For my own sake, for my own sake I do [it]; for why should it be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another."

Although our iniquities testify against us, Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you.

"But I acted for the sake of my name {to keep it from being profaned} before the eyes of the nations {among whom they lived}, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,

It hath

And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},

"Yahweh loved you and chose you not {because of your great number} exceeding all [other] peoples, for you [are] fewer than all of the peoples,

[It is] not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart [that] you [are] coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God [is] driving them {before you}, and in order to confirm the {promise} that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

For you [are] a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from [among] all [of] the peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

"I have loved you," says Yahweh, but you say, "How have you loved us?" "[Is] Esau not Jacob's brother?" {declares} Yahweh. "I have loved Jacob,

Yes, Father, for [to do] so {was your gracious will}.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

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

For the gifts and the calling of God [are] irrevocable.

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

convinced of this same [thing], that the one who began a good work in you will finish [it] until the day of Christ Jesus,

General references

For the Lord will not reject forever.