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

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General references

Lamentations 3:31

Bible References

For his great

Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people.

And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them.

I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men,

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall surround us, and shall cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?

But He saved them for His name's sake, to make His mighty power known.

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

I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.

O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations among whom they were, for I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.

It hath

And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine.

Jehovah did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land. But for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the Word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.

I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says Jehovah; yet I loved Jacob,

Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

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

For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,

General references

For the Lord will not cast off forever;