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 do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people.

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

and the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land do hear, and have come round against us, and cut off our name out of the earth; and what dost Thou do for Thy great name?'

And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'

I -- I am He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.

For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do it, For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.

Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they are, Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

It hath

And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye are the least of all the peoples,

not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;

for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.

I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, 'In what hast Thou loved us?'

Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.

'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

General references

For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.