Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

His power and his wrath

Bible References

I was ashamed

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.
2 Corinthians 7:14
For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth.

His power and his wrath

Hebrews 10:38
"But My righteous one shall live by faith, and, if he draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him."
1 Peter 3:12
because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are toward their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."