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.
I was ashamed
His power and his wrath
Bible References
I was ashamed
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.
2 Corinthians 7:14
and because if I boasted of any thing to him concerning you, I was not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so likewise our boasting of you to Titus was truth.
His power and his wrath
Hebrews 10:38
and the just shall live by faith, but if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
1 Peter 3:12
let him seek peace, and pursue it: for the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."