Thematic Bible: Example of steadfastness


Thematic Bible



For the Lord GOD helps me, so I won't be disgraced. Therefore I've made my face like flint, and I know that I won't be put to shame."


My feet stay where his footsteps lead; I kept on his pathway and haven't turned aside.


But the man of God replied to the king, "Even if you were to offer me half of your house, I wouldn't go with you, and I'm sure not going to eat even a piece of bread or drink water in this place,

because he depended on the LORD, not abandoning pursuit of him, and keeping the LORD's commands that he had commanded Moses.


Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.




When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.


He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, living the way his ancestor David had lived, turning neither to the right nor to the left.


But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."




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