Bible Verses About Compared To Saints

If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.

But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.

Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?

And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.