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1 Samuel 12:22

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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 the LORD {H3068} will not forsake {H5203} his people {H5971} for his great {H1419} name's {H8034} sake: because it hath pleased {H2974} the LORD {H3068} to make {H6213} you his people {H5971}.

For the sake of his great reputation, ADONAI will not abandon his people; because it has pleased ADONAI to make you a people for himself.

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.

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Cross-References

  • Philippians 1:6 (9 votes)

    Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:

  • Deuteronomy 14:2 (9 votes)

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

  • Psalms 106:8 (9 votes)

    Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

  • Deuteronomy 7:7 (9 votes)

    The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:

  • Deuteronomy 7:8 (9 votes)

    But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • 1 Kings 6:13 (8 votes)

    And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

  • Romans 11:29 (7 votes)

    For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.