1 Samuel 12:22

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Summary

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 his great

It hath

General references

Lamentations 3:31

Bible References

For his great

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,

I will remove the memory of them from men,”

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.

‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins.

“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
For how can My name be profaned?
And My glory I will not give to another.

“Although our iniquities testify against us,
O Lord, act for Your name’s sake!
Truly our apostasies have been many,
We have sinned against You.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

It hath

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob;

Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

General references

For the Lord will not reject forever,