1 Samuel 12:22

The Lord will not forsake His people, for His great name's sake and because He chose to make them His own. God's faithfulness rests on His own character.

Cross-references · 38

• Deut 14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Ps 106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• Deut 7:7–8Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
• 1 Kgs 6:13I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
• Rom 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
• Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
• Ps 94:14For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
• Josh 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
• Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast off forever.
• Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
• Ezek 20:14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Matt 11:26Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Exod 32:12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
• Jer 33:24–26“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• 2 Chr 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
• John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• Mal 1:2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• Num 14:13–19Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
• Deut 32:26–27I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
• Lam 5:20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
• Isa 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Isa 48:11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
• Deut 9:5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• Jer 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
• Deut 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
• 2 Kgs 21:14I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,
• Isa 37:35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Rom 9:13–18Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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