1 Samuel 2:9

God guards the steps of His faithful ones while the wicked perish in darkness, for no one prevails by mere strength. Security rests in the Lord, not in human might.

Cross-references · 30

• Ps 91:11–12For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
• Ps 121:3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• Ps 33:16–17There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
• 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Job 5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
• Ps 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Ps 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
• Zech 4:6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Deut 33:3Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
• Ps 37:23–24The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
• Prov 16:9A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
• Ps 121:8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
• Eccl 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
• Zeph 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
• Prov 3:26For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
• Matt 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Eccl 5:17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
• Prov 2:8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
• Ps 121:5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
• 1 Sam 17:49–50And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
• Jer 9:23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
• Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
• Matt 22:12–13And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
• Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Jude 1:13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Jer 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

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