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 will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
• Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
• Ps 33:16–17There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Job 5:24You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
• Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
• Zech 4:6Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
• Deut 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
• Ps 37:23–24A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
• Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
• Ps 121:8Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
• 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 favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
• Zeph 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Prov 3:26for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
• Matt 8:12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• Eccl 5:17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
• Prov 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
• Ps 121:5Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
• 1 Sam 17:49–50David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• Jer 9:23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Matt 22:12–13and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
• Job 5:16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

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