Psalms 23:4

Even in the valley of deep darkness the believer fears no evil, because God is present with rod and staff to protect and comfort. God's nearness conquers fear, even of death.

Cross-references · 26

• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ps 118:6Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
• Ps 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
• Isa 43:1–2But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
• Ps 3:6I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
• Ps 46:1–3For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• 1 Cor 15:55–57“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
• Mic 7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Ps 27:1–4By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
• Acts 18:9–10The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
• Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
• Job 10:21–22before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
• Ps 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
• Ps 44:19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
• Zech 11:10I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
• Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
• Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
• Ps 110:2Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
• Job 24:17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
• Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
• Zech 8:23Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
• Zech 11:14Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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