because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
Parallel translations
- KJV Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
- BSB because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
- NKJV Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.
- NASB Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.
- NLT for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.
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- Heb 3:18–19To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Deut 1:32Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
- Heb 11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
- 1 Jn 5:10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
- Isa 7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
- Ps 106:24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
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