Isaiah 56:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths and choose the things which please Me and hold firmly My covenant–

American Standard Version (1901)

For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:

Common English Bible

The LORD says: To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, choose what I desire, and remain loyal to my covenant.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: They will keep my Sabbaths, and they will choose the things that I will, and they will hold to my covenant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs: They that shall keep my sabbaths and shall choose the things that please me and shall hold fast my covenant,

Isaiah 56:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

Psalm 119:111

Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

Isaiah 27:5

Or else let it cling to me for protection; let it make peace with me; let it make peace with me.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Isaiah 56:2

Happy is the mortal who does this, the one who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and refrains from doing any evil.

Isaiah 56:6

And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it and hold fast my covenant—

Isaiah 58:13

If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Hebrews 6:17

In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,

Joshua 24:15

Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”