1 Samuel 2:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ If one person sins against another, someone can intercede for the sinner with the Lord, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can make intercession?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to kill them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ If one man wrongs another, God will mediate for him; but if a man wrongs the Lord, who shall intercede for him? Yet they did not listen to their father, for it was the Lord's will to slay them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because Jehovah was minded to slay them.

Common English Bible

²⁵ If someone sins against someone else, God can intercede; but if someone sins against the LORD, who will intercede then?” But they wouldn’t obey their father because the LORD wanted to kill them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ If a man has sinned against a man, God may be able to be appeased over him. But if a man has sinned against the Lord, who will pray for him?" But they did not listen to the voice of their father, that the Lord was willing to kill them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

1 Samuel 2:25 Cross References

Genesis 38:10

What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 38:7

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.

1 Kings 8:31

“If someone sins against a neighbor and is required to take an oath and comes and swears before your altar in this house,

1 Kings 8:32

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not listen to the people because it was a turn of affairs brought about by God so that the Lord might fulfill his word that he had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”

Job 9:33

There is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

Psalm 51:16

For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise child loves discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way; one who hates a rebuke will die.

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up;

Numbers 15:30

But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins

Hebrews 10:27

but a fearful prospect of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

Hebrews 7:25

Consequently, he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

1 Samuel 3:14

Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever.”