1 Samuel 2:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ If a man sins against a man, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father; for it was the will of the Lord to slay 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

And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him also.

Genesis 38:7

But Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

1 Kings 8:31

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thine altar in this house,

1 Kings 8:32

then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the Lord might fulfil his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the 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 counsel.”

Job 9:33

There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.

Psalm 51:16

For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, 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 the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin deliberately after receiving 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 which will consume the adversaries.

Hebrews 7:25

Consequently he is able for all time to save those who draw near to 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 that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the Lord 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 for ever.”