Deuteronomy 4:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:23

And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

Psalm 147:20

He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

Psalm 148:14

He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

Psalm 34:17

The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

Psalm 46:1

To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 73:28

But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.

Psalm 85:9

Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.

Isaiah 43:4

Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

Isaiah 55:6

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Numbers 23:21

He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

Numbers 23:9

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

Acts 17:27

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

Deuteronomy 26:19

And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.