Psalm 17:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Use your powerful arm and rescue me from the hands of mere humans whose world won't last. You provide food for those you love. Their children have plenty, and their grandchildren will have more than enough.

Cross References

Job 22:18

although he had been kind to their families. The beliefs of these sinners are truly disgusting.

John 17:14

I have told them your message. But the people of this world hate them, because they don't belong to this world, just as I don't.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and that is why its people hate you.

John 8:23

Jesus answered, “You are from below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don't.

Luke 16:25

Abraham answered, “My friend, remember that while you lived, you had everything good, and Lazarus had everything bad. Now he is happy, and you are in pain.

Luke 16:8

The master praised his dishonest manager for looking out for himself so well. That's how it is! The people of this world look out for themselves better than the people who belong to the light.

James 5:5

While here on earth, you have thought only of filling your own stomachs and having a good time. But now you are like fat cattle on their way to be butchered.

Psalm 73:12

Yet all goes well for them, and they live in peace.

Psalm 39:6

and it disappears like a shadow. Our struggles are senseless; we store up more and more, without ever knowing who will get it all.

Job 21:21

Because after they are dead, they won't care what happens to their children.”

Job 12:9

Any of them can tell you what the LORD has done.

Job 12:6

Robbers and other godless people live safely at home and say, “God is in our hands!”

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when someone finds treasure hidden in a field and buries it again. A person like that is happy and goes and sells everything in order to buy that field.

Proverbs 2:4

Search for wisdom as you would search for silver or hidden treasure.