1 Samuel 12:22

New American Bible - revised edition

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:13

I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.

1 Kings 8:57

May the Lord, our God, be with us as he was with our ancestors and may he not forsake us nor cast us off.

2 Kings 14:27

Since the Lord had not resolved to wipe out the name of Israel from under the heavens, he saved them through Jeroboam, son of Joash.

2 Kings 21:14

I will cast off the survivors of my inheritance. I will deliver them into enemy hands, to become prey and booty for all their enemies,

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the mind’s thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will cast you off forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went forth to meet Asa and said to him: “Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are with him, and if you seek him he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to obey and no longer remembered the wonders you had worked for them. They were obdurate and appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy; you did not forsake them.

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name’s sake to make his power known.

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not forsake his people, nor abandon his inheritance.

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning wrath; change your mind about punishing your people.

Isaiah 37:35

I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

Isaiah 41:17

The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 43:25

It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more.

Isaiah 43:7

All who are called by my name I created for my glory; I formed them, made them.

Isaiah 48:11

For my sake, for my own sake, I do this; why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

Isaiah 63:8

He said: “They are indeed my people, children who are not disloyal.” So he became their savior

Jeremiah 14:21

Do not reject us, for your name’s sake, do not disgrace your glorious throne. Remember! Do not break your covenant with us.

Jeremiah 14:7

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 14:9

Why are you like someone bewildered, a champion who cannot save? You are in our midst, Lord, your name we bear: do not forsake us!

Lamentations 5:20

Why have you utterly forgotten us, forsaken us for so long?

Ezekiel 20:14

but I acted for the sake of my name, so it would not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:9

I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations among whom they were: in the eyes of the nations I had made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Malachi 1:2

I love you, says the Lord; but you say, “How do you love us?”

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

John 15:16

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

Romans 11:1

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Triumph of God’s Mercy.

1 Corinthians 4:7

Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?

Ephesians 1:12

so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.

Ephesians 1:6

for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. Fulfillment Through Christ.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. Clean and Unclean Animals.

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will flare up against them; I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become a prey to be devoured, and much evil and distress will befall them. At that time they will indeed say, “Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?”

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and steadfast; have no fear or dread of them, for it is the Lord, your God, who marches with you; he will never fail you or forsake you. Call of Joshua.

Deuteronomy 31:8

It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed.” The Reading of the Law.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.

Deuteronomy 9:5

No, it is not because of your justice or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord, your God, is dispossessing these nations before you and in order to fulfill the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Philippians 1:6

I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 13:5

Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never forsake you or abandon you.”

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and the other inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will close in around us and efface our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.