Psalm 56:5

New American Bible - revised edition

I praise the word of God; I trust in God, I do not fear. What can mere flesh do to me?

Cross References

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine in Samaria was severe,

Psalm 118:6

The Lord is with me; I am not afraid; what can mortals do against me?

Psalm 41:7

When someone comes to visit me, he speaks without sincerity. His heart stores up malice; when he leaves, he gossips.

Psalm 49:6

Why should I fear in evil days, with the iniquity of my assailants surrounding me,

Jeremiah 18:18

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.

Matthew 26:61

who stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.’”

Luke 11:54

for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.

John 2:19

Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures.

1 Samuel 18:17

Saul said to David, “Look, I will give you my older daughter, Merob, in marriage if you become my warrior and fight the battles of the Lord.” Saul thought, “I will not lay a hand on him. Let the hand of the Philistines strike him.”

1 Samuel 18:21

He thought, “I will offer her to him as a trap, so that the hand of the Philistines may strike him.” So for the second time Saul said to David, “You shall become my son-in-law today.”

1 Samuel 18:29

So Saul feared David all the more and was his enemy ever after.

1 Samuel 20:33

At this Saul brandished his spear to strike him, and thus Jonathan learned that his father was determined to kill David.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he says, ‘Very well,’ your servant is safe. But if he becomes quite angry, you can be sure he has planned some harm.