1 Samuel 15:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Cross References

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 34:5

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Job 35:2

“Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, “I have kept all these; what do I still lack?”

Luke 10:29

But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Romans 10:3

Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

1 Samuel 15:13

When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, “May you be blessed by the Lord; I have carried out the command of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”

1 Samuel 15:8

He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive but utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 28:18

Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you today.