may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them to walk on the good way. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.
1 Samuel 12:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. American Standard Version (1901) Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Common English Bible But me? I would never sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. I will teach you what is good and right. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, far be it from me, this sin against the Lord, that I would cease to pray for you. And so, I will teach you the good and upright way. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you. And I will teach you the good and right way. |
may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them to walk on the good way. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.
may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them the good way they should walk in. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.
The following day Moses said to the people, ‘You have committed a grave sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I will be able to atone for your sin.’
I am teaching you the way of wisdom; I am guiding you on straight paths.
The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and write words of truth accurately.
and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: ‘This is the way. Walk in it.’
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before me, my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.
If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of Armies not to let the articles that remain in the Lord’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.”
So the prophet Jeremiah said to them, ‘I have heard. I will now pray to the Lord your God according to your words, and I will tell you every word that the Lord answers you; I won’t withhold a word from you.’
This is what the Lord says: Stand by the roadways and look. Ask about the ancient paths, ‘Which is the way to what is good? ’ Then take it and find rest for yourselves. But they protested, ‘We won’t! ’
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.
You know that I did not hesitate to proclaim anything to you that was profitable and to teach you publicly and from house to house.
God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son #– #that I constantly mention you,
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach #– #and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
as we pray very earnestly night and day to see you face to face and to complete what is lacking in your faith?
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.
They pleaded with Samuel, ‘Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so we won’t die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of requesting a king for ourselves.’
When they said, ‘Give us a king to judge us,’ Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord.