Verse 23

Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The one who seeks my life is seeking yours as well. You will be safe with me.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 2:26 : 26 To Abiathar the priest, the king said, 'Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death today because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David and because you shared in his hardships.'
  • John 18:9 : 9 This was to fulfill the words he had spoken: 'I have not lost one of those you gave me.'
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set before us. 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
  • John 10:28-30 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word I spoke to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
  • John 16:2-3 : 2 They will ban you from the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
  • John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, I protected them and guarded them by Your name, the name You gave Me. None of them has been lost except the son of destruction, so that Scripture might be fulfilled.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 'Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.'