Deuteronomy 4:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.

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  • Lev 26:42 : 42 Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.
  • Deut 31:8 : 8 It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
  • Lev 26:45 : 45 And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
  • Deut 31:6 : 6 Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.
  • Neh 9:31 : 31 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.
  • Ps 116:5 : 5 The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.
  • Ps 145:8-9 : 8 The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy. 9 The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.
  • Jer 14:21 : 21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
  • Ps 111:9 : 9 He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.
  • Ps 111:5 : 5 He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
  • Neh 1:5 : 5 And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:
  • Josh 1:5 : 5 While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.
  • Luke 1:72 : 72 To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
  • Num 14:18 : 18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.
  • Ps 105:8 : 8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:31
    79%

    31Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

  • Deut 7:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

    9Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

  • Deut 31:6
    76%

    6Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:38-39
    2 verses
    76%

    38And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

    39And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.

  • Deut 13:17
    76%

    17Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

  • Deut 4:30
    76%

    30When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

  • Deut 7:12
    75%

    12And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

  • Deut 31:8
    75%

    8It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.

  • 1 Sam 12:22
    75%

    22For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

  • Lam 3:31
    74%

    31For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:57
    74%

    57Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up;

  • Deut 29:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

    13And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    14And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;

  • 2 Chr 30:9
    73%

    9For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

  • Deut 4:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

    24For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

  • Isa 54:7
    73%

    7For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

  • Deut 8:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

    19And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

  • Mic 7:20
    73%

    20You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

  • Ps 94:14
    73%

    14The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

  • Deut 8:11
    72%

    11Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • Deut 10:21
    72%

    21He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these works of power which your eyes have seen.

  • Deut 30:5
    72%

    5Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

  • Isa 54:10
    72%

    10For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

  • Ps 105:8
    72%

    8He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Deut 30:20
    72%

    20In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 30:9
    71%

    9And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Isa 49:15
    71%

    15Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

  • Ps 25:6
    71%

    6O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

  • Ps 106:45
    71%

    45And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

  • Deut 20:4
    71%

    4For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

  • Deut 1:31
    71%

    31And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

  • Deut 10:17
    71%

    17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

  • Deut 4:32
    71%

    32Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

  • Deut 30:3
    71%

    3Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.

  • Deut 2:7
    71%

    7For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

  • Lam 5:20
    71%

    20Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • Deut 6:15
    71%

    15For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Josh 1:5
    71%

    5While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

  • Ps 44:17
    71%

    17All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • 1 Chr 16:15
    71%

    15He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Deut 7:2
    71%

    2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Ps 111:4
    71%

    4Certain for ever is the memory of his wonders: the Lord is full of pity and mercy.

  • Deut 29:25
    71%

    25Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:

  • Exod 32:13
    70%

    13Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • Mic 7:18
    70%

    18Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.