1 Samuel 12:22

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For the LORD will not abandon His people for the sake of His great name, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For Jehovah{H3068} will not forsake{H5203} his people{H5971} for his great{H1419} name's{H8034} sake, because it hath pleased{H2974} Jehovah{H3068} to make{H6213} you a people{H5971} unto himself.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the LORD{H3068} will not forsake{H5203}{(H8799)} his people{H5971} for his great{H1419} name's{H8034} sake: because it hath pleased{H2974}{(H8689)} the LORD{H3068} to make{H6213}{(H8800)} you his people{H5971}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For the LORDE shall not forsake his people because of his greate names sake: for the LORDE hath begonne to make you a people vnto him selfe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For the Lorde will not forsake his people for his great Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For the Lorde will not forsake his people, because of his great names sake: because it hath pleased the Lorde to make you his people.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:13 : 13 And I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.
  • Ps 106:8 : 8 Yet He saved them for His name’s sake, to make His mighty power known.
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Josh 7:9 : 9 The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this and surround us. They will cut off our name from the earth. And then, what will you do for your great name?
  • Jer 14:21 : 21 For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
  • Lam 3:31-32 : 31 For the Lord will not reject forever. 32 For though He causes grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love.
  • Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and where I had made myself known to them by bringing them out of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 for God’s gifts and His calling are irrevocable.
  • Eph 1:12 : 12 so that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be to the praise of His glory.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For the LORD will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
  • Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent concerning this disaster against your people.
  • Num 14:13-19 : 13 But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them. 14 They will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are among these people, that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 15 If you put all these people to death as one man, the nations who have heard about your fame will say, 16 'The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.' 17 Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared: 18 'The LORD is slow to anger, abundant in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' iniquity upon the children to the third and fourth generation.' 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven them from Egypt until now.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are entering to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and to fulfill the promise the LORD swore to your ancestors—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 On that day, my anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide my face from them, and they will be consumed. Many disasters and calamities will come upon them, and on that day they will say, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?'
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind, 27 but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine. 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; along unfamiliar paths, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them into light and make the rough places level. These are the things I will do, and I will not abandon them.
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
  • Isa 48:11 : 11 For My own sake—yes, for My own sake—I will act. For how can My name be defiled? I will not give My glory to another.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
  • 2 Kgs 21:14 : 14 I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, 'Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.'
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, for He has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'
  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved.
  • Mal 1:2 : 2 I have loved you, says the LORD. But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob,
  • Matt 11:26 : 26 Yes, Father, for this was Your good pleasure.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
  • Rom 9:13-18 : 13 As it is written: 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.' 14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not! 15 For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.' 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or effort but on God’s mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: 'I raised you up for this very purpose, so that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.' 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.
  • Lam 5:20 : 20 Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us for so long?
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation. 25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 94:14
    77%

    14 For the LORD will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance.

  • Deut 4:31
    75%

    31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you, destroy you, or forget the covenant He swore to your ancestors.

  • 1 Sam 12:23
    74%

    23 As for me, far be it from me to sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. Instead, I will instruct you in the good and upright way.

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as his own people, to make a name for yourself through great and awesome deeds, driving out nations before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?

    22 You have made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.

  • 1 Kgs 6:13
    72%

    13 And I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.

  • 1 Sam 12:21
    72%

    21 Do not turn aside, for you would be following things that are worthless and cannot benefit or deliver you, for they are meaningless.

  • Jer 14:21
    71%

    21 For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

  • Deut 26:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 And the LORD has declared today that you are His treasured people as He promised, and that you are to keep all His commandments.

    19 He will set you high above all the nations He has made, bringing you praise, fame, and honor. And you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

  • Isa 48:9
    71%

    9 For the sake of My name, I delay My wrath; for My praise, I restrain it for you, so as not to cut you off.

  • Lam 3:31
    71%

    31 For the Lord will not reject forever.

  • Jer 51:5
    71%

    5 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 9:10
    71%

    10 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

  • Jer 14:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 Why are You like a man stunned, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are in our midst, LORD, and Your name is called upon us. Do not abandon us!

    10 This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • Ps 106:8
    70%

    8 Yet He saved them for His name’s sake, to make His mighty power known.

  • Neh 9:31
    70%

    31 Still, in Your great mercies, You did not utterly destroy them or abandon them, for You are a gracious and merciful God.

  • Ps 37:28
    70%

    28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His faithful ones. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

  • Ps 33:12
    69%

    12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance.

  • Num 32:15
    69%

    15 If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • Ps 132:10
    69%

    10 For the sake of Your servant David, do not turn away the face of Your anointed one.

  • Deut 14:2
    69%

    2 For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

  • Ps 135:14
    69%

    14 For the LORD will judge His people and have compassion on His servants.

  • Deut 28:9
    69%

    9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

  • 2 Kgs 8:19
    69%

    19 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah for the sake of His servant David, because of the promise He had made to give a lamp to David and his descendants forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem as his people, to make a name for himself and to perform great and awesome deeds for your land, driving out nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?

    24 And you established your people Israel as your own people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.

  • Ezek 36:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they had gone.

    22 Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

  • Ps 135:4
    69%

    4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His treasured possession.

  • 1 Kgs 8:57
    69%

    57 May the LORD our God be with us as He was with our ancestors; may He never leave us nor forsake us.

  • Jer 13:11
    69%

    11 For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me,' declares the LORD, 'to be my people, my renown, my praise, and my glory. But they would not listen.'

  • Ps 25:11
    69%

    11 For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

  • Ezek 20:22
    69%

    22 But I withdrew my hand and acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

  • Joel 2:18
    68%

    18 Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
    68%

    22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not acted wickedly by turning away from my God.

  • Josh 24:16
    68%

    16 The people replied, "Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

  • Jer 30:22
    68%

    22 You will be My people, and I will be your God.

  • Deut 9:27
    68%

    27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not focus on the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness, or their sin.

  • Deut 29:12
    68%

    12 He is confirming you today as His people, and He will be your God, just as He promised you and swore to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 29:25
    68%

    25 They turned to other gods and worshiped and bowed down to them, gods they did not know and gods the LORD had not given to them.'

  • 2 Kgs 13:23
    68%

    23 But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. To this day He has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from His presence.

  • Isa 62:12
    68%

    12 And they will be called 'The Holy People,' 'The Redeemed of the LORD;' and you will be called 'Sought After,' 'A City Not Forsaken.'

  • 1 Sam 20:15
    68%

    15 And do not ever withdraw your kindness from my family, even when the LORD cuts off all of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.

  • Gen 12:2
    68%

    2 And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    68%

    30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: I certainly said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

  • Deut 7:6
    68%

    6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

  • 1 Sam 15:29
    68%

    29 Moreover, the Eternal One of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.

  • Deut 10:15
    67%

    15 Yet the LORD set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.