Isaiah 56:4

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For this is what the LORD says: 'To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold tightly to my covenant,

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  • Isa 56:6 : 6 And to the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold firmly to my covenant—
  • Jer 50:5 : 5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • Heb 6:17 : 17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 But if it seems undesirable to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve—whether the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I have inherited Your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • Isa 27:5 : 5 Or let them take hold of my refuge and make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
  • Isa 56:2 : 2 Blessed is the person who does this, the one who holds fast to it: keeping the Sabbath without profaning it and guarding their hands from doing any evil.

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  • Isa 56:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2Blessed is the person who does this, the one who holds fast to it: keeping the Sabbath without profaning it and guarding their hands from doing any evil.

    3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, 'The LORD will surely exclude me from His people.' And let no eunuch say, 'I am a dry tree.'

  • Isa 56:5-8
    4 verses
    79%

    5I will give them within my house and within my walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.'

    6And to the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold firmly to my covenant—

    7'I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.'

    8The Sovereign LORD declares, 'The One who gathers the dispersed of Israel: I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.'

  • Isa 39:7
    70%

    7Some of your own descendants, who will issue from you and whom you will father, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • Matt 19:12
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    12For there are eunuchs who were born that way, there are eunuchs who were made that way by others, and there are eunuchs who made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone who can accept this accept it.

  • Isa 42:6
    70%

    6I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations.

  • Jer 34:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18The men who violated my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and walked between its pieces.

    19The officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf—

  • Ezek 44:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in My sanctuary and profane it—My house—by offering My food, the fat, and the blood, you broke My covenant with all your abominations.

    8You did not keep charge of My holy things, but appointed others to be in charge of My sanctuary for you.

    9Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, shall enter My sanctuary—not even any foreigner among the people of Israel.

  • Isa 58:13
    68%

    13If you keep your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on my holy day, and you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way or doing as you please or speaking idle words,

  • Jer 13:11
    68%

    11For 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.'

  • Mal 3:17
    67%

    17They will be mine, says the Lord of Hosts, on the day when I act. I will spare them as a father spares his son who serves him.

  • 2 Kgs 20:18
    67%

    18And some of your descendants, your own sons who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'

  • Isa 66:21
    67%

    21And I will also take some of them as priests and Levites, says the Lord.

  • Jer 17:24
    67%

    24But if you diligently obey Me, declares the LORD, and do not bring any load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

  • Ezek 44:14
    67%

    14I will appoint them as caretakers of the temple to perform all its duties and all that needs to be done within it.

  • Lev 26:2
    67%

    2Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

  • Isa 61:8
    67%

    8For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In truth, I will faithfully reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.

  • Jer 50:5
    67%

    5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

  • Ps 135:4
    66%

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

  • Isa 41:9
    66%

    9I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my servant; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.'

  • Exod 31:16
    66%

    16The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as a perpetual covenant for their generations.

  • Mic 4:6
    66%

    6'On that day,' declares the LORD, 'I will gather the lame, assemble the exiles, and bring together those I have afflicted.'

  • Lev 26:44-45
    2 verses
    66%

    44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

    45For their sake, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God: I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 37:26
    66%

    26I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

  • Isa 58:6
    66%

    6Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to break every yoke?

  • Isa 49:7-8
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    66%

    7This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.

    8This is what the Lord says: 'In the time of favor, I answered you, and in the day of salvation, I helped you. I will preserve you and make you a covenant to the people to restore the land and to distribute its desolate inheritances.'

  • Lev 19:30
    66%

    30Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Isa 66:4
    66%

    4So I also will choose harsh punishments for them and bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen. Instead, they did what was evil in My eyes and chose what I did not delight in.

  • Isa 59:21
    66%

    21As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says the LORD. My Spirit, who is upon you, and My words, that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your children or your children's children, from now on and forever, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 16:60
    66%

    60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

  • Jer 11:6
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    6The LORD said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Listen to the words of this covenant and do them.’

  • Isa 44:1
    65%

    1But now listen, Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.

  • Ezek 16:62
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    62I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Neh 1:9
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    9but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.'

  • Isa 14:1
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    1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and He will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

  • Deut 14:2
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    2For 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 65:4
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    4Though our sins overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions.

  • Jer 4:4
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    4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like a fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your wicked deeds.

  • Ezek 44:24
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    24In any dispute, they shall stand as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They shall keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed festivals and sanctify My Sabbaths.

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all who live in the wilderness and shave the edges of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

  • Jer 29:4
    65%

    4This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

  • Isa 66:2
    65%

    2My hand made all these things, and so all these came into being,' declares the Lord. 'But I will look to this one: to the humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.