1 Samuel 12:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Samuel said to the people,“Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. However, don’t turn aside from the LORD. Serve the LORD with all your heart.

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  • Deut 11:16 : 16 Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
  • Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the LORD, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”
  • Josh 23:6 : 6 Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,
  • Ps 40:4 : 4 How blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD and does not seek help from the proud or from liars!
  • Ps 101:3 : 3 I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the LORD remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
  • Exod 20:19-20 : 19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.” 20 Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

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    18So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.

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