1 Samuel 12:22 “Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His…”

1 Samuel 12:22

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“the Lord”

1 Kings 6:13 Psalm 94:14 2 Chronicles 15:2 Jeremiah 33:24–26 Deuteronomy 31:17 2 Kings 21:14

1 Kings 6:13 · BSB

And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

Psalm 94:14 · BSB

For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

2 Chronicles 15:2 · BSB

So 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…

Jeremiah 33:24–26 · BSB

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Deuteronomy 31:17 · BSB

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not the…

2 Kings 21:14 · BSB

So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

“for his great”

Psalm 106:8 Jeremiah 14:21 Joshua 7:9 Isaiah 43:25 Ezekiel 20:9 Ezekiel 20:14

Psalm 106:8 · BSB

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

Jeremiah 14:21 · BSB

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

Joshua 7:9 · BSB

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Isaiah 43:25 · BSB

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Ezekiel 20:9 · BSB

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14 · BSB

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

“it hath”

Deuteronomy 14:2 Philippians 1:6 Romans 11:29 Matthew 11:26 1 Corinthians 4:7 Deuteronomy 9:5

Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB

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

Philippians 1:6 · BSB

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.

Romans 11:29 · BSB

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

Matthew 11:26 · BSB

Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

1 Corinthians 4:7 · BSB

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Deuteronomy 9:5 · BSB

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep t…

Also

1 Peter 2:9

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

23As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.

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