2 Samuel 7:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.”
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“For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Because of Thy word, and according to Thy heart, Thou hast done all this greatness, to cause Thy servant to know <FI>it<Fi> .”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Samuel 7:21 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Deuteronomy 9:5It 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 the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Joshua 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- Psalms 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
- Psalms 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Luke 1:54He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
- Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
- Luke 10:21At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
- Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
- 1 Corinthians 1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
- Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- Ephesians 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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