Only One God
The basic belief of Christianity, and of Judaism, is that there is one God. One Creator. One King of Kings and Lord of Lords. One Supreme Being. Beside Him there is no other God. All other gods are simply byproducts of depraved imaginations. In other words, other gods are non-existent.
How do we know this?
Our knowledge of God, and what He is like, and His interactions with mankind, come from centuries of eyewitness testimony presented in the Old and New Testaments – the Bible. We trust the Biblical accounts because they have proven to be authentic historical documents, preserved through the ages by churches and synagogues. We trust these accounts to be accurate and true, when examined under the standards of legal and historical evidence. Following that, we trust the writers of Holy Scripture to cite their works as authoritative, crediting none other than God Himself, that He is the supreme authority in all things.
What does God say about Himself? What does God say about other gods? This essay compiles the relevant verses from the Holy Scriptures, from the Old and New Testaments. Also included are various scriptures indigenous to Mormonism, when compatible with the Bible, which actually support God as One -- though such a belief is no longer recognized by the polytheistic Mormon church. Mormon verses are indicated in red.
Following the outline, each heading will be demonstrated by a list of Scriptures. In this manner we let God’s authoritative Word speak for Him.*
* Special note from JPH: The word "monotheistic" is used here in the popular sense. Readers should be aware of current understandings in Evangelical and Jewish scholarship that regard the word "monotheism" as inadequate to express Biblical belief. For more information please see here. The Mormons have misused these discussions for their own purposes, but the matter may be summed up thusly: We are compelled to define "God" in terms of the uniqueness of God as the one eternal, omniscient, omnipotent being who created the universe, because the Hebrew word elohim did have a more general meaning than the word we use in its place, "God" (in the proper name sense). The Mormon view is still invalid, because they view God as evolving, and even say that the one we now call God has a "Father" of His own who is even more powerful, and so on, ad infinitum. As we will see from these passages, the Bible will not allow for that.
Outline
Introduction: The Bible / The Word of God
A. Authentic
1. Archaeological support
2. Legal-historical authority
B. Accurate
and True
1. Authoritative
2. “It is written”
3. What the Bible says, God says. What God says, the Bible says.
A. God is unique
1. The
Shema
1. Only
one Lord
2. Only
one Savior
3. The
First and the Last / The Alpha and Omega / The Beginning and the End
B. There is no other God
1. There
is no
other God
2. No one
like God
3. There
is no other who can forgive sins
4. There
is no other rock
5. No one
else holy
II. Attributes
unique to God
A. Creator
B. Possessor
of heaven and earth
C. God of heaven and
earth
E. God of gods
F. God of hosts
1. God of hosts
2. Lord of Hosts
3. Lord God of Hosts
1. Rock
2.
Shepherd
3.
Immanuel
4.
Redeemer
III. Nature of
God
A. “I AM”
B. Almighty God
C. Omnipotent
D. Omnipresent
1. Cannot be contained
2. “Fear not, for I am with you”
E. Omniscient
F. Eternal
G. Immutable
J. Perfect
K. Righteous
L. God is Truth,
incapable of lying
M. God as Lord
1. Worthy
of worship
2. He must be obeyed
N. God denounces
service, or worship, to other gods
B. Other gods are powerless
C. “Ye are gods”
Appendix:
Do you believe you’re a god, a potential god or “a god in embryo”?
Only One God
Compiled by W. R. Miller
Introduction: The Bible / The Word of God
A. Authentic
The authenticity of the Holy Scriptures is affirmed, and can be confirmed. How do we know they are authentic?
For this essay, two evidences will be discussed, from the standpoints of archaeology and legal-historical authority. At the end of this section links are provided to other essays on the Bible’s authenticity.
1. Archaeological support
Sir Frederic George Kenyon was a British scholar and Director of the
In The Story
of the Bible (
“It is reassuring at the end to find that
the general result of all these discoveries (of manuscripts) and all this study
is to strengthen the proof of the authenticity of the Scriptures, and our
conviction that we have in our hands, in
substantial integrity, the veritable Word of God.”
In Our Bible
and Ancient Manuscripts (New York: Harper & Bros., 1941, p.
23), Kenyon writes,
“One word of warning, already referred to, must be
emphasized in conclusion. No fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith rests
on a disputed reading. Constant references to mistakes and divergences of
reading, such as the plan of this book necessitates, might give rise to the
doubt whether the substance, as well as the language, of the Bible is not open
to question. It cannot be too strongly
asserted that in substance the text of the Bible is certain. Especially is this
the case with the New Testament.
“The number of manuscripts of the New Testament, of early
translations from it, and of quotations from it in the oldest writers of the
Church, is so large that it is practically certain that the true reading of
every doubtful passage is preserved in some one or other of these ancient
authorities. This can be said of no
other ancient book in the world. Scholars are satisfied that they possess
substantially the true text of the principal Greek and Roman writers whose
works have come down to us, of Sophocles, of Thucydides, of Cicero, of Virgil;
yet our knowledge of their writings depends on a mere handful of manuscripts,
whereas the manuscripts of the New Testament are counted by hundreds, and even
thousands. In the case of the Old Testament we are not quite in such a good
position, as will be shown presently. In some passages it seems certain that
the true reading has not been preserved by any ancient authority, and we are
driven to conjecture in order to supply it. But such passages are an infinitesimal
portion of the whole and may be disregarded. The Christian can take the whole Bible in his hand and say without fear
or hesitation that he holds in it the true Word of God, handed down without
essential loss from generation to generation throughout the centuries.” Text online at http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch2.htm.
Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, in The Bible and Archaeology (
”The interval than between the dates of original composition
and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible,
and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us
substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general
integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally
established.”
2.
Legal-historical authority
Harvard Law professor Simon
Greenleaf, whose biography and credits are presented online here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050217220646/http://28.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GR/GREENLEAF_SIMON.htm,
is one of history’s greatest legal authorities.
His principle work, the three-volume Treatise
on the Law of Evidence, served as a resource for attorneys for years, even endorsed by
Abraham Lincoln. The London Law Journal
wrote of him in 1874, “It is no mean honor to America that her schools of
jurisprudence have produced two of the finest writers and best esteemed legal
authorities in this century—the great and good man, Judge Story, and his
eminent and worthy associate Professor Greenleaf. Upon the existing law of
evidence (by Greenleaf) more light has shown from the New World than from all
the lawyers who adorn the courts of
He writes, in Testimony of the Evangelists,
“That the books of the Old Testament, as we now have them, are genuine; that they existed in the time of our Saviour, and were commonly received and referred to among the Jews, as the sacred books of their religion; and that the text of the Four Evangelists has been handed down to us in the state in which it was originally written, that is, without having been materially corrupted or falsified, either by heretics or Christians; are facts which we are entitled to assume as true, until the contrary is shown.
“The genuineness of these writings really admits of as little doubt, and is susceptible of as ready proof, as that of any ancient writings whatever. The rule of municipal law on this subject is familiar, and applies with equal force to all ancient writings, whether documentary or otherwise; and as it comes first in order, in the prosecution of these inquiries, it may, for the sake of mere convenience, be designated as our first rule.
Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.
“An ancient document, offered in evidence in our courts, is said to come from the proper repository, when it is found in the place where, and under the care of persons with whom, such writings might naturally and reasonably be expected to be found; for it is this custody which gives authenticity to documents found within it. If they come from such a place, and bear no evident marks of forgery, the law presumes that they are genuine, and they are permitted to be read in evidence, unless the opposing party is able successfully to impeach them, the burden of showing them to be false and unworthy of credit, is devolved on the party who makes that objection. The presumption of law is the judgment of charity. It presumes every many is innocent until he is proved guilty; that everything has been done fairly and legally, until it is proved to have been otherwise; and that every document, found in its proper repository, and not bearing marks of forgery, is genuine. Now this is precisely the case with the Sacred Writings. They have been used in the church from time immemorial, and thus are found in the place where alone they ought to be looked for they come to us, and challenge our reception of them as genuine writings, precisely as Domesday Book, the Ancient Statues of Wales, or any other of the ancient documents which have recently been published under the British Record Commission, are received. They are found in familiar use in all the churches of Christendom, as the sacred books to which all denominations of Christians refer, as the standard of their faith. There is no pretense that they were engraven on plates of gold and discovered in a cave, nor that they were brought from heaven by angels; but they are received as the plain narratives and writings of the men whose names they respectively bear, made public at the time they were written; and though there are some slight discrepancies among the copies subsequently made, there is no pretense that the originals are lost, and that copies alone are now produced, the principles of the municipal law here also afford a satisfactory answer. For the multiplication of copies was a public fact, in the faithfulness of which all the Christian community had an interest; and it is a rule of law, that,--
In matters of public and general interest, all persons must be presumed to be conversant, on the principle that individuals are presumed to be conversant with their own affairs.
Therefore it is that, in such matters, the prevailing current of assertion is resorted to as evidence, for it is to this that every member of the community is supposed to be privy. The persons, moreover, who multiplied these copies may be regarded, in some manner, as agents of Christian public, for whose use and benefit the copies were made; and on the ground of the credit due to such agents, and of the public nature of the facts themselves, the copies thus made are entitled to an extraordinary degree of confidence, and, as in the case of official registers and other public books, it is not necessary that they should be confirmed and sanctioned by the ordinary tests of truth. If any ancient document concerning our public rights were lost copies which had been received in evidence in any of our courts of justice, without the slightest hesitation. The entire text of the Corpus Juris Civilis is received as authority in all the courts of continental Europe, upon much weaker evidence of its genuineness; for the integrity of the Sacred Text has been preserved by the jealousy of opposing sects, beyond any moral possibility of corruption; while that of the Roman Civil Law has been preserved by tacit consent, without the interest of any opposing school, to watch over and preserve it from alteration.
“These copies of the Holy Scriptures having thus been in familiar use in the churches, from the time when the text was committed to writing; having been watched with vigilance by so many sects, opposed to each other in doctrine, yet all appealing to these Scriptures for the correctness of their faith; and having in all ages, down to this day, been respected as the authoritative source of all ecclesiastical power and government, and submitted to, and acted under in regard to so many claims of right, on the one hand, and so many obligations of duty, on the other; it is quite erroneous to suppose that the Christian is bound to offer any further proof of their genuineness or authenticity. It is for the objector to show them spurious; for on him, by the plainest rules of law, lies the burden of proof. If it were the case of a claim to a franchise, and a copy of an ancient deed or character were produced in support of the title, under parallel circumstances on which to presume its venture to deny either its admissibility in evidence, or the satisfactory character of the proof. In a recent case in the House of Lords, precisely such a document, being an old manuscript copy, purporting to have been extracted from ancient Journals of the House, which were lost, and to have been made by an officer whose duty it was to prepare lists of the Peers, was held admissible in a claim of peerage.”
Further information about the Bible’s
authenticity can be found at the articles at the following links:
Jimmy
Williams. “Are the Biblical Documents
Reliable?”
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/bib-docu.html
Dr. John
Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon. “The
Historical Reliability of the New Testament Text--Part One”
Dr. John
Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon. “The
Historical Reliability of the New Testament Text--Part Two”
Dr. John
Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon. “The
Historical Reliability of the New Testament Text--Part Three”
Dr. John
Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon. “The
Historical Reliability of the New Testament Text--Part Four”
James Patrick
Holding. “Textual Trysts: The Textual
Reliability of the New Testament”
https://www.tektonics.org/lp/nttextcrit.php
B. Accurate and True
The documents of the Old and New Testaments demonstrate to be authentic historical documents, by the standards of the law and of history. But are the statements within those documents accurate and true? Analysis of the documents provide an affirmative conclusion. This is demonstrated in the following essay, “The Truthfulness of the Eyewitness Accounts as Presented in the Bible,” at https://web.archive.org/web/20180917044216/http://www.tektonics.org/guest/truthfulness.htm.
“Supposing, therefore, that it is not irrational, nor inconsistent with sound philosophy, to believe that God has made a special and express revelation of his character and will to man, and that the sacred books of our religion are genuine, as we now have them; we proceed to examine and compare the testimony of the Four Evangelists, as witnesses to the life and doctrines of Jesus Christ; in order to determine the degree of credit, to which, by the rules of evidence plied in human tribunals, they are justly entitled. Our attention will naturally be first directed to the witnesses themselves, to see who and what manner of men they were; and we shall take them in the order of their writings; stating the prominent traits only in their lives and characters, as they are handed down to us by credible historians.”
So says Simon Greenleaf, who applies legal procedures of evidence in Testimony of the Evangelists, in which he also states:
“Such are the brief histories of men, whose narratives we are to examine and compare; conducting the examination and weighing the testimony by the same rules and principles which govern our tribunals of justice in similar cases. These tribunals are in such cases governed by the following fundamental rule;--
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
“It should be observed that the subject of inquiry is a matter of fact, and not of abstract mathematical truth. the latter alone is susceptible of that high degree of proof, usually termed demonstration, which excludes the possibility of error, and which therefore may reasonably be required in support of every mathematical deduction. But the proof of matters of fact rests upon moral evidence alone; by which is meant not merely that species of evidence which we do not obtain either from our own senses, from intuition, or from demonstration. In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. And it makes no difference, whether the facts to be proved related to this life or to the next, the nature of the evidence required being in both cases the same. The error of the skeptic consists in pretending or supposing that there is a difference in the nature of the things to be proved; and in demanding demonstrative evidence concerning things which are not susceptible of any other than moral evidence alone, and of which the utmost that can be said is, that there is no reasonable doubt about their truth.”
After applying the legal rules of evidence, Greenleaf concludes:
“The narratives of the evangelists are now submitted to the reader's perusal and examination, upon the principles and by the rules already stated. For this purpose, and for the sake of more ready and close comparison, they are arranged in juxtaposition, after the general order of the latest and most approved harmonies. The question is not upon the strict propriety of the arrangement, but upon the veracity of the witnesses and the credibility of their narratives. With the relative merits of modern harmonists, and with points of controversy among theologians the writer has no concern. His business is that of a lawyer examining the testimony of witnesses by the rules of his profession, in order to ascertain whether, if they had thus testified on oath, in a court of justice, they would be entitled to credit and whether their narratives, as we now have them, would be received as ancient documents, coming from the proper custody. If so, then it is believed that every honest and impartial man will act consistently with that result, by receiving their testimony in all the extent of its import.”
From The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administrated in Courts of Justice, available online here: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGA1251.0001.001.
· Acts
1:1-3
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until
the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given
commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His
suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days
and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
· Acts
18:25
This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in
spirit, he spoke and taught accurately
the things of the Lord, though he
knew only the baptism of John.
·
For God is my witness, whom I
serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make
mention of you always in my prayers,
· Romans
9:1
I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
· 2
Corinthians 1:12
[ Paul’s Sincerity ] For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience
that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not
with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
· 2
Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor
handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
· 2
Corinthians 5:11
Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well
known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
11 But you, O man of God, flee these things
and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good
confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13I urge you in
the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who
witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
· 2
Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did,
as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
·
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of
His majesty.
· Hebrews
9:14
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot to God, cleanse
your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?
·
Therefore we also, since we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us,
1 That which
was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning
the Word of life-- 2the life was manifested, and we have seen, and
bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father
and was manifested to us-- 3that which we have seen and
heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and
truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Further information is supplied at the following:
James Patrick Holding. “The
New Testament: Gospel Dates, Gospel Authors, Gospels Freedoms; Profiles of Key Issues Concerning the Four
Gospels” http://www.tektonics.org/ntdocdef/gospdefhub.php
James Patrick Holding. “The New Testament: Canon Fire; On the Formation of the NT Canon http://www.tektonics.org/lp/ntcanon.php
James Patrick Holding. “The Old
Testament: Canon Fire II; The
Formation of the OT Canon” http://www.tektonics.org/lp/otcanon.php
C. Authoritative
With the Scriptures proven to be authentic, accurate and true, we therefore present its claims to be authoritative. Those who wrote the Biblical accounts regarded those accounts as historical and authoritative, endorsed by the prophets and apostles throughout the ages, as well as the One who conquered death, Jesus Christ. Not only are these accounts inspired by God, but in many cases, He is quoted directly. As the Word of God, it is therefore authoritative.
1. Authoritative
· Exodus
4:28
So Moses told Aaron all the words of
the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded
him.
· Exodus
4:30
And Aaron spoke all the words which
the LORD had spoken to Moses.
Then he did the signs in the sight of the people.
· Exodus
19:7
So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all
these words which the LORD commanded him.
· Exodus
24:3
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the
judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the LORD has said we will do.”
· Exodus
24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he
rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and
twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of
· Exodus
24:8
And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the
blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.”
· Exodus
34:1
And the LORD said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first
ones, and I will write on these tablets
the words that were on the first
tablets which you broke.
· Exodus
34:27
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write
these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have
made a covenant with you and with
· Exodus
34:28
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither
ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote
on the tablets the words of the
covenant, the Ten Commandments.
· Exodus
35:1
Then Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
· Numbers
11:24
So Moses went out and told the people the
words of the LORD,
and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them
around the tabernacle.
· Numbers
12:6
Then He said, “Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him
in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.
· Deuteronomy
12:28
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it
may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is
good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
· Deuteronomy
17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that
he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,
· Deuteronomy
27:3
You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have
crossed over, that you may enter the land which the LORD your God is
giving you, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the LORD God
of your fathers promised you.
· Deuteronomy
28:58
“If you do not carefully observe all the
words of this law that are
written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE
LORD YOUR GOD,
· Deuteronomy
29:1
These are the words of the
covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of
· Deuteronomy
29:29
“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which
are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
· Deuteronomy
31:12
Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who
is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD
your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,
· Joshua
3:9
So Joshua said to the children of
· Joshua
24:26
Then Joshua wrote these words in
the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up there
under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
· Joshua
24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness to
us, for it has heard all the words of
the LORD which He spoke to us.
It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”
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· 2
Samuel 22:31 |
· Psalm
18:30 |
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· 2
Kings 22:13 |
· 2
Chronicles 34:21 |
· 2
Kings 22:16
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on
its inhabitants—all the words of
the book which the king of
|
· 2
Kings 22:18 |
· 2
Chronicles 34:26 |
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· 2
Kings 23:2 |
· 2
Chronicles 34:30 |
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· 2
Kings 23:3 |
· 2
Chronicles 34:31 |
· 2
Kings 23:24
Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the
household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of
Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law
which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house
of the LORD.
· Ezra
7:11
[ The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra ] This is a copy of the letter that
King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest, the
scribe, expert in the words of
the commandments of the LORD,
and of His statutes to Israel:
· Nehemiah
8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites
who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD
your God; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words
of the Law.
· Psalm
12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words, Like
silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.
· Psalm
100:5
For the LORD is good; His mercy
is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.
1 Praise the
LORD, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you
peoples!
2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
And the truth of the LORD
endures forever.
Praise the LORD!
· Psalm
119:89
Forever, O LORD,Your word is settled in heaven.
· Psalm
138:2
I will worship toward Your holy
temple,And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified
Your word above all Your
name.
· Isaiah
40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands
forever.”
· Jeremiah
11:3
and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD God of
· Jeremiah
11:6
Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim
all these words in the cities of
· Daniel
10:21
But I will tell you what is noted in the
Scripture of Truth. (No one
upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.
· Zechariah
7:7
Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD
proclaimed through the former prophets when
· Zechariah
7:12
Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words
which the LORD of hosts had sent
by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD
of hosts.
· Zechariah
8:9
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘ Let your hands be strong, You who have been hearing in these days
These words by the mouth of the
prophets, Who spoke in the day the foundation was laid For the house of the
LORD of hosts, That the temple might be built.
· Matthew
4:4
But He answered and said, “It is
written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.’” [Deuteronomy 8:3]
· Matthew
4:7
Jesus said to him, “It is written
again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’” [Deuteronomy 6:16]
· Matthew
4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God,
and Him only you shall serve.’” [Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20]
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
· Matthew
11:10
For this is he of whom it is written: ‘ Behold, I send My
messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’ [Malachi
3:1]
· Matthew
21:42
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read
in the Scriptures: ‘ The
stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was
the LORD’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?
· Matthew
22:29
Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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· Matthew
24:35 |
· Mark
13:31 |
· Luke
21:33 |
· Matthew
26:54
How then could the Scriptures be
fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”
· Matthew
26:56
But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples
forsook Him and fled.
· Mark
12:10
Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘ The stone which the builders
rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
· Mark
12:24
Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you
do not know the Scriptures
nor the power of God?
· Mark
14:49
I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must
be fulfilled.”
· Mark
15:28
So the Scripture was fulfilled
which says, “And He was numbered with the transgressors.”
· Luke
3:4
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
saying:” The voice of one crying in the wilderness:’ Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.
· Luke
4:21
And He began to say to them, “Today this
Scripture is fulfilled in
your hearing.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”
· Luke
16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to
pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.
· Luke
18:31
[ Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection ] Then He took
the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and
all things that are written by
the prophets concerning the
Son of Man will be accomplished.
· Luke
24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures
the things concerning Himself.
· Luke
24:32
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked
with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
44 Then He said to them,
“These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that all things must be fulfilled which
were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms
concerning Me.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
46 Then He said to them, “Thus it
is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise [NU-Text
reads written, that the Christ should suffer and rise.] from the dead the third day, 47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all
nations, beginning at
· Luke
24:44
[ The Scriptures Opened
] Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was
still with you, that all things must be
fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the
Psalms concerning Me.”
· Luke
24:45
And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
· John
2:22
Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He
had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word
which Jesus had said.
· John
5:39
You search the Scriptures,
for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify
of Me.
45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
· John
6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught
by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to
Me.
· John
7:38
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will
flow rivers of living water.”
· John
7:42
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David
and from the town of
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
· John
10:35
If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be
broken),
· John
13:18
“I do not speak concerning all of you. I
know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He
who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’
· John
17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You
gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that
the Scripture might be fulfilled.
· John
17:8
For I have given to them the words which
You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known
surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
· John
19:24
They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for
it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “ They divided My garments among
them, And for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these
things.
· John
19:28
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”
· John
19:36
For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”
· John
19:37
And again another Scripture says,
“They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”
· John
20:9
For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from
the dead.
30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
· Acts
1:16
“Men and brethren, this Scripture had
to be fulfilled, which the Holy
Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a
guide to those who arrested Jesus;
· Acts
7:37-42
37 “This is that Moses who said to the children of
38 “This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with
the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one
who received the living oracles to give to us, 39 whom our fathers
would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to
’ Did you offer Me slaughtered animals
and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of
43 You also took up the
tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And I will carry you away beyond
· Acts
8:32
The place in the Scripture which he read was this: “ He was led as a
sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He
opened not His mouth.
· Acts
8:35
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached
Jesus to him.
· Acts
15:15
And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
· Acts
17:2
Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
10 Then the brethren
immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to
· Acts
18:24
[Ministry of Apollos] Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
26 So he began to speak
boldly in the synagogue. When
· Acts
24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so
I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
1
What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2
Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3
For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of
God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but
every man a liar. As it is written:
” That You may be justified in Your
words,
And may overcome when You are judged.”[a]
· Romans
4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness.”
· Romans
9:17
For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have
raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be
declared in all the earth.”
· Romans
10:11
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to
shame.”
· Romans
11:2
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture
says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against
· Romans
15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we
through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
· Romans
16:26
but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according
to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.
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· Galatians 3:7-9 |
· Genesis
12:3 · Genesis
18:18 · Genesis
22:18 · Genesis
26:4 · Genesis
28:14 |
· Galatians
3:22
But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith
in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
· Galatians
4:30
Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the
bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the
son of the freewoman.”
· Ephesians
6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God;
· 1
Thessalonians 1:8
For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in
· 1
Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out
the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
14 But you must continue in the
things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have
learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able
to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that
the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
· 2
Timothy 3:15
and that from childhood you have known the
Holy Scriptures, which
are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
· 2
Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
· Hebrews
4:12
For the word of God is
living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
· James
2:8
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You
shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
· James
2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of
God.
· James
4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells
in us yearns jealously”?
· 1
Peter 1:25
But the word of the LORD endures forever.” [Isaiah 40:6-8]
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.”
· 1
Peter 2:6
Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “ Behold, I lay in
19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, [Or We also have the more sure prophetic word.] which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, [Or origin] 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God [NU-Text reads but men spoke from God. ] spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
· 2
Peter 3:2
that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the
holy prophets, and of the
commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord
and Savior,
14 Therefore, beloved,
looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without
spot and blameless; 15 and consider that the longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has
written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them
of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught
and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do
also the rest of the Scriptures.
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand,
beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the
error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
· Jude
1:17
But you, beloved, remember the words
which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2. “It is written”
· Deuteronomy
28:61
Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in
this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.
· Deuteronomy
29:20
“The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy
would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and
the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.
· Deuteronomy
29:21
And the LORD would separate him from all the tribes of
· Deuteronomy
29:27
Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it every
curse that is written in
this book.
· Joshua
1:8
This Book of the Law shall not
depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you
may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and
then you will have good success.
· Joshua
8:31
as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of
Moses: “an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron
tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace
offerings.
· Joshua
8:32
And there, in the presence of the children of
· Joshua
8:34
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings,
according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
· Joshua
10:13
So the sun stood still,And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon
their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
· Joshua
23:6
Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written
in the Book of the Law of Moses,
lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,
· 2
Samuel 1:18
and he told them to teach the children of
· 1
Kings 2:3
And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His
statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may
prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;
· 1
Kings 14:19
[ Death of Jeroboam ] Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made
war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
· 1
Kings 15:31
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
· 1
Kings 16:5
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
· 1
Kings 16:14
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
· 1
Kings 16:20
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the treason he committed, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
· 1
Kings 16:27
Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed,
are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of
· 1
Kings 22:39
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he
built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
· 2
Kings 1:18
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
· 2
Kings 10:34
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, all that he did, and all his might, are they
not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of
· 2
Kings 13:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, all that he did, and his might, are they
not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of
· 2
Kings 13:12
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, all that he did, and his might with which he
fought against Amaziah king of
· 2
Kings 14:6
But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is
written in the Book of the Law of
Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to
death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers;
but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.”
· 2
Kings 14:15
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did—his might, and how he fought
with Amaziah king of
· 2
Kings 14:28
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did—his might, how he
made war, and how he recaptured for
· 2
Kings 15:11
Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of
· 2
Kings 15:15
Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he led, indeed
they are written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of
· 2
Kings 15:21
Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
· 2
Kings 15:26
Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, indeed they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
· 2
Kings 15:31
Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, indeed they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of
· 2
Kings 22:13
“Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning
the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the
words of this book, to do according to all
that is written concerning us.”
· 2
Kings 23:21
Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the LORD
your God, as it is written in this
Book of the Covenant.”
· 1
Chronicles 16:40
to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly
morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Law of the LORD which
He commanded Israel;
· 2
Chronicles 16:11
Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of
· 2
Chronicles 20:34
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani,
which is mentioned in the book
of the kings of
· 2
Chronicles 23:18
Also Jehoiada appointed the oversight of the house of the LORD to the hand of
the priests, the Levites, whom David had assigned in the house of the LORD, to
offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as
it is written in the
Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was established by
David.
· 2
Chronicles 25:4
However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written
in the Law in the Book of Moses,
where the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for
their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a
person shall die for his own sin.”
· 2
Chronicles 25:26
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from first to last, indeed are they not written in the book of the kings of
· 2
Chronicles 27:7
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, indeed they
are written in the book of the
kings of
· 2
Chronicles 28:26
Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of
· 2
Chronicles 30:18
For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not
cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written.
But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD provide atonement for
everyone
· 2
Chronicles 31:3
The king also appointed a portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings:
for the morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings for the
Sabbaths and the New Moons and the set feasts, as it is written
in the Law of the LORD.
· 2
Chronicles 32:32
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, indeed they are written
in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the
kings of
· 2
Chronicles 33:18
[ Death of Manasseh ] Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer
to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD
God of
· 2
Chronicles 34:21
“Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words
of the book that is found; for
great is the wrath of the LORD
that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of
the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
· 2
Chronicles 35:4
Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses, according to your
divisions, following the written instruction of David king of
· 2
Chronicles 35:12
Then they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the
divisions of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is
written in the Book of Moses.
And so they did with the cattle.
· 2
Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the
singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in
· 2
Chronicles 35:27
and his deeds from first to last, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of
· 2
Chronicles 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did, and what
was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of
· Ezra
3:2
Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the
son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on
it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
· Ezra
3:4
They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as
it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the
number required by ordinance for each day.
· Ezra
6:2
And at Achmetha, in the palace that is
in the
· Ezra
6:18
They assigned the priests to their divisions and the Levites to their
divisions, over the service of God in
· Nehemiah
6:6
In it was written: It is
reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to
rebel; therefore, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, that
you may be their king.
· Nehemiah
8:14
And they found written in the Law,
which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of
· Nehemiah
8:15
and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in
Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches
of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to
make booths, as it is written.”
· Nehemiah
10:34
We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the
wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at
the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is
written in the Law.
· Nehemiah
10:36
to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in
the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, to the house of our
God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
· Esther
8:8
You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews, as you please, in the king’s
name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for whatever is written
in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring no one can revoke.”
· Esther
8:9
So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the
twenty-third day; and it was written,
according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the
governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred
and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province in its own script, to
every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and
language.
· Psalm
40:7
Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the
scroll of the book it is written of me.
· Isaiah 65:6
“ Behold, it is written
before Me: I will not keep silence, but will repay— Even repay into their
bosom—
· Jeremiah
17:1
[ Judah’s Sin and Punishment ] “The sin of
· Jeremiah
17:13
O LORD, the hope of
· Jeremiah
25:13
So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it,
all that is written in
this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations.
· Ezekiel
13:9
“My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine
lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of
· Daniel
5:25
“And this is the inscription
that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. [“It has been counted and
counted, weighed and divided.”]
· Daniel
9:11
Yes, all Israel has transgressed
Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse
and the oath written in the Law
of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have
sinned against Him.
· Daniel
9:13
“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster
has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that
we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
· Daniel
12:1
[ Prophecy of the End Time ] “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great
prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time
of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And
at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.
· Matthew
2:5
So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by
the prophet:
· Matthew
4:4
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
· Matthew
4:6
and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall
give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”
· Matthew
4:7
Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You
shall not tempt the LORD your God.’”
· Matthew
4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God,
and Him only you shall serve.’”
· Matthew
11:10
For this is he of whom it is written: ‘ Behold,
I send My messenger before Your face,Who will prepare Your way before You.’
· Matthew
21:13
And He said to them, “It is written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of
thieves.’”
· Matthew
26:24
The Son of Man indeed goes just as it
is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is
betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”
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· Matthew
26:31 · Mark
14:27 |
· Zechariah
13:7 |
· Mark
1:2
As it is written in the
Prophets: “ Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare
Your way before You.”
· Mark
7:6
He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is
written: ‘ This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is
far from Me.
· Mark
9:12
Then He answered and told them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And how is it written
concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and be treated with
contempt?
· Mark
9:13
But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and they did to him whatever they
wished, as it is written of
him.”
· Mark
11:17
Then He taught, saying to them, “Is
it not written, ‘My house
shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den
of thieves.’”
· Mark
14:21
The Son of Man indeed goes just as it
is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good
for that man if he had never been born.”
· Luke
2:23
(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who
opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD”),
· Luke
3:4
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying:” The voice
of one crying in the wilderness:’ Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths
straight.
· Luke
4:4
But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is
written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
· Luke
4:8
And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall
worship the LORD your God, and Him only
you shall serve.’”
· Luke
4:10
For it is written: ‘
He shall give His angels charge over you,To keep you,’
· Luke
4:17
And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
· Luke
7:27
This is he of whom it is written: ‘ Behold,
I send My messenger before Your face,Who will prepare Your way before You.’
· Luke
10:26
He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”
· Luke
19:46
saying to them, “It is written,
‘My house is a house of prayer,’
but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
· Luke
20:17
Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘ The stone which the
builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone’?
· Luke
22:37
For I say to you that this which is written must still be
accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the
things concerning Me have an end.”
· Luke
23:38
And an inscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek, Latin,
and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS.
· Luke
24:46
Then He said to them, “Thus it is
written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise
from the dead the third day,
· John
6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written,
‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
· John
6:45
It is written in the
prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has
heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
· John
8:17
It is also written in
your law that the testimony of two men is true.
· John
10:34
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You
are gods”‘?
· John
12:14
Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:
· John
15:25
But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a
cause.’
· John
20:31
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and
that believing you may have life in His name.
· Acts
1:20
“For it is written in the
Book of Psalms: ‘ Let his dwelling place be desolate,And let no one live in
it’; and,’ Let another take his office.’
· Acts
7:42
Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book
of the Prophets: ‘ Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during
forty years in the wilderness,O house of Israel?
· Acts
13:33
God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus.
As it is also written in
the second Psalm: ‘ You are My Son,Today I have begotten You.’
· Acts
15:15
And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
· Acts
23:5
Then Paul said, “I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall
not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
· Romans
1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is
revealed from faith to faith; as it is
written, “The just shall live by faith.”
· Romans
2:24
For “the name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.
· Romans
3:4
Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:” That You
may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”
· Romans
3:10
As it is written: “ There is none righteous, no, not one;
· Romans
4:17
(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” )
in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and
calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
· Romans
8:36
As it is written: “
For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.”
· Romans
9:13
As it is written, “Jacob
I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
· Romans
9:33
As it is written: “
Behold, I lay in
· Romans
10:15
And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those
who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”
· Romans
11:8
Just as it is written:
“ God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears
that they should not hear,To this very day.”
· Romans
11:26
And so all
· Romans
12:19
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is
written, “Vengeance is
Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
· Romans
14:11
For it is written: “
As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall
confess to God.”
· Romans
15:3
For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who
reproached You fell on Me.”
· Romans
15:9
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “ For this reason I will confess to
You among the Gentiles, And sing to Your name.”
· Romans
15:21
but as it is written: “
To whom He was not announced, they shall see; And those who have not heard
shall understand.”
· 1
Corinthians 1:19
For it is written: “ I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent.”
· 1
Corinthians 1:31
that, as it is written,
“He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”
· 1
Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written: “
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The
things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
· 1
Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it is
written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;
· 1
Corinthians 4:6
[Fools for Christ’s Sake ] Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively
transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not
to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed
up on behalf of one against the other.
· 1
Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a
brother, who is sexually
immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
· 1
Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the
law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about?
· 1
Corinthians 9:10
Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is
written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in
hope should be partaker of his hope.
· 1
Corinthians 10:7
And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up to play.”
· 1
Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written:
“ With men of other tongues and other lipsI will speak to this people; And yet,
for all that, they will not hear Me,” says the Lord.
· 1
Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.”
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
· 1
Corinthians 15:54
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in
victory.”
· 2
Corinthians 3:3
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with
ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets
of flesh, that is, of the heart.
· 2
Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel
could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance,
which glory was passing away,
· 2
Corinthians 4:13
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,
“I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
· 2
Corinthians 8:15
As it is written, “He
who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no
lack.”
· 2
Corinthians 9:9
As it is written: “ He
has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures
forever.”
· Galatians
3:10
[ The Law Brings a Curse ] For as many as are of the works of the law
are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all
things which are written in the
book of the law, to do them.”
· Galatians
3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us
(for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” ),
· Galatians
4:22
For it is written that
Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
· Galatians
4:27
For it is written: “
Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not
in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.”
· Hebrews
10:7
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do
Your will, O God.’”
· 1
Peter 1:16
because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
· 1
Peter 5:12
By Silvanus, our faithful brother as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that
this is the true grace of God in
which you stand.
· 2
Peter 3:15
and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the
wisdom given to him, has written to you,
· 1
John 2:14
I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the
word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one.
· 1
John 2:21
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because
you know it, and that no lie is
of the truth.
· Revelation
1:3
Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and
keep those things which are written
in it; for the time is near.
· Revelation
20:12
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were
opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their
works, by the things which were written in the books.
3.
What God says, the Bible says. What the Bible says, God says.
This section is adapted from Norman L. Geisler’s article, “Bible, Evidence for,” from The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Baker Books, 1999, page 92, with corrections to the verses given and new verses added. Note what God says is equated with Scripture, and vice versa.
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What God says … |
…The Bible says |
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· Genesis 18:18
· Genesis 22:18
· Genesis 22:18
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What the Bible says… |
…God says |
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· Genesis
1:27 · · Genesis
5:2 |
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· Psalm 95:7-8 7For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8”Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,[ Or Meribah] As in the day of trial [Or Massah] in the wilderness, |
· Hebrews
3:7-15 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, 8Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. 10Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, “They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ 11So I swore in My wrath, “They shall not enter My rest.”‘ 12Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
· Hebrews 4:7 7again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” |
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What the Bible says… |
…God says |
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4Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. |
7And of the angels He says: “Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire.” |
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What the Bible says… |
…God says |
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3Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you-- The sure mercies of David. |
34And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: “I will give you the sure mercies of David.’ |
I. There is only one God
A.
God is unique
1. The Shema
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· Deuteronomy 6:4 [Or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone (that is, the only one)] |
· Mark
12:29 |
The John Ankerberg Theological Research Staff. “The Lord is One” Deuteronomy 6:4 reads, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!” We asked biblical scholars to comment on what those words mean, both in context and for us today. See links: HTML PDF
2. Only one Lord
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· Deuteronomy 6:4 [Or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone (that is, the only one)] |
· Mark
12:29 |
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God
and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you[a] all.
3. Only one Savior
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1 Then David
spoke to the LORD the words of this song, on the day when the LORD had
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 2
And he said:[a] 3 The God of my
strength, in whom I will trust; |
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song
on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and
from the hand of Saul. And he said: |
· Psalm
106:21
They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in
· Isaiah
19:20
And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD
because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty
One, and He will deliver them.
· Isaiah
43:3
For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave
· Isaiah 43:10-11
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
13 I have raised him up
in righteousness,
And I will direct all his ways;
He shall build My city
And let My exiles go free,
Not for price nor reward,”
Says the Lord of Hosts.
14 Thus says the LORD:
” The labor of
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be
yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying,
‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
There is no other God.’”
15 Truly You are God,
who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior!
· Isaiah
45:21
Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has
declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I,
the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
· Isaiah
49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk
with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the LORD,
am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
· Isaiah
60:16
You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, And milk the breast of kings; You
shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob.
· Isaiah
63:8
For He said, “Surely they are My people, Children who will not lie.” So He
became their Savior.
· Jeremiah
14:8
O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, Why should You be
like a stranger in the land, And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a
night?
· Hosea
13:4
“ Yet I am the LORD your God Ever since the
· Obadiah
1:21
Then saviors [Or deliverers] shall
come to
· Zechariah 13:1
“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the
inhabitants of
· Zechariah
13:7
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion,”
Says the Lord of Hosts. “Strike the
Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the
little ones.
· Luke
1:47
And my spirit has rejoiced in God my
Savior.
· Luke
2:11
For there is born to you this day in the city of
· John
4:42
Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for
we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior
of the world.”
· Acts
5:31
Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give
repentance to
22 And when He had
removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave
testimony and said, ‘I
have found David [Psalm 89:20] the son of Jesse, a man after My
own heart, who will do all My will.’ [1 Samuel 13:14] 23
From this man’s seed, according to the
promise, God raised up for
· Ephesians
5:23
For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and
He is the Savior of the body.
· Philippians
3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ,
· 1
Timothy 1:1
[ Greeting ] Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord
Jesus Christ, our hope,
· 1
Timothy 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
· 1
Timothy 4:10
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of
those who believe.
· 2
Timothy 1:10
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ,
who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the
gospel,
· Titus 1:2-4
2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before
time began, 3 but has in due time manifested His word through
preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4 To Titus, a true son in our common faith:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ [NU-Text
reads and Christ Jesus.] our Savior.
· Titus 2:10
not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine
of God our Savior in all things.
· Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
· Titus 3:3-5
3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and
hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He
saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
· Titus
3:6
whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
· 2
Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have
obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ:
· 2 Peter
1:11
for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
· 2 Peter
2:20
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the
beginning.
· 2 Peter 3:2
that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy
prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
· 2 Peter
3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.
Amen.
· 1 John 4:14
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior
of the world.
· Jude 1:25
To God our Savior, Who alone
is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.
4. The First and the Last / The Alpha and Omega / The Beginning and the
End
· Isaiah 41:4
Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? “I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last
I am He.”‘
· Isaiah 44:6
“Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts: “I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.
· Isaiah 48:12
“Listen to Me, O Jacob, And
· Revelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End,”[NU-Text and M-Text omit the Beginning and the End. ] says the Lord, [NU-Text and M-Text add
God.] “who is and who was and who is
to come, the Almighty.”
· Revelation 1:11
saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the First and the Last,”[NU-Text and M-Text omit I am through third and. ] and, “What you see, write in a
book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: [NU-Text and M-Text
omit which are in
· Revelation 1:17
And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on
me, saying to me, [NU-Text and M-Text omit to
me.] “Do not be afraid; I am the
First and the Last.
· Revelation 2:8
“And to the angel of the church in
· Revelation 21:6
And He said to me, “It is done! [M-Text omits It is done.] I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of
the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
· Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” [NU-Text and M-Text read the First and the Last, the Beginning and
the End.]
B. There is no other God
1. There is no other God
33 Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
· Deuteronomy
4:39
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself
is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
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· Deuteronomy 6:4 [Or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone (that is, the only one)] |
· Mark
12:29 |
· Deuteronomy 32:39
“Now see that I, even I, am He, And
there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal;
Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
· 2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore You are great, O Lord GOD.[Targum and Syriac read O LORD God. ] For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have
heard with our ears.
59 And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require, 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other. 61 Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
13 And his servants came
near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you
to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more
then, when he says to you, ‘
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came
and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth,
except in
· 2 Kings 19:15
Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: “O LORD God of
17 Truly, LORD, the
kings of
· 1 Chronicles 17:20
O LORD, there is none like You, nor is
there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our
ears.
· Psalm 86:10
For You are great, and do wondrous things; You
alone are God.
· Isaiah 37:20
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of
the earth may know that You are the
LORD, You alone.”
· Isaiah 42:8
8 I am the LORD,
that is My name;
And My
glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
· Isaiah 43:10-11
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before
me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
· Isaiah 43:12
I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god
among you; Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the LORD, “that I am God.
· Isaiah
44:6
“ Thus says the LORD, the King of
Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of
Hosts: ‘ I am the First and I am
the Last; Besides Me there is no God.
· Isaiah
44:8
Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared
it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no
other Rock; I know not one.’”
· Isaiah 44:24
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
” I am
the LORD, who makes all things,
Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
· Isaiah
45:5-6
5 I am the LORD, and there
is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
I will gird you, though you have not known
Me,
6 That they may know from the
rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides
I am
the LORD, and there is no other;
· Isaiah
45:14
Thus says the LORD: “ The labor of
· Isaiah
45:18
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the
earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who
formed it to be inhabited: “I am the
LORD, and there is no other.
· Isaiah
45:21
Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has
declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I,
the LORD? And there is no other God
besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There
is none besides Me.
· Isaiah
45:22
“ Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there
is no other.
· Isaiah
46:9
Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
· Isaiah 48:11
11 For My own sake, for
My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And
I will not give My glory to another.
· Daniel
3:29
Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks
anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut
in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no
other God who can deliver like this.”
· Hosea 13:4
“Yet I am the LORD your God Ever since the
· Joel
2:27
Then you shall know that I am in the midst of
· Mark
12:32
So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He.
· Luke
5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who
speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
· Romans 3:30
30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to
idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there
are many gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and
we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things,
and through whom we live.
· 1
Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the
Man Christ Jesus,
· Book of Mormon:
[26] And Zeezrom said
unto him: Thou sayest there is a true and living God?
[27] And Amulek
said: Yea, there is a true and living God.
[28] Now Zeezrom
said: Is there more than one God?
[29] And he
answered, No.
[30] Now Zeezrom
said unto him again: How knowest thou these things?
[31] And he said: An
angel hath made them known unto me.
· The
[6] And I have a work
for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the asimilitude• of mine bOnly• cBegotten•; and mine Only
Begotten is and shall be the dSavior•, for he is full of egrace• and ftruth•; but there is gno• God beside me, and all
things are present with me, for I hknow• them all.
2. No one like God
9 And Moses said to
Pharaoh, “Accept the honor of saying when I shall intercede for you, for your
servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that
they may remain in the river only.”
10 So he said, “Tomorrow.” And he said, “Let it be according
to your word, that you may know that there
is no one like the LORD our God. 11 And the frogs shall
depart from you, from your houses, from your servants, and from your people.
They shall remain in the river only.”
· Deuteronomy 3:24
“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty
hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your
works and Your mighty deeds?
· Deuteronomy
33:26
“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who
rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds.
· 2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore You are great, O Lord GOD. [Targum and Syriac read O LORD God.] For there is none like You,
nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our
ears.
17 Truly, LORD, the
kings of
· 2 Chronicles 6:14
and he said: “LORD God of
· Psalm 86:8
Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; Nor are there any works like
Your works.
· Psalm 113:5
Who is like the LORD our God, Who dwells on high,
· Isaiah 46:9
9 Remember the former
things of old,
For I am God, and there is no
other;
I am God, and there is none
like Me,
· Hebrews 6:13
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by
no one greater, He swore by Himself,
3. There is no other who can forgive sins
· Mark
2:7
“Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
· Galatians
3:20
Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
4. There is no other rock
· Isaiah
44:8
Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long
ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”
5. No one else holy or good
· 1
Samuel 2:2
“No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.
· Matthew
19:17
So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to
enter into life, keep the commandments.”
· Mark
10:18
So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
II. Attributes unique to God
A. Creator
· Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
· Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and
over the cattle, over all [Syriac reads all
the wild animals of.] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth.”
· Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male
and female He created them.
· Genesis 1:31
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
· Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
· Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make
him a helper comparable to him.”
· Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God
had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, “You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden’?”
· Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He
made him in the likeness of God.
· Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man
his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
· Deuteronomy 4:32
“For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since
the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to
the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it
has been heard.
· 2 Kings 19:15
Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: “O LORD God of
· Job 4:17
“Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his
Maker?
· Psalm 8:1-3
1 O
LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is
Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory
above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained
strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the
enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your
fingers,
The moon and the stars,
which You have ordained,
· Psalm 19:1
1 The
heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows
His handiwork.
· Psalm 33:6-9
6 By the word of
the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of them
by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a
heap; [Septuagint, Targum, and Vulgate read in a vessel.]
He lays up the deep in
storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD;
Let all the inhabitants
of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it
stood fast.
· Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and
the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
· Psalm 100:3
3
Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who
has made us, and not we ourselves; [Following Kethib, Septuagint, and Vulgate;
Qere, many Hebrew manuscripts, and Targum read we are His.]
We are His people
and the sheep of His pasture.
· Isaiah 37:16
“O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, the
One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
· Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The
Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His
understanding is unsearchable.
· Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who
spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the
people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:
· Isaiah 44:24
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
“I am
the LORD, who makes all things,
Who
stretches out the heavens all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
·
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who
did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
· Nehemiah 9:6
6 You alone are the LORD;
You have made heaven,
The heaven of heavens, with all their host,
The earth and everything on it,
The seas and all that is in them,
And You preserve them all.
The host of heaven worships You.
· Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal
treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
· Mark
10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God
‘made them male and female.’
· Mark
13:19
For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the
beginning of the creation which God
created until this time, nor ever shall be.
· John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend [Or overcome] it.
· Acts 4:24
24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
· Romans 1:20
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
· Romans
1:25
who exchanged the truth of God
for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who
is blessed forever. Amen.
· Hebrews 1:10-12
10 And:
“You,
LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And
the heavens are the work of Your hands.
11 They will perish, but You remain;
And
they will all grow old like a garment;
12 Like a cloak You will fold them up,
And
they will be changed.
But
You are the same,
And
Your years will not fail.” [Psalm 102:25-27]
· Ephesians 8:9
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship [NU-Text and M-Text read stewardship (dispensation). ] of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; [NU-Text omits through Jesus Christ.]
· Hebrews
11:3
By faith we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen
were not made of things which are visible.
· Revelation 4:11
11 “ You are worthy, O
Lord, [NU-Text and M-Text read our Lord and God.]
To receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
And by Your will they exist [NU-Text and
M-Text read existed.] and were created.”
· Book of Mormon: 2 Nephi 2:14
[14] And now, my sons, I speak unto you
these things for your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath
created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them
are, both things to act and things to be acted upon.
· Jacob 4:9
[9]
For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which
earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to
speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able
to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it,
according to his will and pleasure?
·
[1] AND it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying:
Behold, I areveal• unto you concerning
this bheaven, and this cearth•; dwrite• the words which I
speak. I am the Beginning and the End, the eAlmighty• God; by mine fOnly• Begotten I gcreated these things; yea,
in the beginning I hcreated the iheaven•, and the earth upon
which thou standest.
[2] And the earth was without aform•, and void; and I caused bdarkness to come up upon
the face of the deep; and my cSpirit dmoved• upon the face of the water; for I am God.
[3] And I,
God, said: Let there be alight•; and there was light.
[4] And I,
God, saw the light; and that light was agood•. And I, God, divided the blight from the darkness.
[5] And I, God, called the light Day; and the darkness, I called Night; and
this I did by the aword• of my power, and it
was done as I bspake•; and the evening and
the morning were the first cday•.
[7] And I, God, made the firmament and divided the awaters•, yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament, and it was so even as I spake.
[8] And I,
God, called the firmament aHeaven•; and the evening and the morning were the second day.
[9] And I,
God, said: Let the awaters under the heaven be gathered together unto bone• place, and it was so; and I, God, said: Let there be dry
land; and it was so.
[10] And I, God, called the dry land aEarth•; and the gathering together of the waters, called I the Sea;
and I, God, saw that all things which I had made were good.
[11] And
I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth agrass•, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit,
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself
upon the earth, and it was so even as I spake.
[12] And the earth brought forth grass, every herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself,
after his akind•; and I, God, saw that
all things which I had made were good;
[13]And the evening and the morning were the third day.
[14] And
I, God, said: Let there be alights• in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the
night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;
[15] And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
[16] And I, God, made two great lights; the greater alight to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night, and the bgreater• light was the sun, and the lesser light was the moon; and
the stars also were made even according to my word.
[17] And I,
God, set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
[18] And the asun to rule over the day,
and the moon to rule over the night, and to divide the light from the bdarkness; and I, God, saw
that all things which I had made were good;
[19] And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
[20] And I,
God, said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life, and fowl which may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
[21] And I, God, created great awhales•, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind; and I, God, saw that all things which I had created were good.
[22] And I, God, blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and amultiply•, and fill the waters in the sea; and let fowl multiply in
the earth;
[23] And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
[24] And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth
after their kind, and it was so;
[25] And I, God, made the beasts of the earth after their kind,
and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth upon the earth after
his kind; and I, God, saw that all these things were good.
[26] And I, God, said unto mine aOnly Begotten, which was
with me from the bbeginning: Let cus dmake man in our eimage•, after our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let
them have fdominion• over the fishes of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[27] And I, God, created man in mine own aimage, in the image of
mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female created I them.
[28] And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them: Be afruitful, and bmultiply•, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
[29] And I, God, said unto man: Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in
the which shall be the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for ameat•.
[30] And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein I grant life, there shall be
given every clean herb for meat; and it was so, even as I spake.
[31] And I, God, saw everything that I had made, and, behold,
all things which I had made were very agood•; and the evening and the morning were the bsixth• day.
B. Possessor of heaven and earth
· Genesis
14:19
And he blessed him and said: “ Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor
of heaven and earth;
· Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of
C. God of heaven and earth
· Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.
· Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God
of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my
son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;
· Genesis 24:7
The LORD God of heaven, who took me
from my father’s house and from the
land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, “To your
descendants[Literally seed ] I give
this land,’ He will send His angel
before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
· Deuteronomy 4:39
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and
on the earth beneath; there is no other.
· Deuteronomy 10:14
Indeed heaven and the highest heavens
belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it.
· 2 Chronicles 20:6
and said: “O LORD God of our fathers, are You
not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations,
and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to
withstand You?
· Ezra 5:11
And thus they returned us an answer, saying: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are
rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of
· Ezra 7:23
Whatever is commanded by the God of
heaven, let it diligently be done for the house of the God of heaven. For why should there be wrath against the realm of
the king and his sons?
· Daniel 5:23
And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before
you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine
from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron,
wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your
breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
· Nehemiah 2:20
So I answered them, and said to them, “The
God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise
and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in
· Isaiah 37:16
“O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, the
One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
· Matthew
23:22
And he who swears by heaven, swears by
the throne of God and by Him
who sits on it.
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this
grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ, 9 and to make all see what is the
fellowship[a] of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;[b] 10 to
the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the
church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
D. Lord of Lords
· Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and
Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality
nor takes a bribe.
· Psalm 136:3
Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
For His mercy endures forever:
14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
· Revelation
17:14
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of
kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp [M-Text
adds two-edged.] sword, that
with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod
of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a
name written:
KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, [ NU-Text and M-Text read the great supper of God.]
E. God of gods
· Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and
Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality
nor takes a bribe.
· Joshua 22:22
“The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of
gods, He knows, and let Israel itself know--if it is in rebellion, or if in
treachery against the LORD, do not save us this day.
· 1 Chronicles 16:25
For the LORD is great and greatly to be
praised; He is also to be feared above all gods.
· 2 Chronicles 2:5
And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
· Psalm 95:3
For the LORD is the great God, And the
great King above all gods.
· Psalm 96:4
For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
· Psalm 97:7
Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship
Him, all you gods.
· Psalm 97:9
For You, LORD, are most high above all
the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
· Psalm 135:5
For I know that the LORD is great, And
our Lord is above all gods.
· Psalm 136:2
Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
For His mercy endures forever.
· Daniel 2:47
The king answered Daniel, and said, “Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of
secrets, since you could reveal this secret.”
· Daniel 11:36
“Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify
himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the
wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.
F. God of hosts
1. God of hosts
· 2 Samuel
5:10
So David went on and became great, and the LORD God of hosts was with
him.
· 1 Kings
19:10
So he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the
children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and
killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my
life.”
· 1 Kings
19:14
And he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts;
because the children of
· Psalm 59:5
You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, Awake to punish
all the nations; Do not be merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah
· Psalm 69:6
Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because
of me;Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
· Psalm 80:4
O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of
Your people?
· Psalm 80:7
Restore us, O God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be
saved!
· Psalm 80:14
Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see,
And visit this vine
· Psalm 80:19
Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall
be saved!
· Psalm 84:8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of
Jacob! Selah
· Psalm 89:8
O LORD God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness
also surrounds You.
· Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?”
Says the Lord GOD of hosts.
· Isaiah
10:23
For the Lord GOD of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all
the land.
· Isaiah
10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in
· Isaiah 22:5
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord GOD
of hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to
the mountain.
· Isaiah
22:12
And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for
mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
· Isaiah
22:14
Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, “ Surely for this
iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the Lord
GOD of hosts.
· Isaiah
22:15
[ The Judgment on Shebna ] Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “ Go,
proceed to this steward, To Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
· Isaiah
28:22
Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have
heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the
whole earth.
· Jeremiah
2:19
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have
forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord GOD
of hosts.
· Jeremiah
5:14
Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts: “ Because you speak this
word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood,
And it shall devour them.
· Jeremiah
15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and
rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
· Jeremiah
35:17
“Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold,
I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the doom that
I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them but they have not
heard, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
· Jeremiah
38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts,
the God of Israel: ‘If you surely surrender to the king of Babylon’s princes,
then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and
your house shall live.
· Jeremiah
44:7
“Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel:
‘Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man
and woman, child and infant, out of
· Jeremiah
46:10
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, That
He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be
satiated and made drunk with their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts has
a sacrifice In the north country by the River Euphrates.
· Jeremiah
49:5
Behold, I will bring fear upon you,” Says the Lord GOD of hosts, “ From
all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, everyone headlong, And
no one will gather those who wander off.
· Jeremiah
50:25
The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His
indignation; For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land
of the Chaldeans.
· Jeremiah
50:31
“ Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!” says the Lord GOD of hosts;
“ For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.
· Hosea 12:5
That is, the LORD God of hosts. The LORD is His memorable name.
· Amos 3:13
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,” Says the Lord GOD, the God of
hosts,
· Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man
what his thought is,And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places
of the earth— The LORD God of hosts is His name.
· Amos 5:14
Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will
be with you, As you have spoken.
· Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God
of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
· Amos 5:16
[ The Day of the LORD ] Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the
Lord, says this: “ There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in
all the highways, ‘ Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And
skillful lamenters to wailing.
· Amos 5:27
Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond
· Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: “ I abhor
the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
· Amos 6:14
“But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” Says
the LORD God of hosts; “And they will afflict you from the entrance of
Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah.”
· Amos 9:5
The Lord GOD of hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, And all
who dwell there mourn; All of it shall swell like the River, And subside like
the
2. The Lord of Hosts
· 1
Samuel 1:3
This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the Lord
of Hosts in
· 1
Samuel 1:11
Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of Hosts, if You will indeed look
on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your
maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him
to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his
head.”
· 1
Samuel 4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the
covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. And the
two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant
of God.
· 1
Samuel 15:2
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘I
will punish Amalek for what he did to
· 1
Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear,
and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of the armies of
· 2
Samuel 5:10
So David went on and became great, and the Lord God of Hosts was with
him.
· 2
Samuel 6:2
And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah
to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the Lord
of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.
· 2
Samuel 6:18
And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he
blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
· 2
Samuel 7:8
Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “I took you from the
sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over
· 2
Samuel 7:26
So let Your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Hosts is the God over
· 2
Samuel 7:27
For You, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to Your
servant, saying, ‘I will build you a
house.’ Therefore Your servant has
found it in his heart to pray this prayer to You.
· 1
Kings 18:15
Then Elijah said, “As the Lord of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I
will surely present myself to him today.”
· 1
Kings 19:10
So he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts; for the
children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and
killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my
life.”
· 1
Kings 19:14
And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts;
because the children of
· 2
Kings 3:14
And Elisha said, “As the Lord of Hosts lives, before whom I stand,
surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat king of
· 2
Kings 19:31
For out of
· 1
Chronicles 11:9
So David went on and became great, and the Lord of Hosts was with him.
· 1
Chronicles 17:7
Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “I took you from the
sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people
· 1
Chronicles 17:24
So let it be established, that Your name may be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Hosts, the God of
Israel, is
· Psalm
24:10
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of
glory. Selah
· Psalm
46:7
The Lord of Hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah
· Psalm
46:11
The Lord of Hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah
· Psalm
48:8
As we have heard, So we have seen In the city of the Lord of Hosts, In
the city of our God: God will establish it
forever. Selah
· Psalm
59:5
You therefore, O Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel, Awake to punish
all the nations; Do not be merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah
· Psalm
69:6
Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed because
of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
· Psalm
80:4
O Lord God of Hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of
Your people?
· Psalm
80:19
Restore us, O Lord God of Hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall
be saved!
· Psalm
84:1
How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of Hosts!
· Psalm
84:3
Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where
she may lay her young— Even Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, My King and my
God.
· Psalm
84:8
O Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of
Jacob! Selah
· Psalm
84:12
O Lord of Hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!
· Psalm
89:8
O Lord God of Hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your
faithfulness also surrounds You.
· Isaiah
1:9
Unless the Lord of Hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would
have become like
· Isaiah
1:24
Therefore the Lord says, The Lord of Hosts, the Mighty One of
Israel, “ Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My
enemies.
· Isaiah
2:12
For the day of the Lord of Hosts Shall come upon everything proud and
lofty, Upon everything lifted up— And it shall be brought low—
· Isaiah
3:1
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Takes away from
· Isaiah
3:15
What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?”
Says the Lord God of Hosts.
· Isaiah
5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of
· Isaiah
5:9
In my hearing the Lord of Hosts said,” Truly, many houses shall be
desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
· Isaiah
5:16
But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy
shall be hallowed in righteousness.
· Isaiah
5:24
Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff,
So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of Hosts, And despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
· Isaiah
6:3
And one cried to another and said:” Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
· Isaiah
6:5
So I said: “ Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the
King, The Lord of Hosts.”
· Isaiah
8:13
The Lord of Hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let
Him be your dread.
· Isaiah
8:18
Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs
and wonders in
· Isaiah
9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the
throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with
judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord
of Hosts will perform this.
· Isaiah
9:13
For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, Nor do they seek the Lord
of Hosts.
· Isaiah
9:19
Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts The land is burned up, And the
people shall be as fuel for the fire; No man shall spare his brother.
· Isaiah
10:16
Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Will send leanness among
his fat ones; And under his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of
a fire.
· Isaiah
10:23
For the Lord God of Hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all
the land.
· Isaiah
10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in
· Isaiah
10:26
And the Lord of Hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaughter
of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up
in the manner of Egypt.
· Isaiah
10:33
Behold, the Lord, The Lord of Hosts, Will lop off the bough with
terror; Those of high stature will be hewn down, And the haughty will be
humbled.
· Isaiah
13:4
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous
noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The Lord of Hosts
musters The army for battle.
· Isaiah
13:13
Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of Hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.
· Isaiah
14:22
“ For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “ And cut
off from
· Isaiah
14:23
“ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy
water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of
Hosts.
· Isaiah
14:24
The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying, “ Surely, as I have thought, so it
shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:
· Isaiah
14:27
For the Lord of Hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is
stretched out, And who will turn it back?”
· Isaiah
17:3
The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, The kingdom from
· Isaiah
18:7
In that time a present will be brought to the Lord of Hosts From a
people tall and smooth of skin, And from a people terrible from their beginning
onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide— To
the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts, To Mount Zion.
· Isaiah
19:4
And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel master, And a fierce
king will rule over them,” Says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.
· Isaiah
19:12
Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them
know what the Lord of Hosts has purposed against
· Isaiah
19:16
In that day Egypt will be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of
the waving of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which He waves over it.
· Isaiah
19:17
And the
· Isaiah
19:18
In that day five cities in the
· Isaiah
19:20
And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of Hosts in the
land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.
· Isaiah
19:25
whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is
· Isaiah
21:10
Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the Lord
of Hosts, The God of
· Isaiah
22:5
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord God
of Hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to
the mountain.
· Isaiah
22:12
And in that day the Lord God of Hosts Called for weeping and for
mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
· Isaiah
22:14
Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of Hosts, “ Surely for
this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the
Lord God of Hosts.
· Isaiah
22:15
Thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “ Go, proceed to this steward, To
Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
· Isaiah
22:25
In that day,’ says the Lord of
Hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened
in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden
that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.’”
· Isaiah
23:9
The Lord of Hosts has purposed it, To bring to dishonor the pride of all
glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
· Isaiah
24:23
Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the Lord of Hosts
will reign On Mount
· Isaiah
25:6
And in this mountain The Lord of Hosts will make for all people A feast
of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.
· Isaiah
28:5
In that day the Lord of Hosts will be For a crown of glory and a diadem
of beauty To the remnant of His people,
· Isaiah
28:22
Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have
heard from the Lord God of Hosts, A destruction determined even upon the
whole earth.
· Isaiah
28:29
This also comes from the Lord of Hosts, Whois wonderful in counsel and
excellent in guidance.
· Isaiah
29:6
You will be punished by the Lord of Hosts With thunder and earthquake
and great noise, With storm and tempest And the flame of devouring fire.
· Isaiah
31:4
For thus the LORD has spoken to me: “ As a lion roars, And a young lion
over his prey (When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will
not be afraid of their voice Nor be disturbed by their noise), So the Lord
of Hosts will come down To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.
· Isaiah
31:5
Like birds flying about, So will the Lord of Hosts defend
· Isaiah
37:16
“O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the
cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
made heaven and earth.
· Isaiah
37:32
For out of
· Isaiah
39:5
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:
· Isaiah
44:6
“ Thus says the LORD, the King of
Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts: ‘ I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.
· Isaiah
45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, And I will direct all his ways; He shall
build My city And let My exiles go free, Not for price nor reward,” Says the Lord
of Hosts.
· Isaiah
47:4
As for our Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts is His name, The Holy One of
Israel.
· Isaiah
48:2
For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of Hosts is His name:
· Isaiah
51:15
But I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared— The Lord
of Hosts is His name.
· Isaiah
54:5
For your Maker is your husband, The Lord of Hosts is His name; And your
Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
· Jeremiah
2:19
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have
forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord
God of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
5:14
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “ Because you speak this
word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood,
And it shall devour them.
· Jeremiah
6:6
For thus has the Lord of Hosts said: “ Cut down trees, And build a mound
against
· Jeremiah
6:9
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the
remnant of
· Jeremiah
7:3
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
· Jeremiah
7:21
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt
offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
· Jeremiah
8:3
Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who
remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven
them,” says the Lord of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
9:7
Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ Behold, I will refine them and
try them; For how shall I deal with the daughter of My people?
· Jeremiah
9:15
therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of
· Jeremiah
9:17
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ Consider and call for the mourning women,
That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.
· Jeremiah
10:16
The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things, And
Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The Lord of Hosts is His name.
· Jeremiah
11:17
“For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you
for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have
done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
· Jeremiah
11:20
But, O Lord of Hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and
the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my
cause.
· Jeremiah
11:22
therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword,
their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
· Jeremiah
15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and
rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
16:9
For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will
cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of
mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride.
· Jeremiah
19:3
and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD,
O kings of
· Jeremiah
19:11
and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord
of Hosts: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a
potter’s vessel, which cannot be
made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to
bury.
· Jeremiah
19:15
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the
doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks
that they might not hear My words.’”
· Jeremiah
20:12
But, O Lord of Hosts, You who test the righteous, And see the mind and
heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them; For I have pleaded my cause before
You.
· Jeremiah
23:15
“Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts concerning the prophets: ‘ Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of
Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’”
· Jeremiah
23:16
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ Do not listen to the words of the
prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of
their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
· Jeremiah
23:36
And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you
have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.
· Jeremiah
25:8
“Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words,
· Jeremiah
25:27
“Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus
says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink, be drunk, and vomit!
Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”‘
· Jeremiah
25:28
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then
you shall say to them, ‘Thus says
the Lord of Hosts: “You shall certainly drink!
· Jeremiah
25:29
For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name,
and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will
call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of
Hosts.’
· Jeremiah
25:32
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ Behold, disaster shall go forth From
nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest
parts of the earth.
· Jeremiah
26:18
“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke
to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus
says the Lord of Hosts: “ Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem
shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills
of the forest.”‘
· Jeremiah
27:4
And command them to say to their masters, “Thus says the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—thus you shall say to your masters:
· Jeremiah
27:18
But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let
them now make intercession to the Lord of Hosts, that the vessels which
are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah,
and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon.’
· Jeremiah
27:19
“For thus says the Lord of Hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the
Sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that
remain in this city,
· Jeremiah
27:21
yes, thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the
vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
king of
· Jeremiah
28:2
“Thus speaks the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of
· Jeremiah
28:14
For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “I have put a yoke
of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar
king of
· Jeremiah
29:4
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried
away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from
· Jeremiah
29:8
For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your
prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to
your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
· Jeremiah
29:17
thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be
eaten, they are so bad.
· Jeremiah
29:21
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son
of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My
name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
· Jeremiah
29:25
Thus speaks the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent
letters in your name to all the people who are at
· Jeremiah
30:8
‘ For it shall come to pass in that
day,’ Says the Lord of Hosts,
‘ That I will break his yoke from
your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
· Jeremiah
31:23
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use
this speech in the
· Jeremiah
31:35
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances
of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its
waves roar (The Lord of Hosts is His name):
· Jeremiah
32:14
‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel: “Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed
and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
last many days.”
· Jeremiah
32:15
For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields
and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”‘
· Jeremiah
32:18
You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them—the Great, the Mighty God, whose
name is the Lord of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
33:11
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: “ Praise the Lord of
Hosts, For the LORD is good, For His mercy endures forever”— andof
those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.
For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the LORD.
· Jeremiah
33:12
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘In
this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its
cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks
to lie down.
· Jeremiah
35:13
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Go and tell the men of
· Jeremiah
35:17
“Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the doom that I have pronounced against
them; because I have spoken to them but they have not heard, and I have called
to them but they have not answered.’”
· Jeremiah
35:18
And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Thus says the Lord of
Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Because
you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
precepts and done according to all that he commanded you,
· Jeremiah
35:19
therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Jonadab the
son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever.”‘“
· Jeremiah
38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts,
the God of Israel: ‘If you surely
surrender to the king of Babylon’s
princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire,
and you and your house shall live.
· Jeremiah
39:16
“Go and speak to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I
will bring My words upon this city for adversity and not for good, and they
shall be performed in that day before you.
· Jeremiah
42:15
Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of
· Jeremiah
42:18
“For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘As My anger and My fury have been
poured out on the inhabitants of
· Jeremiah
43:10
and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord
of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar
the king of
· Jeremiah
44:2
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘You have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem
and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and
no one dwells in them,
· Jeremiah
44:7
“Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel: ‘Why do you commit this
great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and
infant, out of
· Jeremiah
44:11
“Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will set My face against you
for catastrophe and for cutting off all
· Jeremiah
44:25
Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘You and your wives have spoken with
your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, “We will surely keep our
vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out
drink offerings to her.” You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!’
· Jeremiah
46:10
For this is the day of the Lord God of Hosts, A day of vengeance, That
He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be
satiated and made drunk with their blood; For the Lord God of Hosts has
a sacrifice In the north country by the River Euphrates.
· Jeremiah
46:18
“ As I live,” says the King, Whose name is the Lord of Hosts, “ Surely
as Tabor is among the mountains And as
· Jeremiah
46:25
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring
punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and
· Jeremiah
48:1
Against Moab.Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel:” Woe to
Nebo! For it is plundered, Kirjathaim is shamed and taken; The high stronghold
is shamed and dismayed—
· Jeremiah
48:15
· Jeremiah
49:5
Behold, I will bring fear upon you,” Says the Lord God of Hosts, “ From
all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, everyone headlong, And
no one will gather those who wander off.
· Jeremiah
49:7
Against
· Jeremiah
49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, And all the men of war shall
be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
49:35
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Behold, I will break the bow of
· Jeremiah
50:18
Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “ Behold, I
will punish the king of
· Jeremiah
50:25
The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His
indignation; For this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts In the land
of the Chaldeans.
· Jeremiah
50:31
“ Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of Hosts;
“ For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.
· Jeremiah
50:33
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ The children of
· Jeremiah
50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; The Lord of Hosts is His name. He will
thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet
the inhabitants of
· Jeremiah
51:5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the Lord of Hosts,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”
· Jeremiah
51:14
The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you with
men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you.”
· Jeremiah
51:19
The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things; And
Israel is the tribe of His inheritance. The Lord of Hosts is His name.
· Jeremiah
51:33
For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “ The daughter of
· Jeremiah
51:57
“ And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies,
and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says
the King, Whose name is the Lord of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
51:58
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “ The broad walls of
· Hosea
12:5
That is, the Lord God of Hosts. The LORD is His memorable name.
· Amos
3:13
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,” Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
· Amos
4:13
For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man
what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places
of the earth— The Lord God of Hosts is His name.
· Amos
5:14
Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the Lord God of Hosts will
be with you, As you have spoken.
· Amos
5:15
Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord
God of Hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
· Amos
5:16
Therefore the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord, says this: “ There
shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘ Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to
wailing.
· Amos
5:27
Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond
· Amos
6:8
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The Lord God of Hosts says: “
I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up
the city And all that is in it.”
· Amos
6:14
“ But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” Says
the Lord God of Hosts; “ And they will afflict you from the entrance of
Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah.”
· Amos
9:5
The Lord God of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, And all
who dwell there mourn; All of it shall swell like the River, And subside like
the
· Micah
4:4
But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one shall
make them afraid; For the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.
· Nahum
2:13
“Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “I will burn your
chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off
your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no
more.”
· Nahum
3:5
“ Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of Hosts; “ I will lift your
skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms
your shame.
· Habakkuk
2:13
Behold, is it not of the Lord of Hosts That the peoples labor to feed
the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?
· Zephaniah
2:9
Therefore, as I live,” Says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, “
Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah— Overrun
with weeds and saltpits, And a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people
shall plunder them, And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
· Zephaniah
2:10
This they shall have for their pride, Because they have reproached and made
arrogant threats Against the people of the Lord of Hosts.
· Haggai
1:2
“Thus speaks the Lord of Hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.”‘“
· Haggai
1:5
Now therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts: “Consider your ways!
· Haggai
1:7
Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “Consider your ways!
· Haggai
1:9
“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it
home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of Hosts. “Because of My house
that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.
· Haggai
1:14
So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and
worked on the house of the Lord of Hosts, their God,
· Haggai
2:4
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says
the LORD; ‘and be strong,
Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the
land,’ says the LORD, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
· Haggai
2:6
“For thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘Once
more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry
land;
· Haggai
2:7
and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations,
and I will fill this temple with glory,’
says the Lord of Hosts.
· Haggai
2:8
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is
Mine,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
· Haggai
2:9
‘The glory of this latter temple
shall be greater than the former,’
says the Lord of Hosts. ‘And
in this place I will give peace,’
says the Lord of Hosts.”
· Haggai
2:11
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘Now,
ask the priests concerning the law, saying,
· Haggai
2:23
‘In that day,’ says the Lord of Hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make you like a signet ring;
for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord
of Hosts.”
· Zechariah
1:3
Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says
the Lord of Hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I
will return to you,” says the Lord of Hosts.
· Zechariah
1:4
“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “Turn
now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.”‘ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the LORD.
· Zechariah
1:6
Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the
prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? “So they returned and said: ‘ Just as the Lord of Hosts
determined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He
has dealt with us.’”‘“
· Zechariah
1:12
Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, “O Lord of Hosts,
how long will You not have mercy on
· Zechariah
1:14
So the angel who spoke with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: “I
am zealous for
· Zechariah
1:16
‘Therefore thus says the LORD:
“ I am returning to
· Zechariah
1:17
“Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says
the Lord of Hosts: “ My cities shall again spread out through
prosperity; The LORD will again comfort
· Zechariah
2:8
For thus says the Lord of Hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations
which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
· Zechariah
2:9
For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for
their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me.
· Zechariah
2:11
“Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall
become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord
of Hosts has sent Me to you.
· Zechariah
3:7
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command, Then you shall
also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you
places to walk Among these who stand here.
· Zechariah
3:9
For behold, the stone That I have laid before Joshua: Upon the stone are seven
eyes. Behold, I will engrave its inscription,’ Says the Lord of Hosts, ‘ And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
· Zechariah
3:10
In that day,’ says the Lord of
Hosts, ‘ Everyone will invite
his neighbor Under his vine and under his fig tree.’”
· Zechariah
4:6
So he answered and said to me: “ This is the word of the LORD to
Zerubbabel: ‘ Not by might nor by
power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord
of Hosts.
· Zechariah
4:9
“ The hands of Zerubbabel Have laid the foundation of this temple; His hands
shall also finish it.Then you will know That the Lord of Hosts has sent
Me to you.
· Zechariah
5:4
“ I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of Hosts; “ It shall enter
the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and
stones.”
· Zechariah
6:12
Then speak to him, saying, ‘Thus
says the Lord of Hosts, saying: “ Behold, the Man whose name is the
BRANCH! From His place He shall branch out, And He shall build the temple of the
LORD;
· Zechariah
6:15
Even those from afar shall come and build the temple of the LORD. Then
you shall know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall
come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
· Zechariah
7:3
and to ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of Hosts, and
the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done
for so many years?”
· Zechariah
7:4
Then the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me, saying,
· Zechariah
7:9
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother.
· Zechariah
7:12
Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words
which the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former
prophets. Thus great wrath came from the Lord of Hosts.
· Zechariah
7:13
Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so
they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of Hosts.
· Zechariah
8:1
Again the word of the Lord of Hosts came, saying,
· Zechariah
8:2
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts:’
I am zealous for
· Zechariah
8:3
“Thus says the LORD: ‘ I will
return to
· Zechariah
8:4
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Old men and old women shall again sit In the streets of
· Zechariah
8:6
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, Will
it also be marvelous in My eyes?’
Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Zechariah
8:7
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east And from the land of
the west;
· Zechariah
8:9
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Let your hands be strong, You who have been hearing in these days These words
by the mouth of the prophets, Who spoke in the day the foundation was laid For
the house of the Lord of Hosts, That the temple might be built.
· Zechariah
8:11
But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
· Zechariah
8:14
“For thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Just as I determined to punish you When your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ Says the Lord of Hosts, ‘ And I would not relent,
· Zechariah
8:18
Then the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me, saying,
· Zechariah
8:19
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
The fast of the fourth month,The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh,
And the fast of the tenth, Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For
the house of
· Zechariah
8:20
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘
Peoples shall yet come, Inhabitants of many cities;
· Zechariah
8:21
The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, “ Let us continue to
go and pray before the LORD, And seek the Lord of Hosts. I myself
will go also.”
· Zechariah
8:22
Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts
in
· Zechariah
8:23
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts: ‘In
those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of
a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with
you.”‘“
· Zechariah
9:15
The Lord of Hosts will defend them; They shall devour and subdue with
slingstones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine; They shall be filled
with blood like basins, Like the corners of the altar.
· Zechariah
10:3
“ My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the goatherds.
For the Lord of Hosts will visit His flock, The house of
· Zechariah
12:5
And the governors of
· Zechariah
13:2
“It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of Hosts, “that I will cut off
the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I
will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.
· Zechariah
13:7
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
Against the Man who is My Companion,” Says the Lord of Hosts. “Strike
the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against
the little ones.
· Zechariah
14:16
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which
came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord
of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
· Zechariah
14:17
And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, on them there will be
no rain.
· Zechariah
14:21
Yes, every pot in
· Malachi
1:4
Even though
· Malachi
1:6
“A son honors his father, And a servant
his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence? Says the Lord of Hosts To you priests who despise
My name. Yet you say, ‘In what way
have we despised Your name?’
· Malachi
1:8
And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you offer
the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be
pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
1:9
“But now entreat God’s favor, That
He may be gracious to us. While this is being done by your hands, Will He
accept you favorably?” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
1:10
“ Who is there even among you who would shut the doors, So that you would not
kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you,” Says the Lord
of Hosts, “Nor will I accept an offering from your hands.
· Malachi
1:11
For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great
among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My name, And a
pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations,” Says the Lord
of Hosts.
· Malachi
1:13
You also say, ‘ Oh, what a
weariness!’ And you sneer at it,”
Says the Lord of Hosts. “And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the
sick; Thus you bring an offering! Should I accept this from your hand?” Says
the LORD.
· Malachi
1:14
“But cursed be the deceiver Who has in his flock a male, And takes a vow, But
sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished— For I am a great King,” Says
the Lord of Hosts, “ And My name is to be feared among the nations.
· Malachi
2:2
If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My
name,” Says the Lord of Hosts, “ I will send a curse upon you, And I
will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not
take it to heart.
· Malachi
2:4
Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, That My covenant
with Levi may continue,” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
2:7
“ For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the
law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
2:8
But you have departed from the way; You have caused many to stumble at the law.
You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
2:12
May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this,
being awake and aware, Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of Hosts!
· Malachi
2:16
“For the LORD God of
· Malachi
3:1
“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord,
whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the
covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
3:5
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against
sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit
wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of Hosts.
· Malachi
3:7
Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And
have not kept them.Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of
Hosts. “ But you said, ‘ In what
way shall we return?’
· Malachi
3:10
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of Hosts, “ If I will not open
for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there
will not be room enough to receive it.
· Malachi
3:11
“ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy
the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the
field,” Says the Lord of Hosts;
· Malachi
3:12
And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says
the Lord of Hosts.
13 “ Your words have been harsh against Me,”
Says the LORD,
”Yet you say, ‘ What have we spoken against You?’
14 You have said,
’
It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept
His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of Hosts?
15 So now we call the proud
blessed,
For those who do wickedness are raised up;
They even tempt God and go free.’”
· Malachi
3:17
“ They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “ On the day that I make
them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves
him.”
· Malachi
4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes,
all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn
them up,” Says the Lord of Hosts, “ That will leave them neither root
nor branch.
· Malachi
4:3
You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet On the day that I do this,” Says the Lord of Hosts.
3. Lord God of Hosts
· 2 Samuel
5:10
So David went on and became great, and the Lord God of Hosts was with
him.
· 1 Kings
19:10
So he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts; for the
children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and
killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my
life.”
· 1 Kings
19:14
And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts;
because the children of
· Psalm 59:5
You therefore, O Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel, Awake to punish
all the nations; Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah
· Psalm 69:6
Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed because
of me;Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
· Psalm 80:4
O Lord God of Hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of
Your people?
· Psalm 80:19
Restore us, O Lord God of Hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall
be saved!
· Psalm 84:8
O Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of
Jacob! Selah
· Psalm 89:8
O Lord God of Hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness
also surrounds You.
· Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?”
Says the Lord God of Hosts.
· Isaiah
10:23
For the Lord God of Hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all
the land.
· Isaiah
10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in
· Isaiah 22:5
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord God
of Hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to
the mountain.
· Isaiah
22:12
And in that day the Lord God of Hosts Called for weeping and for
mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
· Isaiah
22:14
Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord
of Hosts, “ Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of Hosts.
· Isaiah
22:15
Thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “ Go, proceed to this steward, To
Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
· Isaiah
28:22
Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have
heard from the Lord God of Hosts, A destruction determined even upon the
whole earth.
· Jeremiah
2:19
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have
forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord
God of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
5:14
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts: “ Because you speak this
word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood,
And it shall devour them.
· Jeremiah
15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and
rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.
· Jeremiah
35:17
“Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the doom that I have pronounced against
them; because I have spoken to them but they have not heard, and I have called
to them but they have not answered.’”
· Jeremiah
46:10
For this is the day of the Lord God of Hosts, A day of vengeance, That
He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be
satiated and made drunk with their blood; For the Lord God of Hosts has
a sacrifice In the north country by the River Euphrates.
· Jeremiah
49:5
Behold, I will bring fear upon you,” Says the Lord God of Hosts, “ From
all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, everyone headlong, And
no one will gather those who wander off.
· Jeremiah
50:25
The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His
indignation; For this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts In the land
of the Chaldeans.
· Jeremiah
50:31
“ Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of Hosts;
“ For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.
· Hosea 12:5
That is, the Lord God of Hosts. The LORD is His memorable name.
· Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man
what his thought is,And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places
of the earth— The Lord God of Hosts is His name.
· Amos 5:14
Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the Lord God of Hosts will
be with you, As you have spoken.
· Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord
God of Hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
· Amos 5:16
Therefore the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord, says this: “ There shall be
wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘ Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to
wailing.
· Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The Lord God of Hosts says: “ I abhor
the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
· Amos 6:14
“ But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” Says
the Lord God of Hosts; “ And they will afflict you from the entrance of
Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah.”
· Amos 9:5
The Lord God of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, And all
who dwell there mourn; All of it shall swell like the River, And subside like
the
G. God of salvation
· Genesis 49:18
I have waited for your salvation, O
LORD!
· Exodus 14:13
And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will
accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see
again no more forever.
· Exodus
15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is
my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
· Deuteronomy 32:15
“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese!
Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
· 1 Samuel 2:1
And Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; My horn[2:1 That
is, strength] is exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice
in Your salvation.
· 1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD
has accomplished salvation in
· 2
Samuel 22:3
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation.
He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent men you save me.
· 2 Samuel 22:36
“You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your gentleness has made me great.
· 2 Samuel 22:47
“The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation!
· 2 Samuel 22:51
He is the tower of salvation to His
king, And shows mercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants
forevermore.”
· 2
Samuel 23:5
“Is not my house right with God? Has he not made with me an everlasting
covenant, arranged and secured in every part? Will he not bring to fruition my salvation
and grant me my every desire?
· 1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing to the LORD, all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
· 1 Chronicles 16:35
And say, “Save us, O God of our salvation;
Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your
holy name, To triumph in Your praise.”
· 2 Chronicles 6:41
“Now therefore, Arise, O LORD God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of
Your strength. Let Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice
in goodness.
· 2 Chronicles 20:17
You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and
see the salvation of the LORD, who
is with you, O Judah and
· Job 13:16
He also shall be my salvation, For a
hypocrite could not come before Him.
· Psalm 3:8
Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your
blessing is upon Your people. Selah
· Psalm 9:14
That I may tell of all Your praise In the gates of the daughter of
· Psalm 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face
from me?
· Psalm 13:5
But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
· Psalm 14:7
Oh, that the salvation of
· Psalm 17:1
Hear a just cause, O LORD, Attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer which is not
from deceitful lips.
· Psalm
18:2
The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in
whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold.
· Psalm 18:35
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.
· Psalm 18:46
The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be exalted.
· Psalm 20:5
We will rejoice in your salvation,
And in the name of our God we will set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all
your petitions.
· Psalm 21:1
The king shall have joy in Your strength, O LORD; And in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
· Psalm 21:5
His glory is great in Your salvation;
Honor and majesty You have placed upon him.
· Psalm 24:5
He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
· Psalm 25:5
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
· Psalm 27:1
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be
afraid?
· Psalm 27:9
Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have
been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
· Psalm 35:3
Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am
your salvation.”
· Psalm 35:9
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD; It shall rejoice in His salvation.
· Psalm 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous
is from the LORD; He is their strength in the time of trouble.
· Psalm 38:22
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
· Psalm 40:10
I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your
faithfulness and Your salvation; I
have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly.
· Psalm 40:16
Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation say continually, “The LORD be
magnified!”
· Psalm
50:23
He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I
may show him the salvation of God.”
· Psalm 51:12
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
· Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing
aloud of Your righteousness.
· Psalm
53:6
Oh, that salvation for
· Psalm
62:1
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.
· Psalm 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
· Psalm 62:6
He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense; I shall not be moved.
· Psalm
62:7
My salvation and my honor depend on God ; he is my mighty rock,
my refuge.
· Psalm 65:1
Praise is awaiting You, O God, in
· Psalm 65:5
By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence
of all the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas;
· Psalm 67:2
That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation
among all nations.
· Psalm 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation!Selah
· Psalm 68:20
Our God is the God of salvation; And
to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.
· Psalm
69:13
But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God,
answer me with your sure salvation.
· Psalm
69:29
I am in pain and distress; may your salvation, O God, protect me.
· Psalm
70:4
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation
always say, “Let God be exalted!”
· Psalm 71:1
In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.
· Psalm 71:15
My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.
· Psalm
74:12
But you, O God, are my king from of old; you bring salvation upon
the earth.
· Psalm 78:22
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.
· Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, For
the glory of Your name; And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins, For
Your name’s sake!
· Psalm 85:4
Restore us, O God of our salvation,
And cause Your anger toward us to cease.
· Psalm 85:7
Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation.
· Psalm 85:9
Surely His salvation is near to
those who fear Him, That glory may dwell in our land.
· Psalm 88:1
[Hebrew Maschil ] O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and
night before You.
· Psalm 89:26
He shall cry to Me, “You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
· Psalm 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”
· Psalm 95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
· Psalm 96:2
Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
· Psalm 98:1
Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right
hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.
· Psalm 98:2
The LORD has made known His salvation;
His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
· Psalm 98:3
He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of
· Psalm 106:4
Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me
with Your salvation,
· Psalm 116:13
I will take up the cup of salvation,
And call upon the name of the LORD.
· Psalm 118:14
The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.[Compare Exodus 15:2]
· Psalm 118:15
The voice of rejoicing and salvation
Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
· Psalm 118:21
I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.
· Psalm 119:41
Let Your mercies come also to me, O LORD -- Your salvation according to Your word.
· Psalm 119:81
My soul faints for Your salvation,
But I hope in Your word.
· Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation
And Your righteous word.
· Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.
· Psalm 119:166
LORD, I hope for Your salvation, And
I do Your commandments.
· Psalm 119:174
I long for Your salvation, O LORD,
And Your law is my delight.
· Psalm 132:16
I will also clothe her priests with salvation,
And her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
· Psalm 140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.
· Psalm 144:10
The One who gives salvation to
kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.
· Psalm 149:1
Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise in the assembly of
saints.
· Psalm 149:4
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.
· Isaiah
12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The
LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
[Exodus 15:2]
· Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation.
· Isaiah 17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will
plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;
· Isaiah
25:9
In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him,
and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be
glad in his salvation.”
· Isaiah
26:1
In that day this song will be sung in the
· Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered; And you who deal
treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! When you
cease plundering, You will be plundered; When you make an end of dealing
treacherously, They will deal treacherously with you.
· Isaiah 33:2
O LORD, be gracious to us; We have waited for You. Be their [Septuagint omits
their;] Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read our]
arm every morning, Our salvation
also in the time of trouble.
· Isaiah 33:6
Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the LORD is His
treasure.
· Isaiah 43:10-11
10 “You are
my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even
I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
· Isaiah 45:1
“Thus says the LORD to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held--
To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him
the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut:
· Isaiah 45:8
“Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together. I, the LORD, have created it.
· Isaiah 45:17
But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and ever.
· Isaiah 46:13
I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in
· Isaiah 49:6
Indeed He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise
up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will
also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.”‘
· Isaiah 49:8
Thus says the LORD: “In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve
You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause
them to inherit the desolate heritages;
· Isaiah 51:5
My righteousness is near, My salvation
has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait
upon Me, And on My arm they will trust.
· Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the
heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not be
abolished.
· Isaiah 51:8
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, And the worm will eat them like
wool; But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation from generation to generation.”
· Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who
proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God
reigns!”
· Isaiah
52:10
The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all
the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
· Isaiah 56:1
Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come, And My
righteousness to be revealed.
· Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but
there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
· Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation
for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
· Isaiah 59:17
For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
· Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting nor destruction
within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise.
· Isaiah 61:1
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To
preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To
proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who
are bound;
· Isaiah
61:10
I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has
clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels.
· Isaiah 62:1
For
· Isaiah 62:11
Indeed the LORD has proclaimed To the end of the world: “Say to the daughter of
· Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who
is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength?-- “I
who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
· Isaiah 63:5
I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to
uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation
for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.
· Jeremiah
3:23
Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception;
surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of
· Lamentations 3:26
It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.
· Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I
have vowed. Salvation is of the
LORD.”
· Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.
· Habakkuk 3:8
O LORD, were You displeased with the rivers, Was Your anger against the rivers,
Was Your wrath against the sea, That You rode on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation?
· Habakkuk 3:13
You went forth for the salvation of
Your people, For salvation with Your
Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, By laying bare from
foundation to neck. Selah
· Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
· Zechariah 9:9
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
· Luke 1:69
And has raised up a horn of salvation
for us In the house of His servant David,
· Luke 1:77
To give knowledge of salvation to
His people By the remission of their sins,
· Luke 2:25
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was
just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was
upon him.
· Luke 2:30
For my eyes have seen Your salvation
· Luke
3:6
And all flesh shall see the salvation
of God.’” [Isaiah 40:3-5]
· Luke 19:9
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation
has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham;
· John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
· Acts 4:12
Nor is there salvation in any other,
for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be
saved.”
· Acts 13:23
From this man’s seed, according to
the promise, God raised up for
· Acts 13:26
“Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to
us that this message of salvation has been sent.
· Acts 13:47
For so the Lord has commanded us: “I have set you as a light to the Gentiles,
That you should be for salvation to
the ends of the earth.”‘[Isaiah
49:6]
· Acts 16:17
This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the
servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”
· Acts 28:28
“Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will
listen!”
· Romans 1:16
I am not ashamed of the gospel [NU-Text omits of Christ.], because it is the power of God for the salvation
of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. for
it is the power of God to salvation
for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
· Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,[8:1
NU-Text omits the rest of this verse.] who do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.
· Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and
prayer to God for
· Romans 10:10
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
· Romans 11:11
I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But
through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
· Romans 13:11
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep;
for now our salvation is nearer than
when we first believed.
· 2 Corinthians 1:6
Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings
which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
· 2
Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation
I helped you.” [Isaiah 49:8] I tell you, now
is the time of God’s favor,
now is the day of salvation.
· 2
Corinthians 7:10
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves
no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
· Ephesians 1:13
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having
believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
· Ephesians 2:1
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
· Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
· Philippians 1:28
and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of
perdition, but to you of salvation, [NU-Text
reads of your salvation.] and that
from God.
· Philippians 2:12
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,
but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
· 1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and
love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.
· 1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
· 2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the
Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the
truth,
· 2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may
obtain the salvation which is in
Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
· 2 Timothy 3:15
and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to
make you wise for salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus.
· Titus 2:11
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all
men.
· Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will
inherit salvation?
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed
to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word
spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we
neglect so great a salvation, which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who
heard Him,
· Hebrews
2:10
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and
through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation
perfect through suffering.
· Hebrews 5:9
And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
· Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things
that accompany salvation, though we
speak in this manner.
· Hebrews 9:28
so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait
for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
· 1 Peter 1:5
who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
· 1 Peter 1:9
receiving the end of your faith--the salvation
of your souls.
· 1 Peter 1:10
Of this salvation the prophets have
inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to
you,
· 2 Peter 3:15
and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom
given to him, has written to you,
· Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to
write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once
for all delivered to the saints.
· Revelation
7:10
And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
· Revelation
12:10
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation
and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his
Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God
day and night, has been hurled down.
· Revelation
19:1
After this I heard [NU-Text and M-Text add something like.] what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in
heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to [NU-Text
and M-Text omit the Lord.] our God,
1. Rock of salvation
3 For
I proclaim the name of the LORD:
Ascribe greatness to our God.
4 He
is the Rock, His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
A God of truth and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.
5 “They
have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation.
· Deuteronomy
32:15
“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese!
Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of
his salvation.
· Deuteronomy
32:18
Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God
who fathered you.
· Deuteronomy
32:30
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless
their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?
· Deuteronomy
32:31
For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves
being judges.
· Deuteronomy
32:37
He will say: ‘Where are their gods, The
rock in which they sought refuge?
· 1
Samuel 2:2
“No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock
like our God.
· 2
Samuel 22:2
And he said: “The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
· 2
Samuel 22:2
And he said: “The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
· 2
Samuel 22:47
“The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock
of my salvation!
· 2
Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, The Rock of
· Psalm
18:2
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my
strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold.
· Psalm
18:31
For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
· Psalm
18:46
The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be
exalted.
· Psalm
28:1
To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock:
Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who
go down to the pit.
· Psalm
31:2
Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily; Be my rock of refuge, A
fortress of defense to save me.
· Psalm
31:3
For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name’s sake, Lead me and guide me.
· Psalm
42:9
I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
· Psalm
61:2
From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead
me to the rock that is higher than I.
· Psalm
62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be
greatly moved.
· Psalm
62:6
He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be
moved.
· Psalm
62:7
In God is my salvation and my glory; The rock of my strength, And my
refuge, is in God.
· Psalm
71:1
[God the Rock of Salvation ] In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let
me never be put to shame.
· Psalm
71:3
Be my strong refuge, To which I may resort continually; You have given the
commandment to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress.
· Psalm
78:35
Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God
their Redeemer.
· Psalm
89:26
He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my
Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
· Psalm
92:15
To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in Him.
· Psalm
94:22
But the LORD has been my defense, And my God the rock of my refuge.
· Psalm
95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of
our salvation.
· Psalm
144:1
Blessed be the LORD my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers
for battle—
· Isaiah
8:14
He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of
offense To both the houses of
· Isaiah
17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful
of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
· Isaiah 26:4
Trust in the LORD forever, For in Yah, the LORD, is everlasting strength.[Or Rock of Ages]
· Isaiah
44:8
Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared
it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock;
I know not one.’”
· Habakkuk
1:12
Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O
LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them
for correction.
· Romans
9:33
As it is written: “ Behold, I lay in
· 1 Corinthians 10:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I
do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all
passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud
and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and
all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
7 Therefore, to you who
believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,[ NU-Text
reads to those who disbelieve.]
” The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone,” [Psalm
118:22]
8 and
”A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.” [Isaiah
8:14]
They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
2. Shepherd
· Genesis
49:24
But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By
the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the
Stone of Israel),
· Psalm
23:1
[ A Psalm of David. ] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
· Psalm
28:9
Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And
bear them up forever.
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[a] A Testimony[b] of Asaph. A Psalm.
1 Give ear,
O Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like
a flock;
You who dwell between
the cherubim, shine forth!
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,
Stir up Your strength,
And come and save
us!
3 Restore us, O God;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!
· Psalm 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His
hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
· Psalm 100:3
Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; [Following
Kethib, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Qere, many Hebrew manuscripts, and Targum read
we are His .] We are His people and
the sheep of His pasture.
10 Behold, the Lord GOD
shall come with a strong hand,
And His arm shall rule for Him;
Behold, His reward is with Him,
And His work before Him.
11 He will feed His flock like
a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with
young.
12 Who has measured the waters[a] in the hollow of His hand,
Measured heaven with a span
And calculated the dust of the earth in a
measure?
Weighed the mountains in scales
And the hills in a balance?
· Ezekiel
34:11
[ God, the True Shepherd ] ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “Indeed I
Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
· Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered
sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where
they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.
· Zechariah
13:7
[ The Shepherd Savior] “ Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
Against the Man who is My Companion,” Says the LORD of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little
ones.
· Matthew
25:32
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
· Matthew
26:31
[ Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ] Then Jesus said to them, “All of you
will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘ I will
strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
· Mark
14:27
[ Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial ] Then Jesus said to them, “All of you
will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘ I will
strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered.’
· Hebrews
13:20
[ Benediction, Final Exhortation, Farewell ] Now may the God of peace
who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the
sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
· 1 Peter
2:25
For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd
and Overseer of your souls.
· 1 Peter 5:4
and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory
that does not fade away.
· Revelation
7:17
for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and
lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes.”
3. Immanuel
· Isaiah
7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall
conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. [Literally God-With-Us]
· Isaiah
8:8
He will pass through
· Isaiah
8:10
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will
not stand, For God is with us.” [Hebrew Immanuel]
· Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be
upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty
God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
· Matthew
1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call
His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
4. Redeemer
· Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
· Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your
sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.
· Psalm 78:35
Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
· Proverbs 23:11
For their Redeemer is mighty; He
will plead their cause against you.
· Isaiah 41:14
“Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of
· Isaiah 43:1
But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O
Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You
are Mine.
· Isaiah 43:14
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to
· Isaiah 44:6
“Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts:
“I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.
· Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who
stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
· Isaiah 47:4
As for our Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts is His name, The Holy One
of Israel.
· Isaiah 48:17
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who
leads you by the way you should go.
· Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of
· Isaiah 49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk
with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the LORD,
am your Savior, And your Redeemer,
the Mighty One of Jacob.”
· Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband, The Lord
of Hosts is His name; And your Redeemer
is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
· Isaiah 54:8
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting
kindness I will have mercy on you,” Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
· Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it
sustained Him.
· Isaiah 59:20
“The Redeemer will come to
· Isaiah 60:16
You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, And milk the breast of kings; You
shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
· Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel
does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
· Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; The Lord of Hosts is His name. He will
thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet
the inhabitants of
III. Nature of God
· Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
· Numbers 24:2
And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw
· 1 Samuel 10:10
When they came there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him;
then the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.
· 1 Samuel 11:6
Then the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard this news, and his anger
was greatly aroused.
· 1 Samuel 19:20
Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the group of
prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over them, the Spirit of
God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
· 1 Samuel 19:23
So he went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God was upon him also,
and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
· 1 Kings 8:27
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of
heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
· 1 Kings 19:11
Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold,
the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and
broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind;
and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;
· 2 Chronicles 6:18
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven
of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple [Literally house] which I have built!
· 2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore, let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take care and do it, for
there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, no partiality, nor taking of
bribes.”
· 2 Chronicles 24:20
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who
stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God: “Why do you
transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because
you have forsaken the LORD, He also has forsaken you.”‘
· Job 4:17
“Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his
Maker?
· Job 34:10
“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God to do
wickedness, And from the Almighty to commit iniquity.
· Job 34:12
Surely God will never do wickedly, Nor will the Almighty pervert justice.
· Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and
the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
· Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The
Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His
understanding is unsearchable.
· Matthew 3:16
When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and
behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He [Or he] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon
Him.
A. “I AM”
· Exodus 3:14
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the
children of
B. Almighty God
· Genesis 17:1
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
· Genesis 35:11
Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty.
Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from
you, and kings shall come from your body.
· Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD [Hebrew YHWH, traditionally Jehovah ] I was not known to them.
· Numbers 24:2
And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw
3 Then he took up his
oracle and said:
”The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor,
The utterance of the man whose eyes are
opened,
4 The
utterance of him who hears the words of God,
Who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Who falls down, with eyes wide open:
5 “How
lovely are your tents, O Jacob!
Your dwellings, O Israel!
· Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the
chastening of the Almighty.
· Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are
within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed
against me.
· Job 8:3
Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty
pervert justice?
4 If
your sons have sinned against Him,
He has cast them away for their
transgression.
5 If
you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
6 If
you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
· Job 11:7
“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
· Job 13:3
But I would speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to reason with God.
· Job 22:17
They said to God, “Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?’ [Septuagint
and Syriac read us.]
· Job 22:26
For then you will have your delight in the Almighty,
And lift up your face to God.
· Job 23:16
For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty
terrifies me;
1 Moreover
Job continued his discourse, and said:
2 “As
God lives, who has taken away my justice,
And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3 As long as
my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,
· Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?
· Job 27:11
“I will teach you about the hand of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
· Job 27:13
“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors,
received from the Almighty:
· Job 31:2
For what is the allotment of God from above, And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
· Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
· Job 34:10
“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God to do
wickedness, And from the Almighty to
commit iniquity.
· Job 34:12
Surely God will never do wickedly, Nor will the Almighty pervert justice.
· Job 35:13
Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
· Job 40:2
“Shall the one who contends with the Almighty
correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”
· Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty.
C. Omnipotent
· Genesis
18:14
14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
· Jeremiah 32:27
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
· Matthew
19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.”
· Mark 10:27
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not
with God; for with God all things are possible.”
· Mark
14:36
And He said, “Abba, Father, all things
are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not
what I will, but what You will.”
· Luke 1:37
For with God nothing will be impossible.”
· Luke
18:27
But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with
God.”
· Acts
2:22-36
22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles,
wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you
yourselves also know— 23 Him, being delivered by the determined
purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken [NU-Text omits have taken.] by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to
death; 24 whom God raised up,
having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be
held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him:
‘ I foresaw the LORD always before my
face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may
not be shaken.
26 Therefore my heart
rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
27 For You will not leave my
soul in Hades,
Nor
will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me
the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your
presence.’ [Psalm 16:8-11]
29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of
the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us
to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of
the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to
sit on his throne, [NU-Text omits according to the flesh, He would raise
up the Christ and completes the verse with He would seat one on his
throne.] 31 he,
foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul
was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This
Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33
Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the
Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and
hear.
34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:
‘ The LORD said to my Lord,
” Sit at My right hand,
35 Till I make Your enemies
Your footstool.”’ [Psalm 110:1]
36 “Therefore let all the house of
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D. Omnipresent
· Psalms 139:7-12
7
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from
Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell,
behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall
hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[a] on me,”
Even the night shall be
light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as
the day;
The darkness and the
light are both alike to You.
· 2 Kings 5:26
26 Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?
· Psalms 56:8
8 You
number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your
bottle;
Are they not in
Your book?
· Psalms 66:12
12 You have caused men to
ride over our heads;
We went through fire and
through water;
But You brought us out to
rich fulfillment.
· Psalms 90:2
2
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed
the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to
everlasting, You are God.
· Isaiah 43:2
2 When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not
overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall
not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.
· Isaiah 66:1
1 Thus says the LORD:
” Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will
build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
· Jeremiah 23:23-24
23 “ Am I a God near
at hand,” says the LORD,
” And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone hide himself in
secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
” Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the
LORD.
· Proverbs15:3
3 The eyes of the LORD are
in every place,
Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
· Matthew 18:20
20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
· Luke
16:15
And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God
knows your hearts. For what is
highly esteemed among men is an abomination
in the sight of God.
· Acts 5:1-11
1 But
a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2
And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of
it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 But Peter said, “Ananias,
why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part
of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it
not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have
you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his
last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things. 6
And the young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.
7 Now it was about three hours later when his wife came in, not
knowing what had happened. 8 And Peter answered her, “Tell me
whether you sold the land for so much?”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
9 Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together
to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your
husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” 10
Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young
men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her
by her husband. 11 So great fear came upon all the church and upon
all who heard these things.
1. Cannot be contained
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth?
Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much
less this temple which I have built!
· 2
Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens
cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple,
except to burn sacrifice before Him?
· 2
Chronicles 6:18
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven
of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have
built!
2. “Fear
not, for I am with you”
· Genesis
26:24
That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father
Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will
increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
· Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you; Be not
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I
will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
· Isaiah
43:5
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the
east and gather you from the west.
· Jeremiah
1:8
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,”
declares the LORD.
Glenn Miller. “How can God be
infinite, yet not push us out?“ http://www.christian-thinktank.com/pushusout.html
E. Omniscient
· Psalms 139:1-12
1 O
LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought
afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with
all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O
LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon
me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me;
It is high, I cannot attain
it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from
Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell,
behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall
hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall [Vulgate
and Symmachus read cover. ] on me,”
Even the night shall be
light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as
the day;
The darkness and the
light are both alike to You.
· Matthew
6:8
“Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things
you have need of before you ask Him.
· Matthew
6:32
For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
· Matthew
11:27
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows
the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except
the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
· Luke
10:22
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows
who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except
the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
6 “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins?[a] And not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
· Luke
12:30
For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father
knows that you need these things.
· John
16:13
13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
· John 17:17
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
· Colossians 2:1-3
1 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and[a] of Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
· 2
Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows
that I am not lying.
· Revelation 20:12
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, [NU-Text and M-Text read the throne.] and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
· Book of Mormon:
[22] For
behold, God aknowing all things, being from beverlasting• to everlasting, behold, he sent cangels• to minister unto the children of men, to make manifest
concerning the coming of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good
thing.
· The
Words of Mormon 1:7
[6] But
behold, I shall take these plates, which contain these prophesyings and
revelations, and put them with the remainder of my record, for they are choice
unto me; and I know they will be choice unto my brethren.
F. Eternal
· Genesis
21:33
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in
· Deuteronomy
33:27
The eternal God is your refuge,And underneath are the everlasting arms;
He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, ‘Destroy!’
· Psalm 90:2
2
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed
the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
· Psalm
93:2
Your throne is established from of old; You
are from everlasting.
· Psalm
100:5
For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to
all generations.
· Psalm 103:17
17
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting
to everlasting
On those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to
children’s children,
· Psalm
106:48
Blessed be the LORD God of
· Psalm
119:142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is
truth.
· Psalm
119:144
The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me
understanding, and I shall live.
· Isaiah
9:6
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be
upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty
God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
· Isaiah
40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD,
The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His
understanding is unsearchable.
· Isaiah
60:19
“The sun shall no longer be your light by day, Nor for brightness shall the
moon give light to you; But the LORD will be to you an everlasting
light, And your God your glory.
· Isaiah
60:20
Your sun shall no longer go down, Nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the
LORD will be your everlasting light, And the days of your mourning shall
be ended.
· Isaiah
63:16
Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel
does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting
is Your name.
· Jeremiah
10:10
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting
King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to
endure His indignation.
· Daniel
4:3
How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.
· Daniel 7:14
Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples,
nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the oneWhich shall not be
destroyed.
· Daniel 7:27
Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the
whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and
obey Him.’
· Habakkuk
1:12
Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not
die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them
for correction.
· Habakkuk
3:6
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the everlasting
mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.
· Malachi 3:6
6 “ For I am the
LORD, I do not change;
Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of
Jacob.
· Romans
16:26
but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all
nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for
obedience to the faith—
· Hebrews 13:8
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
· 1
Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise,
be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
· Revelation 1:8
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,”[a] says the Lord,[b] “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
· Book of Mormon: Mosiah
3:5
[5] For
behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the aLord bOmnipotent• who creigneth, who was, and is from
all deternity• to all eternity, shall
come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a etabernacle• of clay, and shall go
forth amongst men, working mighty fmiracles•, such as healing the sick,
raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the gblind• to receive their
sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.
· Mosiah
3:8
[8] And he
shall be called aJesus bChrist, the cSon• of God, the dFather• of heaven and earth,
the eCreator of all things from the beginning; and his fmother• shall be called Mary.
· 1 Nephi
10:18
[18] For he is the asame•
yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way
is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world, if it so be that they
repent and come unto him.
· 2 Nephi
29:9
[9] And I
do this that I may prove unto many that I
am the asame• yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my bwords according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have
spoken one cword ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my dwork• is not yet finished;
neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and
forever.
·
[22] For
behold, God aknowing all things, being from beverlasting• to
everlasting, behold, he sent cangels• to minister unto the
children of men, to make manifest concerning the coming of Christ; and in Christ
there should come every good thing.
·
[18] For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a
changeable being; but he is aunchangeable•
from ball• eternity to all eternity
· Mormon
9:9
[9] For do
we not read that God is the asame• byesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no cvariableness neither shadow of changing?
· Mormon
9:19
[19] And if there were amiracles• wrought then, why has
God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he bchangeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he
ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of
miracles.
· Doctrine & Covenants 20:17
(1830)
[17] By
these things we aknow• that there is a bGod• in heaven, who is
infinite and ceternal, from everlasting to
everlasting the same dunchangeable God, the
framer of heaven and earth, and all things which are in them;
· Doctrine & Covenants
20:28 (1830)
[28] Which
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are aone• God, infinite and
eternal, without end. Amen.
· Doctrine & Covenants 39:1 (1831)
[1] HEARKEN
and listen to the voice of him who is
from all aeternity• to all eternity, the
Great bI• AM, even Jesus Christ—
· Doctrine & Covenants
76:4
[4] From eternity to eternity he is the asame•,
and his years never bfail•.
· The
[3] And God spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I am the Lord God aAlmighty•,
and bEndless• is my cname•;
for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not this endless?
[4] And, behold, thou art my son;
wherefore alook•, and I will show thee
the bworkmanship• of mine chands•; but not all, for my dworks• are
without eend•, and also my fwords•, for they never cease.
[5] Wherefore,
no man can behold all my aworks, except he behold all my bglory; and no man can cbehold all my dglory•, and afterwards remain
in the flesh on the earth.
[6] And I have a work for thee,
Moses, my son; and thou art in the asimilitude• of mine bOnly• cBegotten•; and mine Only
Begotten is and shall be the dSavior•, for he is full of egrace• and ftruth•; but there is gno• God beside me, and all things are present with me, for I hknow•
them all.
G. Immutable
According to the Bible, there is no change in God, meaning no increase or decrease, no expansion or contraction, no development or retrogression.
· Numbers 23:19
19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should change
his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
· Psalm 102:27
27 But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.
· Isaiah 43:10-11
10 “You are
my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even
I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
· Isaiah 44:6
6 “This
is what the LORD says—
I
am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
· Isaiah 45:21-22
21 Declare what
is to be, present it—
let them take counsel together.
Who
foretold this long ago,
who declared it from the distant past?
Was it not I, the LORD?
And there is no God apart from me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is none but me.
22 “Turn to
me and be saved,
all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
· James 1:17
17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
· Book of
Mormon:
[22] For behold, God knowing all things, being from
everlasting to everlasting, behold, he sent angels to minister unto the
children of men, to make manifest concerning the coming of Christ; and in
Christ there should come every good thing.
·
[18] For I know that God is not a partial God, neither
a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity.
· Mosiah
3:5
[5] For behold, the time cometh, and
is not far distant, that with power, the aLord bOmnipotent• who creigneth, who was, and is from all deternity• to all eternity, shall come down from heaven among the
children of men, and shall dwell in a etabernacle• of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty fmiracles•, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the
lame to walk, the gblind• to receive their
sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.
· 2 Nephi
27:23
[23] For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles;
and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and
forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their
faith.
· 2 Nephi
29:9
[9] And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am
the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words
according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need
not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished;
neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and
forever.
· Mormon
9:9
[9] For do we not read that God is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of
changing?
· Mormon
9:19
[19] And if there were miracles wrought then, why has
God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And
behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he
ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
H. God not a man
· Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it
good?
· 1 Samuel 15:29
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”
· Job 9:32
For he is
not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in
judgment.
· Jeremiah 10:11
11 Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
· Hosea 11:9
9 I will not execute the fierceness of My
anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
For I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in your midst;
And I will not come with terror. [Or I
will not enter a city]
I. God is Spirit
· Jeremiah 23:24
24 Can anyone hide
himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
” Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the
LORD.
· John 1:18
18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, [NU-Text reads only begotten God]. who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
· John 4:24
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
· John 14:10
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
· Luke 24:39
39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”
· John 6:46
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
· 1 Timothy 1:17
17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, [NU-Text reads to the only God] be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
· 1 Timothy 6:15-16
15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
· Hebrews 11:27
27 By faith he forsook
· Book of
Mormon: Mosiah 15:1-5
[1] And now Abinadi
said unto them: I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come
down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.
[2] And because he
dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the
flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son --
[3] The Father,
because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the
flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son --
[4] And they are one
God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.
[5] And thus the
flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God,
suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself
to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.
·
[26] And then Ammon
said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit?
[27] And he said,
Yea.
[28] And Ammon said:
This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great
Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth?
[29] And he said:
Yea, I believe that he created all things which are in the earth; but I do not
know the heavens.
[30] And Ammon said unto
him: The heavens is a place where God dwells and all his holy angels.
[31] And king Lamoni
said: Is it above the earth?
[32] And Ammon said:
Yea, and he looketh down upon all the children of men; and he knows all the
thoughts and intents of the heart; for by his hand were they all created from
the beginning.
[33] And king Lamoni
said: I believe all these things which thou hast spoken. Art thou sent from
God?
[34] Ammon said unto
him: I am a man; and man in the beginning was created after the image of God,
and I am called by his Holy Spirit to teach these things unto this people, that
they may be brought to a knowledge of that which is just and true;
[35] And a portion
of that Spirit dwelleth in me, which giveth me knowledge, and also power
according to my faith and desires which are in God.
·
[25] And it came to
pass that there were many among them who said that Ammon was the Great Spirit,
and others said he was sent by the Great Spirit;
[26] But others
rebuked them all, saying that he was a monster, who had been sent from the
Nephites to torment them.
[27] And there were
some who said that Ammon was sent by the Great Spirit to afflict them because
of their iniquities; and that it was the Great Spirit that had always attended
the Nephites, who had ever delivered them out of their hands; and they said
that it was this Great Spirit who had destroyed so many of their brethren, the
Lamanites.
·
[4] And Aaron said unto the king: Behold, the Spirit of the
Lord has called him another way; he has gone to the
[5] Now the king
said unto them: What is this that ye have said concerning the Spirit of the
Lord? Behold, this is the thing which doth trouble me.
[6] And also, what
is this that Ammon said -- If ye will repent ye shall be saved, and if ye will
not repent, ye shall be cast off at the last day?
[7] And Aaron
answered him and said unto him: Believest thou that there is a God? And the
king said: I know that the Amalekites say that there is a God, and I have
granted unto them that they should build sanctuaries, that they may assemble
themselves together to worship him. And if now thou sayest there is a God,
behold I will believe.
[8] And now when
Aaron heard this, his heart began to rejoice, and he said: Behold, assuredly as
thou livest, O king, there is a God.
[9] And the king
said: Is God that Great Spirit that brought our fathers out of the
[10] And Aaron said
unto him: Yea, he is that Great Spirit, and he created all things both in
heaven and in earth. Believest thou this?
[11] And he said:
Yea, I believe that the Great Spirit created all things, and I desire that ye
should tell me concerning all these things, and I will believe thy words.
·
[15] Holy, holy God;
we believe that thou art God, and we believe that thou art holy, and that thou
wast a spirit, and that thou art a spirit, and that thou wilt be a spirit
forever.
[16] Holy God, we
believe that thou hast separated us from our brethren; and we do not believe in
the tradition of our brethren, which was handed down to them by the
childishness of their fathers; but we believe that thou hast elected us to be
thy holy children; and also thou hast made it known unto us that there shall be
no Christ.
[17] But thou art
the same yesterday, today, and forever; and thou hast elected us that we shall
be saved, whilst all around us are elected to be cast by thy wrath down to
hell; for the which holiness, O God, we thank thee; and we also thank thee that
thou hast elected us, that we may not be led away after the foolish traditions
of our brethren, which doth bind them down to a belief of Christ, which doth
lead their hearts to wander far from thee, our God.
[18] And again we
thank thee, O God, that we are a chosen and a holy people. Amen.
[19] Now it came to
pass that after Alma and his brethren and his sons had heard these prayers,
they were astonished beyond all measure.
[20] For behold,
every man did go forth and offer up these same prayers.
[21] Now the place
was called by them Rameumptom, which, being interpreted, is the holy stand.
[22] Now, from this
stand they did offer up, every man, the selfsame prayer unto God, thanking
their God that they were chosen of him, and that he did not lead them away
after the tradition of their brethren, and that their hearts were not stolen
away to believe in things to come, which they knew nothing about.
[23] Now, after the
people had all offered up thanks after this manner, they returned to their
homes, never speaking of their God again until they had assembled themselves
together again to the holy stand, to offer up thanks after their manner.
[24] Now when Alma
saw this his heart was grieved; for he saw that they were a wicked and a
perverse people; yea, he saw that their hearts were set upon gold, and upon
silver, and upon all manner of fine goods.
[25] Yea, and he
also saw that their hearts were lifted up unto great boasting, in their pride.
[26] And he lifted
up his voice to heaven, and cried, saying: O, how long, O Lord, wilt thou
suffer that thy servants shall dwell here below in the flesh, to behold such
gross wickedness among the children of men?
[27] Behold, O God,
they cry unto thee, and yet their hearts are swallowed up in their pride. Behold,
O God, they cry unto thee with their mouths, while they are puffed up, even to
greatness, with the vain things of the world.
[28] Behold, O my
God, their costly apparel, and their ringlets, and their bracelets, and their
ornaments of gold, and all their precious things which they are ornamented
with; and behold, their hearts are set upon them, and yet they cry unto thee
and say -- We thank thee, O God, for we are a chosen people unto thee, while
others shall perish.
[29] Yea, and they
say that thou hast made it known unto them that there shall be no Christ.
[30] O Lord God, how
long wilt thou suffer that such wickedness and infidelity shall be among this
people? O Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that I may bear with mine
infirmities. For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this people doth pain
my soul.
[31] O Lord, my
heart is exceedingly sorrowful; wilt thou comfort my soul in Christ. O Lord,
wilt thou grant unto me that I may have strength, that I may suffer with
patience these afflictions which shall come upon me, because of the iniquity of
this people.
[32] O Lord, wilt
thou comfort my soul, and give unto me success, and also my fellow laborers who
are with me -- yea, Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and also Amulek and Zeezrom
and also my two sons -- yea, even all these wilt thou comfort, O Lord. Yea,
wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.
[33] Wilt thou grant
unto them that they may have strength, that they may bear their afflictions
which shall come upon them because of the iniquities of this people.
[34] O Lord, wilt
thou grant unto us that we may have success in bringing them again unto thee in
Christ.
[35] Behold, O Lord,
their souls are precious, and many of them are our brethren; therefore, give
unto us, O Lord, power and wisdom that we may bring these, our brethren, again
unto thee.
[36] Now it came to
pass that when
[37] And after that
they did separate themselves one from another, taking no thought for themselves
what they should eat, or what they should drink, or what they should put on.
[38] And the Lord
provided for them that they should hunger not, neither should they thirst; yea,
and he also gave them strength, that they should suffer no manner of
afflictions, save it were swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was
according to the prayer of
· Mosiah 3:5-8
[5] For behold, the
time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who
reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come down
from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay,
and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles, such as healing the
sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind to receive their
sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.
[6] And he shall
cast out devils, or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children
of men.
[7] And lo, he shall
suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more
than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from
every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the
abominations of his people.
[8] And he shall be
called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the
Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.
J. Perfect
· Deuteronomy
32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God
of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
· 2 Samuel
22:31
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a
shield to all who trust in Him.
· 2 Samuel
22:33
God is my strength and power, And He makes my way perfect.
· Ezra 7:12
Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God
of heaven: Perfect peace, and so forth.
· Job 36:4
For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is
with you.
· Job 37:16
Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is perfect
in knowledge?
· Psalm 18:30
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a
shield to all who trust in Him.
· Psalm 18:32
It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.
· Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;The testimony of the
LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
· Psalm 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection
of beauty, God will shine forth.
· Psalm
119:96
I have seen the consummation of all perfection, But Your commandment is exceedingly broad.
· Isaiah 26:3
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because
he trusts in You.
· Matthew
5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
· Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect
will of God.
· Hebrews 5:9
And having been perfected, He
became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
· Hebrews
9:11
But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and
more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this
creation.
· Hebrews
10:1
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image
of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer
continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
· James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down
from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of
turning.
K. Righteous
· Exodus
9:27
And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have
sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and my people and I are wicked.
· Deuteronomy
32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of
truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
· 1
Samuel 12:7
Now therefore, stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD
concerning all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did to you and
your fathers:
· 2
Chronicles 12:6
So the leaders of
· Ezra
9:15
O LORD God of
· Job
4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous
than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
· Psalm
7:9
Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just;
For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.
· Psalm
7:17
I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
· Psalm
9:8
He shall judge the world in righteousness, And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in
uprightness.
· Psalm
11:7
For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.
· Psalm
35:24
Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
· Psalm 35:28
And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness And of Your praise all the day long.
· Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like
the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man
and beast.
· Psalm 36:10
Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
· Psalm 37:6
He shall bring forth your righteousness
as the light, And your justice as the noonday.
· Psalm
37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their strength
in the time of trouble.
· Psalm
45:6
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
· Psalm 48:10
According to Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your
right hand is full of righteousness.
· Psalm 50:6
Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge. Selah
· Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my
tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
· Psalm
65:5
By awesome deeds in righteousness
You will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all
the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas;
· Psalm 71:2
Deliver me in Your righteousness,
and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me.
· Psalm 71:15
My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their
limits.
· Psalm 71:16
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD;I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.
· Psalm 71:19
Also Your righteousness, O
God, is very high, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?
· Psalm 71:24
My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are
brought to shame Who seek my hurt.
· Psalm 72:1
Give the king Your judgments, O God, And Your righteousness to the king’s Son.
· Psalm 72:2
He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice.
12
Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the
woods will rejoice
13 before the LORD.
For He is coming, for He
is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world
with righteousness,
And the peoples with His
truth.
· Psalm
98:2
The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
8 Let
the rivers clap their hands;
Let the hills be joyful
together
9 before the
LORD,
For He is coming to judge
the earth.
With righteousness He
shall judge the world,
And the peoples with
equity.
· Psalm
116:5
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful.
· Psalm 119:7
I will praise You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous
judgments.
· Psalm
119:40
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.
· Psalm
119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous
judgments.
· Psalm
119:106
I have sworn and confirmed That I will keep Your righteous judgments.
· Psalm
119:123
My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation And Your righteous word.
· Psalm
119:137
Righteous are You, O LORD, And upright are Your judgments.
· Psalm
119:138
Your testimonies, which You have commanded, Are righteous and very
faithful.
· Psalm
119:142
Your righteousness is an
everlasting righteousness, And
Your law is truth.
· Psalm
119:144
The righteousness of Your
testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live.
· Psalm
119:160
The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous
judgments endures forever.
· Psalm
119:164
Seven times a day I praise You, Because of Your righteous judgments.
· Psalm
119:172
My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
· Psalm
129:4
The LORD is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
· Psalm
143:1
Hear my prayer, O LORD, Give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness
answer me, And in Your righteousness.
· Psalm 145:7
They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness.
· Psalm
145:17
The LORD is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.
· Isaiah 51:1
“Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were
hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
· Isaiah 51:5
My righteousness is near, My
salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands
will wait upon Me, And on My arm they will trust.
· Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the
heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; But My salvation will be
forever, And My righteousness
will not be abolished.
· Isaiah 51:7
“ Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach
of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.
· Isaiah 51:8
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, And the worm will eat them like
wool; But My righteousness
will be forever, And My salvation from generation to generation.”
· Jeremiah
11:20
But, O Lord of Hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let
me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.
· Jeremiah
12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with
You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those
happy who deal so treacherously?
|
5 “ Behold, the
days are coming,” says the LORD, |
15 ‘ In those days and at that time |
· Lamentations
1:18
“ The LORD is righteous, For I rebelled against His commandment. Hear
now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone
into captivity.
· Daniel 9:14
Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for
the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we
have not obeyed His voice.
· Daniel 9:16
“O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your
city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the
iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all
those around us.
· Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations,
and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our
supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of
Your great mercies.
· Daniel 9:24
“ Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To
finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for
iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
· Zephaniah
3:5
The LORD is righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every
morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, But the unjust knows no
shame.
· Zechariah
8:8
I will bring them back,And they shall dwell in the midst of
· Romans
1:17
For in it the righteousness
of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live
by faith.”
· Romans
2:5
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are
treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God,
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[a] who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
· Romans
10:3
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own
righteousness, have not
submitted to the righteousness
of God.
· 2
Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
8 And God is able
to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 9 As
it is written:
” He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever.” [Psalm
112:9]
10 Now may[b] He who supplies seed to the
sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown
and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
· Revelation
16:5
And I heard the angel of the waters saying: “ You are righteous, O Lord,
The One who is and who was and who is to be, Because You have judged these
things.
· Revelation
16:7
And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true
and righteous are Your judgments.”
· Revelation
19:2
For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the
great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged
on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”
L. God is
Truth, incapable of Lying
· Exodus 34:6
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
· Numbers
23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He
should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and
will He not make it good?
· Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth
and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
· 1 Samuel 15:29
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”
· 2 Samuel 7:28
“And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have
promised this goodness to Your servant.
· 1 Kings 8:26
And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have
spoken to Your servant David my father.
· 2 Chronicles 15:3
3 For a long time
· 2 Chronicles 6:17
And now, O LORD God of
·
Psalm 15:2
He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in
his heart;
·
Psalm 25:10
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, To such as keep His
covenant and His testimonies.
· Psalm 31:5
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
· Psalm 33:4
For the word of the LORD is right, And all His work is done in truth.
· Psalm 40:11
Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD; Let Your lovingkindness
and Your truth continually preserve me.
· Psalm 43:3
Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring
me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle.
· Psalm 86:15
But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and
abundant in mercy and truth.
· Psalm 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth
go before Your face.
· Psalm 91:4
He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take
refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
· Psalm 100:5
For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to
all generations.
· Psalm 108:4
For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the
clouds.
· Psalm 115:1
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, But to Your name give glory, Because of Your
mercy, Because of Your truth.
· Psalm 117:2
For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the LORD
endures forever. Praise the LORD!
· Psalm 119:142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
·
Psalm 119:151
You are near, O LORD, And all Your commandments are truth.
· Psalm 119:160
The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous
judgments endures forever.
· Psalm 138:2
I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your
lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above
all Your name.
· Psalm 145:18
The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
· Proverbs 30:5
5 Every word of God is
pure;
He is a shield to those who put
their trust in Him.
·
Jeremiah 4:2
And you shall swear, “The LORD lives,’
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; The nations shall bless
themselves in Him, And in Him they shall glory.”
· Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting
King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to
endure His indignation.
· Jeremiah 42:5
So they said to Jeremiah, “Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness
between us, if we do not do according to everything which the LORD your God
sends us by you.
· Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of
whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in
pride He is able to put down.
·
Daniel 9:13
“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet
we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from
our iniquities and understand Your truth.
· Daniel 10:21
But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one
upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.
·
Zechariah 8:8
I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of
·
Malachi 2:6
The law of truth [Or true instruction ] was in his mouth, And
injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, And
turned many away from iniquity.
· Matthew 22:16
And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we
know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You
care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.
· Mark 12:14
When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true,
and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the
way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
·
Mark 12:32
So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth,
for there is one God, and there is no other but He.
· John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
· John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through
Jesus Christ.
·
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be
clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
· John 3:33
He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true.
· John 4:23-25
23But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to
worship Him. 24God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship
in spirit and truth.”
25The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is
called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
· John 6:32
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you
the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
· John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of
the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
·
John 7:28
Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me,
and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me
is true, whom you do not know.
16And yet if I do judge, My judgment is
true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me. 17It
is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 18I
am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of
Me.”
· John 8:26
I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is
true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
· John 8:32
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
· John 8:40
But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard
from God. Abraham did not do this.
· John 14:1
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
·
John 14:17
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him
nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
· John 15:26
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
· John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all
truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He
will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
· John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom You have sent.
· John 17:17
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
· John 17:19
And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the
truth.
|
· Romans 3:4 |
· Psalm 51 |
· Hebrews 6:18
18 that by two immutable
things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might [M-Text omits
might] have strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
· 1 Timothy 3:15
but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct
yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar
and ground of the truth.
· Titus
1:2
in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time
began,
|
14as obedient children, not conforming
yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15but as He
who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16because
it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” |
· Leviticus 11 · Leviticus 19 · Leviticus 20 |
· 1 Thessalonians 1:6
6 And you became
followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction,
with joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that you became examples to all in
· 1
John 2:27
But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not
need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning
all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has
taught you, you will abide in Him.
· 1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding,
that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true,
in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
· Revelation 3:14
“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [NU-Text and M-Text read in
· Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true,
until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
· Revelation 15:3
They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb,
saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true
are Your ways, O King of the saints! [NU-Text and M-Text read nations]
· Revelation 16:7
And I heard another from [NU-Text and M-Text omit another from] the
altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your
judgments.”
· Revelation 19:2
For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the
great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged
on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”
· Revelation 19:9
Then he said to me, “Write: “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage
supper of the Lamb!”‘ And he said to
me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
· Revelation 19:11
Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
· Revelation 22:6
Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord
God of the holy [NU-Text and M-Text read spirits of the prophets]
prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take
place.
· Book of
Mormon: Ether 3:12
[12]
And he answered: Yea, Lord, I know that thou speakest the truth, for thou art a
God of truth, and canst not lie.
· 2 Nephi 9:34
[34]
Wo unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to hell.
·
[26] And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true
and living God?
[27] And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God.
[28] Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God?
[29] And he
answered, No.
[30] Now Zeezrom said unto him again: How knowest thou these
things?
[31] And he said: An aangel• hath made them known unto me.
· Doctrine
and Covenants 20:19
[19] And gave unto them commandments that they should love and serve him, the only living and true God, and that he should be the only being whom they should worship.
M. God is Lord
· Genesis 28:20-22
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and keep
me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put
on, 21 so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the
LORD shall be my God. 22 And this stone which I have set as a pillar
shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to
You.”
· Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to
· Genesis 46:1
So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
12 So He said, “I will
certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent
you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this
mountain.”
13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the
children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to
you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you
shall say to the children of
· Exodus 6:2
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the LORD.
· Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name
LORD [Hebrew YHWH, traditionally Jehovah] I was not known to them.
26 And Moses said, “It
is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the
Egyptians to the LORD our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, then will they not stone us? 27 We will go three
days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He will
command us.”
28 So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to
the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away.
Intercede for me.”
25 But Moses said, “You
must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the
LORD our God. 26 Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof
shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the LORD our God,
and even we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them
go.
· Exodus 16:12
“I have heard the complaints of the children of
· Exodus 18:1
And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’
father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for
· Exodus 18:12
Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
took [Following Masoretic Text and Septuagint; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read
offered.] a burnt offering and other
sacrifices to offer to God. And Aaron came with all the elders of
1 And
God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the
· Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the
third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
· Exodus 20:7
“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will
not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
· Exodus 20:10
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no
work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your
female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
· Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land
which the LORD your God is giving you.
· Exodus 23:25
“So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your
water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
· Exodus 29:46
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them up out of
the
· Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you
shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
· Leviticus 11:45
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the
· Leviticus 18:2
“Speak to the children of
· Leviticus 18:21
And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech,
nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
· Leviticus 18:30
“Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these
abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile
yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.”
1 And
the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of
the children of
3 ‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep
My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 19:4
“Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your
God.
· Leviticus 19:10
And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your
vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD
your God.
· Leviticus 19:12
And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of
your God: I am the LORD.
· Leviticus 19:14
You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but
shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
· Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its
increase: I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 19:31
“Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be
defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 19:32
“You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man,
and fear your God: I am the LORD.
· Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and
you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I
am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 19:36
You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest
hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
· Leviticus 20:7
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 20:24
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to
you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God,
who has separated you from the peoples.
· Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they
offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God;
therefore they shall be holy.
· Leviticus 21:8
Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall
be holy to you, for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
· Leviticus 21:12
nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for
the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
32 You shall not profane
My holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of
· Leviticus 23:22
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners
of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest.
You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.”‘
· Leviticus 23:28
And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to
make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 24:22
You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country;
for I am the LORD your God.”‘
· Leviticus 25:17
Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I
am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 25:38
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
· Leviticus 25:55
For the children of
11 I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13 I am
the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should
not be their slaves;
I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.
· Leviticus 26:44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast
them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My
covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
· Leviticus 26:45
But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I
brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be
their God: I am the LORD.”‘
1 Now
the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of
· Numbers 10:10
Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the
beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings
and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial
for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
· Numbers 15:41
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
· Numbers 27:16
“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the
congregation,
· Deuteronomy 1:21
Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as
the LORD God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.’
30 The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ 32 Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God,
· Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
29 But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice 31 (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
5 I stood between the
LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were
afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:
6 ‘I am the LORD your
God who brought you out of the
7 ‘You shall have no other gods
before Me.
· Deuteronomy 5:11
“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will
not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
· Deuteronomy 5:12
“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
· Deuteronomy 5:14-16
14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In
it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of
your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male
servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 And
remember that you were a slave in the
16 ‘ Honor your father and your
mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and
that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
31 But as for you, stand
here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the
land which I am giving them to possess.’
32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has
commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33
You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that
you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
3 Therefore hear, O
Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and
that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you—’a
land flowing with milk and honey.’ [Exodus 3:8]
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! [Or The
Lord is our God, the Lord alone (that is, the only one)] 5 You
shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with
all your strength.
· Deuteronomy 6:17
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His
testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
· Deuteronomy 7:19
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty
hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So
shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
· Deuteronomy 7:21
You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and
awesome God, is among you.
· Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty
years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
· Deuteronomy 8:5
You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your
God chastens you.
· Deuteronomy 8:6
“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His
ways and to fear Him.
· Deuteronomy 8:10
When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for
the good land which He has given you.
· Deuteronomy 8:11
“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His
commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
· Deuteronomy 8:14
when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you
out of the land of
· Deuteronomy 8:18
“And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to
get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers,
as it is this day.
· Deuteronomy 10:12
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the
LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul,
· Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall
hold fast, and take oaths in His name.
· Deuteronomy 11:1
“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes,
His judgments, and His commandments always.
· Deuteronomy 11:13
“And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you
today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all
your soul,
· Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments
and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
· Deuteronomy 17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that
he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words
of this law and these statutes,
· Deuteronomy 26:16
“This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and
judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart
and with all your soul.
· Deuteronomy 26:17
Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in
His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that
you will obey His voice.
· Deuteronomy 27:10
Therefore you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, and observe His
commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”
· Deuteronomy 28:1
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your
God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that
the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
· Deuteronomy 28:2
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the
voice of the LORD your God:
· Deuteronomy 28:8
“The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to
which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your
God is giving you.
· Deuteronomy 28:9
“The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn
to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
· Deuteronomy 28:13
And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only,
and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I
command you today, and are careful to observe them.
· Deuteronomy 28:58
“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in
this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD,
11 when all
8 You shall command the
priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you have come to the
edge of the water of the
9 So Joshua said to the children of
· Joshua 8:30
Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of
· Joshua 23:11
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
16 So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods; 17 for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed. 18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God.”
· Joshua 24:24
And the people said to Joshua, “The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice
we will obey!”
· 1 Samuel 30:6
Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because
the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his
daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.
36 And it came to pass,
at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah
the prophet came near and said, “LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it
be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your
servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. 37
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the
LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You
again.”
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was
in the trench.
|
· 1 Chronicles 16:36 |
· Psalm 106:47, 48 47
Save us, O LORD our God, |
· 1 Chronicles 17:22
For You have made Your people
· 1 Chronicles 17:24
So let it be established, that Your name may be magnified forever, saying, “The
Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, is
· 1 Chronicles 17:26
And now, LORD, You are God, and have promised this goodness to Your servant.
12 Now when he was in
affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before
the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He received his
entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to
14 After this he built a wall outside the City of
· 2 Chronicles 33:17
Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the
LORD their God.
4 Then everyone who
trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the
transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished
until the evening sacrifice.
5 At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn
my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD
my God. 6 And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to
lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our
heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
3And they stood up in their place
and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one-fourth of the
day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.
4Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani
stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the LORD
their God. 5And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah,
Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said:
“Stand up and bless the LORD your
God
Forever and ever!
“Blessed be Your glorious name,
Which is exalted above all blessing
and praise!
· Psalm 100:3
3
Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who
has made us, and not we ourselves;[a]
We are His people
and the sheep of His pasture.
· Psalm 144:15
Happy are the people who are in such a state; Happy are the people whose God is
the LORD!
· Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD; Make
straight in the desert[40:3 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate;
Septuagint omits [in the desert] .] A highway for our God.
· Isaiah 43:3
3 For I am the
LORD your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave
· Isaiah 43:11
11 I, even I, am
the LORD,
And besides Me there is no savior.
· Isaiah 45:15
15 Truly You are
God, who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior!
· Isaiah 45:21
21 Tell and bring forth your
case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the LORD?
And there is no other God besides
Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
37Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. 38They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 39then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.
· Zechariah 8:8
I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of
· Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, [M-Text reads Get behind Me.] Satan! For it is written, “You shall worship the
LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.” [ Deuteronomy 6:13]
· Mark
12:30
And you shall love the LORD your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.’ This is the first
commandment.
· Mark
12:32
So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for
there is one God, and there is
no other but He.
· Mark
13:19
For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the
beginning of the creation which God
created until this time, nor ever shall be.
· Luke
1:16
And he will turn many of the children of
· 1 Timothy 1:1
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,
· 1 Timothy 2:3
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
· 1 Timothy 4:10
10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, [NU-Text reads we labor and strive. ] because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
· Titus 1:1-3
1 Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, 3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
· Titus 2:10
9 Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
· Titus 3:4
4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
1. Worthy of worship
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD
our God, the LORD is one![a] 5 You shall love
the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
strength.
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
· 2
Samuel 22:4
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be
saved from my enemies.
4 If
your sons have sinned against Him,
He has cast them away for their
transgression.
5 If
you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
6 If
you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
1 Then Job
answered and said:
2 “Truly I
know it is so,
But how can a man be righteous before God?
3 If one
wished to contend with Him,
He could not answer Him one time out of a
thousand.
· Psalm
18:3
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be
saved from my enemies.
· Psalm 18:30
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield
to all who trust in Him.
· Psalm 91:2
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will
trust.”
· Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right
hand.’
|
· Matthew
22:37 |
· Mark
12:30 |
· Luke
10:27 |
|
· Matthew
4:10 |
· Luke
4:8 |
· Acts
4:12
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
· Revelation
4:11
“You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You
created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
· Revelation
22:9
Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant,
and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this
book. Worship God.”
2. He must be obeyed
· Deuteronomy 6:13
13 You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.
· Deuteronomy 6:24
And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our
God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.
· Deuteronomy 7:9
“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps
covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep
His commandments;
· Deuteronomy 7:12
“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep
and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the
mercy which He swore to your fathers.
· Deuteronomy
11:13
‘And it shall be that if you
earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD
your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your
soul,
· Deuteronomy 11:22
“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do--to
love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
· Deuteronomy 12:28
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with
you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in
the sight of the LORD your God.
9 The LORD your God will make you abound in
all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your
livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again
rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 10 if
you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His
statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too
mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
· Joshua 22:5
But take careful heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant
of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways,
to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your
heart and with all your soul.”
· 1
Samuel 12:24
Only fear the LORD, and serve
Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has
done for you.
· 1 Kings 2:3
And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His
statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is
written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and
wherever you turn;
· 1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes
and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
N. God denounces service, or worship, to other gods
· Exodus 12:12
“For I will pass through the
10 And Jethro said, “Blessed
be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and
out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under
the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the LORD is
greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly,
He was above them.” 12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took [Following Masoretic Text and Septuagint;
Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read offered.] a burnt offering and other
sacrifices to offer to God. And Aaron came with all the elders of
|
1
And God spoke all these words, saying: |
1
And Moses called all |
· Exodus 22:20
“He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly
destroyed.
· Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their
works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their
sacred pillars.
31
And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea,
· Exodus 34:14
(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God),
· Leviticus 19:4
“Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your
God.
13 You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you 15 (for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.
· Deuteronomy 7:16
Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to
you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for
that will be a snare to you.
· Deuteronomy 8:19
Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow
other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day
that you shall surely perish.
15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’ 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, 17 lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
1 “These
are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in
the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the
days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the
places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the
high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their
sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut
down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
4 You shall not worship the LORD
your God with such things.
· Deuteronomy 12:29-31
29 “When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations
which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, 30
take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are
destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods,
saying, ‘How did these nations serve
their gods? I also will do likewise.’
31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every
abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they
burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;
9 but you shall surely
kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him
with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD
your God, who brought you out of the
2 “If there is found
among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or
a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing
His covenant, 3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped
them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded, 4 and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you
shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain
that such an abomination has been committed in
· Deuteronomy 28:14
So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day,
to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
16 in that I command you
today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His
commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply;
and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17
But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and
worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that
you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land
which you cross over the
16
They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to
anger.
17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 Of
the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have forgotten the God who fathered
you.
6 Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, 7 and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them, 8 but you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
13 I have given you a
land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you
dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not
plant.’
14 “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in
truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the
River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! 15 And if it seems evil to you
to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether
the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the
River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.”
· Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you
harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
· Joshua 24:23
“Now therefore,” he said, “put away the foreign gods which are among you, and
incline your heart to the LORD God of
· Judges 2:12
and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the
land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people
who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the
LORD to anger.
· Judges 2:19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved
more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and
bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their
stubborn way.
· Judges 3:7
So the children of
4 Now if you walk before
Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes
and My judgments, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom
over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on
the throne of Israel.’ 6 But
if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My
commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and
serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from
the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for
My name I will cast out of My sight.
8 And as for this
house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished
and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the
LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers
out of the
· 1 Kings 11:9
So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the
LORD God of
· 1 Kings 11:10
and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other
gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded.
· 1 Kings 11:33
because they have [Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint, Syriac, and
Vulgate read he has] forsaken Me, and
worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the
Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My
ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as
did his father David.
· 1 Kings
16:13
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had
sinned and by which they had made
· 1 Kings
16:26
For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by
which he had made
· 1 Kings
21:26
And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD
had cast out before the children of Israel.
· 1 Kings 22:53
for he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD God of
· 2 Kings
17:12
for they served idols, of which
the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
· 2 Kings
17:15
And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their
fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed
idols, became idolaters, and
went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the LORD had
charged them that they should not do like them.
· 2 Kings 17:31
and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their
children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
· 2 Kings 17:33
They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods--according to the rituals of
the nations from among whom they were carried away.
· 2 Kings 17:35
with whom the LORD had made a covenant and charged them, saying: “You shall not
fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them;
· 2 Kings 17:37
And the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which He wrote
for you, you shall be careful to observe forever; you shall not fear other
gods.
· 2 Kings 17:38
And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, nor shall you
fear other gods.
· 2 Kings 22:17
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might
provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall
be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched.”
· 1 Chronicles 14:12
And when they left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were
burned with fire.
18 then I will establish
the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a
man as ruler in Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments
which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, 20
then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house
which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make
it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
· 2 Chronicles 7:22
Then they will answer, “Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped
them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.”‘
2 Asa did what was
good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God, 3 for he removed the
altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred
pillars and cut down the wooden images. 4 He commanded
· 2
Chronicles 15:8
And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took
courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and
Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim;
and he restored the altar of the LORD that was before the vestibule of the
LORD.
14 Now it was so, after
Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of
the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before
them and burned incense to them. 15 Therefore the anger of the LORD
was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why
have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people
from your hand?”
16 So it was, as he talked with him, that the king said to him,
“Have we made you the king’s
counselor? Cease! Why should you be killed?”
Then the prophet ceased, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy
you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
· 2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah would not heed, for it came from God, that He might give them into
the hand of their enemies, because they sought the gods of
· 2 Chronicles 28:23
For he sacrificed to the gods of
· 2 Chronicles 34:25
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might
provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath will
be poured out on this place, and not be quenched.”
· Psalm 81:9
There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
· Psalm
106:36
They served their idols,Which became a snare to them.
· Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.
· Isaiah 2:18
But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
· Isaiah 41:23
Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it together.
· Jeremiah 35:15
I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, “Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings,
and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land
which I have given you and your fathers.’
But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.
7 “Now therefore, thus
says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to
cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to
remain, 8 in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your
hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to
dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all
the nations of the earth? 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of
your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of
· Jeremiah 46:25
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on
Amon [A sun god] of No, [That is, ancient
· Jeremiah 48:35
“Moreover,” says the LORD, “I will cause to cease in
1 Against the Ammonites.
Thus says the LORD:
“Has
Has he no heir?
Why then does Milcom [Hebrew Malcam, literally their king, a god of
the Ammonites; also called Molech (compare verse 3)] inherit Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?
2 Therefore behold, the
days are coming,” says the LORD,
“That I will cause to be heard an
alarm of war
In Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her villages shall be burned
with fire.
Then
· Ezekiel
16:36
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your
nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable
idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
· Ezekiel
18:6
If he has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbor’s wife, Nor approached a woman
during her impurity;
· Ezekiel
18:12
If he has oppressed the poor and needy, Robbed by violence, Not restored the
pledge, Lifted his eyes to the idols, Or committed abomination;
· Ezekiel 18:15
Who has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted his eyes to the idols of
the house of
· Ezekiel
20:7
Then I said to them, ‘Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before
his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of
· Ezekiel
20:8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away
the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols
of
· Ezekiel
20:16
because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but
profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
· Ezekiel
20:18
“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes
of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
· Ezekiel
20:24
because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes,
profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.
· Ezekiel
20:31
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you
defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be
inquired of by you, O house of
· Ezekiel
20:39
“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord GOD: “Go, serve every one
of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
· Ezekiel
22:3
Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that
her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself.
· Ezekiel
22:4
You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled
yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days
to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you
a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries.
· Ezekiel
23:7
Thus she committed her harlotry with them, All of them choice men of
· Ezekiel
23:30
I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the
Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.
· Ezekiel
23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have
committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom
they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.
· Ezekiel
23:39
For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day
they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in
the midst of My house.
· Ezekiel
30:13
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “ I will also destroy the idols, And cause the
images to cease from Noph; There shall no longer be princes from the
· Ezekiel
33:25
“Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “You eat meat with blood, you
lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then
possess the land?
· Ezekiel
36:18
Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land,
and for their idols with which they had defiled it.
· Ezekiel
36:25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse
you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
· Ezekiel
37:23
They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with
their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will
deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
· Ezekiel
44:10
[ Laws Governing Priests ] “And the Levites who went far from Me, when
· Ezekiel
44:12
Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house
of
· Zechariah
13:2
“It shall be in that day,” says the LORD of hosts, “that I will cut off the
names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered.
I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.
· Acts 15:20
but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from
sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
· Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things
strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you
will do well.Farewell.
· Acts 17:16
[ The Philosophers at Athens ] Now while Paul waited for them at
· Acts 21:25
But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they
should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from
things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from
sexual immorality.”
· Romans 2:22
You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols,
do you rob temples?
· Zephaniah 2:11
The LORD will be awesome to them, For He
will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth; People shall worship Him,
Each one from his place, Indeed all the shores of the nations.
1
Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol
is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
· 1 Corinthians 8:5-6
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
· 1 Corinthians 10:6-7
6 Now these things became
our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they
also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of
them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up
to play.”
· 1
Corinthians 10:28
But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it
for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; for “the earth
is the LORD’s, and all its fullness.”
· 1
Corinthians 12:2
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols,
however you were led.
· 2 Corinthians
6:16
And what agreement has the
· 1
Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you,
and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
· 1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
IV. Nature of other gods
A. Nature of other gods
· Exodus 34:17
“You shall make no molded gods for
yourselves.
· Leviticus 19:4
“Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus 26:1
“You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred
pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow
down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
· Leviticus
26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your
carcasses on the lifeless forms of
your idols;and My soul shall abhor you.
27 And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. 28 And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 29 But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
6 ‘I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the
7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.
8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth;
3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, [Hebrew Asherim, Canaanite deities] and burn their carved images with fire.
· Deuteronomy
7:25
You shall burn the carved images of
their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest
you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
· Deuteronomy
27:15
‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to
the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
“And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’
· Deuteronomy 28:36
“The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither
you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods--wood and stone.
· Deuteronomy 28:64
“Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to
the other, and there you shall serve other gods,
which neither you nor your fathers have known--wood and stone.
17 and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold); 18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood; 19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates [Or stubbornness] of my heart’—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.
· Judges
18:18
When these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the
household idols, and the molded
image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
· 1 Kings 14:9
but you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and
made for yourself other gods and molded
images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back—
· 2 Kings 17:16
So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host
of heaven, and served Baal.
· 2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image [Hebrew Asherah, a
Canaanite goddess] and broke in pieces the bronze
serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel
burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. [Literally Bronze Thing]
17 Truly, LORD, the
kings of
· 2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second
order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles that were made for Baal,
for Asherah, [A Canaanite goddess] and for all the host of heaven; [The gods of
the Assyrians] and he burned them
outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to
Bethel.
· 2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the wooden image Hebrew
Asherah, a Canaanite goddess] from
the house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the
Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the
common people.
· 1 Chronicles 14:12
And when they left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
· 1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the peoples are
idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the gold calves which Jeroboam made for you as gods. 9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of other lands, so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of things that are not gods? 10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the priests who minister to the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.
· 2 Chronicles 32:19
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people
of the earth--the work of men’s hands.
· 2 Chronicles 33:3
For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he
raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden
images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven [The gods of the Assyrians]
and served them.
· 2 Chronicles 33:7
He even set a carved image, the idol
which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of
all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
· 2 Chronicles 33:15
He took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all
the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in
· Psalm 82:6-7
6 I
said, “You are gods, [Hebrew elohim, mighty ones; that is, the
judges]
And all of you are
children of the Most High.
7 But you
shall die like men,
And fall like one of the
princes.”
· Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the peoples are
idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
· Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
· Psalm
135:15
The idols of the nations are
silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.
· Isaiah 2:8
Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
· Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols
of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and
bats,
· Isaiah
10:10
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images
excelled those of
· Isaiah 21:9
And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!” Then he answered
and said, “
· Isaiah
31:7
For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.
· Isaiah 37:19
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands--wood and stone.
Therefore they destroyed them.
· Isaiah 42:17
They shall be turned back, They shall be greatly ashamed, Who trust in carved images, Who say to the molded images, “You are our gods.’
· Isaiah 44:10
Who would form a god or mold an image
That profits him nothing?
· Isaiah 44:15
Then it shall be for a man to burn, For he will take some of it and warm
himself; Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; Indeed he makes a god and worships
it; He makes it a carved image, and
falls down to it.
· Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, His
carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, Prays to it and
says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
·
“Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from
the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.
·
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols
were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded, A
burden to the weary beast.
·
They lavish gold out of the bag, And
weigh silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god;
They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.
· Isaiah
41:29
Indeed they are all worthless; Their works are nothing; Their molded
images are wind and confusion.
· Jeremiah
8:19
Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: “Is
not the LORD in
7 Who would not fear
You, O King of the nations?
For this is Your rightful due.
For among all the wise men of the
nations,
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
8 But they are altogether
dull-hearted and foolish;
A
wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
9 Silver is beaten into plates;
It is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of the craftsman
And of the hands of the metalsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skillful men.
· Jeremiah 10:11
11 Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
· Jeremiah
18:15
“ Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have
caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in
pathways and not on a highway,
· Jeremiah
50:2
“ Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim—do not
conceal it— Say, ‘
· Ezekiel 14:4-10
4 “Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Everyone of
the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him
what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the
LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols, 5
that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all
estranged from Me by their idols.”‘
6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and
turn your faces away from all your abominations. 7 For anyone of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself
from Me and sets up his idols in his
heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then
comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the LORD will answer him
by Myself. 8 I will set My face against that man and make him a sign
and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you
shall know that I am the LORD.
9 “And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the LORD have
induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy
him from among My people
· Hosea
8:4
“ They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not
acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for
themselves— That they might be cut off.
· Hosea
13:2
Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols
of their silver, according to their
skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men
who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
· Jonah 2:8
“ Those who regard worthless idols
Forsake their own Mercy.
· Micah 1:7
All her carved images shall be beaten to
pieces, And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire; All her idols
I will lay desolate, For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot, And they
shall return to the pay of a harlot.”
· Habakkuk
2:18
“ What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That
the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?
· Revelation
9:20
But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent
of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols
of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood,
which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
B. Other gods are powerless
· 1 Kings 18:17-46
17 Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah,
that Ahab said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your
father’s house have, in that
you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals. 19
Now therefore, send and gather all
20 So Ahab sent for all the children of
So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”
25 Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for
yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on
the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
26 So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal,
hear us!” But there was no voice;
no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.
27 And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry
aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is
on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28
So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and
lances, until the blood gushed out on them. 29 And when midday was
past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice. But there was no
voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the
people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was
broken down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the
number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had
come, saying, “
36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel
and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at
Your word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know
that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts
back to You again.”
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was
in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell
on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is
God!”
40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let
one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the
Brook Kishon and executed them there.
41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and
drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 42 So
Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he
bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and
said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”
So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times
he said, “Go again.”
44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There
is a cloud, as small as a man’s
hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go
down before the rain stops you.’”
45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with
clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to
Jezreel. 46 Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah; and he
girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
33 Has any of the gods
of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of
· 2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed,
Gozan and
· Isaiah 36:18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any
one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of
· Isaiah 36:19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
Indeed, have they delivered
· Isaiah 36:20
Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my
hand, that the LORD should deliver
· Isaiah
57:13
When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind
will carry them all away, A breath will take them.But he who puts his trust in
Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain.”
· Jeremiah
14:22
Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can
the heavens give showers? AreYou not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait
for You, Since You have made all these.
· Habakkuk
2:18
“ What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That
the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?
C. “Ye are gods”
· Genesis 3:1-4
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any
beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has
God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat
of every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the
trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5
For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.”
Dave Miller, Ph.D. Apologetics Press. “Can Humans Become Gods?” http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2275
Another verse that has been brought forward to substantiate Mormon polytheism is the comment made on the occasion of Adam and Eve being tempted to eat the forbidden fruit: “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5—NKJV). The King James Version says, “ye shall be as gods.” Four points of clarification are in order on this verse. In the first place, Satan made this statement—not God. Satan’s declarations are never to be trusted, since he is “a liar and the father of it” (John 8:44).
In the second place, the
uncertainty conveyed by the various English translations in their differing
treatment of the verse (i.e., whether “God” or “gods”) is the result of the
underlying Hebrew term elohim. This word is not to be confused with
Yahweh, the formal name for God throughout the Old Testament. Elohim is
a generic term used some 2,570 times in Scripture, and generally refers to the
one true God, but also is used to refer to pagan gods, and even can refer to
judges or rulers and, as noted previously, to angels (Harris, et al., 1980,
1:44-45). Though the word is plural in form, it is used in both the plural and
singular sense [cf. “face” (panim)—Genesis 50:1; Exodus 34:35 and “image”
(teraphim)—1 Samuel 19:13]. English shares a similar phenomenon with its
plural nouns like “deer,” “seed,” “sheep,” and “moose.” The same form is used,
whether referring to one or to many. Hebrew, like most other languages, matched
the number (whether singular or plural) of verbs and adjectives with the noun.
In the case of elohim, with only rare exception, the verbs and
adjectives used with it are either singular or plural in conformity with the
intended meaning (Ringgren, 1974, p. 272). Fretheim noted that its use in the
Old Testament for
Some Hebrew scholars maintain that the plural form used to designate the one true God is the pluralis majestatis or excellentiae—the plural of majesty—or the plural of intensification, absolutization, or exclusivity (e.g., Fretheim, 1:405; Gesenius, 1847, p. 49; Harris, et al., p. 44; Mack, 1939, 2:1265; Reeve, 1939, 2:1270), although others question this usage (e.g., Grudem, 1994, p. 227; Jenni and Westermann, 1997, p. 116). In the case at hand, Satan was tempting Eve with the prospect of being like God—Whom she knew, and from Whom she (or at least her husband) had received previous communication (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:3). She knew nothing of other “gods”—pagan or otherwise. Since the term elohim occurs 58 times in the first three chapters of Genesis and is consistently rendered “God,” and since Satan himself used the term earlier in the same verse as well as four verses earlier (vs. 1) to refer to the one God, no contextual, grammatical, or lexical reason exists for rendering it “gods” in verse five. In fact, most of the major English translations properly render it “God” (e.g., NKJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, RSV). [See also the discussion in Clarke, n.d., 1:50, who noted that the ancient Syriac version rendered the term correctly].
Third, elohim in this verse has an attached prefix (Biblia Hebraica, 1967/77, p. 4)—what Hebrew scholars call an “inseparable preposition” (Weingreen, 1959, p. 26). In this case, the prepositional prefix is the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the kaph, and means “like” or “as.” Satan was not saying that Eve would become God or a god; He was saying she would become like God. This realization brings us to a fourth point: the context stipulates in what way Eve would become like God. In the very verse under consideration, an explanatory phrase clarifies what Satan meant: “You will be like God, knowing good and evil” (emp. added). This meaning is evident from subsequent references in the same chapter. When they disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit, “the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew…” (verse 7, emp. added). God commented: “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil” (verse 22, emp. added). In other words, Adam and Eve became like God in the sense that they now were privy to a greater breadth of awareness, understanding, and insight: “They now had a sufficient discovery of their sin and folly in disobeying the command of God; they could discern between good and evil; and what was the consequence? Confusion and shame were engendered, because innocence was lost and guilt contracted” (Clarke, p. 51). As Keil and Delitzsch summarized: “By eating the fruit, man did obtain the knowledge of good and evil, and in this respect became like God” (1976, 1:95, emp. added).
· Exodus 7:1
1 So the LORD said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
“The Jehovah's
Witnesses and John 1:1” http://www.carm.net/jw/john1_1.htm:
“Moses was
not called a god. Rather, he would be “as God.”
“Moreover,
he shall speak for you to the people; and it shall come about that he shall be
as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him, (Exodus
4:16).
“Then the
Lord said to Moses, 'See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron
shall be your prophet,'” (Exodus 7:1).
“Why was
Moses going to “as God” to Pharaoh? Because Moses was given the authority
and power to display powerful miracles that decimated much of
· Psalm 82:1-7
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty;
He judges among the gods.
[Hebrew elohim, mighty ones; that is,
the judges]
2 How long will you judge unjustly,
And show partiality to
the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the
hand of the wicked.
5 They do
not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in
darkness;
All the foundations of
the earth are unstable.
6 I said, “You are gods, [Hebrew elohim, mighty ones; that is, the
judges]
And all of you are
children of the Most High.
7 But you
shall die like men,
And fall like one of the
princes.”
· John 10:34-36
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said,
“You are gods”’? [Psalm 82:6] 35 If He called them gods, to whom
the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you
say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are
blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Justin Moser. “Logical Fallacies,” https://web.archive.org/web/20030602213906/http://www.tektonics.org/logical_fallacies.html. Also in James Patrick Holding, Blowing the Doors Off, Xulon Press, 2008, pp. 32-33
Fallacy of Equivocation
The Fallacy of Equivocation occurs when a word is used in two different contexts and is assumed to have the same meaning in both contexts, where distinct meanings ought to be preferred. A couple of Examples,
1. All bushes are
green and leafy.
2. Therefore, George W. Bush is green and leafy.
1. Isaiah 44:6
says, “Thus says the LORD, the King of
2. Psalm 82 implies there are many gods [elohim]. (Ye are gods...)
3. Therefore, Isaiah and Psalms contradict one another.
The former example
should be obvious. But, the latter assumes that elohim conveys the same
meaning in both passages. In reality, Isaiah 44:6 most likely refers to deity,
whereas Psalm 82 either refers to angels or more likely the leadership of
Jason Barker “Are We Living in a New Age?” http://www.watchman.org/na/livinginnewage.htm:
“A look at our Lord's use of Psalm 82:6 shows the fallacy of this interpretation. The three passages in which “ye are gods” is used are actually disapproving toward the people being addressed; these human rulers have fallen under the condemnation of God because of their unethical actions. In John 10:34 Christ is using the a fortiori argument that, if one can say of unjust rulers that “ye are gods,” then it is still more appropriate to proclaim Jesus as being the unique Son of God.23 The statement “ye are gods” therefore cannot be honestly used to claim that humans are equally and fully divine.
Dave Hunt “Playing God: The Lust for Power - Part Five” https://web.archive.org/web/20100706000810/http://www.johnankerburg.org/Articles/new-age/NA1003W2.htm:
“What then did Jesus mean when He quoted Psalm 82:6, where God says, ‘I have said, Ye are gods’? Because He was testing the Pharisees’ comprehension of Scripture, Jesus didn’t quote the next verse: ‘But ye shall die like men.’ It sounds as though being a god and death are related. Clearly, in reminding them that God had said they already were gods, Jesus was not calling men to become gods. We must go all the way back to Genesis 3:22 to find when and where God called men gods. There God says, “Behold, the man is become as one of us.”
“It was Satan, not God, who had promised godhood to Eve—and not that she would be God, but ‘as [the] gods’ (Genesis 3:5). Ah, there was the catch! There is only one true God. The gods are all false. They are the pretenders after godhood, the followers of Satan, who have believed his promise of godhood. These demonic beings are worshiped through idolatry. Speaking of “that which is offered in sacrifice to idols,” Paul writes that ‘the Gentiles... sacrifice to devils, and not to God’(1 Corinthians 10:19,20).”
· 1 Corinthians 8:1-6
1 Now concerning things offered to idols: We know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2
And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought
to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we
know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no
other God but one. 5 For even
if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many
gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the
Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
* * *
* Commentary is supplied for the verses under IV. C. “Ye are gods”, which are used by unorthodox and heretical groups to support a polytheistic belief, ignoring the context of those verses and denying God’s point of view, presented in this essay.
Appendix:
Do you believe you’re a
god, a potential god or “a god in embryo”?
1. You as a god do not, or will not
exist
· Isaiah 43:10-11
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before
me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to
idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there
are many gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and
we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things,
and through whom we live.
See verses under
B.
There is no other God
1. There is no other God
2. You are not like God
See verses under
B.
There is no other God
2.
No one like God
3. You as a god are powerless
· Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the peoples are
idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
· Isaiah
41:29
Indeed they are all worthless; Their works are nothing; Their molded
images are wind and confusion.
See also
B. Other gods are powerless
4. God will not give
you glory
· Isaiah 42:8
8 I am the LORD,
that is My name;
And My
glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
· Isaiah 48:11
11 For My own sake, for
My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And
I will not give My glory to another.
5. God is provoked to
jealousy and anger
16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to
anger.
17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 Of
the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have forgotten the God who fathered
you.
· Judges 2:12
and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the
land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people
who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
· 2 Chronicles 34:25
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all
the works of their hands. Therefore My
wrath will be poured out on this place, and not be quenched.”
6. God forbids service
to you
· Exodus
34:14
(for you shall worship no other god,
for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
· Deuteronomy 6:13-14
13 You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you
· Deuteronomy
11:16
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and
serve other gods and worship them,
· Deuteronomy 28:14
So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day,
to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
6 Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, 7 and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them, 8 but you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
· 1 Kings 11:10
and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other
gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded.
· 2 Kings 17:35
with whom the LORD had made a covenant and charged them, saying: “You shall not
fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them;
· Psalm
81:9
There shall be no foreign god among
you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
· Jeremiah 35:15
I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, “Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings,
and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land
which I have given you and your fathers.’
But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.
|
· Matthew
4:10 |
· Luke
4:8 |
· Jeremiah
25:6
Do not go after other gods to
serve them and worship them, and
do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm
you.’
· 1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Amen.
7. Your followers
forfeit God’s grace
· Jonah 2:8
8 "Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
(NIV)
8. Your followers will be cursed
26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
9. Your followers will
be guilty of death under the law of Moses
6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;
9 but you shall surely
kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him
with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD
your God, who brought you out of the
· Deuteronomy 17:2-7
2 “If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant, 3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, 4 and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones. 6 Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
10. Your followers will
suffer calamity and perish
· Deuteronomy
8:19
Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you
this day that you shall surely perish.
16 in that I command you
today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His
commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply;
and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17
But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and
worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land which you cross over the
· 1
Kings 9:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of
the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped
them and served them; therefore the LORD
has brought all this calamity on them.’”
· Jeremiah
13:10
This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their
hearts, and walk after other gods
to serve them and worship them,
shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.
11. You will die like men
· Psalm 82:6-7
6 I
said, “You are gods, [Hebrew elohim,
mighty ones; that is, the judges]
And all of you are
children of the Most High.
7 But you
shall die like men,
And fall like one of the
princes.”
· Jeremiah 10:11
11 Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
· Zephaniah 2:11
The LORD will be awesome to them, For He
will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth; People shall worship Him,
Each one from his place, Indeed all the shores of the nations.