2 Kings 19:34
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”(A)
Read full chapter
1 Kings 11:12-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 I will not, however, tear away the entire kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”(A)
Read full chapter
2 Kings 20:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”(A)
Read full chapter
1 Kings 15:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him and establishing Jerusalem,(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 31:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of hosts
will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
he will spare and rescue it.”(A)
Jeremiah 33:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 33:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 23:5-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Righteous Branch of David
5 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.(A) 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”(B)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 38:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria and defend this city.(A)
Read full chapter
Ephesians 1:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 36:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 48:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for why should my name[a] be profaned?
My glory I will not give to another.(A)
Footnotes
- 48.11 Gk OL: Heb for why should it
Isaiah 43:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 I alone am the one
who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.(A)
Isaiah 9:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Great will be his authority,[a]
and there shall be endless peace
for the throne of David and his kingdom.
He will establish and uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time onward and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.(A)
Footnotes
- 9.7 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Deuteronomy 32:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 but I feared provocation by the enemy,
for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’(A)
Ephesians 1:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 this[a] is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1.14 Other ancient authorities read who
Isaiah 48:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 For my name’s sake I defer my anger;
for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
so that I may not cut you off.(A)
Psalm 48:2-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 beautiful in elevation,
is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.(A)
3 Within its citadels God
has shown himself a sure defense.(B)
4 Then the kings assembled;
they came on together.(C)
5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
they were in panic; they took to flight;(D)
6 trembling took hold of them there,
pains as of a woman in labor,
7 as when an east wind shatters
the ships of Tarshish.(E)
8 As we have heard, so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
which God establishes forever. Selah
Psalm 46:5-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 God is in the midst of the city;[a] it shall not be moved;
God will help it when the morning dawns.(A)
6 The nations are in an uproar; the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice; the earth melts.(B)
Footnotes
- 46.5 Heb of it
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.