Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
(A)Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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Tongues a Sign to Unbelievers

20 Brethren, (A)do not be children in understanding; however, in malice (B)be babes, but in understanding be mature.

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15 Assuredly, I say to you, (A)whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will (B)by no means enter it.”

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The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let (A)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. (B)I go to prepare a place for you.

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  1. John 14:2 Lit. dwellings
  2. John 14:2 NU would I have told you that I go or I would have told you; for I go

19 By your patience possess your souls.

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(A)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [a]help of my countenance and my God.

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  1. Psalm 43:5 Lit. salvation

11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [a]help of my countenance and my God.

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  1. Psalm 42:11 Lit. salvation

and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, (A)unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (B)Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

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15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:

(A)“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
(B)But you would not,

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26 It is good that one should (A)hope (B)and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.

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A Calm Resolve to Wait for the Salvation of God

To the Chief Musician. To (A)Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

62 Truly (B)my soul silently waits for God;
From Him comes my salvation.

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(A)Why are you [a]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
(B)Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
[b]For the help of His countenance.

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  1. Psalm 42:5 Lit. bowed down
  2. Psalm 42:5 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. The help of my countenance, my God

Now David was greatly distressed, for (A)the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was [a]grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. (B)But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

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  1. 1 Samuel 30:6 Lit. bitter

25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, He (A)will bring me back and show me both it and (B)His dwelling place. 26 But if He says thus: ‘I have no (C)delight in you,’ here I am, (D)let Him do to me as seems good to Him.”

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10 Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

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11 And David said to Abishai and all his servants, “See how (A)my son who (B)came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the Lord has ordered him. 12 It may be that the Lord will look on [a]my affliction, and that the Lord will (C)repay me with (D)good for his cursing this day.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 16:12 So with Kt., LXX, Syr., Vg.; Qr. my eyes; Tg. tears of my eyes

32 Then David said to Abigail: (A)“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have (B)kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

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