1 Samuel 14:45

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

These will war against 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.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.

Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.