1 Samuel 25:29

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

And not a hair of your head will perish.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’