1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the Lord declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
“Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I said
- Exodus 28:43; Exodus 29:9; Numbers 25:11–13
- Be it far
- Numbers 35:34; 2 Chronicles 15:2; Jeremiah 18:9, 10
- them
- Judges 9:10; Psalm 50:23; Proverbs 3:9, 10; Isaiah 29:13; Daniel 4:34; Malachi 1:6; John 5:23; John 8:49; John 13:31, 32; John 17:4, 5
- I will honour
- Psalm 18:20; Psalm 91:14; John 5:44; John 12:26; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 1:7
- that despise
- Numbers 11:20; 2 Samuel 12:9, 10; Malachi 2:8, 9