1 Samuel 25:29
And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
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1 Samuel 25:29
And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
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1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.
1 Samuel 25:19
And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:20
Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.
1 Samuel 25:22
May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.
1 Samuel 25:23
And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.
1 Samuel 25:24
And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.
1 Samuel 25:25
Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.
1 Samuel 25:26
So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:27
And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.
1 Samuel 25:28
And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
1 Samuel 25:29
And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
1 Samuel 25:30
And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;
1 Samuel 25:31
Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.
1 Samuel 25:32
And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
1 Samuel 25:33
A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
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Jeremiah 10:18
For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.
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Psalms 66:9
Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.
Acts 17:28
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.
Matthew 10:29
Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
Revelation 1:18
And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
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1 Samuel 24:11
And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.
1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
1 Samuel 24:15
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.
1 Samuel 19:4
And Jonathan gave his father Saul a good account of David, and said to him, Let not the king do wrong against his servant, against David; because he has done you no wrong, and all his acts have had a good outcome for you:
1 Samuel 19:5
For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?
1 Samuel 20:1
And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?
1 Samuel 26:20
Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
Psalms 63:9
But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
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1 Samuel 17:40
Then he took his stick in his hand, and got five smooth stones from the bed of the stream and put them in a bag such as is used by sheep-keepers; and in his hand was a leather band used for sending stones: and so he went in the direction of the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 17:49
And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.
1 Samuel 17:50
So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.
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Job 14:17
My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
Genesis 42:35
And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.
Proverbs 26:8
Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
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Colossians 3:3
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
John 10:27
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
John 10:28
And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.
John 10:29
That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
1 Peter 1:5
Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
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1 Samuel 25:34
For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.
1 Samuel 25:35
Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.
1 Samuel 25:42
Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.
1 Samuel 25:43
And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.
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Psalms 26:9
Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
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Psalms 116:15
Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Matthew 10:30
But the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Revelation 6:9
And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.
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