Decision

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:20,21Deuteronomy 30:19Joshua 23:8Joshua 24:151 Samuel 12:201 Kings 18:21Psalms 37:34Psalms 69:13Proverbs 4:25–27Isaiah 50:7Matthew 10:22Matthew 11:6Matthew 24:13Matthew 25:23Mark 13:13Luke 7:23John 8:31John 15:4John 15:5John 15:7John 15:9
• See Character
• See Perseverance
• See Stability
• See Indecision
• See Instability
• EXHORTATION TOJoshua 1:71 Chronicles 16:152 Chronicles 19:11Matthew 4:17Matthew 6:24Matthew 8:21Matthew 8:22Matthew 10:32Matthew 12:30Luke 9:59–62Luke 11:23Luke 12:8Luke 16:13Luke 17:32Colossians 2:6Colossians 2:71 Timothy 6:11–14
• INSTANCES OF
• ABELHebrews 11:4
• ENOCHHebrews 11:5Hebrews 11:6
• NOAHHebrews 11:7
• ABRAHAMHebrews 11:8Hebrews 11:17–19

The passages, in Bible order (231)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 28:20

   Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 28:202 voices

   “Jacob had now had a gracious visit from heaven, God had renewed his covenant with him, and the covenant is mutual; when God ratifies his promises to us, it is proper for us to repeat our promises to him. If thou wilt be with me and keep me - We need desire no more to make us easy and happy wherever we are, but to have God's presence with us, and to be under his protection.

   “Jacob vowed a vow--His words are not to be considered as implying a doubt, far less as stating the condition or terms on which he would dedicate himself to God. Let "if" be changed into "since," and the language will appear a proper expression of Jacob's faith--an evidence of his having truly embraced the promise.

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2. Genesis 28:21

   so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.

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3. Genesis 39:7–20

   and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

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4. Exodus 19:7

   So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

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5. Exodus 19:8

   And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 19:82 voices

   “And all the people answered, etc. - The people, having such gracious advantages laid before them, most cheerfully consented to take God for their portion; as he had graciously promised to take them for his people. Thus a covenant was made, the parties being mutually bound to each other. Moses returned the words - When the people had on their part consented to the covenant, Moses appears to have gone immediately up to the mountain and related to God the success of his mission; for he was now on the mount, as appears from Exo 19:14.

   “Thus Christ, the Mediator between us and God, as a prophet reveals God's will to us, his precepts and promises, and then as a priest offers up to God our spiritual sacrifices, not only of prayer and praise, but of devout affections and pious resolutions, the work of his own Spirit in us. Thus he is that blessed days-man who lays his hand upon us both.

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6. Exodus 24:3

   When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 24:31 voice

   “Moses - told the people all the words of the Lord - That is, the ten commandments, and the various laws and ordinances mentioned from the beginning of the 20th to the end of the 23d chapter.

   Everything gathered on Exodus 24:3→

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7. Exodus 24:7

   Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 24:71 voice

   “The book of the covenant - See Exo 20:22 note. The people had to repeat their assent to the book of the covenant before the blood was thrown upon them. Compare 2Ki 23:2, 2Ki 23:21; 2Ch 34:30.

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8. Numbers 12:7

   But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 12:72 voices

   “The purely intellectual vision existed in the minds of the angels and of the Lawmaker. Moses was raised up to this vision more completely than any other prophet, for it is written: Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal Myself …

   Moses was called "faithful in all God's house." God used him to bring his judgment on Egypt with scourges and torments. Yet even he, despite the great glory he was given, did not boast. But when he was granted an oracle from the bush, he said, "Who am I that you send me? I have a feeble voice and a slow tongue." And again he says, "I am but steam from a pot."

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9. Numbers 14:6–10

   Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

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10. Numbers 14:24

    But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 14:242 voices

    “IT is a rough name that—"Caleb." Most translators say it signifies "a dog." But what matters a man's name? Possibly the man himself was somewhat rough—many of the heartiest of men are so. As the unpolished oyster yet bears within itself the priceless pearl, so oftentimes ruggedness of exterior covers worth. A dog, moreover, is not all badness, though, "Without are dogs and sorcerers." It has this virtue, that it follows its master. And therein this Caleb was well-named. For never dog so followed his master as Caleb followed his God.

    “But my servant Caleb, etc. - Caleb had another spirit - not only a bold, generous, courageous, noble, and heroic spirit; but the Spirit and influence of the God of heaven thus raised him above human inquietudes and earthly fears, therefore be followed God fully; וימלא אחרי vaimalle acharai, literally, he filled after me: God showed him the way he was to take, and the line of conduct he was to pursue, and he filled up this line, and in all things followed the will of his Maker.

    Everything gathered on Numbers 14:24→

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11. Numbers 14:37

    those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

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    “Those men that did bring up the evil report died - Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God’s word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.

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12. Numbers 14:38

    Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 14:381 voice

    “It is probable that all the twelve spies stood together, for the eyes of all Israel were now upon them; and therefore it is taken notice of as very remarkable, and which could not but be affecting to the whole congregation, that when the ten evil spies fell down dead of the plague, a malignant infectious distemper, yet these two that stood among them lived, and were well.

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13. Numbers 22:15–18

    Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 22:15–181 voice

    “Balak, like the ancient pagan world generally, not only believed in the efficacy of the curses and incantations of the soothsayers, but regarded their services as strictly venal. Hence, when his first offer was declined, he infers at once that he had not bid high enough.

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14. Numbers 25:7–13

    On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

    ›Commentary on Numbers 25:7–131 voice

    “And lest we appear to you to bring these things forth from our own understanding rather than from the authority of the divine Scriptures, go back to the book of Numbers and recall what Phinehas the priest did when he saw a harlot of the Midianite people with an Israelite man clinging in impure embraces in the eyes of all. Filled with the wrath of divine jealousy, he drove a sword, which he had seized, through the breast of both.

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15. Deuteronomy 1:36

    except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:361 voice

    “Save Caleb - Under whom Josh. is comprehended, though not here expressed, because he was not now to be one of the people, but to be set over them as a chief governor.

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16. Deuteronomy 4:4

    But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

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