Faithfulness

How Nave’s arranged it

• EXHORTATION TOPsalms 12:1Psalms 31:23Proverbs 20:6Proverbs 28:20Matthew 10:22Matthew 24:45–47Matthew 25:14–23Luke 12:42–44Luke 16:10–12Luke 19:12–271 Corinthians 4:2Revelation 2:10
• See Obedience, Exhortation to
• See Perseverance
• See Ministers, Faithful
• See Reproof, Faithfulness in
• INSTANCES OF
• AbrahamGalatians 3:9
• MosesHebrews 3:5
• David2 Samuel 22:22–25
• Elijah1 Kings 19:101 Kings 19:14
• Abijah2 Chronicles 13:4–20
• Jehoshaphat2 Chronicles 20:1–30

The passages, in Bible order (23)

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. 2 Samuel 22:22–25

   For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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2. 1 Kings 19:10

   “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

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3. 1 Kings 19:14

   “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

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4. 2 Chronicles 13:4–20

   Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 13:4–201 voice

   “Stood up upon Mount Zemaraim - “Which was a mount of the tribe of the house of Ephraim.” - Targum. Jarchi thinks that Abijah went to the confines of the tribe of Ephraim to attack Jeroboam. It could not be Shomeron, the mount on which Samaria was built in the days of Omri king of Israel, 1Ki 16:24.

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5. 2 Chronicles 20:1–30

   After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 20:1–302 voices

   “It came to pass after this also,.... After Jehoshaphat's return from Ramothgilead, and putting the civil and religious affairs of his people on a better footing, when he might have expected much peace and prosperity: that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon; both the descendants of Lot, see Psa 83:8, and with them other besides the Ammonites; a great company of Arabians, according to Josephus (r); or "with the Meamonites", which the Targum understands of the Idumaeans or Edomites; and so do other interpreters, and which they conclude from 2Ch 20:

   “The present Hebrew (and English) text mentions the Ammonites twice over. Hence, some adopt a different reading and translate “the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites,” etc. Compare 2Ch 20:10, note; Jdg 10:12, note; 1Ch 4:41, note.

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6. Job 1:21

   saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

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   “Be perfectly assured of this, that though the reasons for what is ordained by God are beyond us, yet always what is arranged for us by him who is wise and who loves us is to be accepted, be it ever so grievous to endure. He himself knows how he is appointing what is best for each and why the terms of life that he fixes for us are unequal.

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7. Job 1:22

   In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

   ›Commentary on Job 1:221 voice

   “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION Since, when we are laid hold of by distressing trials, we may even in the silent working of our thoughts, without word of mouth, be guilty of sin; the testimony both of the lips and of the heart is given to blessed Job. For it is first said, he sinned not, and then it is afterwards added, nor charged God foolishly: for he, who uttered nothing foolishly, kept offence from his tongue, and whereas the words, he sinned not, come before, it appears that he excluded the sin of murmuring even from his thought, so that he neither sinned nor spake foolishly, since he neither swelled with indignation in his silent consciousness, nor gave a loose to his tongue in reviling.

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8. Job 2:9

   Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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9. Job 2:10

   “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

   ›Commentary on Job 2:101 voice

   “Thou speakest as one of the foolish - Thou speakest like an infidel; like one who has no knowledge of God, of religion, or of a future state. The Targum, who calls this woman Dinah, translates thus: “Thou speakest like one of those women who have wrought folly in the house of their father.” This is in reference to an ancient rabbinical opinion, that Job lived in the days of the patriarch Jacob, whose daughter Dinah he had married.

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10. Psalms 12:1

    Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 12:11 voice

    “There is no righteous one left anywhere, he said, who can become the author of my deliverance. Truly I lack a Savior, and since there is none, you yourself, Lord, be my Savior.

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11. Psalms 31:23

    Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

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12. Proverbs 20:6

    Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 20:62 voices

    All the righteous, our fathers, in all that they did were victorious through faith, as the blessed apostle also testifies about them all, "They prevailed by faith." Solomon also said, "Many men are called merciful, but who can find a faithful man?"

    “Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness,.... As the Pharisee did, in Luk 18:11; and as the Pharisees in common did; who did all their works to be seen of men, and made clean the outside of the cup and platter; and were very careful to appear outwardly righteous to men, Mat 23:

    Everything gathered on Proverbs 20:6→

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13. Proverbs 28:20

    A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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    “A faithful man shall abound with blessings,.... Or, "a man of faithfulness" (u). A very faithful man, that is truly so; that is so in a moral sense; true to his work, makes good his promises, fulfils his contracts, abides by the obligations he lays himself under; is faithful in every trust reposed in him, be it greater or lesser matters, in every station in which it is, and throughout the whole course of his life.

    Not the possession of wealth, nor even the acquisition of it, is evil, but the eager haste of covetousness. Shall not be innocent - Better, as in the margin, in contrast with the many “blessings” of the “faithful.”

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14. Matthew 10:22

    You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 10:222 voices

    “(Verse 22.) But whoever perseveres until the end, he will be saved. For it is not to begin, but to complete virtue.

    “Ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake - Because ye are attached to me, and saved from the corruption that is in the world; therefore the world will hate you. “The laws of Christ condemn a vicious world, and gall it to revenge.” He that endureth to the end shall be saved - He who holds fast faith and a good conscience to the end, till the punishment threatened against this wicked people be poured out, he shall be saved, preserved from the destruction that shall fall upon the workers of iniquity.

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15. Matthew 24:45–47

    Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?

    ›Commentary on Matthew 24:45–472 voices

    “Or, he that makes progress in the faith, though he is not yet perfect in it, is ordinarily called faithful, and he who has natural quickness of intellect is called prudent. And whoever observes will find many faithful, and zealous in their belief, but not at the same time prudent; for God hath chosen the foolish things of the world. (1 Cor. 1:27.) Others again he will see who are quick and prudent but of weak faith; for the union of faith and prudence in the same man is most rare.

    “Who then is a faithful and wise servant,.... The Vulgate Latin adds, "do you think?" and is a question put to the disciples, which they might apply to themselves: in Luk 12:42, it is spoken in answer to a question of Peter's, in relation to the above exhortation, whether it was spoken to them, or to all; and by this answer, it looks as if it was more especially designed for them, though it may be applied to other.

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16. Matthew 25:14–23

    For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

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    “Called his own servants - God never makes the children of men proprietors of his goods. They are formed by his power, and upheld by his bounty; and they hold their lives and their goods, as in many of our ancient tenures, quamdiu domino placuerit - at the will of their Lord.

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