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.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 19:102 voices

   “Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" After reaching Horeb, the mountain of God, Elijah spent the night in a cave, and on the next day, when he heard the noise of God coming to him, …

   “And he said, I have been jealous for the Lord God of hosts,....

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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.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 19:142 voices

   "When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' He answered, 'I have been very zealous for …

   “And he said,.... Elijah, in answer to the question put, and he says the same as before: I have been very jealous,.... which the question was designed to draw from him, in order to give him some instructions and directions; which would suggest to him, that though he should not deal severely with Israel, nor with Ahab and his house, yet he would hereafter by the kings he should anoint over Syria and Israel, and by the prophet he should anoint in his room, as instruments of his vengeance.

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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

   “And Abijah stood upon Mount Zemaraim, which is in Mount Ephraim,....

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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 20:1–301 voice

   “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:

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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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   “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION The mother of our Redeemer, after the flesh, was the Synagogue, from whom He came forth to us, made manifest by a Body. But she kept Him to herself veiled under the covering of the letter, seeing that she neglected to open the eyes of the understanding to the spiritual import thereof. Because in Him, thus veiling Himself with the flesh of an human Body, she would not see God, she as it were refused to behold Him naked in His Divinity.

   “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.

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   “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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   “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. For of what did that mispersuading woman bear the likeness, but of all the carnal that are settled in the bosom of Holy Church, who in proportion as by the words of the Faith they profess they are within the pale, press harder on all the good by their ill-regulated conduct.

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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.

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   “MORAL INTERPRETATION. Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? For it is meet that the holy mind restrain by spiritual correction whatever of a carnal nature within it utters rebellious muttering, that the flesh whether by speaking severe things may not draw it into impatience, nor yet by speaking smooth ones melt it to the looseness of lust.

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10. Psalms 12:1

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

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    “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.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 31:231 voice

    “Then when he says, "Love the Lord," he exhorts those to whom the aforesaid benefits have been conferred to show gratitude. And he orders them first as to their affection. Second, as to their action, at "Act manfully." Concerning the first he does two things. …

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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 20:61 voice

    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?"

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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.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 28:201 voice

    "A man who hastens to be rich," etc. For surely, he who ambitiously seeks to increase wealth neglects sin, caught like birds, when he begins, eager for the bait of earthly things, he does not realize he is being strangled by the snare of sin; …

    Everything gathered on Proverbs 28:20→

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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.

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

    “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake,.....

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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 24:45–471 voice

    “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.

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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.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 25:14–231 voice

    “(v. 14, 15) For just as a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his goods. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went away.

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