1 Chronicles 21:19
So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
BSB
ASV
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah.
KJV
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord.
But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart; and there is no sin that has in it more of contradiction and therefore more of offence to God than pride. The sin was David's; he alone must bear the blame of it.
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John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
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So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
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Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
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Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I…
And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
