Psalms 38:19
Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
BSB
ASV
But mine enemies are lively, and are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
KJV
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
(Verses 19, 20.) My enemies, he says, are alive and they have become strong against me; and they have multiplied, those who hate me unjustly. They repay evil for good, they spoke ill of me; because I pursued justice. But how much more illustrious was he, who died daily, so that he might give life to his people: and he offered his body to the wounds of death; as he himself says: In deaths often (2 Corinthians 11:23)!
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong. However weak and dying the righteous man may be, the evils which oppose him are sure to be lively enough. Neither the world, the flesh, nor the devil, are ever afflicted with debility or inertness; this trinity if evils labour with mighty unremitting energy to overthrow us. If the devil were sick, or our lusts feeble, or Madame Bubble infirm, we might slacken prayer; but with such lively and vigorous enemies we must not cease to cry mightily unto our God. And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
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But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful…
You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
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Psalms 69:4Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
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Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
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Psalms 3:1O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
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Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.