Psalms 94:14
For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
BSB
ASV
For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
KJV
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For the Lord will not cast off his people. He may cast them down, but he never can cast them off. During fierce persecutions the saints have been apt to think that the Lord had left his own sheep, and given them over to the wolf; but it has never been so, nor shall it ever be, for the Lord will not withdraw his love, neither will he forsake his inheritance. For a time he may leave his own with the design of benefiting them thereby, yet never can he utterly desert them.
Let God's suffering people assure themselves of this, that, whatever their friends do, God will not cast them off, nor throw them out of his covenant or out of his care; he will not forsake them, because they are his inheritance, which he will not quit his title to nor suffer himself to be disseised of.
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Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
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They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
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Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
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1 Samuel 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
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for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the…