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2 Samuel 7:21
2 Samuel 7:21 is verse 21 of 2 Samuel chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
King James Version
For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
World English Bible
For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
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2 Samuel 7:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
20 What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.
21 For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
22 How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
23 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Deuteronomy 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Joshua 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
Joshua 23:15But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
Psalms 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
Psalms 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Luke 1:54He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
Luke 1:55as He promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.”
Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Luke 10:21At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
1 Corinthians 1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
Ephesians 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.