THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 26:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.
וְהִנֵּ֗ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר גָּדְלָ֧ה נַפְשְׁךָ֛ הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה בְּעֵינָ֑י כֵּ֣ן תִּגְדַּ֤ל נַפְשִׁי֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְיַצִּלֵ֖נִי מִכָּל־צָרָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
- 2 Cor 1:9But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.
- 2 Cor 1:10Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,
- Acts 14:22And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.
- Ps 54 (53):7
- 2 Thess 3:2And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.
- Matt 7:2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- Rev 7:14And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.