Found 11 Results for: persist

  • Fear none but Yahweh, and serve him faithfully with all your heart, bearing in mind the wonder which he has just performed. But, if you persist in wickedness, you and your king will perish.' (1 Samuel 12, 24)

  • Day after day they asked him this, but he took no notice of them. In the end they reported the matter to Haman, to see whether Mordecai would persist in his attitude, since he had told them that he was a Jew. (Esther 3, 4)

  • No; if you persist in remaining silent at such a time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, but both you and your father's whole family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to the throne for just such a time as this.' (Esther 4, 14)

  • Then his wife said to him, 'Why persist in this integrity of yours? Curse God and die.' (Job 2, 9)

  • I therefore urge and require you, being mindful of the benefits both public and personal received from me, that you each persist in those sentiments of goodwill that you harbour towards me. (2 Maccabees 9, 26)

  • Where shall I strike you next, if you persist in treason? The whole head is sick, the whole heart is diseased, (Isaiah 1, 5)

  • You come to meet those who are happy to act uprightly; keeping your ways reminds them of you. Yes, you have been angry and we have been sinners; now we persist in your ways and we shall be saved. (Isaiah 64, 4)

  • Why does this people persist in acts of infidelity, why does Jerusalem persist in continuous infidelity? They cling to illusion, they refuse to turn back. (Jeremiah 8, 5)

  • I shall show you no pity, I shall not spare you; I shall repay you for your conduct and for the loathsome practices in which you persist. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. (Ezekiel 7, 4)

  • I shall show neither pity nor mercy, but shall repay you for your conduct and the loathsome practices in which you persist. Then you will know that I am Yahweh and that I strike. (Ezekiel 7, 9)

  • Many will be cleansed, made white and purged; the wicked will persist in doing wrong; the wicked will never understand; those who are wise will understand. (Daniel 12, 10)


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