1Sa 12:22, Psa 37:28, Isa 49:14-15, Jer 32:39-40, Joh 10:27-31 | ESV | STEP | For the Lord will not forsake his people , for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

1 Samuel 12:22

22 ^aFor the Lord will not forsake his people, ^bfor his great name’s sake, because ^cit has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

Psalms 37:28

28 For the Lord ^dloves justice;
he will not forsake his ^esaints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be ^fcut off.

Isaiah 49:14-15

14 But Zion said, ^g“The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 ^h“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 32:39-40

39 ⁱI will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, ^jfor their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 ^kI will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. ^lAnd I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

John 10:27-31

27 ^mMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 ⁿI give them eternal life, and ^othey will never perish, and ^pno one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, ^qwho has given them to me, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me} ^sis greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^tthe Father’s hand. 30 ^uI and the Father are one.”

31 ^vThe Jews picked up stones again to stone him.