1 Samuel 12:20-22

Samuel's Farewell Address

²⁰ And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet _z do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹ And _z do not turn aside after _a empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. ²² _b For the Lord will not forsake his people, _c for his great name's sake, because _d it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 11:16
   Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Samuel 12:20
   And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
   
3. Cross References
   Jeremiah 16:19
   O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
   Habakkuk 2:18
   What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
   1 Corinthians 8:4
   Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 6:13
   And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.
   Psalms 94:14
   For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage.
   1 Kings 8:57
   The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
   
5. Cross References
   Joshua 7:9
   For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of t...
   Psalms 106:8
   Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he ...
   Jeremiah 14:21
   Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not d...
   Ezekiel 20:9
   But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
   Ezekiel 20:14
   But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
   Ezekiel 20:22
   But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake o...
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 7:7 - 8
   It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
   Deuteronomy 14:2
   For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
   1 Peter 2:9
   But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.