Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
And the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
But Zion said, "the LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
"For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
"Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
O the LORD, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Thus says the LORD, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it:' so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
"But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed.
I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
"Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
"Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, the LORD of Armies.
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
It will happen, when you say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, the LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.
the LORD, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
Then you shall tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
the LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of the LORD of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."
The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals."
Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.
Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says the LORD of Armies.
For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.
The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
"Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"
yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Return, the LORD. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness' sake.
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, the LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, the LORD.
For your name's sake, the LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
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