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1 Samuel 12:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain. "

1 Samuel 12:21

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19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

20 Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

21 Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

22 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.

23 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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1 Samuel 12:1

"Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you."

1 Samuel 12:2

"Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day."

1 Samuel 12:3

"Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”"

1 Samuel 12:4

"They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”"

1 Samuel 12:5

"He said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”"

1 Samuel 12:6

"Samuel said to the people, “It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt."

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