Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 12:20

A church father on this verse
“"And Samuel said: Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Nevertheless, do not turn aside from following the Lord. And serve the Lord with all your heart." 11. The mind of the penitent is then rightly directed if it fears the divine judgments and trusts in the mercy of almighty God. Fear without hope indeed casts on…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 2

Source: Septuagint

Original

20And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.

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In context

18And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day; and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

19And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, and let us not die; for we have added to all our sins this iniquity, in asking for us a king.

— 1 Samuel 12:20 —

21And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

22For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

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