But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. (niv)
I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. (niv)
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died— more than that, who was raised to life— is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. (niv)
Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped. (niv)
Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them,a messenger came to Saul, saying,“ Come quickly! The Philistines are raiding the land.”Then Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why they call this place Sela Hammahlekoth. (niv)