Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation We are not going to win the favor of our enemies by surrendering to them now. If we do surrender, the Lord our God will see that we are put to shame. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful. Judith 8:21And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly. Judith 8:22 They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God. Judith 8:24 But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord, Judith 8:25 Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents. Context Judith 8…22They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God. 23So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful. 24But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord,… Cross References Judith 8:21 And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly. Judith 8:22 They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God. Judith 8:24 But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord, Judith 8:25 Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents. |