Cowardice
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Cowardice’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 59 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one…
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They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
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The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
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How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
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Joshua 7:5 OT
The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
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Joshua 23:10 OT
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
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Judges 7:3 OT
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
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Job 15:24 OT
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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Job 18:11 OT
Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
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The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
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The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
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Isaiah 51:12 OT
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
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Isaiah 51:13 OT
Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the…
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As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
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Genesis 3:12 OT
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
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When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they…
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Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken;…
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The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.” When he had been…
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Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
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Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we…
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However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
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But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through…
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All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of…