Condescension of God
34 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- Enters Into Covenant with Abraham
- Expostulates with Backsliding Israel
- Indulges Abraham's Intercession for Sodom
- Indulges Gideon's Tests
- Indulges Moses' Prayer to Behold his Glory
- Invites Sinners, Saying, “Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together”
- Reasons with Job
- Reasons with Moses
- Scriptures Relating To
- Sends Flesh to the Israelites in Consequence of Their Murmuring
- Warns Abimelech in a Dream
Enters Into Covenant with Abraham
- Genesis 15:1–21 After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” …
- Genesis 18:1–22 Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. …
Expostulates with Backsliding Israel
- Isaiah 41:21–24 “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob. …
- Isaiah 43:1–19 But now, this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! …
- Isaiah 65:1–16 “I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ …
- Jeremiah 3:1–15 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers — and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. …
- Jeremiah 4:1–31 “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver, …
- Jeremiah 7:1–34 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, …
- Ezekiel 18:25–32 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? …
- Ezekiel 33:10–20 Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’ …
- Hosea 2:1 “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
- Micah 6:1–9 Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. …
- Malachi 3:7–15 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’ …
Indulges Abraham's Intercession for Sodom
- Genesis 18:23–33 Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? …
Indulges Gideon's Tests
- Judges 6:36–40 Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said, …
Indulges Moses' Prayer to Behold his Glory
- Exodus 33:18–23 Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” …
Invites Sinners, Saying, “Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together”
- Isaiah 1:18–20 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. …
Reasons with Job
Reasons with Moses
- Exodus 4:2–17 And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. …
Scriptures Relating To
- Psalm 8:4–6 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? …
- Psalm 113:5–6 Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high? …
- Psalm 144:3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
- Isaiah 45:11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “Concerning things to come, do you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Hebrews 2:11 For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
- Hebrews 6:17–18 So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. …
- 1 John 4:10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
Sends Flesh to the Israelites in Consequence of Their Murmuring
- Exodus 16:12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
Warns Abimelech in a Dream
- Genesis 20:3–7 One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.” …
Related topics
Condescension of God in Reasoning with his CreaturesVision of AbrahamCommunionSignMamre
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.