OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 14

1 Chronicles 29:14

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But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

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1 Chronicles 29:11–17

11

Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.

12

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

13

Now therefore, our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name.

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But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

15

For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

16

LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

17

I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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