1 Samuel 12:20-23 Samuel told all the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have done all this evil. Yet don’t turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ Samuel told all the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have done all this evil. Yet don’t turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. ²¹ Don’t turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they’re useless. ²² Indeed, the LORD won’t abandon His people for the sake of His great name, for the LORD desires to make you a people for himself. ²³ Now as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. I’ll also instruct you in the way that is good and right.