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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Samuel 7:21 Catholic Bible: It was your will and purpose to do this; you have done all these great things in order to instruct me. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_samuel/7-21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_samuel/7-21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_samuel/7-21.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_samuel/1.htm">2 Samuel</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_samuel/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/7-20.htm" title="2 Samuel 7:20">◄</a> 2 Samuel 7:21 <a href="../2_samuel/7-22.htm" title="2 Samuel 7:22">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_samuel/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_samuel/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It was your will and purpose to do this; you have done all these great things in order to instruct me. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_samuel/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, so that your servant may know it.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_samuel/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You have done this wonderful thing, and you have let me know about it, because you wanted to keep your promise. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_samuel/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For your servant’s sake and as you have had at heart, you have brought about this whole magnificent disclosure to your servant.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_samuel/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.</p><p class="hdg">thy word's</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/23-19.htm">Numbers 23:19</a> God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Deuteronomy 9:5</a> For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/23-14.htm">Joshua 23:14,15</a> Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and you shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord promised to perform for you, not one hath failed, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/115-1.htm">Psalm 115:1</a> Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/138-2.htm">Psalm 138:2</a> I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/24-35.htm">Matthew 24:35</a> Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/1-54.htm">Luke 1:54,55,72</a> He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy. . . . </p><p class="hdg">according</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/11-26.htm">Matthew 11:26</a> Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/10-21.htm">Luke 10:21</a> In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/12-32.htm">Luke 12:32</a> Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/1-1.htm">1 Corinthians 1:1</a> Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/1-9.htm">Ephesians 1:9</a> That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/3-11.htm">Ephesians 3:11</a> According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_samuel/7.htm">David's Prayer of Thanksgiving</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God: <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl">For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.</span><span class="reftext">22</span>Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things that we have heard with our ears.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-32.htm">Ephesians 4:32</a></span><br />And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/17-19.htm">1 Chronicles 17:19</a></span><br />O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.<span class="p"><br /><br 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