“But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righte
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterer