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Key Bible Verses — Important Scriptures to Read and Understand
Important passages from Genesis to Revelation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version, with where it comes from and what it means in its setting.
Scripture in WEBWorld English Bible — Protestant Edition
Key passages about Nathan
12When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men; 15but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’” A kingdom established forever
Through Nathan, God promises David a son who will build a house for God's name and a throne that will last forever. Later Scripture applies the promise to the Messiah…
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. Create in me a clean heart
David's prayer of confession, headed with Nathan's visit after his sin with Bathsheba. He asks God not only to forgive him but to renew him from within.