James 4:10
New International Version
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(A)
James 4:10
King James Version
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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Job 9:28-31
New International Version
28 I still dread(A) all my sufferings,
for I know you will not hold me innocent.(B)
29 Since I am already found guilty,
why should I struggle in vain?(C)
30 Even if I washed myself with soap(D)
and my hands(E) with cleansing powder,(F)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit(G)
so that even my clothes would detest me.(H)
Job 9:28-31
King James Version
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Psalm 51:1-4
New International Version
Psalm 51[a]
For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.(A)
Footnotes
- Psalm 51:1 In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.
Psalm 51:1-4
King James Version
51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
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Isaiah 1:15-17
New International Version
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
Isaiah 1:15-17
King James Version
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Matthew 23:13-15
New International Version
Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.(B) [14] [a]
15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert,(C) and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell(D) as you are.
Footnotes
- Matthew 23:14 Some manuscripts include here words similar to Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47.
Matthew 23:13-15
King James Version
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
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Mark 12:40
New International Version
40 They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
Mark 12:40
King James Version
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
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