Psalm 102:25-26

New International Version

²⁵In the beginning^(A) you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens^(B) are the work of your hands.^(C)
²⁶They will perish,^(D) but you remain;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
    and they will be discarded.

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Ruth 1:16-17

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¹⁶But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you^(A) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,^(B) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people^(C) and your God my God.^(D) ¹⁷Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(E) if even death separates you and me.”^(F)

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1 Corinthians 2:14-16

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¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(A) but considers them foolishness,^(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵The person with the Spirit^(C) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”^[a]^(D)

But we have the mind of Christ.^(E)

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13

1 Timothy 6:7-9

New International Version

⁷For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.^(A) ⁸But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.^(B) ⁹Those who want to get rich^(C) fall into temptation and a trap^(D) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.