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Some nations boast of their chariots and horses,
    but we boast in the name of the Lord our God.

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A Father’s Exhortation: Acquire Wisdom

My child,[a] listen when your father corrects you.
    Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
What you learn from them will crown you with grace
    and be a chain of honor around your neck.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:8 Hebrew My son; also in 1:10, 15.

Honesty guides good people;
    dishonesty destroys treacherous people.

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Trust in the Lord always,
    for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.

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31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
    They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
    They will walk and not faint.

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11 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

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32 But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
    will be saved,
for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape,
    just as the Lord has said.
These will be among the survivors
    whom the Lord has called.

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18 But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.

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16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:16 Or For God loved the world so much that he gave.

32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

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Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.

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16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

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22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

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20 If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer,[a] that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

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Footnotes

  1. 4:20 Greek hates his brother.

Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.

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25 May the God of your father help you;
    may the Almighty bless you
with the blessings of the heavens above,
    and blessings of the watery depths below,
    and blessings of the breasts and womb.

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The Lord’s Covenant Promise to Abram

15 Some time later, the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”

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27 So God created human beings[a] in his own image.
    In the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:27 Or the man; Hebrew reads ha-adam.

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