Isaiah 43:10
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10 “You are my witnesses”(A)—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and my servant whom I have chosen,(B)
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.(C)
No god was formed before me,
and there will be none after me.(D)
1 Peter 2:5
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5 you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood[a] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God(A) through Jesus Christ.
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- 2:5 Or you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood
1 Peter 2:10
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10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,(A) but now you have received mercy.
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Revelation 5:9
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9 And they sang a new song:(A)
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slaughtered,
and you purchased[a] people[b]
for God by your blood
from every tribe and language
and people and nation.(B)
Revelation 5:10
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- 5:10 Other mss read them kings
Matthew 24:24
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24 For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray,(A) if possible, even the elect.
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Isaiah 5:20-23
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20 Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,(A)
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to those who consider themselves wise
and judge themselves clever.[a](B)
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are champions at pouring beer,(C)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe(D)
and deprive the innocent of justice.
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- 5:21 Lit and clever before their face
Matthew 24:45-51
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Faithful Service to Christ
45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant,(A) whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?(B) 46 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.(C) 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’ 49 and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards,(D) 50 that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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