18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have (A)abandoned the commandments of the Lord and (B)followed the Baals.

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18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you(A) and your father’s family have. You have abandoned(B) the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.

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and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: (A)The Lord is with you while you are with him. (B)If you seek him, he will be found by you, (C)but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you(A) when you are with him.(B) If you seek(C) him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.(D)

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Then they will say, ‘Because (A)they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.’”

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People will answer,(A) ‘Because they have forsaken(B) the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster(C) on them.’”

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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
    for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the (B)Sidonians, (C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married(A) Jezebel daughter(B) of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal(C) and worship him.

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Ahab's Repentance

25 ((A)There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

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25 (There was never(A) anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

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To the Church in Smyrna

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of (A)the first and the last, (B)who died and came to life.

“‘I know your tribulation and (C)your poverty ((D)but you are rich) and the slander[a] of (E)those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 2:9 Greek blasphemy

To the Church in Smyrna

“To the angel of the church in Smyrna(A) write:

These are the words of him who is the First and the Last,(B) who died and came to life again.(C) I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich!(D) I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not,(E) but are a synagogue of Satan.(F)

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20 Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,

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20 Or these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin—

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13 (A)Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.

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13 And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me.(A)

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because John had been saying to him, (A)“It is not lawful for you to have her.”

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for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.”(A)

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(A)Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

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But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.(A)

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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
    the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(A) me,
    the spring of living water,(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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11 Woe to the wicked!(A)
    Disaster(B) is upon them!
They will be paid back(C)
    for what their hands have done.(D)

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