18 knowing that you (A)were ransomed from (B)the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

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18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed(A) from the empty way of life(B) handed down to you from your ancestors,

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20 (A)for you were bought with a price. (B)So glorify God in your body.

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20 you were bought at a price.(A) Therefore honor God with your bodies.(B)

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23 (A)You were bought with a price; (B)do not become bondservants of men.

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23 You were bought at a price;(A) do not become slaves of human beings.

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Truly no man (A)can ransom another,
    or (B)give to God (C)the price of his life,
for (D)the ransom of their life is costly
    and can never suffice,

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No one can redeem the life of another
    or give to God a ransom for them—
the ransom(A) for a life is costly,
    no payment is ever enough—(B)

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14 (A)who gave himself for us to (B)redeem us from all lawlessness and (C)to purify for himself (D)a people for his own possession who are (E)zealous for good works.

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14 who gave himself for us(A) to redeem us from all wickedness(B) and to purify(C) for himself a people that are his very own,(D) eager to do what is good.(E)

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(A)who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present (B)evil age, according to the will of (C)our God and Father,

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who gave himself for our sins(A) to rescue us from the present evil age,(B) according to the will of our God and Father,(C)

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The New Life

17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds.

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Instructions for Christian Living

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.(B)

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21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they (A)became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(A)

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For the time that is past (A)suffices (B)for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

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For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B)

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so that (A)the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes (B)though it is tested by (C)fire—may be found to result in (D)praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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These have come so that the proven genuineness(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.(D)

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    Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
    man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath

“Surely everyone goes around(A) like a mere phantom;(B)
    in vain they rush about,(C) heaping up wealth(D)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.(E)

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(A)Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? And (E)the prophets, do they live forever? (F)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (G)my servants the prophets, did they not (H)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (I)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (J)our ways and (K)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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Do not be like your ancestors,(A) to whom the earlier prophets(B) proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways(C) and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me,(D) declares the Lord.(E) Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever? But did not my words(F) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?(G)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,(H) just as he determined to do.’”(I)

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Judgment on Judah

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but (C)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.

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This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Judah,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because they have rejected the law(B) of the Lord
    and have not kept his decrees,(C)
because they have been led astray(D) by false gods,[a](E)
    the gods[b] their ancestors followed,(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:4 Or by lies
  2. Amos 2:4 Or lies