1 Kings 18:21
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21 Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.(A)
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Matthew 6:24
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Serving Two Masters
24 “No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.[a](A)
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- 6.24 Gk mammon
Joshua 24:15
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15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:21-22
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21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.(A) 22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?(B)
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2 Corinthians 6:14-16
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The Temple of the Living God
14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?(A) 15 What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said,
“I will live in them[b] and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.(B)
2 Kings 17:41
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41 So these nations worshiped the Lord but also served their carved images; to this day their children and their children’s children continue to do as their ancestors did.(A)
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1 Samuel 7:3
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Samuel as Judge
3 Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”(A)
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Revelation 3:15-16
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15 “I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. 16 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
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Deuteronomy 4:35
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35 To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.(A)
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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
those who bow down and swear to the Lord
but also swear by Milcom,[a](A)
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- 1.5 Gk mss Syr Vg: Heb their king
Psalm 100:3
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3 Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;[a]
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.(A)
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- 100.3 Or and not we ourselves
Romans 6:16-22
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16 Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?(A) 17 But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted(B) 18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.(C) 19 I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.(D)
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.(E) 21 So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.(F) 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.(G)
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- 6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh
1 Kings 18:39
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39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord indeed is God; the Lord indeed is God.”(A)
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Joshua 24:23-24
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23 He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”(A) 24 The people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and him we will obey.”(B)
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2 Chronicles 33:13
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13 He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty, heard his plea, and restored him again to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord indeed was God.(A)
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Genesis 24:50
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50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.(A)
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Matthew 22:36
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36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
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Matthew 22:12
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12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.(A)
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1 Chronicles 17:26
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26 And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant;
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Genesis 44:16
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16 And Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; here we are then, my lord’s slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found.”(A)
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Romans 3:19
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19 Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.(A)
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Luke 6:13
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13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:(A)
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Matthew 22:34
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The Greatest Commandment
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
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Exodus 5:1-2
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Bricks without Straw
5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.”(A) 2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”(B)
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Job 40:4-5
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4 “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.(A)
5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer,
twice but will proceed no further.”(B)
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