1 Peter 1:18
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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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1 Corinthians 6:20
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20 (A)for you were bought with a price. (B)So glorify God in your body.
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1 Corinthians 7:23
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23 (A)You were bought with a price; (B)do not become bondservants of men.
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Psalm 49:7-8
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7 Truly no man (A)can ransom another,
or (B)give to God (C)the price of his life,
8 for (D)the ransom of their life is costly
and can never suffice,
Galatians 1:4
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4 (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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Ephesians 4:17
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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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Romans 1:21
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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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1 Peter 4:3
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3 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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1 Peter 1:7
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7 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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Psalm 39:6
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6 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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- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
Zechariah 1:4-6
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4 (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. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And (E)the prophets, do they live forever? 6 (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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Amos 2:4
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Judgment on Judah
4 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.
Psalm 62:10
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10 Put no trust in extortion;
(A)set no vain hopes on robbery;
(B)if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
1 Corinthians 3:20
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20 and again, (A)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”
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Acts 19:34-35
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34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, (A)“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from (B)the sky?[a]
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- Acts 19:35 The meaning of the Greek is uncertain
Ezekiel 20:18
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18 “And I said to (A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk (B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, (C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Jeremiah 44:17
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17 (A)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (B)the queen of heaven (C)and pour out drink offerings to her, (D)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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Jeremiah 16:19
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19 (A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
(B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
(C)to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
(D)worthless things in which there is no profit.
Jeremiah 9:14
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14 but (A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
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Jeremiah 4:11
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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
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Acts 7:51-52
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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you. 52 (D)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (E)the Righteous One, (F)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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Matthew 15:2-3
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2 (A)“Why do your disciples break (B)the tradition of the elders? (C)For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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