1 Peter 1:18
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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,
1 Corinthians 6:20
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1 Corinthians 7:23
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23 You were bought at a price;(A) do not become slaves of human beings.
Psalm 49:7-8
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Galatians 1:4
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4 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)
Ephesians 4:17
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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)
Romans 1:21
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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)
1 Peter 4:3
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3 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)
1 Peter 1:7
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7 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)
Acts 19:34-35
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34 But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”(A)
35 The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: “Fellow Ephesians,(B) doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?
Amos 2:4
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4 This is what the Lord says:
Psalm 62:10
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Psalm 39:6
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Zechariah 1:4-6
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4 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) 5 Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 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)
Ezekiel 20:18
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18 I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents(A) or keep their laws or defile yourselves(B) with their idols.
Jeremiah 44:17
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17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:(A) We will burn incense(B) to the Queen of Heaven(C) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials(D) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.(E) At that time we had plenty of food(F) and were well off and suffered no harm.(G)
Jeremiah 16:19
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Jeremiah 9:14
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14 Instead, they have followed(A) the stubbornness of their hearts;(B) they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”
Jeremiah 4:11
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11 At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind(A) from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;