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14 So Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine.”(A)

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31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.(A)

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Rules for the New Life

25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)

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Judging Others

“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.(A) For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye?

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How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
    When will you rise from your sleep?(A)

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24 Put away from you crooked speech,
    and put devious talk far from you.(A)

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How long will you assail a person,
    will you batter your victim, all of you,
    as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?(A)

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23 If you return to the Almighty,[a] you will be restored,
    if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.23 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
    and do not let wickedness reside in your tents.(A)

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“How long will you say these things
    and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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12 And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.(A)

13 Then the Israelites sent the priest Phinehas son of Eleazar to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead,(B) 14 and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel. 15 They came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them, 16 “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord: What is this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away today from following the Lord, by building yourselves an altar today in rebellion against the Lord?(C) 17 Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor, from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves and for which a plague came upon the congregation of the Lord,(D) 18 that you must turn away today from following the Lord? If you rebel against the Lord today, he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow. 19 But now, if your land is unclean, cross over into the Lord’s land, where the Lord’s tabernacle now stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us; only do not rebel against the Lord or rebel against us[a] by building yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.(E) 20 Did not Achan son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity!”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.19 Or make rebels of us