that no one transgress and (A)wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is (B)an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

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(A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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19 Beloved, (A)never avenge yourselves, but leave it[a] to the wrath of God, for it is written, (B)“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 12:19 Greek give place

17 (A)“You shall not covet (B)your neighbor's house; (C)you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

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Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.

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But you (A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (B)drag you (C)into court?

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for (A)he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, (B)an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

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But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him (A)who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him!

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:5 Greek Gehenna

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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13 “Behold, (A)I strike my hand at (B)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at (C)the blood that has been in your midst.

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24 Whoever robs his father or his mother
    and says, “That is no transgression,”
    is (A)a companion to a man who destroys.

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(A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (B)who do not know God and on those who (C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

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(A)Let no one (B)deceive you with empty words, for because of these things (C)the wrath of God comes upon (D)the sons of disobedience.

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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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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that (A)those who do[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder
  2. Galatians 5:21 Or make a practice of doing

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. (A)Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even (B)your own brothers![a]

Or do you not know that the unrighteous[b] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: (C)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:8 Or brothers and sisters
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or wrongdoers
  3. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For (A)the wrath of God (B)is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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19 You know the commandments: (A)‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

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The Lord within her (A)is righteous;
    he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
    each dawn he does not fail;
    but (B)the unjust knows no shame.

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Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
    (A)the oppressing city!

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They covet fields and (A)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

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saying, “When will (A)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And (B)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (C)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
that we may buy the poor for (D)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

“Thus says the Lord God: (A)Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease (B)your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.

10 (C)“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.[a] 11 The ephah and the bath shall be (D)of the same measure, (E)the bath containing one tenth of a homer,[b] and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 (F)The shekel shall be twenty gerahs;[c] twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[d]

13 (G)“This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 14 and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor[e] (the cor, like the homer, contains (H)ten baths).[f]

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  1. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters; a bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters
  2. Ezekiel 45:11 A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  3. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
  4. Ezekiel 45:12 A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
  5. Ezekiel 45:14 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  6. Ezekiel 45:14 See Vulgate; Hebrew (ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer)

(A)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every (B)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor (C)goes about as a slanderer.

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