that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (A)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

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(A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; (B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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19 Beloved, (A)do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, (B)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

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17 (A)“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; (B)you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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Indeed (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth.

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  1. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts

But (A)you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you (B)and drag you into the courts?

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For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

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But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, (A)fear Him!

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And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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13 “Behold, therefore, I (A)beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.

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24 Whoever robs his father or his mother,
And says, “It is no transgression,”
The same (A)is companion to a destroyer.

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in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should (A)no longer walk as [a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

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  1. Ephesians 4:17 NU omits the rest of

21 envy, [a]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that (A)those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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  1. Galatians 5:21 NU omits murders

Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. (A)Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. (B)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals, nor [b]sodomites,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 catamites, those submitting to homosexuals
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 male homosexuals

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 (A)For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and (B)unrighteousness of men, who [a]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

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  1. Romans 1:18 hold down

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

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The Lord is righteous in her midst,
He will do no unrighteousness.
[a]Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He never fails,
But (A)the unjust knows no shame.

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  1. Zephaniah 3:5 Lit. Morning by morning

The Wickedness of Jerusalem

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
To the oppressing city!

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They (A)covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

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Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (A)the Sabbath,
That we may [a]trade wheat?
(B)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (C)deceit,
That we may buy the poor for (D)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”

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  1. Amos 8:5 Lit. open

Laws Governing the Prince

‘Thus says the Lord God: (A)“Enough, O princes of Israel! (B)Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord God. 10 “You shall have (C)honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The (D)shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

13 “This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. 14 The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer.

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“Everyone(A) take heed to his [a]neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
For every brother will utterly supplant,
And every neighbor will (B)walk with slanderers.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:4 friend

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