2 Corinthians 6:17
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17 Therefore
(A)“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
1 Kings 18:20
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Elijah’s Mount Carmel Victory
20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and (A)gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.
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2 Kings 17:41
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41 (A)So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.
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Joshua 24:15
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15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, (A)choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether (B)the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of [a]the River, or (C)the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. (D)But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
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- Joshua 24:15 The Euphrates
Romans 1:1
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Greeting
1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, (A)called to be an apostle, (B)separated to the gospel of God
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1 John 2:19
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19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out (C)that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
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Hebrews 4:1-3
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The Promise of Rest
4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, (A)let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, [a]not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
(B)“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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- Hebrews 4:2 NU, M since they were not united by faith with those who heeded it
James 2:1-3
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Beware of Personal Favoritism
2 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, (A)the Lord of glory, with (B)partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in [a]fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in [b]filthy clothes, 3 and you [c]pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,”
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Proverbs 9:18
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- Proverbs 9:18 Or Sheol
Hosea 4:6
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6 (A)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
(B)Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Jeremiah 4:22-26
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22 “For My people are foolish,
They have not known Me.
They are [a]silly children,
And they have no understanding.
(A)They are wise to do evil,
But to do good they have no knowledge.”
23 (B)I beheld the earth, and indeed it was (C)without form, and void;
And the heavens, they had no light.
24 (D)I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled,
And all the hills moved back and forth.
25 I beheld, and indeed there was no man,
And (E)all the birds of the heavens had fled.
26 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a (F)wilderness,
And all its cities were broken down
At the presence of the Lord,
By His fierce anger.
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- Jeremiah 4:22 foolish
Jeremiah 17:5-7
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes (B)flesh his [a]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6 For he shall be (C)like a shrub in the desert,
And (D)shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
(E)In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “Blessed(F) is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm
James 1:19-27
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Qualities Needed in Trials
19 [a]So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, (A)slow to speak, (B)slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Doers—Not Hearers Only
21 Therefore (C)lay aside all filthiness and [b]overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, (D)which is able to save your souls.
22 But (E)be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For (F)if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But (G)he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, (H)this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone [c]among you thinks he is religious, and (I)does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 (J)Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: (K)to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, (L)and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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- James 1:19 NU Know this or This you know
- James 1:21 abundance
- James 1:26 NU omits among you
Proverbs 16:32
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32 (A)He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 10:21
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21 The lips of the righteous feed many,
But fools die for lack of [a]wisdom.
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- Proverbs 10:21 Lit. heart
Daniel 1:8
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8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself (A)with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
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Ephesians 5:11
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11 And have (A)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [a]expose them.
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- Ephesians 5:11 reprove
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