25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He (A)gives to all life, breath, and all things.

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(A)I will not [a]rebuke you (B)for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
(C)I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
(D)For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13 (E)Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 50:8 reprove

If you sin, what do you accomplish (A)against Him?
Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
(B)If you are righteous, what do you give Him?
Or what does He receive from your hand?

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(A)The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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“Can(A) a man be profitable to God,
Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

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35 “Or(A) who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”

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As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,

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And the Lord God formed man of the (A)dust of the ground, and (B)breathed into his (C)nostrils the breath of life; and (D)man became a living being.

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Instructions to the Rich

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain (A)riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things (B)to enjoy.

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28 for (A)in Him we live and move and have our being, (B)as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

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13 But go and learn what this means: (A)‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, (B)but sinners, [a]to repentance.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 NU omits to repentance

The Coming Deliverance of Judah

12 The [a]burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, (A)who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and (B)forms the spirit of man within him:

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:1 oracle, prophecy

Thus says God the Lord,
(A)Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
(B)Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:

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45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for (A)He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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21 “I(A) hate, I despise your feast days,
And (B)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 (C)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

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20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.”

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. 22 (B)For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. 23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, (C)‘Obey My voice, and (D)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’

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16 (A)For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would fail before Me,
And the souls (B)which I have made.

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27 (A)These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
28 What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
(B)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 (C)You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the earth.

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O my soul, you have said to the Lord,
“You are my Lord,
(A)My goodness is nothing apart from You.”

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14 If He should set His heart on it,
If He should (A)gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

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10 (A)In whose hand is the [a]life of every living thing,
And the (B)breath of [b]all mankind?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:10 Or soul
  2. Job 12:10 Lit. all flesh of men

16 “Let the Lord, (A)the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

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22 Then they (A)fell[a] on their faces, and said, “O God, (B)the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the (C)congregation?”

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  1. Numbers 16:22 prostrated themselves

17 (A)Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, (B)gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with (C)food and gladness.”

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