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21 They made me jealous with what is no god,
    provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
    provoke them with a foolish nation.(A)

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19 Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,

“I will use those who are not a nation to make you jealous;
    with a foolish nation I will provoke you.”(A)

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25 As he also says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”(A)

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The Salvation of the Gentiles

11 So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling[a] salvation has come to the gentiles, so as to make Israel[b] jealous.(A) 12 Now if their stumbling[c] means riches for the world and if their loss means riches for gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!

13 Now I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I celebrate my ministry(B) 14 in order to make my own people[d] jealous and thus save some of them.(C)

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  1. 11.11 Or transgression
  2. 11.11 Gk them
  3. 11.12 Or transgression
  4. 11.14 Gk my flesh

26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in the sins that he caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.(A)

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13 because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah that they committed and that they caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.(A)

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Those who worship vain idols
    forsake their true loyalty.(A)

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The Restoration of Israel

10 [a]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”(A)

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  1. 1.10 2.1 in Heb

22 Can any idols of the nations bring rain,
    or can the heavens give showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God?
    We set our hope on you,
    for it is you who do all this.(A)

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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
    they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(A)

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You hate[a] those who pay regard to worthless idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.(A)

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  1. 31.6 Heb ms Gk Syr Jerome: MT I hate

16 They made him jealous with strange gods;
    with abhorrent things they provoked him.(A)

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22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?(A)

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15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.(A)

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19 Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people
    from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
    with their foreign idols?”)(A)

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They are both stupid and foolish;
    the instruction given by idols
    is no better than wood![a](A)

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  1. 10.8 Q ms Gk lack 10.6–8

21 and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.(A)

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)

10 Once you were not a people,
    but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
    but now you have received mercy.(B)

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  1. 2.9 Gk a people for his possession