Choose Life

15 “See, (A)I have placed before you today life and [a]happiness, and death and [b]adversity,

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  1. Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit good
  2. Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit evil

19 (A)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, (B)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your [a]descendants, 20 (C)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and (D)by holding close to Him; (E)for [b]this is your life and the length of your days, [c]so that you may live in (F)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

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  1. Deuteronomy 30:19 Lit seed
  2. Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit that
  3. Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit to dwell

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you(A) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.(B) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love(C) the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life,(D) and he will give(E) you many years in the land(F) he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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23 For the wages of (A)sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is (B)eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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23 For the wages of sin is death,(A) but the gift of God is eternal life(B) in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  1. Romans 6:23 Or through

But she who (A)indulges herself in luxury is (B)dead, even while she lives.

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But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.(A)

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15 Then (A)when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and (B)sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.

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15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(B)

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