Do you thus repay the Lord,
    you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he (A)your father, who (B)created you,
    who (C)made you and established you?

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16 For (A)you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
    (B)our Redeemer from of old is your name.

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See (A)what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called (B)children of God; and so we are. The reason why (C)the world does not know us is that (D)it did not know him.

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(A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    (B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    (C)we are all the work of your hand.

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Thus says the Lord who made you,
    (A)who formed you from the womb and will help you:
(B)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
    (C)Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

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(A)Remember your congregation, which you have (B)purchased of old,
    which you have (C)redeemed to be (D)the tribe of your heritage!
    Remember Mount Zion, (E)where you have dwelt.

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False Prophets and Teachers

But (A)false prophets also arose among the people, (B)just as there will be false teachers among you, who will (C)secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master (D)who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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And because you are sons, God has sent (A)the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

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26 for in Christ Jesus (A)you are all sons of God, through faith.

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15 For (A)you did not receive (B)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of (C)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, (D)“Abba! Father!”

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28 (A)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all (B)the flock, in which (C)the Holy Spirit has made you (D)overseers, (E)to care for (F)the church of God,[a] which he (G)obtained (H)with his own blood.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 20:28 Some manuscripts of the Lord
  2. Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his Own

41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, (A)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have (B)one Father—even God.”

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