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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Reverence, Humility, and Contentment
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools, for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.[b](A)
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Fulfill Your Vow to God
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.
James 1:19
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James 1:19
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,(A)
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James 1:19
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Listening and Doing
19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry,
Hebrews 12:28-29
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Hebrews 12:28-29
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28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe, 29 for indeed our God is a consuming fire.(A)
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Hebrews 12:28-29
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Hebrews 12:28-29
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28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,(A) let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,(B) 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”[a](C)
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- Hebrews 12:29 Deut. 4:24
1 Peter 2:1-2
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A) 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation(B)—
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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2 Therefore, rid yourselves(A) of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander(B) of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,(C) so that by it you may grow up(D) in your salvation,
Proverbs 15:8
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Proverbs 15:8
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8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.(A)
Proverbs 15:8
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Proverbs 15:8
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Isaiah 1:12-20
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Isaiah 1:12-20
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12 When you come to appear before me,[a]
who asked this from your hand?
Trample my courts no more!(A)
13 Bringing offerings is futile;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation—
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.(B)
14 Your new moons and your appointed festivals
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.(C)
15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.(D)
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(E)
17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(F)
18 Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
will they become like wool?(G)
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land,(H)
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured by the sword,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(I)
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- 1.12 Or see my face
Isaiah 1:12-20
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Isaiah 1:12-20
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12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,(A)
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(B)
Your incense(C) is detestable(D) to me.
New Moons,(E) Sabbaths and convocations(F)—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon(G) feasts and your appointed festivals(H)
I hate with all my being.(I)
They have become a burden to me;(J)
I am weary(K) of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands(L) in prayer,
I hide(M) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.(N)
16 Wash(Q) and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(R)
stop doing wrong.(S)
17 Learn to do right;(T) seek justice.(U)
Defend the oppressed.[a](V)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(W)
plead the case of the widow.(X)
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”(Y)
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;(Z)
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.(AA)
19 If you are willing and obedient,(AB)
you will eat the good things of the land;(AC)
20 but if you resist and rebel,(AD)
you will be devoured by the sword.”(AE)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(AF)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
Proverbs 21:27
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Proverbs 21:27
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27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
how much more when brought with evil intent.(A)
Proverbs 21:27
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Proverbs 21:27
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Psalm 89:7
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Psalm 89:7
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7 a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(A)
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- 89.7 Gk Syr: Heb greatly awesome
Psalm 89:7
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Psalm 89:7
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Psalm 50:8-18
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Psalm 50:8-18
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8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.(A)
9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.(B)
10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.(C)
11 I know all the birds of the air,[a]
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all that is in it is mine.(D)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[b]
and pay your vows to the Most High.(E)
15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”(F)
16 But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?(G)
17 For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.(H)
18 You make friends with a thief when you see one,
and you keep company with adulterers.(I)
Psalm 50:8-18
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Psalm 50:8-18
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8 I bring no charges(A) against you concerning your sacrifices
or concerning your burnt offerings,(B) which are ever before me.
9 I have no need of a bull(C) from your stall
or of goats(D) from your pens,(E)
10 for every animal of the forest(F) is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.(G)
11 I know every bird(H) in the mountains,
and the insects in the fields(I) are mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world(J) is mine, and all that is in it.(K)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 “Sacrifice thank offerings(L) to God,
fulfill your vows(M) to the Most High,(N)
15 and call(O) on me in the day of trouble;(P)
I will deliver(Q) you, and you will honor(R) me.”
16 But to the wicked person, God says:
Joshua 5:15
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Joshua 5:15
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15 The commander of the army of the Lord said to Joshua, “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.(A)
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15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.”(A) And Joshua did so.
Exodus 3:5
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Exodus 3:5
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5 Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”(A)
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Exodus 3:5
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5 “Do not come any closer,”(A) God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”(B)
Hebrews 10:26
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Hebrews 10:26
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26 For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins(A)
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26 If we deliberately keep on sinning(A) after we have received the knowledge of the truth,(B) no sacrifice for sins is left,
1 Corinthians 11:22
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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22 What! Do you not have households to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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22 Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God(A) by humiliating those who have nothing?(B) What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you?(C) Certainly not in this matter!
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