Ephesians 3:16-21
New King James Version
16 that He would grant you, (A)according to the riches of His glory, (B)to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in (C)the inner man, 17 (D)that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, (E)being rooted and grounded in love, 18 (F)may be able to comprehend with all the saints (G)what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled (H)with all the fullness of God.
20 Now (I)to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly (J)above all that we ask or think, (K)according to the power that works in us, 21 (L)to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Mark 12:30-33
New King James Version
30 And you shall (A)love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ [a]This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: (B)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than (C)these.”
32 So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, (D)and there is no other but He. 33 And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, [b]with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, (E)is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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- Mark 12:30 NU omits the rest of v. 30.
- Mark 12:33 NU omits with all the soul
Jeremiah 7:22-24
New King James Version
22 (A)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, (B)‘Obey My voice, and (C)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.’ 24 (D)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (E)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (F)went[c] backward and not forward.
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- Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
- Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were
1 Samuel 15:20-22
New King James Version
20 And Saul said to Samuel, (A)“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 (B)But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
22 So Samuel said:
(C)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (D)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
Isaiah 61:1-3
New King James Version
The Good News of Salvation
61 “The (A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord (B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me (C)to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim (D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 (E)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And (F)the day of vengeance of our God;
(G)To comfort all who mourn,
3 To [b]console those who mourn in Zion,
(H)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
(I)The planting of the Lord, (J)that He may be glorified.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:1 Lit. bind up
- Isaiah 61:3 Lit. appoint
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