Exodus 32:32
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32 But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of the book that you have written.”(A)
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Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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Philippians 4:3
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3 Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion,[a] help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.(A)
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- 4.3 Or loyal Syzygus
Romans 9:3
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3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.(A)
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Daniel 12:1
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12 “At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.(A)
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Psalm 69:28
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28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.(A)
Revelation 3:5
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5 If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not erase your name from the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels.(A)
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Psalm 139:16
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16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.[a]
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- 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 56:8
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8 You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your record?(A)
Numbers 14:19
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19 “Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.”(A)
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Revelation 17:8
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8 The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.(A)
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Luke 23:34
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[[34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”]][a] And they cast lots to divide his clothing.(A)
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- 23.34 Other ancient authorities lack the sentence Then Jesus . . . what they are doing
Amos 7:2
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2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”(A)
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