47 (A)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time (B)you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(A)

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But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

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But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil(A) than the nations(B) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

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51 (A)Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and (B)have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

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51 Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.(A)

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48 (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister (B)Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

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48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign(A) Lord, your sister Sodom(B) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.(C)

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And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness (A)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than (B)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are (C)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, (D)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, (E)and have not[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,

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  1. Ezekiel 5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not

Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.(A)

“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.(B)

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  1. Ezekiel 5:7 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac You have

31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the (B)Sidonians, (C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married(A) Jezebel daughter(B) of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal(C) and worship him.

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Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

It is actually reported that there is (A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, (B)for a man has his father's wife.

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Dealing With a Case of Incest

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.(A)

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21 But (A)all these things they will do to you (B)on account of my name, (C)because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, (D)they would not have been guilty of sin,[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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  1. John 15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24

21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(A) for they do not know the one who sent me.(B) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(C) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(D)

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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O (A)son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit (B)the abominations that they commit here, that (C)they should fill the land with violence and (D)provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[a] nose.

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  1. Ezekiel 8:17 Or my

17 He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things(A) they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence(B) and continually arouse my anger?(C) Look at them putting the branch to their nose!

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16 (A)Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin (B)that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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16 Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood(A) that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah(B) to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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