Ezekiel 16:6
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6 I passed by you and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, “Live!(A)
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Ephesians 2:4-5
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4 but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us(A) 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[a]—by grace you have been saved—
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- 2.5 Other ancient authorities read in Christ
Titus 3:3-7
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3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A) 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,(B) 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water[a] of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.(C) 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.(D)
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John 5:25
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25 “Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.(A)
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Exodus 19:4-6
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4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.(A) 5 Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,(B) 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”(C)
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Matthew 5:13
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Salt and Light
13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot.(A)
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Acts 7:34
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34 I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’(A)
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Isaiah 51:23
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23 And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
who have said to you,
“Bow down, that we may walk on you,”
and you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to walk on.(A)
Psalm 105:26-37
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26 He sent his servant Moses
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.(A)
27 They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.(B)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
they rebelled[a] against his words.(C)
29 He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.(D)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.(E)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats throughout their country.(F)
32 He gave them hail for rain
and lightning that flashed through their land.(G)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(H)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first issue of all their strength.(I)
37 Then he brought Israel[b] out with silver and gold,
and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.(J)
Psalm 105:10-15
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10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(A)
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”(B)
12 When they were few in number,
of little account and strangers in it,(C)
13 wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people,
14 he allowed no one to oppress them;
he rebuked kings on their account,(D)
15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”
Deuteronomy 9:4
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4 “When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to occupy this land’; it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.(A)
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Exodus 3:7-8
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7 Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,(A) 8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.(B)
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