16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?(A)

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10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court(A)
    and detest the one who tells the truth.(B)

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Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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Do not rebuke mockers(A) or they will hate you;
    rebuke the wise and they will love you.(B)

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Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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You were running a good race.(A) Who cut in on you(B) to keep you from obeying the truth?

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45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

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45 Yet because I tell the truth,(A) you do not believe me!

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Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

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Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me(A)—that is oil on my head.(B)
My head will not refuse it,
    for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

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The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate(A) him because he never prophesies anything good(B) about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.

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To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

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We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel(A) might be preserved for you.

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The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

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The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(A) because I testify that its works are evil.(B)

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17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

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17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler(A) of Israel?”

18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you(B) and your father’s family have. You have abandoned(C) the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.

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20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

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20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”(A)

“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold(B) yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

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Faith or Works of the Law

You foolish(A) Galatians!(B) Who has bewitched you?(C) Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.(D) I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit(E) by the works of the law,(F) or by believing what you heard?(G) Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?[a] Have you experienced[b] so much in vain—if it really was in vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. Galatians 3:4 Or suffered

14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

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14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,(A) I said to Cephas(B) in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew.(C) How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?(D)

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