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24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”

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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

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Rules for the New Life

25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)

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But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner? And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their judgment is deserved!(A)

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16 These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,(A)

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Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that I need,(A)

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22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
    but those who act faithfully are his delight.(A)

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19 Truthful lips endure forever,
    but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.(A)

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For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
    and you choose the tongue of the crafty.(A)

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Will you speak falsely for God
    and speak deceitfully for him?
Will you show partiality toward him;
    will you plead the case for God?

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10 When Achish asked, “Against whom[a] have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.10 Q ms Gk Vg: MT lacks whom

13 So he changed his behavior before them; he pretended to be mad when in their presence.[a] He scratched marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

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Footnotes

  1. 21.13 Heb in their hands

David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment[a] with the young men for such and such a place.

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  1. 21.2 Q ms Vg: Meaning of MT uncertain

The king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.(A)

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