Genesis 4:6
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6 The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
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Isaiah 1:18
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18 Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
will they become like wool?(A)
Job 5:2
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2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.(A)
Luke 15:31-32
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31 Then the father[a] said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”(A)
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- 15.31 Gk he
John 4:1-4
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Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John”(A) 2 (although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized), 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4 But he had to go through Samaria.
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- 4.1 Other ancient authorities read the Lord
Matthew 20:15
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15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’[a](A)
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- 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?
Micah 6:3-5
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3 “O my people, what have I done to you?
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!(A)
4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.(B)
5 O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”(C)
Jeremiah 2:31
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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord![a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, “We are free;
we will come to you no more”?(A)
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- 2.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Chronicles 13:11-13
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11 David was angry because the Lord had burst out against Uzzah, so that place is called Perez-uzzah[a] to this day. 12 David was afraid of God that day; he said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my care?” 13 So David did not take the ark into his care into the city of David; he took it instead to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
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- 13.11 That is, bursting out against Uzzah
John 4:8-11
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8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[a](A) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”(B) 11 The woman said to him, “Sir,[b] you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
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Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
What wrong did your ancestors find in me
that they went far from me
and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?(A)
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