14 Then Haggai answered and said, (A)“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.

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14 Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people(A) and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer(B) there is defiled.

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15 (A)To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and (B)unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both (C)their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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15 To the pure, all things are pure,(A) but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.(B) In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.(C)

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21 (A)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 (B)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
    I will not look upon them.

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21 “I hate,(A) I despise your religious festivals;(B)
    your assemblies(C) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(D) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.(E)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.(F)

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And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while (A)I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and (B)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel,(A) because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

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16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion,[a] but on God, who has mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:16 Greek not of him who wills or runs

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(A)

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15 All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.

(A)Grace be with you all.

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15 Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith.(A)

Grace be with you all.(B)

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