10 For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.(A)

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Keep my commands and live,(A)
and guard my instructions
as you would the pupil of your eye.(B)

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16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.(A) 17 If anyone wants to do his will,(B) he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. 18 The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;(C) but he who seeks the glory(D) of the one who sent him is true,(E) and there is no unrighteousness in him.(F)

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The Persistent Sin of Judah

17 The sin of Judah is inscribed
with an iron stylus.(A)
With a diamond point
it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts(B)
and on the horns of their[a] altars,
while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills(C)
my mountains in the countryside.
I will give up your wealth
and all your treasures as plunder(D)
because of the sin of your high places[b]
in all your borders.(E)
You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritance
that I gave you.
I will make you serve your enemies
in a land you do not know,(F)
for you have set my anger on fire;(G)
it will burn forever.

Curse and Blessing

This is what the Lord says:

Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.(H)
He makes human flesh his strength,(I)
and his heart turns from the Lord.
He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;(J)
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:1 Some Hb mss, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read your
  2. 17:3 Lit plunder, your high places because of sin

13 And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea.(A) It had ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns,[a](B) and on its heads were blasphemous names.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:1 Or diadems
  2. 13:1 Other mss read heads was a blasphemous name

The beast I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth.(A) The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.

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The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies.(A) It was allowed to exercise authority[a][b] for forty-two months.(B) It began to speak[c] blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name and his dwelling—those who dwell in heaven. And it was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them.(C) It was also given authority(D) over every tribe, people, language, and nation.(E) All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book[d] of life(F) of the Lamb who was slaughtered.[e](G)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:5 Other mss read to wage war
  2. 13:5 Or to rule
  3. 13:6 Or He opened his mouth in
  4. 13:8 Or scroll
  5. 13:8 Or written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered from the foundation of the world

The Beast from the Earth

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb,[a](A) but it spoke like a dragon.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:11 Or ram

14 It deceives those who live on the earth(A) because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast,(B) telling those who live on the earth to make an image[a] of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 It was permitted to give breath[b] to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.(C) 16 And it makes everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,(D) 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of its name.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:14 Or a statue, or a likeness
  2. 13:15 Or a spirit, or life

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