Hosea 14:8
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8 “O Israel,[a] stay away from idols!
I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.
I am like a tree that is always green;
all your fruit comes from me.”
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- 14:8 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.
Job 34:32
New Living Translation
32 Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done—tell me.
If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?
1 Peter 4:3-4
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3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
4 Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you.
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James 1:17
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17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.[a] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.[b]
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Luke 15:20
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20 “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
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Isaiah 55:13
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13 Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow.
Where nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up.
These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name;
they will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.”
Isaiah 41:19
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19 I will plant trees in the barren desert—
cedar, acacia, myrtle, olive, cypress, fir, and pine.
1 Peter 1:14-16
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14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”[a]
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- 1:16 Lev 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
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9 for they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God.
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Philippians 2:13
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13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
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Ephesians 5:9
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9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
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Galatians 5:22-23
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22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
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Acts 19:18-20
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18 Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. 19 A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars.[a] 20 So the message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect.
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- 19:19 Greek 50,000 pieces of silver, each of which was the equivalent of a day’s wage.
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