Hosea 5:15-6:7

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¹⁵Then I will return to my lair^(A)
    until they have borne their guilt^(B)
    and seek my face^(C)—
in their misery^(D)
    they will earnestly seek me.^(E)”

Israel Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us return^(F) to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces^(G)
    but he will heal us;^(H)
he has injured us
    but he will bind up our wounds.^(I)
²After two days he will revive us;^(J)
    on the third day^(K) he will restore^(L) us,
    that we may live in his presence.
³Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,^(M)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.^(N)”

⁴“What can I do with you, Ephraim?^(O)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.^(P)
⁵Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth^(Q)—
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.^[a]^(R)
⁶For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,^(S)
    and acknowledgment^(T) of God rather than burnt offerings.^(U)
⁷As at Adam,^[b] they have broken the covenant;^(V)
    they were unfaithful^(W) to me there.

Footnotes

Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings

Matthew 9:9-13

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The Calling of Matthew^(A)

⁹As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”^(B) he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁰While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. ¹¹When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”^(C)

¹²On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ¹³But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’^[a]^(D) For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”^(E)

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Footnotes

Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6

Romans 4:18-25

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¹⁸Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations,^(A) just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”^[a]^(B) ¹⁹Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead^(C)—since he was about a hundred years old^(D)—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.^(E) ²⁰Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened^(F) in his faith and gave glory to God,^(G) ²¹being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.^(H) ²²This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”^(I) ²³The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, ²⁴but also for us,^(J) to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him^(K) who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.^(L) ²⁵He was delivered over to death for our sins^(M) and was raised to life for our justification.^(N)