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10 Your kindness to the wicked
    does not make them do good.
Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong
    and take no notice of the Lord’s majesty.

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10 But when grace is shown to the wicked,(A)
    they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil(B)
    and do not regard(C) the majesty of the Lord.

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10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

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37 And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. You have never heard his voice or seen him face to face, 38 and you do not have his message in your hearts, because you do not believe me—the one he sent to you.

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37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.(A) You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,(B) 38 nor does his word dwell in you,(C) for you do not believe(D) the one he sent.(E)

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37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

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For my people are determined to desert me.
They call me the Most High,
    but they don’t truly honor me.

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My people are determined to turn(A) from me.(B)
    Even though they call me God Most High,
    I will by no means exalt them.

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And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

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Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

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Or do you show contempt for the riches(A) of his kindness,(B) forbearance(C) and patience,(D) not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?(E)

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(F), when his righteous judgment(G) will be revealed.

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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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21 I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to turn away from her immorality.

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21 I have given her time(A) to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.(B)

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21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

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10 You are building Jerusalem
    on a foundation of murder and corruption.
11 You rulers make decisions based on bribes;
    you priests teach God’s laws only for a price;
you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid.
    Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord.
“No harm can come to us,” you say,
    “for the Lord is here among us.”
12 Because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field;
    Jerusalem will be reduced to ruins!
A thicket will grow on the heights
    where the Temple now stands.

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10 who build(A) Zion with bloodshed,(B)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.(C)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(D)
    her priests teach for a price,(E)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(F)
Yet they look(G) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(H)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(I)
    the temple(J) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(K)

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10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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10 Up! Begone!
    This is no longer your land and home,
for you have filled it with sin
    and ruined it completely.

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10 Get up, go away!
    For this is not your resting place,(A)
because it is defiled,(B)
    it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

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10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

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“And when I brought you into a fruitful land
    to enjoy its bounty and goodness,
you defiled my land and
    corrupted the possession I had promised you.

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I brought you into a fertile land
    to eat its fruit and rich produce.(A)
But you came and defiled my land
    and made my inheritance detestable.(B)

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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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The Injustices of Life

16 I also noticed that under the sun there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!

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16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

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16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

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