15 Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him[a]
    that there was no justice.

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  1. Isaiah 59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes

15 Truth(A) is nowhere to be found,
    and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

The Lord looked and was displeased
    that there was no justice.(B)

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Love One Another

11 For (A)this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, (B)that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like (C)Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (D)Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

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More on Love and Hatred

11 For this is the message you heard(A) from the beginning:(B) We should love one another.(C) 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one(D) and murdered his brother.(E) And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.(F)

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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment. 37 (B)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,[a] (C)they were killed with the sword. (D)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—(E)wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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  1. Hebrews 11:37 Some manuscripts add they were tempted

36 Some faced jeers and flogging,(A) and even chains and imprisonment.(B) 37 They were put to death by stoning;[a](C) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.(D) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,(E) destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves(F) and in holes in the ground.

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  1. Hebrews 11:37 Some early manuscripts stoning; they were put to the test;

36 As it is written,

(A)“For your sake (B)we are being killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

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36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22

Saul Escapes from Damascus

23 (A)When many days had passed, the Jews[a] plotted to kill him,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 9:23 The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time

23 After many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him,(A)

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The Conversion of Saul

But Saul, (A)still (B)breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to (C)the high priest

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Saul’s Conversion(A)

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.(B) He went to the high priest

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13 You who are (A)of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
(B)why do you idly look at traitors
    and (C)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?
14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.

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13 Your eyes are too pure(A) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(B)
Why then do you tolerate(C) the treacherous?(D)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(E)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

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(A)The godly has perished from the earth,
    and (B)there is no one upright among mankind;
(C)they all lie in wait for blood,
    and (D)each hunts the other with a net.

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The faithful have been swept from the land;(A)
    not one(B) upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait(C) to shed blood;(D)
    they hunt each other(E) with nets.(F)

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13 For if we (A)are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

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13 If we are “out of our mind,”(A) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

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24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, (A)you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”

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24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind,(A) Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning(B) is driving you insane.”

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21 (A)And when (B)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He (C)is out of his mind.”

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21 When his family[a] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:21 Or his associates

(A)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.

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The days of punishment(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.(E)

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26 ‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have (A)charge in the house of the Lord (B)over every madman who prophesies, to put him in (C)the stocks and neck irons.

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26 ‘The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the Lord; you should put any maniac(A) who acts like a prophet into the stocks(B) and neck-irons.

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