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And so people are humbled,
    and everyone is brought low—
    [[do not forgive them!(A)

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15 People are bowed down, everyone is brought low,
    and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.(A)

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23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;(A)

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29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.(A)

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Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have raged against the builders.[a](A)

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  1. 4.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain

19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.(A)

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23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-imposed piety, humility, and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value in checking self-indulgence.[a]

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  1. 2.23 Or are of no value, serving only to indulge the flesh

You journeyed to Molech[a] with oil
    and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your envoys far away
    and sent them down to Sheol.(A)

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  1. 57.9 Or the king

Those of low estate are but a breath;
    those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
    they are together lighter than a breath.(A)

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both low and high,
    rich and poor together.

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15 Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,(A) 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,(B) 17 for the great day of their[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”(C)

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  1. 6.17 Other ancient authorities read his

18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions,[a] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[b]

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  1. 2.18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. 2.18 Gk by the mind of his flesh

23 Yet you, O Lord, know
    all their plotting to kill me.
Do not forgive their iniquity;
    do not blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be tripped up before you;
    deal with them while you are angry.(A)

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Then I said, “These are only the poor;
    they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.(A)
Let me go to the rich[a]
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke;
    they had burst the bonds.(B)

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  1. 5.5 Or the great