Isaiah 56:1-8
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The Covenant Extended to All Who Obey
56 Thus says the Lord:
Maintain justice, and do what is right,
for soon my salvation will come
and my deliverance be revealed.(A)
2 Happy is the mortal who does this,
the one who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and refrains from doing any evil.(B)
3 Do not let the foreigner joined to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people,”
and do not let the eunuch say,
“I am just a dry tree.”(C)
4 For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,(D)
5 I will give, in my house and within my walls,
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.(E)
6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it
and hold fast my covenant—(F)
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar,
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.(G)
8 Thus says the Lord God,
who gathers the outcasts of Israel:
I will gather others to them
besides those already gathered.[a](H)
Footnotes
- 56.8 Heb besides his gathered ones
Acts 10:9-16
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9 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.(A) 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while it was being prepared he fell into a trance.(B) 11 He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.(C) 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 Then he heard a voice saying, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”(D) 15 The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”(E) 16 This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven.
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Galatians 3:26-29
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26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.(A) 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.(B) 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.(C) 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,[a] heirs according to the promise.(D)
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- 3.29 Gk seed
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