20 that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. (A)For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, (B)‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and (C)whatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’

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20 that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’(A)

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22 But be (A)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.(A)

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(A)Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for (B)whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

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Do not be deceived:(A) God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.(B)

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35 (A)And one of them, (B)a lawyer, asked him a question (C)to test him.

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35 One of them, an expert in the law,(A) tested him with this question:

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Paying Taxes to Caesar

15 (A)Then the Pharisees went and plotted how (B)to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent (C)their disciples to him, along with (D)the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, (E)we know that you are true and teach (F)the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for (G)you are not swayed by appearances.[a] 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay (H)taxes to (I)Caesar, or not?” 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why (J)put me to the test, you hypocrites?

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  1. Matthew 22:16 Greek for you do not look at people's faces

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar(A)

15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.(B) “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a](C) to Caesar or not?”

18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?

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  1. Matthew 22:17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens

31 (A)And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for (B)with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

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31 My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before(A) you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy(B) for unjust gain.(C)

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(A)“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set (B)the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. (C)Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them? Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, (D)I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,

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“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts(A) and put wicked stumbling blocks(B) before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?(C) Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

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and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let (A)our plea for mercy come before you, and (B)pray to the Lord your God for us, for all (C)this remnant—(D)because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—

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Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray(A) to the Lord your God for this entire remnant.(B) For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few(C) are left.

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10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
    (B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

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  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys

10 “I the Lord search the heart(A)
    and examine the mind,(B)
to reward(C) each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”(D)

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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

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10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return(A) to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,(B)” declares the Lord.(C)

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When (A)iniquities prevail against me,
    you (B)atone for our transgressions.

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When we were overwhelmed by sins,(A)
    you forgave[a] our transgressions.(B)

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  1. Psalm 65:3 Or made atonement for

44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
    (A)foreigners (B)came cringing to me.

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44     foreigners(A) cower before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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38 As for the censers of (A)these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. (B)Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

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38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.(A) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,(B) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign(C) to the Israelites.”

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