16 I have not run away from being your shepherd,
    nor have I desired the day of sickness.
(A)You know (B)what came out of my lips;
    it was before your face.

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20 how I (A)did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and (B)teaching you in public and from house to house,

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Anguish over Judah's Desolation

19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.
20 (B)Crash follows hard on crash;
    the whole land is laid waste.
(C)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
    my curtains in a moment.

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Taming the Tongue

(A)Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

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Hearing and Doing the Word

19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger;

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17 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

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Paul's Change of Plans

12 For our boast is this, (A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity[a] and (B)godly sincerity, (C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts holiness

God's Sovereign Choice

(A)I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For (B)I could wish that I myself were (C)accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers,[a] my kinsmen (D)according to the flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:3 Or brothers and sisters

14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, (A)“I was[a] no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but (B)I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. 15 (C)But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

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  1. Amos 7:14 Or am; twice in this verse

(A)“So you, (B)son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. (C)Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. (D)If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, (E)and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, (F)that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. (G)But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, (H)that person shall die in his iniquity, (I)but you will have delivered your soul.

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14 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the (B)hand of the Lord being strong upon me. 15 (C)And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling (D)by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling.[a] And (E)I sat there (F)overwhelmed among them (G)seven days.

A Watchman for Israel

16 (H)And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me: 17 (I)“Son of man, (J)I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall (K)give them warning from me. 18 (L)If I say to the wicked, (M)‘You shall surely die,’ (N)and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person (O)shall die for[b] his iniquity, (P)but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 (Q)But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, (R)but you (S)will have delivered your soul.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 3:15 Or Chebar, and to where they dwelt
  2. Ezekiel 3:18 Or in; also verses 19, 20

If I say, “I will not mention him,
    or speak any more in his name,”
(A)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
    shut up in my bones,
and (B)I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.

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20 (A)Should good be repaid with evil?
    Yet (B)they have dug a pit for my life.
(C)Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.
18 (D)If I go out into the field,
    behold, those pierced by the sword!
(E)And if I enter the city,
    behold, the diseases of famine!
(F)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
    and have no knowledge.’”

19 (G)Have you utterly rejected Judah?
    Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us down
    (H)so that there is no healing for us?
(I)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    (J)for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
20 (K)We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord,
    and the iniquity of our fathers,
    (L)for we have sinned against you.
21 Do not spurn us, (M)for your name's sake;
    do not dishonor your glorious throne;
    (N)remember and do not break your covenant with us.

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17 But if you will not listen,
    (A)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
    because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

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[a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

The Call of Jeremiah

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

(A)“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born (B)I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet (C)to the nations.”

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, (D)I do not know how to speak, (E)for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and (F)whatever I command you, you shall speak.
(G)Do not be afraid of them,
(H)for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”

(I)Then the Lord put out his hand and (J)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put (K)my words in your mouth.
10 See, I have set you this day (L)over nations and over kingdoms,
(M)to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

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