12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
    your defenses are defenses of clay.(A)

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12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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Awaiting the New Body

For we know that if the earthly(A) tent(B) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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14 They are now dead,(A) they live no more;
    their spirits(B) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(C)
    you wiped out all memory of them.(D)

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14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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15 May their sins always remain before(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(B) from the earth.

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15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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12 But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;(A)
    your renown endures(B) through all generations.(C)

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12 But thou, O Lord, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

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16 but the face of the Lord is against(A) those who do evil,(B)
    to blot out their name(C) from the earth.

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16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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17 The memory of him perishes from the earth;(A)
    he has no name(B) in the land.(C)

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17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(A)
    whose foundations(B) are in the dust,(C)
    who are crushed(D) more readily than a moth!(E)

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19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

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14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write(A) this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out(B) the name of Amalek(C) from under heaven.”

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14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

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27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,(A)

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27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

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Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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