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20 
“Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty;
Though I am blameless, He would denounce me as guilty.

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20 Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
    if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.(A)

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22 
The Lord redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

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22 The Lord will rescue(A) his servants;
    no one who takes refuge(B) in him will be condemned.

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In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.(A)

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It is the Sovereign Lord(A) who helps(B) me.
    Who will condemn(C) me?
They will all wear out like a garment;
    the moths(D) will eat them up.

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17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him.

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17 For God did not send his Son into the world(A) to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.(B)

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14 having canceled out the [a]certificate of debt consisting of [b]legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:14 This term refers to a debtor’s handwritten note acknowledging the debt.
  2. Colossians 2:14 I.e. the requirements found in the Mosaic Law which were violated. The debt is the punishment due for the violator’s sins. Gentiles were never directly liable to the Law, but as Paul explains in Rom 2:12-16, God holds them responsible for violating the principles of the Law that they acknowledge of their own volition.

14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,(A) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.(B)

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