14 (A)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and (B)leave a blessing behind him,
(C)a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

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(A)Who knows? God may turn and relent (B)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

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19 (A)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on (B)I will bless you.”

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A Call to Repentance

13 (A)Put on sackcloth and lament, (B)O priests;
    (C)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (D)pass the night in sackcloth,
    (E)O ministers of my God!
(F)Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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(A)Seek the Lord, (B)all you humble of the land,
    who do his just commands;[a]
(C)seek righteousness; seek humility;
    (D)perhaps (E)you may be hidden
    on the day of the anger of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment

So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (A)call out to your god! (B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

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15 (A)Hate evil, and love good,
    and establish justice (B)in the gate;
(C)it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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(A)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
(B)The priests mourn,
    (C)the ministers of the Lord.

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(A)It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent (B)to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for (C)the remnant that is left.”

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22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, (A)‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

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30 The next day Moses said to the people, (A)“You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; (B)perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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25 correcting his opponents (A)with gentleness. God (B)may perhaps grant them repentance (C)leading to a knowledge of the truth,

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So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the (A)gift[a] you have promised, so that it may be ready (B)as a willing gift, (C)not as an exaction.[b]

The Cheerful Giver

The point is this: (D)whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully[c] will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, (E)not reluctantly or under compulsion, for (F)God loves a cheerful giver. And (G)God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency[d] in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written,

(H)“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;
    his righteousness endures forever.”

10 He who supplies (I)seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and (J)increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 (K)You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which (L)through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Greek blessing; twice in this verse
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Or a gift expecting something in return; Greek greed
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Greek with blessings; twice in this verse
  4. 2 Corinthians 9:8 Or all contentment

16 Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
(A)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

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(A)It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, (B)that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them (C)because of their evil deeds.

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Thus says the Lord:
(A)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    (B)and not destroy them all.

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So you must make images of your (A)tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, (B)and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps (C)he will lighten his hand from off you (D)and your gods and your land.

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12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the (A)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

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