20 (A)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, (B)lest his works should be exposed.

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20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(A)

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11 (A)Take no part in the (B)unfruitful (C)works of darkness, but instead (D)expose them. 12 For (E)it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when (F)anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,

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11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,(A) but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light(B) becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

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The world cannot hate you, but (A)it hates me because I testify about it that (B)its works are evil.

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The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(A) because I testify that its works are evil.(B)

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18 But (A)the path of the righteous is like (B)the light of dawn,
    which shines (C)brighter and brighter until (D)full day.

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18 The path of the righteous(A) is like the morning sun,(B)
    shining ever brighter till the full light of day.(C)

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13 “There are those who rebel (A)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he (B)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for (C)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No (D)eye will see me’;
    and he veils his face.
16 In the dark they (E)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.
17 For (F)deep darkness is morning to all of them;
    for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

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13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(A)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(B)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(C) the poor and needy,(D)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(E)
15 The eye of the adulterer(F) watches for dusk;(G)
    he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’(H)
    and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,(I)
    but by day they shut themselves in;
    they want nothing to do with the light.(J)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(K) of darkness.(L)

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29 Because they (A)hated knowledge
    and (B)did not choose the fear of the Lord,

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29 since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.(A)

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23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, (A)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, (B)he will be blessed in his doing.

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23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,(A) and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.(B)

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17 (A)For you hate discipline,
    (B)and you cast my words behind you.

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17 You hate(A) my instruction
    and cast my words behind(B) you.

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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

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The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate(A) him because he never prophesies anything good(B) about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.

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10 (A)They hate him who reproves (B)in the gate,
    and they (C)abhor him who speaks the truth.
11 Therefore because you (D)trample on[a] the poor
    and you exact taxes of grain from him,
(E)you have built houses of hewn stone,
    but you shall not dwell in them;
(F)you have planted pleasant vineyards,
    but you shall not drink their wine.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:11 Or you tax

10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court(A)
    and detest the one who tells the truth.(B)

11 You levy a straw tax on the poor(C)
    and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,(D)
    you will not live in them;(E)
though you have planted lush vineyards,
    you will not drink their wine.(F)

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12 (A)A scoffer (B)does not like to be reproved;
    he will not go to the wise.

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12 Mockers resent correction,(A)
    so they avoid the wise.

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12 and you say, (A)“How I hated discipline,
    and my heart (B)despised reproof!

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12 You will say, “How I hated discipline!
    How my heart spurned correction!(A)

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45 One of (A)the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”

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45 One of the experts in the law(A) answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also.”

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