34 They answered and said to him, (A)“You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they [a]cast him out.

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  1. John 9:34 Excommunicated him

34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth;(A) how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.(B)

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22 His parents said these things because (A)they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he (B)would be put out of the synagogue.

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22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,(A) who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out(B) of the synagogue.(C)

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And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, (A)who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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His disciples asked him, “Rabbi,(A) who sinned,(B) this man(C) or his parents,(D) that he was born blind?”

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The Lord Vindicates Zion

Hear the word of the Lord,
You who tremble at His word:
“Your brethren who (A)hated you,
Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said,
(B)‘Let the Lord be glorified,
That (C)we may see your joy.’
But they shall be ashamed.”

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Hear the word of the Lord,
    you who tremble at his word:(A)
“Your own people who hate(B) you,
    and exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified,
    that we may see your joy!’
    Yet they will be put to shame.(C)

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17 (A)Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”

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17 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child(A) will never enter it.”

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(A)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

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Surely I was sinful(A) at birth,(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one (A)came in to [a]stay here, (B)and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

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  1. Genesis 19:9 As a resident alien

“Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner,(A) and now he wants to play the judge!(B) We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

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17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [a]the mark or (A)the name of the beast, (B)or the number of his name.

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  1. Revelation 13:17 NU, M the mark, the name

17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,(A) which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.(B)

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Diotrephes and Demetrius

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.

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I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us.

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Submit to God, Resist the Devil

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, (A)all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

(B)“God resists the proud,
But (C)gives grace to the humble.”

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In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves(A) to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility(B) toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 5:5 Prov. 3:34

(A)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in (B)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and (C)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

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All of us also lived among them at one time,(A) gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a](B) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

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  1. Ephesians 2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

15 (A)We who are Jews by nature, and not (B)sinners of the Gentiles,

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15 “We who are Jews by birth(A) and not sinful Gentiles(B)

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