Joshua 24:14
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Choose Whom You Will Serve
14 (A)“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. (B)Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
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1 Samuel 12:24
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24 (A)Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider (B)what great things he has done for you.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
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Circumcise Your Heart
12 “And now, Israel, (A)what does the Lord your God require of you, but (B)to fear the Lord your God, (C)to walk in all his ways, (D)to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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Genesis 35:2
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2 So Jacob said to his (A)household and to all who were with him, “Put away (B)the foreign gods that are among you and (C)purify yourselves and change your garments.
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2 Corinthians 1:12
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Paul's Change of Plans
12 For our boast is this, (A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity[a] and (B)godly sincerity, (C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts holiness
Psalm 119:1
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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet
Aleph
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- Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter
Joshua 24:23
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23 He said, “Then (A)put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 20:18
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18 “And I said to (A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk (B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, (C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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John 4:23-24
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23 But (A)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (B)in spirit and (C)truth, for the Father (D)is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Job 28:28
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28 And he said to man,
‘Behold, (A)the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to (B)turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Ezra 9:11
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11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with (A)their uncleanness.
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2 Kings 20:3
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3 “Now, O Lord, (A)please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and (B)with a whole heart, (C)and have done what is good in your sight.” (D)And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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Joshua 24:2
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2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, (A)your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates,[a] Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and (B)they served other gods.
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- Joshua 24:2 Hebrew the River
Deuteronomy 18:13
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13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,
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Leviticus 17:7
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7 So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they (A)whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
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Exodus 20:3-4
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3 (A)“You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 (B)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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- Exodus 20:3 Or besides
Genesis 20:5-6
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5 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” 6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning (A)against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
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Acts 9:31
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31 So (A)the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And (B)walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, (C)it multiplied.
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Luke 8:15
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15 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and (A)bear fruit (B)with patience.
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Amos 5:25-26
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25 (A)“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 (B)You (C)shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,
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Ezekiel 23:3
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3 (A)They played the whore in Egypt; (B)they played the whore (C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms[a] handled.
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- Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21
Ezekiel 20:7-8
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7 And I said to them, (A)‘Cast away the detestable things (B)your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with (C)the idols of Egypt; (D)I am the Lord your God.’ 8 (E)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (F)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (G)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
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Philippians 1:10
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10 so that you may approve what is excellent, (A)and so be pure and blameless (B)for the day of Christ,
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Ephesians 6:24
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24 Grace be with all who (A)love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
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