13 Get up, (A)sanctify[a] the people, and say, (B)‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the Lord God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.”

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  1. Joshua 7:13 set apart

40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41 (A)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.

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And Joshua said to the people, (A)“Sanctify[a] yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

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  1. Joshua 3:5 Consecrate

Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

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11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. (A)For they have even taken some of the [a]accursed things, and have both stolen and (B)deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.

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  1. Joshua 7:11 devoted

18 And you, (A)by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, (B)and trouble it.

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11 But now I have written to you not to keep company (A)with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—(B)not even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore (C)“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

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Immorality Defiles the Church

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s (A)wife! (B)And you are [b]puffed up, and have not rather (C)mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. (D)For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the (E)name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, (F)with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (G)deliver such a one to (H)Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord [c]Jesus.

(I)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (J)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 NU omits named
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 arrogant
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:5 NU omits Jesus

A Call to Repentance

Gather(A) yourselves together, yes, gather together,
O [a]undesirable nation,
Before the decree is issued,
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!

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  1. Zephaniah 2:1 Or shameless

16 Gather the people,
(A)Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and nursing babes;
(B)Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.
17 Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep (C)between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, (D)“Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should [a]rule over them.
(E)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”

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  1. Joel 2:17 Or speak a proverb against them

10 And now you propose to force the children of Judah and Jerusalem to be your (A)male and female slaves; but are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

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10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and (A)consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. (B)Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. 13 Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.”

14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; (C)do not come near your wives.”

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