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13 What can I say for you, to what compare you,
    O daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter Zion?
For vast as the sea is your ruin;
    who can heal you?(A)

14 Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
they have not exposed your iniquity
    to restore your fortunes
but have seen oracles for you
    that are false and misleading.(B)

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18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.(A) 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.(B)

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13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence,[a] but through love become enslaved to one another.(A) 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(B) 15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.13 Gk the flesh

31 “I have made a covenant with my eyes;
    how, then, could I look upon a virgin?(A)

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