30 (A)You shall keep my Sabbaths and (B)reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

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30 “‘Observe my Sabbaths(A) and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.(B)

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(A)You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

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“‘Observe my Sabbaths(A) and have reverence for my sanctuary.(B) I am the Lord.

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Fear God

[a] (A)Guard your steps when you go to (B)the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to (C)offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Ch 4:17 in Hebrew

Fulfill Your Vow to God

[a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.

(A)Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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“‘Each of you must respect your mother and father,(A) and you must observe my Sabbaths.(B) I am the Lord your God.(C)

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16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (A)we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

(B)“I will make my dwelling among them and (C)walk among them,
    and (D)I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.

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16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(A) For we are the temple(B) of the living God.(C) As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27

15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make (A)my Father's house a house of trade.”

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15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house(A) into a market!”

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13 He said to them, “It is written, (A)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but (B)you make it a den of robbers.”

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13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a](A) but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:13 Isaiah 56:7
  2. Matthew 21:13 Jer. 7:11

a God greatly (A)to be feared in the council of (B)the holy ones,
    and awesome above all (C)who are around him?

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In the council(A) of the holy ones(B) God is greatly feared;
    he is more awesome than all who surround him.(C)

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and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to (A)come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For (B)I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

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The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses(A) into the Most Holy Place(B) behind the curtain(C) in front of the atonement cover(D) on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear(E) in the cloud(F) over the atonement cover.

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(A)“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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“Remember the Sabbath(A) day by keeping it holy.

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17 For it is time for judgment (A)to begin at the household of God; and (B)if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who (C)do not obey the gospel of God?

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17 For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household;(A) and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?(B)

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14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

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14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful,(A) following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

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And (A)the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, (B)I will put my name forever,

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He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple,(A) of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.

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