Luke 23:38-43
New King James Version
38 (A)And an inscription also was [a]written over Him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew:
THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39 (B)Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, [b]“If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”
40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done (C)nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said [c]to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in (D)Paradise.”
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- Luke 23:38 NU omits written and in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew
- Luke 23:39 NU Are You not the Christ? Save
- Luke 23:42 NU “Jesus, remember me
Hebrews 10:19-39
New King James Version
Hold Fast Your Confession
19 Therefore, brethren, having (A)boldness[a] to enter (B)the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and (C)living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us (D)draw near with a true heart (E)in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for (F)He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 (G)not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and (H)so much the more as you see (I)the Day approaching.
The Just Live by Faith
26 For (J)if we sin willfully (K)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there (L)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and (M)fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three (N)witnesses. 29 (O)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, (P)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, (Q)and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, (R)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” [b]says the Lord. And again, (S)“The Lord will judge His people.” 31 (T)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But (U)recall the former days in which, after you were [c]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made (V)a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while (W)you became companions of those who were so treated; 34 for you had compassion on [d]me (X)in my chains, and (Y)joyfully accepted the plundering of your [e]goods, knowing that (Z)you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves [f]in heaven. 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, (AA)which has great reward. 36 (AB)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, (AC)you may receive the promise:
37 “For (AD)yet a little while,
And (AE)He[g] who is coming will come and will not [h]tarry.
38 Now (AF)the[i] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those (AG)who draw back to [j]perdition, but of those who (AH)believe to the saving of the soul.
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- Hebrews 10:19 confidence
- Hebrews 10:30 NU omits says the Lord
- Hebrews 10:32 enlightened
- Hebrews 10:34 NU the prisoners instead of me in my chains
- Hebrews 10:34 possessions
- Hebrews 10:34 NU omits in heaven
- Hebrews 10:37 Or that which
- Hebrews 10:37 delay
- Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
- Hebrews 10:39 destruction
Proverbs 27:1-14
New King James Version
My Son, Be Wise
27 Do(A) not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
2 (B)Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.
4 Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent,
But (C)who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 (D)Open rebuke is better
Than love carefully concealed.
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are (E)deceitful.
7 A satisfied soul [a]loathes the honeycomb,
But to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest
Is a man who wanders from his place.
9 Ointment and perfume delight the heart,
And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by [b]hearty counsel.
10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
(F)Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,
(G)That I may answer him who reproaches me.
12 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself;
The simple pass on and are (H)punished.
13 Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it in pledge when he is surety for a seductress.
14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:7 tramples on
- Proverbs 27:9 Lit. counsel of the soul
Isaiah 46-48
New King James Version
Dead Idols and the Living God
46 Bel (A)bows down, Nebo stoops;
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.
Your carriages were heavily loaded,
(B)A burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together;
They could not deliver the burden,
(C)But have themselves gone into captivity.
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
(D)Who have been upheld by Me from [a]birth,
Who have been carried from the womb:
4 Even to your old age, (E)I am He,
And even to gray hairs (F)I will carry you!
I have made, and I will bear;
Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 “To(G) whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal
And compare Me, that we should be alike?
6 (H)They lavish gold out of the bag,
And weigh silver on the scales;
They hire a (I)goldsmith, and he makes it a god;
They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.
7 (J)They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it
And set it in its place, and it stands;
From its place it shall not move.
Though (K)one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer
Nor save him out of his trouble.
8 “Remember this, and [b]show yourselves men;
(L)Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
9 (M)Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and (N)there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
10 (O)Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, (P)‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
11 Calling a bird of prey (Q)from the east,
The man (R)who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed (S)I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.
12 “Listen to Me, you (T)stubborn-hearted,
(U)Who are far from righteousness:
13 (V)I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off;
My salvation (W)shall not [c]linger.
And I will place (X)salvation in Zion,
For Israel My glory.
The Humiliation of Babylon
47 “Come (Y)down and (Z)sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of (AA)Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no more be called
Tender and [d]delicate.
2 (AB)Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil,
Take off the skirt,
Uncover the thigh,
Pass through the rivers.
3 (AC)Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
Yes, your shame will be seen;
(AD)I will take vengeance,
And I will not arbitrate with a man.”
4 As for (AE)our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5 “Sit in (AF)silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
(AG)For you shall no longer be called
The Lady of Kingdoms.
6 (AH)I was angry with My people;
(AI)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
(AJ)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
7 And you said, ‘I shall be (AK)a lady forever,’
So that you did not (AL)take these things to heart,
(AM)Nor remember the latter end of them.
8 “Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
9 But these two things shall come to you
(AN)In a moment, in one day:
The loss of children, and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
For the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 “For you have trusted in your wickedness;
You have said, ‘No one (AO)sees me’;
Your wisdom and your knowledge have [e]warped you;
And you have said in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11 Therefore evil shall come upon you;
You shall not know from where it arises.
And trouble shall fall upon you;
You will not be able [f]to put it off.
And (AP)desolation shall come upon you (AQ)suddenly,
Which you shall not know.
12 “Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
13 (AR)You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now (AS)the[g] astrologers, the stargazers,
And [h]the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be (AT)as stubble,
The fire shall (AU)burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
(AV)Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his [i]quarter.
No one shall save you.
Israel Refined for God’s Glory
48 “Hear this, O house of Jacob,
Who are called by the name of Israel,
And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
Who swear by the name of the Lord,
And make mention of the God of Israel,
But (AW)not in truth or in righteousness;
2 For they call themselves (AX)after the holy city,
And (AY)lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of hosts is His name:
3 “I have (AZ)declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, (BA)and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that you were [j]obstinate,
And (BB)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’
6 “You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8 Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called (BC)a transgressor from the womb.
9 “For(BD) My name’s sake (BE)I will [k]defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
10 Behold, (BF)I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the (BG)furnace of affliction.
11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For (BH)how should My name be profaned?
And (BI)I will not give My glory to another.
God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel
12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, (BJ)I am the (BK)First,
I am also the Last.
13 Indeed (BL)My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When (BM)I call to them,
They stand up together.
14 “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
(BN)The Lord loves him;
(BO)He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, (BP)I have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper.
16 “Come near to Me, hear this:
(BQ)I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now (BR)the Lord God and His Spirit
[l]Have sent Me.”
17 Thus says (BS)the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
(BT)Who leads you by the way you should go.
18 (BU)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
(BV)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 (BW)Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”
20 (BX)Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has (BY)redeemed
His servant Jacob!”
21 And they (BZ)did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He (CA)caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.
22 “There(CB) is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 46:3 Lit. the belly
- Isaiah 46:8 be men, take courage
- Isaiah 46:13 delay
- Isaiah 47:1 dainty
- Isaiah 47:10 led you astray
- Isaiah 47:11 Lit. to cover it or atone for it
- Isaiah 47:13 Lit. viewers of the heavens
- Isaiah 47:13 Lit. those giving knowledge for new moons
- Isaiah 47:15 own side or way
- Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
- Isaiah 48:9 delay
- Isaiah 48:16 Heb. verb is sing.; or Has sent Me and His Spirit
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