22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

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15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’(A)

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31 But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon(A) to ask him about the miraculous sign(B) that had occurred in the land, God left him to test(C) him and to know everything that was in his heart.

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In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves(A) to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility(B) toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 5:5 Prov. 3:34

15 For it is God’s will(A) that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.(B)

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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,(A) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient(B) to Christ.

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23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[a] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy.

The pride(A) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a](B)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’(C)
Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest(D) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”(E)
declares the Lord.(F)

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  1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela

25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(B)

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22 The stingy are eager to get rich
    and are unaware that poverty awaits them.(A)

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22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
    grinding them like grain with a pestle,
    you will not remove their folly from them.

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The schemes of folly are sin,
    and people detest a mocker.

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Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

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23 The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves,(A)
    but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.(B)

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In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
    in all his thoughts there is no room for God.(A)

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25 But Hezekiah’s heart was proud(A) and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the Lord’s wrath(B) was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. 26 Then Hezekiah repented(C) of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the Lord’s wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.(D)

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Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?(A) And from that time on Saul kept a close(B) eye on David.

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56 The most gentle and sensitive(A) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(B)

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54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

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Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(A) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(B) toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.(C)

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