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If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 21.3 Or ‘The Lord needs them and will send them back immediately.’

If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

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Encouragement to Be Generous

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

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The Collection for the Lord’s People

And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian(A) churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.(B)

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25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.(A)

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25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.(A)

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For you know the generous act[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.(A)

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  1. 8.9 Gk the grace or gift

For you know the grace(A) of our Lord Jesus Christ,(B) that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor,(C) so that you through his poverty might become rich.(D)

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35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.(A)

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35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.(A)

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10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
    the cattle on a thousand hills.(A)
11 I know all the birds of the air,[a]
    and all that moves in the field is mine.

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  1. 50.11 Gk Syr Tg: Heb mountains

10 for every animal of the forest(A) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.(B)
11 I know every bird(C) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields(D) are mine.

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since you have given him authority over all people,[a] to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.(A)

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  1. 17.2 Gk flesh

For you granted him authority over all people(A) that he might give eternal life(B) to all those you have given him.(C)

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The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts, and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.”(A)

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‘The silver is mine and the gold(A) is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory(B) of this present house(C) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,(D)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

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Psalm 24

Entrance into the Temple

Of David. A Psalm.

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
    the world, and those who live in it,(A)

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Psalm 24

Of David. A psalm.

The earth is the Lord’s,(A) and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it;(B)

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27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem(A)

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27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart(A) to bring honor(B) to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way

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Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.(A)

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Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin,(A) and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved(B)—prepared to go up and build the house(C) of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Commendation of Titus

16 But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

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Titus Sent to Receive the Collection

16 Thanks be to God,(A) who put into the heart(B) of Titus(C) the same concern I have for you.

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End of the Babylonian Captivity

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:(A)

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Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return(A)

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah,(B) the Lord moved the heart(C) of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

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