48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master (A)is delaying [a]his coming,’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 24:48 NU omits his coming

48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’

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49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,

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49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.(A)

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36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

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36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

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But they also (A)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(B)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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And these also stagger(A) from wine(B)
    and reel(C) from beer:
Priests(D) and prophets(E) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,(F)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.

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For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

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All the tables are covered with vomit(A)
    and there is not a spot without filth.

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14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

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14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(A) you scoffers(B)
    who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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