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49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with 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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And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(A)

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I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people,(A) the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

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because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
    you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”

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for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,(A)
    and you have given them blood to drink(B) as they deserve.”

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A Tree and Its Fruit

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.(A)

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True and False Prophets

15 “Watch out for false prophets.(A) They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.(B)

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Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat
but declare war against those
    who put nothing into their mouths.(A)

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This is what the Lord says:

“As for the prophets
    who lead my people astray,(A)
they proclaim ‘peace’(B)
    if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
    who refuses to feed them.

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Also, it was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them.[a] It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.7 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence

It was given power to wage war(A) against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.(B)

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12 These are blots[a] on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves.[b] They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;(A)

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  1. 12 Or reefs
  2. 12 Or without fear. They are shepherds who care only for themselves

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts,(A) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.(B) They are clouds without rain,(C) blown along by the wind;(D) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted(E)—twice dead.

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Diotrephes and Demetrius

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not welcome us. 10 So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with those charges, he refuses to welcome the brothers and sisters and even prevents those who want to do so and expels them from the church.(A)

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I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. 10 So when I come,(A) I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers.(B) He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.(C)

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13 suffering[a] the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures[b] while they feast with you.(A) 14 They have eyes full of adultery,[c] insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

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Footnotes

  1. 2.13 Other ancient authorities read receiving
  2. 2.13 Other ancient authorities read love feasts
  3. 2.14 Gk adulteress; or longing for an adulteress

13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.(A) They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.[a](B) 14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce(C) the unstable;(D) they are experts in greed(E)—an accursed brood!(F)

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  1. 2 Peter 2:13 Some manuscripts in their love feasts

Do not lord it over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.(A)

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not lording it over(A) those entrusted to you, but being examples(B) to the flock.

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11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.(A) 12 It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said,

“Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.”

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of Crete’s own prophets(B) has said it: “Cretans(C) are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[a]

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  1. Titus 1:12 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides

19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.(A)

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19 Their destiny(A) is destruction, their god is their stomach,(B) and their glory is in their shame.(C) Their mind is set on earthly things.(D)

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20 For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.

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20 In fact, you even put up with(A) anyone who enslaves you(B) or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

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