39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and (A)remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you (B)may not (C)follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

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39 Thus they [a]were (A)defiled by their own works,
And (B)played[b] the harlot by their own deeds.

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  1. Psalm 106:39 became unclean
  2. Psalm 106:39 Were unfaithful

27 For indeed, (A)those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those who [a]desert You for harlotry.

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  1. Psalm 73:27 Are unfaithful to You

Then those of you who escape will (A)remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because (B)I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and (C)by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; (D)they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

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26 He who (A)trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.

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[a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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  1. James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and

Seek God in Early Life

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
(A)Walk in the [a]ways of your heart,
And [b]in the sight of your eyes;
But know that for all these
(B)God will bring you into judgment.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:9 Impulses
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:9 As you see to be best

Guidance for the Young

My son, do not forget my law,
(A)But let your heart keep my commands;

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If my step has turned from the way,
Or (A)my heart walked after my eyes,
Or if any spot adheres to my hands,

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19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I [a]follow the (A)dictates of my heart’—(B)as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

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  1. Deuteronomy 29:19 walk in the stubbornness or imagination

God’s Unfaithful People

“Bring[a] charges against your mother, [b]bring charges;
For (A)she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her (B)harlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;

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  1. Hosea 2:2 Or Contend with
  2. Hosea 2:2 Or contend

14 but they have (A)walked according to the [a]dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, (B)which their fathers taught them,”

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  1. Jeremiah 9:14 stubbornness or imagination

28 and the (A)curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. 29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the (B)blessing on Mount Gerizim and the (C)curse on Mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, (D)beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? 31 For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. 32 And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

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18 “Therefore (A)you shall [a]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your (B)soul, and (C)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 (D)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 (E)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that (F)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like (G)the days of the heavens above the earth.

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  1. Deuteronomy 11:18 Lit. put

12 then beware, lest you forget the (A)Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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“And (A)these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. (B)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. (C)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (D)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, (A)and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.

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15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they (A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them (B)invites you and you (C)eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (D)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (E)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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It shall be as (A)a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

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