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14 The perverse get what their ways deserve,
    and the good, what their deeds deserve.[a](A)

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  1. 14.14 Cn: Heb from upon him

14 The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways,(A)
    and the good rewarded for theirs.(B)

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If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.(A)

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Whoever sows to please their flesh,(A) from the flesh will reap destruction;(B) whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.(C)

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14 From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things,
    and manual labor has its reward.(A)

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14 From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things,(A)
    and the work of their hands brings them reward.(B)

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12 Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

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12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(A)

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Why then has this people[a] turned away
    in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
    they have refused to return.(A)

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  1. 8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,

Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;(A)
    they refuse to return.(B)

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20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the[a] Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.(A) 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.(B) 22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb,

“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”

and,

“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”(C)

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  1. 2.20 Other ancient authorities read our

20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing(A) our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ(B) and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.(C) 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.(D) 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”[a](E) and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

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  1. 2 Peter 2:22 Prov. 26:11

All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.(A)

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Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone,(A) without comparing themselves to someone else,(B)

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14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”(A)

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14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.(A) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(B) welling up to eternal life.”(C)

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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
    and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
            says the Lord God of hosts.(A)

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19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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those who have turned back from following the Lord,
    who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.(A)

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those who turn back from following(A) the Lord
    and neither seek(B) the Lord nor inquire(C) of him.”

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Thus says the Lord:
Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals
    and make mere flesh their strength,
    whose hearts turn away from the Lord.(A)

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This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(A)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(B)

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10 The heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no stranger shares its joy.

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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no one else can share its joy.

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31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
    and be sated with their own devices.(A)
32 For waywardness kills the simple,
    and the complacency of fools destroys them;(B)

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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(A)
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(B)

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