21 Whoever (A)pursues righteousness and kindness
    will find (B)life, righteousness, and honor.

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21 Whoever pursues righteousness and love
    finds life, prosperity[a](A) and honor.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:21 Or righteousness

“Blessed are those who hunger and (A)thirst (B)for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
    for they will be filled.(A)

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58 (A)Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in (B)the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord (C)your labor is not in vain.

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58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,(A) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.(B)

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The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
    is (A)riches and honor and life.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 22:4 Or The reward for humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and honor and life

Humility is the fear of the Lord;
    its wages are riches and honor(A) and life.(B)

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The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but he loves him (A)who pursues righteousness.

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The Lord detests the way of the wicked,(A)
    but he loves those who pursue righteousness.(B)

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so that (A)the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes (B)though it is tested by (C)fire—may be found to result in (D)praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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These have come so that the proven genuineness(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.(D)

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14 (A)Strive for peace with everyone, and for the (B)holiness (C)without which no one will see the Lord.

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Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C)

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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.

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22 Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love(A) and peace, along with those who call on the Lord(B) out of a pure heart.(C)

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Fight the Good Fight of Faith

11 But as for you, (A)O man of God, (B)flee these things. (C)Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

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Final Charge to Timothy

11 But you, man of God,(A) flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness,(B) faith, love,(C) endurance and gentleness.

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21 but (A)test everything; hold fast what is good.

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21 but test them all;(A) hold on to what is good,(B)

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to those who (A)by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (B)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress (C)for every human being who does evil, the Jew (D)first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and (E)peace for everyone who does good, (F)the Jew first and also the Greek.

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  1. Romans 2:8 Or contentious

To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor(A) and immortality,(B) he will give eternal life.(C) But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(D) there will be wrath and anger.(E) There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:(F) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;(G) 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.(H)

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(A)Let us know; (B)let us press on to know the Lord;
    (C)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (D)as the showers,
    (E)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

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Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,(A)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.(B)

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The Lord's Comfort for Zion

51 (A)“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
    you who seek the Lord:
look to the rock from which you were hewn,
    and to the quarry from which you were dug.

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Everlasting Salvation for Zion

51 “Listen(A) to me, you who pursue righteousness(B)
    and who seek(C) the Lord:
Look to the rock(D) from which you were cut
    and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

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