35 “They (A)struck me,” you will say,[a] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I (B)must have another drink.”

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  1. Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

35 “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!
    They beat me, but I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
    so I can find another drink?”(A)

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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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Lord, do not your eyes(A) look for truth?
    You struck(B) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.(C)
They made their faces harder than stone(D)
    and refused to repent.(E)

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12 (A)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(B)and tomorrow will be like this day,
    great beyond measure.”

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12 “Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine!(A)
    Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
    or even far better.”(B)

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32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, (A)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, (B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 (C)Do not be deceived: (D)“Bad company ruins good morals.”[a] 34 (E)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (F)some have no knowledge of God. (G)I say this to your shame.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais

32 If I fought wild beasts(A) in Ephesus(B) with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,

“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”[a](C)

33 Do not be misled:(D) “Bad company corrupts good character.”[b](E) 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God(F)—I say this to your shame.(G)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:32 Isaiah 22:13
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:33 From the Greek poet Menander

22 (A)Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
    along with crushed grain,
    yet his folly will not depart from him.

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22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
    grinding them like grain with a pestle,
    you will not remove their folly from them.

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11 Like (A)a dog that returns to his vomit
    is (B)a fool who repeats his folly.

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11 As a dog returns to its vomit,(A)
    so fools repeat their folly.(B)

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22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The (A)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”[a](A) 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

19 They (A)have become callous and (B)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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19 Having lost all sensitivity,(A) they have given themselves over(B) to sensuality(C) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.

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18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(A) me like an unruly calf,(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.

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13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”

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13 But see, there is joy and revelry,(A)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!(B)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”(C)

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19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

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19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing(A) on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,”(B) they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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