Proverbs 3:3
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3 Let not (A)steadfast love and (B)faithfulness forsake you;
(C)bind them around your neck;
(D)write them on the tablet of your heart.
2 Corinthians 3:3
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3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of (A)the living God, not on (B)tablets of stone but on (C)tablets of (D)human hearts.[a]
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- 2 Corinthians 3:3 Greek fleshly hearts
Proverbs 7:3
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Hebrews 10:16
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16 (A)“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
Malachi 2:6
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6 (A)True instruction[a] was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he (B)turned many from iniquity.
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- Malachi 2:6 Or law; also verses 7, 8, 9
Proverbs 6:21
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Deuteronomy 11:18-21
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18 (A)“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and (B)you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 (C)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 (D)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, (E)as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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Ephesians 5:9
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9 (for (A)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
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Proverbs 16:6
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6 By (A)steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by (B)the fear of the Lord one (C)turns away from evil.
Proverbs 20:28
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28 (A)Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king,
and by steadfast love his (B)throne is upheld.
Proverbs 1:9
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Exodus 13:9
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9 And it shall (A)be to you as a sign on your hand and as (B)a memorial (C)between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 17:1
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The Sin of Judah
17 “The sin of Judah is written with (A)a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on (B)the tablet of their heart, and on (C)the horns of their altars,
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Deuteronomy 6:8
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8 (A)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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Hosea 4:1
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The Lord Accuses Israel
4 (A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;
Psalm 25:10
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10 All the paths of the Lord are (A)steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalm 119:11
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11 I have (A)stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Matthew 23:23
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Micah 7:18-20
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
19 He will (E)again have compassion on us;
(F)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(G)You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.
20 (H)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
(I)as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
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- Micah 7:19 Hebrew their
2 Samuel 15:20
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20 You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go (A)I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show[a] steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:20 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks may the Lord show
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