23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for (A)from it flow (B)the springs of life.

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23 Above all else, guard(A) your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.(B)

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17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: (A)I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, (B)and I will give you the land of Israel.’ 18 And when they come there, (C)they will remove from it all its (D)detestable things and all its abominations. 19 (E)And I will give them one heart, and (F)a new spirit I will put within them. (G)I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh (H)and give them a heart of flesh, 20 (I)that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. (J)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 (K)But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, (L)I will[a] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”

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  1. Ezekiel 11:21 Hebrew To the heart of their detestable things and their abominations their heart goes; I will

17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’(A)

18 “They will return to it and remove all its vile images(B) and detestable idols.(C) 19 I will give them an undivided heart(D) and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone(E) and give them a heart of flesh.(F) 20 Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.(G) They will be my people,(H) and I will be their God.(I) 21 But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols,(J) I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.(K)

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(A)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    (B)whose trust is the Lord.
(C)He is like a tree planted by water,
    that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
    for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
    for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

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“But blessed(A) is the one who trusts(B) in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.(C)
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought(D)
    and never fails to bear fruit.”(E)

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(A)Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by (B)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may (C)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[b]

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  1. Romans 12:2 Greek age
  2. Romans 12:2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God

Do not conform(A) to the pattern of this world,(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.(C) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is(D)—his good, pleasing(E) and perfect will.

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