A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not (A)know wickedness.

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The perverse of heart(A) shall be far from me;
    I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

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20 Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the Lord,
But the blameless in their ways are His delight.

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20 The Lord detests those whose hearts are perverse,(A)
    but he delights(B) in those whose ways are blameless.(C)

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19 Nevertheless (A)the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord (B)knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of [a]Christ depart from iniquity.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:19 NU, M the Lord

19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm,(A) sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,”(B) and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord(C) must turn away from wickedness.”

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14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (C)you[c] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

(D)“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:16 NU we

Warning Against Idolatry

14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C) 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]?(D) Or what does a believer(E) have in common with an unbeliever?(F) 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(G) For we are the temple(H) of the living God.(I) As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”[b](J)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27

23 And (A)then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; (B)depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

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23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’(A)

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24 Make no friendship with an angry man,
And with a (A)furious man do not go,

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Saying 3

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
    do not associate with one easily angered,

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Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.

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Leave your simple ways and you will live;(A)
    walk in the way of insight.”(B)

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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
(B)Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And (C)the perverse mouth I hate.

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13 To fear the Lord(A) is to hate evil;(B)
    I hate(C) pride and arrogance,
    evil behavior and perverse speech.

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115 (A)Depart from me, you evildoers,
For I will keep the commandments of my God!

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115 Away from me,(A) you evildoers,
    that I may keep the commands of my God!

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32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord,
(A)But His secret counsel is with the upright.

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32 For the Lord detests the perverse(A)
    but takes the upright into his confidence.(B)

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12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To (A)walk in the ways of darkness;
14 (B)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15 (C)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;

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12 Wisdom will save(A) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,(B)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(C)
15 whose paths are crooked(D)
    and who are devious in their ways.(E)

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(A)Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity;
For the Lord has (B)heard the voice of my weeping.

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Away from me,(A) all you who do evil,(B)
    for the Lord has heard my weeping.

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33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.

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33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.(A)

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