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Your people will offer themselves willingly
    on the day you lead your forces
    on the holy mountains.[a]
From the womb of the morning,
    like dew, your youth[b] will come to you.(A)

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  1. 110.3 Heb mss Symmachus Jerome: MT in holy splendor
  2. 110.3 Cn: Heb the dew of your youth

Your troops will be willing
    on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,(A)
    your young men will come to you
    like dew from the morning’s womb.[a](B)

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  1. Psalm 110:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

“When locks are long in Israel,
    when the people offer themselves willingly[a]
    bless the Lord!(A)

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  1. 5.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain

“When the princes in Israel take the lead,
    when the people willingly offer(A) themselves—
    praise the Lord!(B)

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21 make you complete in everything good[a] so that you may do his will, as he works among us[b] that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever.[c] Amen.(A)

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  1. 13.21 Other ancient authorities read for every good work
  2. 13.21 Other ancient authorities read you
  3. 13.21 Other ancient authorities add and ever

21 equip you with everything good for doing his will,(A) and may he work in us(B) what is pleasing to him,(C) through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.(D)

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14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(A)

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14 who gave himself for us(A) to redeem us from all wickedness(B) and to purify(C) for himself a people that are his very own,(D) eager to do what is good.(E)

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For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

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For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.(A)

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just as he chose us in Christ[a] before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.(A)

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  1. 1.4 Gk in him

For he chose us(A) in him before the creation of the world(B) to be holy and blameless(C) in his sight. In love(D)

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For he was crucified in weakness but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him,[a] but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.(A)

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  1. 13.4 Other ancient authorities read with him

For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness,(A) yet he lives by God’s power.(B) Likewise, we are weak(C) in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him(D) in our dealing with you.

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Commendation of Titus

16 But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

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Titus Sent to Receive the Collection

16 Thanks be to God,(A) who put into the heart(B) of Titus(C) the same concern I have for you.

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12 For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.(A)

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12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has,(A) not according to what one does not have.

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Encouragement to Be Generous

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For, as I can testify, they voluntarily gave according to their means and even beyond their means,

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The Collection for the Lord’s People

And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian(A) churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.(B) For I testify that they gave as much as they were able,(C) and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own,

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Worship the Lord in holy splendor;
    tremble before him, all the earth.(A)

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Worship the Lord(A) in the splendor of his[a] holiness;(B)
    tremble(C) before him, all the earth.(D)

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  1. Psalm 96:9 Or Lord with the splendor of

The Multitude from Every Nation

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.(A)

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The Great Multitude in White Robes

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,(A) standing before the throne(B) and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes(C) and were holding palm branches in their hands.

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13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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13 for it is God who works in you(A) to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.(B)

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