22 Take away from me (A)scorn and contempt,
    (B)for I have kept your testimonies.

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22 Remove from me their scorn(A) and contempt,
    for I keep your statutes.(B)

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39 Turn away the (A)reproach that I dread,
    for your rules are good.

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39 Take away the disgrace(A) I dread,
    for your laws are good.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions.
    (A)Do not make me the scorn of the fool!

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Save me(A) from all my transgressions;(B)
    do not make me the scorn(C) of fools.

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20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But (A)if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

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20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.(A)

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you. 15 But (C)let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or (D)as a meddler. 16 Yet (E)if anyone suffers as a (F)Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God (G)in that name.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ,(A) you are blessed,(B) for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 15 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. 16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.(C)

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16 (A)having a good conscience, so that, (B)when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For (C)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

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16 keeping a clear conscience,(A) so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.(B) 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will,(C) to suffer for doing good(D) than for doing evil.

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13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear (A)the reproach he endured.

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13 Let us, then, go to him(A) outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.(B)

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(A)Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of (B)contempt.
Our soul has had more than enough
    of (C)the scorn of (D)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (E)the proud.

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Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
    for we have endured no end of contempt.
We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.

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42 then (A)shall I have an answer for him (B)who taunts me,
    for I trust in your word.

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42 then I can answer(A) anyone who taunts me,(B)
    for I trust in your word.

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19 Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily (A)bears us up;
    God is our salvation. Selah
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    (B)and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

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19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,(A)
    who daily bears our burdens.(B)
20 Our God is a God who saves;(C)
    from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.(D)

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(A)Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
    you restored your inheritance as it languished;
10 your flock[a] found a dwelling in it;
    in your goodness, O God, you (B)provided for the needy.

11 The Lord gives (C)the word;
    (D)the women who announce the news are a great host:

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  1. Psalm 68:10 Or your congregation

You gave abundant showers,(A) O God;
    you refreshed your weary inheritance.
10 Your people settled in it,
    and from your bounty,(B) God, you provided(C) for the poor.

11 The Lord announces the word,
    and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:(D)

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10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
(A)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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10 My bones suffer mortal agony(A)
    as my foes taunt(B) me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(C)

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(A)He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as (B)the noonday.

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He will make your righteous reward(A) shine like the dawn,(B)
    your vindication like the noonday sun.

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