32 I run in the path of your commands,
    for you have broadened my understanding.

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32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

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Solomon’s Wisdom

29 God gave Solomon wisdom(A) and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand(B) on the seashore.

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29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

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12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run(A) with perseverance(B) the race marked out for us,

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12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.(A)

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11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

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17 Now the Lord is the Spirit,(A) and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.(B)

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17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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The Need for Self-Discipline

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?(A) Run(B) in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown(C) that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.(D) 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly;(E) I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.(F)

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24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

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16 Live as free people,(A) but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;(B) live as God’s slaves.(C)

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16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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36 So if the Son sets you free,(A) you will be free indeed.

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36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”(A)

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32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit(A) of the Sovereign Lord(B) is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed(C) me
    to proclaim good news(D) to the poor.(E)
He has sent me to bind up(F) the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom(G) for the captives(H)
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind

61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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45 I will walk about in freedom,
    for I have sought out your precepts.(A)

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45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

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36 You provide a broad path(A) for my feet,
    so that my ankles do not give way.(B)

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36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

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74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
    and to enable us to serve him(A) without fear(B)
75     in holiness and righteousness(C) before him all our days.

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74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

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