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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
    “May they prosper who love you.(A)

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
    “May those who love(A) you be secure.

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But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.(A)

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Also, seek(A) the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray(B) to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

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18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;(A)

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18 May it please you to prosper Zion,(A)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.(B)

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50 You survivors of the sword,
    go; do not linger!
Remember the Lord in a distant land,
    and let Jerusalem come into your mind:(A)

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50 You who have escaped the sword,
    leave(A) and do not linger!
Remember(B) the Lord in a distant land,(C)
    and call to mind Jerusalem.”

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Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy.(A)

Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
    Down to its foundations!”(B)

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May my tongue cling to the roof(A) of my mouth
    if I do not remember(B) you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem(C)
    my highest joy.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(D) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(E)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(F)

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I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves

I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;(A)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.(B)[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)

He crouched; he lay down like a lion
    and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
    and cursed is everyone who curses you.”(A)

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Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
    like a lioness(A)—who dares to rouse them?

“May those who bless you be blessed(B)
    and those who curse you be cursed!”(C)

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14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.(A)

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14 We know that we have passed from death to life,(A) because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.(B)

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Final Greetings and Benediction

16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with all of you.

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Final Greetings

16 Now may the Lord of peace(A) himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.(B)

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making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace:

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Make every effort to keep the unity(A) of the Spirit through the bond of peace.(B)

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21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,[a] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.21 Other ancient authorities read be one in us

21 that all of them may be one,(A) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(B) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(C)

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