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You hate[a] those who pay regard to worthless idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.(A)

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  1. 31.6 Heb ms Gk Syr Jerome: MT I hate

I hate those who cling to worthless idols;(A)
    as for me, I trust in the Lord.(B)

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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

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Those who worship vain idols
    forsake their true loyalty.(A)

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“Those who cling to worthless idols(A)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
    who do not lift up their souls to what is false
    and do not swear deceitfully.(A)

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The one who has clean hands(A) and a pure heart,(B)
    who does not trust in an idol(C)
    or swear by a false god.[a]

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  1. Psalm 24:4 Or swear falsely

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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20 No, I imply that what they[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.(A)

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  1. 10.20 Other ancient authorities read the gentiles

20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

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Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”(A)

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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world”(B) and that “There is no God but one.”(C)

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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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15 They are worthless,(A) the objects of mockery;
    when their judgment comes, they will perish.

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15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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They are both stupid and foolish;
    the instruction given by idols
    is no better than wood![a](A)

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  1. 10.8 Q ms Gk lack 10.6–8

They are all senseless(A) and foolish;(B)
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.(C)

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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

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I hate the company of evildoers
    and will not sit with the wicked.(A)

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I abhor(A) the assembly of evildoers
    and refuse to sit with the wicked.

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I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A)

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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(A)

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21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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