10 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
    forget your people and your father's house,

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10 Listen, daughter,(A) and pay careful attention:(B)
    Forget your people(C) and your father’s house.

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The Call of Abram

12 Now (A)the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

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  1. Genesis 12:1 Or had said
  2. Genesis 12:1 Or land

The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household(A) to the land(B) I will show you.(C)

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29 (A)And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold[a] and will (B)inherit eternal life.

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  1. Matthew 19:29 Some manuscripts manifold

29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[a] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.(A)

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  1. Matthew 19:29 Some manuscripts do not have or wife.

37 (A)Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.(A)

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17 Therefore (A)go out from their midst,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
    then I will welcome you,
18 (B)and I will be a father to you,
    and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

Since we have these promises, beloved, (C)let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body[a] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 7:1 Greek flesh

17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(A)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[a](B)

18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,(C)
says the Lord Almighty.”[b](D)

Therefore, since we have these promises,(E) dear friends,(F) let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness(G) out of reverence for God.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united(A) to his wife, and they become one flesh.(B)

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16 From now on, therefore, (A)we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

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16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly(A) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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26 (A)“If anyone comes to me and (B)does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.(A)

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who said of his father and mother,
    ‘I regard them not’;
(A)he disowned his brothers
    and ignored his children.
For (B)they observed your word
    and kept your covenant.

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He said of his father and mother,(A)
    ‘I have no regard for them.’
He did not recognize his brothers
    or acknowledge his own children,
but he watched over your word
    and guarded your covenant.(B)

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13 And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and (A)lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month,(A) then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

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The Compassion of the Lord

55 (A)“Come, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
    (B)come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price.
(C)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
    and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
    (D)hear, that your soul may live;
(E)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    (F)my steadfast, sure love for (G)David.

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Invitation to the Thirsty

55 “Come, all you who are thirsty,(A)
    come to the waters;(B)
and you who have no money,
    come, buy(C) and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk(D)
    without money and without cost.(E)
Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?(F)
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,(G)
    and you will delight in the richest(H) of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
    listen,(I) that you may live.(J)
I will make an everlasting covenant(K) with you,
    my faithful love(L) promised to David.(M)

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