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17 For you refuse my discipline
    and treat my words like trash.

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17 You hate(A) my instruction
    and cast my words behind(B) you.

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26 “But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They turned their backs on your Law, they killed your prophets who warned them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

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26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(A) They killed(B) your prophets,(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(D)

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12 To learn, you must love discipline;
    it is stupid to hate correction.

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12 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
    but whoever hates correction is stupid.(A)

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For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.

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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(A) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(B) They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.(C)

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10 He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. 11 So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. 12 Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.

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10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(A) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them(C) a powerful delusion(D) so that they will believe the lie(E) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(F)

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21 Well then, if you teach others, why don’t you teach yourself? You tell others not to steal, but do you steal? 22 You say it is wrong to commit adultery, but do you commit adultery? You condemn idolatry, but do you use items stolen from pagan temples?[a] 23 You are so proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:22 Greek do you steal from temples?

21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(A) 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?(B) 23 You who boast in the law,(C) do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

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28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

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28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(A) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

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These wise teachers will fall
    into the trap of their own foolishness,
for they have rejected the word of the Lord.
    Are they so wise after all?

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The wise(A) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed(B) and trapped.(C)
Since they have rejected the word(D) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom(E) do they have?

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Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge,
    but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

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The fear of the Lord(A) is the beginning of knowledge,
    but fools[a] despise wisdom(B) and instruction.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:7 The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs, and often elsewhere in the Old Testament, denote a person who is morally deficient.

20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

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20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(A)

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12 But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.”

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12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use.(A) We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.(B)’”

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36 But those who miss me injure themselves.
    All who hate me love death.”

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36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

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28 “When they cry for help, I will not answer.
    Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
29 For they hated knowledge
    and chose not to fear the Lord.

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28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;(A)
    they will look for me but will not find me,(B)
29 since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.(C)

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