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27 Pile their sins up high,
    and don’t let them go free.

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27 Charge them with crime upon crime;(A)
    do not let them share in your salvation.(B)

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10 Your kindness to the wicked
    does not make them do good.
Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong
    and take no notice of the Lord’s majesty.

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10 But when grace is shown to the wicked,(A)
    they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil(B)
    and do not regard(C) the majesty of the Lord.

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14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm, but the Lord will judge him for what he has done.

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14 Alexander(A) the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done.(B)

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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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Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in front of[a] the builders.”

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  1. 4:5 Or for they have thrown insults in the face of.

Do not cover up their guilt(A) or blot out their sins from your sight,(B) for they have thrown insults in the face of[a] the builders.

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  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Or have aroused your anger before

10 Then he instructed me, “Do not seal up the prophetic words in this book, for the time is near. 11 Let the one who is doing harm continue to do harm; let the one who is vile continue to be vile; let the one who is righteous continue to live righteously; let the one who is holy continue to be holy.”

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10 Then he told me, “Do not seal up(A) the words of the prophecy of this scroll,(B) because the time is near.(C) 11 Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.”(D)

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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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11 For this reason God sends them(A) a powerful delusion(B) so that they will believe the lie(C) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(D)

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I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

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For I can testify about them that they are zealous(A) for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.(B)

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31 But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.

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31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(A) have not attained their goal.(B)

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18 So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.

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18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)

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“I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.”

“What do we care?” they retorted. “That’s your problem.”

Then Judas threw the silver coins down in the Temple and went out and hanged himself.

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“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”(A)

So Judas threw the money into the temple(B) and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.(C)

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31 “But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.

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31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.(A) 32 Go ahead, then, and complete(B) what your ancestors started!(C)

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14 May the Lord never forget the sins of his fathers;
    may his mother’s sins never be erased from the record.

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14 May the iniquity of his fathers(A) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

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