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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own counsels.(A)

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12 So I gave them over(A) to their stubborn hearts
    to follow their own devices.

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24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(A)

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24 But they did not listen(A) or pay attention;(B) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(C) They went backward(D) and not forward.

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24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(A)

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24 Therefore God gave them over(A) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(B)

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The Futility of Reliance on Egypt

30 Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord,
who carry out a plan but not mine;
who make an alliance but against my will,
    adding sin to sin;(A)

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Woe to the Obstinate Nation

30 “Woe(A) to the obstinate children,”(B)
    declares the Lord,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
    forming an alliance,(C) but not by my Spirit,
    heaping sin upon sin;

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42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices
    forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A)

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42 But God turned away from them(A) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.(B) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
    forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

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The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,(A) 10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(C)

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The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan(A) works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders(B) that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(C) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(D) 11 For this reason God sends them(E) a powerful delusion(F) so that they will believe the lie(G)

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26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(A) 27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(B)

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  1. 1.26 Gk use
  2. 1.27 Gk use

26 Because of this, God gave them over(A) to shameful lusts.(B) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(C) 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(D)

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16 In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,(A)

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16 In the past, he let(A) all nations go their own way.(B)

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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.(A) 17 Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.(B)

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16 “We will not listen(A) to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!(B) 17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:(C) We will burn incense(D) to the Queen of Heaven(E) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials(F) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.(G) At that time we had plenty of food(H) and were well off and suffered no harm.(I)

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If your children sinned against him,
    he delivered them into the power of their transgression.(A)

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When your children sinned against him,
    he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.(A)

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Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide[a] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”(A)

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  1. 6.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit(A) will not contend with[a] humans forever,(B) for they are mortal[b];(C) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

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  1. Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
  2. Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, in order that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”(A)

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The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen(A) to you—so that my wonders(B) may be multiplied in Egypt.”

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