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Your people will offer themselves willingly
    on the day you lead your forces
    on the holy mountains.[a]
From the womb of the morning,
    like dew, your youth[b] will come to you.(A)

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  1. 110.3 Heb mss Symmachus Jerome: MT in holy splendor
  2. 110.3 Cn: Heb the dew of your youth

“When locks are long in Israel,
    when the people offer themselves willingly[a]
    bless the Lord!(A)

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  1. 5.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain

21 make you complete in everything good[a] so that you may do his will, as he works among us[b] that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever.[c] Amen.(A)

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  1. 13.21 Other ancient authorities read for every good work
  2. 13.21 Other ancient authorities read you
  3. 13.21 Other ancient authorities add and ever

14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(A)

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For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

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just as he chose us in Christ[a] before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.(A)

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  1. 1.4 Gk in him

15 But when the one[a] who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace was pleased(A) 16 to reveal his Son to me,[b] so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with any human,(B)

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  1. 1.15 Other ancient authorities read God
  2. 1.16 Gk in me

For he was crucified in weakness but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him,[a] but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.(A)

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  1. 13.4 Other ancient authorities read with him

Commendation of Titus

16 But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

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12 For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.(A)

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Worship the Lord in holy splendor;
    tremble before him, all the earth.(A)

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The Multitude from Every Nation

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.(A)

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13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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Encouragement to Be Generous

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For, as I can testify, they voluntarily gave according to their means and even beyond their means,

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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?(A) “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”(B) So, too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.[a](C)

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  1. 11.6 Other ancient authorities add But if it is by works, it is no longer on the basis of grace, otherwise work would no longer be work

20 When they heard it, they praised God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law.(A)

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20 So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.(A)

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30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant[a] Jesus.”(A) 31 When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.(B)

The Believers Share Their Possessions

32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.(C) 33 With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.(D) 34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold.(E) 35 They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.(F)

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  1. 4.30 Or child

But many of those who heard the word believed, and they numbered about five thousand.(A)

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41 So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.

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33 Being therefore exalted at[a] the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you see and hear.(A)

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  1. 2.33 Or by

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”(A)

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12 This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. This is the law of the temple.(A)

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27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
    and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    shall worship before him.[a](A)
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
    and he rules over the nations.(B)

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  1. 22.27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you

And the people blessed all those who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.

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