Psalm 139:19-24

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¹⁹If only you, God, would slay the wicked!^(A)
    Away from me,^(B) you who are bloodthirsty!^(C)
²⁰They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries^(D) misuse your name.^(E)
²¹Do I not hate those^(F) who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor^(G) those who are in rebellion against you?
²²I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.^(H)
²³Search me,^(I) God, and know my heart;^(J)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴See if there is any offensive way^(K) in me,
    and lead me^(L) in the way everlasting.

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Proverbs 30:7-9

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⁷“Two things I ask of you, Lord;
    do not refuse me before I die:
⁸Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.^(A)
⁹Otherwise, I may have too much and disown^(B) you
    and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’^(C)
Or I may become poor and steal,
    and so dishonor the name of my God.^(D)

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John 15:18-27

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The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸“If the world hates you,^(A) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(B) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^(C) ²⁰Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a]^(D) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(E) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹They will treat you this way because of my name,^(F) for they do not know the one who sent me.^(G) ²²If I had not come and spoken to them,^(H) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^(I) ²³Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(J) they would not be guilty of sin.^(K) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(L) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[b]^(M)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶“When the Advocate^(N) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(O)—the Spirit of truth^(P) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^(Q) ²⁷And you also must testify,^(R) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(S)

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Footnotes

John 15:20 John 13:16
John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

Revelation 11:15-19

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The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵The seventh angel sounded his trumpet,^(A) and there were loud voices^(B) in heaven, which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,^(C)
and he will reign for ever and ever.”^(D)

¹⁶And the twenty-four elders,^(E) who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces^(F) and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying:

“We give thanks^(G) to you, Lord God Almighty,^(H)
    the One who is and who was,^(I)
because you have taken your great power
    and have begun to reign.^(J)
¹⁸The nations were angry,^(K)
    and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,^(L)
    and for rewarding your servants the prophets^(M)
and your people who revere your name,
    both great and small^(N)—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

¹⁹Then God’s temple^(O) in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant.^(P) And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder,^(Q) an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.^(R)

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