(A)in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
    but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who (B)swears to his own hurt and does not change;

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35 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the Lord, (A)and I cannot take back my vow.”

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Oaths

33 “Again (A)you have heard that it was said to those of old, (B)‘You shall not swear falsely, but (C)shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’

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I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
    that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in (A)the way that is blameless
    shall minister to me.

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(A)A perverse heart shall be far from me;
    I will (B)know nothing of evil.

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14 We know that (A)we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

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(A)The fool will no more be called noble,
    nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
For (B)the fool speaks folly,
    and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
    to utter error concerning the Lord,
(C)to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
    and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

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As for (A)the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
    in whom is all my delight.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:3 Or To the saints in the land, the excellent in whom is all my delight, I say:

21 I will not (A)show partiality to any man
    or use flattery toward any person.
22 For I do not know how to flatter,
    else my Maker would soon take me away.

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And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. (A)But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.

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10 They also honored us greatly,[a] and when we were about to sail, they put on board whatever we needed.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:10 Greek honored us with many honors

17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, (A)“Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. 18 O king, the (B)Most High God (C)gave (D)Nebuchadnezzar your father (E)kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. 19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, (F)all peoples, nations, and languages (G)trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. 20 But (H)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, (I)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. 21 (J)He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, (K)until he knew that the (L)Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. 22 And you his son,[a] (M)Belshazzar, (N)have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 but you have lifted up yourself against (O)the Lord of heaven. And (P)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (Q)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (R)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (S)whose are all your ways, (T)you have not honored.

24 “Then from his presence (U)the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered[b] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, (V)you have been weighed[c] in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (W)the Medes and (X)Persians.”[d]

29 Then (Y)Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel (Z)was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 (AA)That very night (AB)Belshazzar the (AC)Chaldean king was killed. 31 [e] And (AD)Darius (AE)the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:22 Or successor
  2. Daniel 5:26 Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered
  3. Daniel 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
  4. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
  5. Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aramaic

63 (A)I am a companion of all who fear you,
    of those who keep your precepts.

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13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, (A)“What have I to do with you? Go to (B)the prophets of your father and to (C)the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is (D)the Lord who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.” 14 And Elisha said, (E)“As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.

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David Avenges the Gibeonites

21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David (A)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but (B)of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

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18 But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. 19 But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them. 20 This we will do to them: let them live, lest (A)wrath be upon us, (B)because of the oath that we swore to them.”

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25 And as he reasoned (A)about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. (B)When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

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And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:

“Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, (A)most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation, in every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude.

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49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For (A)whoever (B)does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

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The Sin of Partiality

My brothers,[a] (A)show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, (B)the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” (C)while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become (D)judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, (E)has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be (F)rich in faith and heirs of (G)the kingdom, (H)which he has promised to those who love him? But you (I)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (J)drag you (K)into court? Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable (L)name by which you were called?

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, (M)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you (N)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 14

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