13 For You (A)created my innermost parts;
You (B)wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, because [a]I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
(C)Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

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  1. Psalm 139:14 Some ancient versions You are fearfully wonderful

13 For you created my inmost being;(A)
    you knit me together(B) in my mother’s womb.(C)
14 I praise you(D) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,(E)
    I know that full well.

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But God (A)demonstrates (B)His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, (C)Christ died for us.

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But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.(A)

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The one who does not love does not know God, because (A)God is love.

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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(A)

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16 (A)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has [a](B)for us. (C)God is love, and the one who (D)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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  1. 1 John 4:16 Lit in

16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(B)

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just as (A)He chose us in Him before (B)the foundation of the world, that we would be (C)holy and blameless before [a]Him. (D)In love [b]He (E)predestined us to (F)adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, (G)according to the good pleasure of His will,

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  1. Ephesians 1:4 Or Him, in love. He
  2. Ephesians 1:5 Lit having predestined

For he chose us(A) in him before the creation of the world(B) to be holy and blameless(C) in his sight. In love(D) he[a] predestined(E) us for adoption to sonship[b](F) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure(G) and will—

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  1. Ephesians 1:5 Or sight in love. He
  2. Ephesians 1:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him [a](A)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

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  1. John 15:5 Lit this one bears

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;(A) apart from me you can do nothing.

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17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is (A)one spirit with Him.

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17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[a](A)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:17 Or in the Spirit

20 (A)On that day you will know that (B)I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.

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20 On that day(A) you will realize that I am in my Father,(B) and you are in me, and I am in you.(C)

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28 and I give them (A)eternal life, and they will never perish; and (B)no one will snatch them out of My hand.

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28 I give them eternal life,(A) and they shall never perish;(B) no one will snatch them out of my hand.(C)

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Make sure that your character is (A)free from the love of money, (B)being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “(C)I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,”

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Keep your lives free from the love of money(A) and be content with what you have,(B) because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”[a](C)

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  1. Hebrews 13:5 Deut. 31:6

13 If we are faithless, (A)He remains faithful, for (B)He cannot deny Himself.

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13 if we are faithless,
    he remains faithful,(A)
    for he cannot disown himself.

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63 (A)It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; (B)the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.

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63 The Spirit gives life;(A) the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life.

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  1. John 6:63 Or are Spirit; or are spirit

so that the (A)requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who (B)do not walk [a]according to the flesh but [b]according to the Spirit. For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on (C)the things of the flesh, but those who are in accord with the Spirit, (D)the things of the Spirit. (E)For the mind [c]set on the flesh is (F)death, but the mind [d]set on the Spirit is life and peace,

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  1. Romans 8:4 Or in accordance with
  2. Romans 8:4 Or in accordance with
  3. Romans 8:6 Lit of the
  4. Romans 8:6 Lit of the

in order that the righteous requirement(A) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.(B)

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;(C) but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.(D) The mind governed by the flesh is death,(E) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life(F) and peace.

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