27 Flee from evil and do good, and dwell forever.

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27 Turn from evil and do good;(A)
    then you will dwell in the land forever.(B)

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16 [a]Wash you, make you clean, take away the evil of your works from before mine eyes: cease to do evil.

17 Learn to [b]do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed: judge the fatherless, and defend the widow.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:16 By this outward washing, he meaneth the spiritual: exhorting the Jews to repent and amend their lives.
  2. Isaiah 1:17 This kind of reasoning by the second Table, the Scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites, who pretend most holiness and religion in word, but when the charity and love toward their brethren should appear, they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.

16 Wash(A) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(B)
    stop doing wrong.(C)
17 Learn to do right;(D) seek justice.(E)
    Defend the oppressed.[a](F)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(G)
    plead the case of the widow.(H)

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  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

19 [a]Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and wherewith one may edify another.

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  1. Romans 14:19 A general conclusion: The use of this liberty, yea and our whole life, ought to be referred to the edifying of one another, insomuch that we esteem that thing unlawful by reason of the offense of our brother, which is of itself pure and lawful.

19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace(A) and to mutual edification.(B)

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14 (A)[a]Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without the which no man shall see the Lord.

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  1. Hebrews 12:14 We must live in peace, and holiness with all men.

Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C)

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