15 I know your deeds,(A) that you are neither cold nor hot.(B) I wish you were either one or the other!

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15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

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15 (A)“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

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11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,(A) serving the Lord.

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11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

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24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.(A)

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24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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You Cannot Serve God and Riches

24 (A)“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. (B)You cannot serve God and [a]mammon.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:24 Lit., in Aram., riches

Such a person is double-minded(A) and unstable(B) in all they do.

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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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he is (A)a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver(A) between two opinions? If the Lord(B) is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”

But the people said nothing.

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21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

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21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, (A)“How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, (B)follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.

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Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.(A)

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Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

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Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

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12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,

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12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow (A)cold.

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those who bow down on the roofs
    to worship the starry host,(A)
those who bow down and swear by the Lord
    and who also swear by Molek,[a](B)
those who turn back from following(C) the Lord
    and neither seek(D) the Lord nor inquire(E) of him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:5 Hebrew Malkam

And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;

And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.

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Those (A)who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear (B)by [a]Milcom;
(C)Those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And (D)have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:5 Or Malcam, an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Jer. 49:1; Molech, Lev. 18:21

And this is my prayer: that your love(A) may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,(B)

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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

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