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Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.[a](A) 15 So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

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  1. 2.14 Or prostitution

Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it,[a] does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching[b] has both the Father and the Son.(A) 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive and welcome this person into your house,(B)

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  1. 9 Other ancient authorities read turns aside
  2. 9 Other ancient authorities add of Christ

I will not set before my eyes
    anything that is base.

I hate the work of those who fall away;
    it shall not cling to me.(A)

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I hate the company of evildoers
    and will not sit with the wicked.(A)

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21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?(A)
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
    I count them my enemies.

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Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.(A)

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