Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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Isaiah 52:1
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Let Zion Rejoice
52 Awake; awake;
put on your strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city,
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
shall enter you no more.(A)
Revelation 22:14-15
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14 Blessed are those who wash their robes,[a] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral[b] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.(A)
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Revelation 20:15
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15 and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Revelation 3:5
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5 If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not erase your name from the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels.(A)
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Isaiah 35:8
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8 A highway shall be there,[a]
and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not travel on it,[b]
but it shall be for God’s people;[c]
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.(A)
Matthew 13:41
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41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin[a] and all evildoers,(A)
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- 13.41 Or stumbling
Joel 3:17
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The Glorious Future of Judah
17 So you shall know that I, the Lord your God,
dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and strangers shall never again pass through it.(A)
Ezekiel 44:9
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9 “Thus says the Lord God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
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Ephesians 5:5
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5 Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(A)
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Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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Revelation 13:8
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8 and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.[a](A)
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- 13.8 Or written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world
Hebrews 12:14
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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace
14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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Psalm 101:8
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8 Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land,
cutting off all evildoers
from the city of the Lord.(A)
Revelation 20:12
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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.(A)
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Galatians 5:19-21
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19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,(A) 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)
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- 5.21 Other ancient authorities add murder
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
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9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A) 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Isaiah 60:21
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21 Your people shall all be righteous;
they shall possess the land forever.
They are the shoot that I planted, the work of my hands,
so that I might be glorified.(A)
Philippians 4:3
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3 Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion,[a] help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.(A)
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- 4.3 Or loyal Syzygus
Zechariah 14:21
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21 and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders[a] in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.(A)
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- 14.21 Or Canaanites
Revelation 17:4-5
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4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(A) 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[a] of whores[b] and of earth’s abominations.”(B)
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Numbers 12:15
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15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out on the march until Miriam had been brought in again.
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Numbers 5:3
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3 you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp; they must not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”(A)
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Leviticus 13:46
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46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.(A)
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