14 Blessed are those who (A)wash their robes,[a] so that they may have the right to (B)the tree of life and that (C)they may enter the city by the gates.

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  1. Revelation 22:14 Some manuscripts do his commandments

27 But (A)nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's (B)book of life.

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“And behold, (A)I am coming soon. (B)Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

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For (A)this is the love of God, that we (B)keep his commandments. And (C)his commandments are not burdensome.

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And everyone who (A)thus hopes in him (B)purifies himself as he is pure.

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(A)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (B)To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of (C)the tree of life, which is in (D)the paradise of God.’

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23 And this is his commandment, (A)that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and (B)love one another, (C)just as he has commanded us. 24 (D)Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[a] and God[b] in him. And (E)by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

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  1. 1 John 3:24 Greek him
  2. 1 John 3:24 Greek he

19 (A)For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but (B)keeping the commandments of God.

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10 (A)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as (B)I have kept (C)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, (D)that my joy may be in you, and that (E)your joy may be full.

12 (F)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 (G)Greater love has no one than this, (H)that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are (I)my friends (J)if you do what I command you.

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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

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119 [a] Blessed are those whose (A)way is blameless,
    who (B)walk in the law of the Lord!
Blessed are those who (C)keep his (D)testimonies,
    who (E)seek him with their whole heart,
who also (F)do no wrong,
    but walk in his ways!
You have commanded your (G)precepts
    to be kept diligently.
Oh that my ways may (H)be steadfast
    in keeping your statutes!
(I)Then I shall not be put to shame,
    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.

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  1. Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter

through the middle of (A)the street of the city; (B)also, on either side of the river, (C)the tree of life[a] with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were (D)for the healing of the nations.

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  1. Revelation 22:2 Or the Lamb. In the midst of the street of the city, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life

14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of (A)the great tribulation. (B)They have washed their robes and (C)made them white (D)in the blood of the Lamb.

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For in Christ Jesus (A)neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but (B)only faith working through love.

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But take care (A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (B)to the weak.

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21 (A)Whoever has my commandments and (B)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And (C)he who loves me (D)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and (E)manifest myself to him.” 22 (F)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it (G)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, (H)“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and (I)we will come to him and (J)make our home with him.

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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 (A)“If you love me, you will (B)keep my commandments.

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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, (A)he will be saved and will go in and out and (B)find pasture.

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So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (A)I am the door of the sheep.

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12 (A)Are you greater than our father Jacob? (B)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

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37 (A)Blessed are those servants[a] whom the master finds (B)awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, (C)he will dress himself for service and (D)have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

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  1. Luke 12:37 Or bondservants

I Never Knew You

21 (A)“Not everyone who (B)says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will (C)enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who (D)does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 (E)On that day (F)many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not (G)prophesy in your name, and cast out demons (H)in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 (I)And then will I declare to them, ‘I (J)never knew you; (K)depart from me, (L)you workers of lawlessness.’

Build Your House on the Rock

24 (M)“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like (N)a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like (O)a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

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The Righteous Will Never Be Moved

112 [a] (A)Praise the Lord!
(B)Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
    who (C)greatly delights in his commandments!

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  1. Psalm 112:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

(A)Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,[a] as do the other apostles and (B)the brothers of the Lord and (C)Cephas?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek a sister as wife

12 (A)Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.

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Salvation for Foreigners

56 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
(A)for soon my salvation will come,
    and my righteousness be revealed.
Blessed is the man who does this,
    and the son of man who holds it fast,
(B)who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
    and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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