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17 For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.(A)

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Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing;
    others pretend to be poor yet have great wealth.(A)

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Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich;
    I have gained wealth for myself;
in all of my gain
    no offense has been found in me
    that would be sin.”[a](A)

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  1. 12.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain

“I know your affliction and your poverty, even though you are rich. I know the slander on the part of those who say that they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan.(A)

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24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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53 he has filled the hungry with good things
    and sent the rich away empty.(A)

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12 But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

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15 (“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed,[a] not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)(A)

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  1. 16.15 Gk and keeps his robes

40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?”(A) 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.(B)

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12 When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them 13 and when your herds and flocks have multiplied and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,(A)

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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.(A)

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11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.’(A)

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Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

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For anyone who lacks these things is blind, suffering from eye disease, forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.(A)

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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.(A)

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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you! For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.(A) 10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.(B)

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24 “But woe to you who are rich,
    for you have received your consolation.(A)

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Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.(A)

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35 Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf—the one that Aaron had made.(A)

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All Israel Will Be Saved

25 I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.(A)

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20 That is true. They were broken off on account of unbelief,[a] but you stand on account of belief.[b] So do not become arrogant, but be afraid.(A)

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  1. 11.20 Or faithlessness or lack of trust
  2. 11.20 Or faithfulness or trust

The Jews and the Law

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God(A) 18 and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,(B) 21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(C) 22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law?

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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord![a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, “We are free;
    we will come to you no more”?(A)

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  1. 2.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain

19 Who is blind but my servant
    or deaf like my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind like my dedicated one
    or blind like the servant of the Lord?(A)

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lest I be full and deny you
    and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal
    and profane the name of my God.(A)

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