“Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and (A)keep my charge, then you shall (B)rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among (C)those who are standing here.

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Preach the Word

(A)I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, (B)who is to judge the living and the dead, and by (C)his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; (D)reprove, rebuke, and (E)exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

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28 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world,[a] (A)when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me (B)will also sit on twelve thrones, (C)judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:28 Greek in the regeneration

Rules for Levitical Priests

15 “But (A)the Levitical priests, (B)the sons of Zadok, who kept (C)the charge of my sanctuary (D)when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me (E)to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me (F)the fat and the blood, declares the Lord God. 16 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach (G)my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

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19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)“If you return, I will restore you,
    and you shall (B)stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
    you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
    but you shall not turn to them.
20 (C)And I will make you to this people
    a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
    (D)but they shall not prevail over you,
(E)for I am with you
    to save you and deliver you,
declares the Lord.
21 (F)I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
    and redeem you from the grasp of (G)the ruthless.”

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35 At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has (A)charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.”

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because (A)Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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And they sang (A)a new song, saying,

“Worthy are you to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
for (B)you were slain, and by your blood (C)you ransomed people for God
    from (D)every tribe and language and people and nation,
10 and you have made them (E)a kingdom and priests to our God,
    and they shall reign on the earth.”

11 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering (F)myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice,

(G)“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”

13 And I heard (H)every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

14 And the four living creatures (I)said, “Amen!” and the elders (J)fell down and worshiped.

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21 (A)The one who conquers, (B)I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as (C)I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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22 But you have come to (A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, (B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to (C)innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to (D)the assembly[a] of the firstborn who are (E)enrolled in heaven, and to (F)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:23 Or church

13 (A)I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, (B)who in his testimony before[a] Pontius Pilate made (C)the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until (D)the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  1. 1 Timothy 6:13 Or in the time of

Or do you not know that (A)the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

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In (A)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that (B)I go to prepare a place for you?[a]

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  1. John 14:2 Or In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you

30 (A)that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and (B)sit on thrones judging (C)the twelve tribes of Israel.

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35 but those who are (A)considered worthy to attain to (B)that age and to the resurrection from the dead (C)neither marry (D)nor are given in marriage, 36 for (E)they cannot die anymore, because they are (F)equal to angels and (G)are (H)sons of God, being (I)sons[a] of the resurrection.

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  1. Luke 20:36 Greek huioi; see Preface

My covenant with him was one of life and (A)peace, and I gave them to him. (B)It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. (C)True instruction[a] was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he (D)turned many from iniquity. For (E)the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people[b] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Malachi 2:6 Or law; also verses 7, 8, 9
  2. Malachi 2:7 Hebrew they

And the angel answered and said to me, (A)“These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after (B)presenting themselves before (C)the Lord of all the earth.

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14 Then he said, (A)“These are the two anointed ones[a] who stand by (B)the Lord of the whole earth.”

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  1. Zechariah 4:14 Hebrew two sons of new oil

“I saw in the night, and behold, (A)a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were (B)red, sorrel, and white horses. Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ (C)The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’ 10 So (D)the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, (E)‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to (F)patrol the earth.’ 11 And they answered (G)the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, (H)‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth (I)remains at rest.’

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11 This shall be for (A)the consecrated priests, (B)the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, (C)as the Levites did.

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32 Thus (A)they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the (B)service of the house of the Lord.

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and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, (A)that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,

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Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not (A)soiled their garments, and they will walk with me (B)in white, for they are (C)worthy. (D)The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never (E)blot his name out of (F)the book of life. (G)I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

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And (A)you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

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28 (A)Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, (B)to wear an ephod before me? (C)I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel. 29 Why then do you (D)scorn[a] my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’ 30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: (E)‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ (F)but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:29 Hebrew kick at

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