(A)Seek the Lord, (B)all you humble of the land,
    who do his just commands;[a]
(C)seek righteousness; seek humility;
    (D)perhaps (E)you may be hidden
    on the day of the anger of the Lord.

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  1. Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment

14 (A)Seek good, and not evil,
    that you may live;
and so the Lord, (B)the God of hosts, will be with you,
    as you have said.
15 (C)Hate evil, and love good,
    and establish justice (D)in the gate;
(E)it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves (A)for a little while
    until the fury has passed by.
21 (B)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of (C)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.

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when God (A)arose to establish judgment,
    to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.

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Seek the Lord and his (A)strength;
    (B)seek his presence continually!

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26 (A)The afflicted[a] shall (B)eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
    May your hearts (C)live forever!

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  1. Psalm 22:26 Or The meek

(A)Who knows? God may turn and relent (B)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

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(A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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(A)Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For (B)you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ (C)who is your[a] life (D)appears, then you also will appear with him (E)in glory.

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  1. Colossians 3:4 Some manuscripts our

12 (A)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    (B)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and (C)rain righteousness upon you.

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18 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your (A)life as a prize of war, (B)because you have put your trust in me, declares the Lord.’”

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18 But (A)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (B)To him be the glory both now and to the day of (C)eternity. Amen.

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“Blessed are the (A)meek, for they (B)shall inherit the earth.

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10 (A)The name of the Lord is (B)a strong tower;
    the righteous man runs into it and (C)is safe.

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Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David, when he fled from Saul, in (C)the cave.

57 (D)Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
    for in you my soul (E)takes refuge;
in (F)the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
    (G)till the storms of destruction pass by.

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  1. Psalm 57:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

but let your adorning be (A)the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

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22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for (A)a sincere brotherly love, (B)love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

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A Life Pleasing to God

Finally, then, brothers,[a] we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you (A)received from us (B)how you ought to walk and (C)to please God, just as you are doing, that you (D)do so more and more.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 10, 13

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

(A)“Seek me and live;
    but do not seek (B)Bethel,
and do not enter into (C)Gilgal
    or cross over to (D)Beersheba;
for (E)Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
    and (F)Bethel shall come to nothing.”

(G)Seek the Lord and live,
    (H)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
    and it devour, with none to quench it for (I)Bethel,

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And (A)do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, (B)I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you (C)your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”

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My Refuge and My Fortress

91 He who dwells in (A)the shelter of the Most High
    will abide in (B)the shadow of the Almighty.

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21 Therefore (A)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with (B)meekness the implanted word, (C)which is able to save your souls.

22 But be (D)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: (A)forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for (B)the prize of the upward (C)call of God in Christ Jesus.

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Ask, and It Will Be Given

(A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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