- Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your doings
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil. - The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. - For not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm give them victory;
but your right hand, and your arm,
and the light of your countenance,
for you delighted in them. - Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again.
- Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle,
but those who gather little by little will increase it. - Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
- If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
- You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
- So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.
- Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. - The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet. - For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
- Rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing. - And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
- Turn back, and say to Hezekiah prince of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
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