**Sirach 4:28 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<28> Fight to the death for truth, and the Lord God will fight for you. ```

**1 Corinthians 1:18 - New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)**

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Paradox of the Cross. <18> The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ```

**Revelation 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<9> I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but are lying—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. ```

**Revelation 3:9 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<9> Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. ```

**Acts 20:28 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<28> Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son. ```

**Genesis 1:1 - Maori Bible (MAORI)**

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<1> He mea hanga na te atua i te timatanga te rangi me te whenua. ```

**Lamentations 3:30 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<30> to give one's cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults. ```

**Matthew 5:39 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<39> But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; ```

**Psalm 23:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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Psalm 23 / The Divine Shepherd

<1> The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. ```

**1 Corinthians 2:9 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<9> But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ```

**Isaiah 65:17 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<17> For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. ```

**John 3:16 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<16> For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ```

**1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<14> For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews, <15> who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone ```

**2 Timothy 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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Salutation

<1> Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, ```

**1 Corinthians 15:55-58 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<55> "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" <56> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <57> But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <58> Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ```

**1 Corinthians 15:55-58 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<55> "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" <56> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <57> But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <58> Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ```

**Revelation 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<9> I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but are lying—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. ```

**1 Corinthians 15:55-58 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<55> "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" <56> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <57> But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <58> Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ```

**Psalm 18:37-49 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<37> I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back until they were consumed. <38> I struck them down, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. <39> For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me. <40> You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. <41> They cried for help, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them. <42> I beat them fine, like dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets. <43> You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you made me head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. <44> As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me. <45> Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds. <46> The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation, <47> the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me; <48> who delivered me from my enemies; indeed, you exalted me above my adversaries; you delivered me from the violent. <49> For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name. ```

**Psalm 123:2 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<2> As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he has mercy upon us. ```

**Matthew 24:11 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<11> And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. ```

**Leviticus 18:21-22 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<21> And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. <22> Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. ```

**Leviticus 20:13 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<13> If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ```

**Romans 1:27 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<27> And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. ```

**1 Timothy 1:8-10 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<8> But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; <9> Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, <10> For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; ```

**1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<9> Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, <10> Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. <11> And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. ```

**Revelation 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<6> Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. ```

**Romans 2:28-29 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<28> For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: <29> But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. ```

**Ephesians 4:29-32 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<29> Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. <30> And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. <31> Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, <32> and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. ```

**Matthew 20:12-16 - Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)**

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<12> saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' <13> But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? <14> Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. <15> Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' <16> So the last will be first, and the first last." ```

**Luke 12:48 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<48> But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded. ```

**Leviticus 20:13 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<13> If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. ```

**1 Corinthians 3:1-12 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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On Divisions in the Corinthian Church

<3> And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. <2> I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, <3> for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations? <4> For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human? <5> What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. <6> I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. <7> So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. <8> The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. <9> For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building. <10> According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. <11> For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ. <12> Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ```

**Psalm 118:10 - 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)**

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<10> All the nations compassed me about, but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. ```

**Leviticus 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<6> And you shall bring to the priest, as your guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering. ```

**Genesis 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

<1> In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ```

**Leviticus 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<6> If your offering for a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord is from the flock, male or female, you shall offer one without blemish. ```

**Leviticus 2:9 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<9> The priest shall remove from the grain offering its token portion and turn this into smoke on the altar, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the Lord. ```

**Genesis 2:5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<5> when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; ```

**Romans 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<3> Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? ```

**Psalm 117 - 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)**

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<117> O praise the Lord, all ye nations! Praise Him, all ye people! <2> For His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord! ```

**Colossians 3:2 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<2> Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, ```

**Genesis 14:14 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<14> When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. ```

**Genesis 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<8> Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim ```

**Leviticus 4:6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<6> The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the curtain of the sanctuary. ```

**Leviticus 7:4 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<4> the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver, which shall be removed with the kidneys. ```

**Leviticus 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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The Burnt Offering

<1> The Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying: ```

**Leviticus 1:2 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<2> Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any of you bring an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock. ```

**1 Corinthians 15:55-58 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<55> "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" <56> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <57> But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <58> Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ```

**1 Corinthians 15:55-58 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<55> "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" <56> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <57> But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <58> Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ```

**Psalm 27:1-5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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Psalm 27 / Triumphant Song of Confidence

<1> The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? <2> When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh—my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall. <3> Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident. <4> One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. <5> For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock. ```

**Matthew 6:4 - 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)**

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<4> that thine almsgiving may be in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, Himself shall reward thee openly. ```

**Psalm 13:1 - Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)**

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<13> Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. ```

**2 Thessalonians 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<15> So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter. ```

**Isaiah 47:13 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<13> You are wearied with your many consultations; let those who study the heavensstand up and save you, those who gaze at the stars, and at each new moon predict what shall befall you. ```

**Colossians 1:15-18 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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The Supremacy of Christ

<15> He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; <16> for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. <17> He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. <18> He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. ```

**Romans 13:1-5 - 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)**

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<13> Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but from God; the powers that be are ordained by God. <2> Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, and those who resist shall receive for themselves damnation. <3> For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same, <4> for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. <5> Therefore ye must be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake. ```

**1 Timothy 5:8 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<8> But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. ```

**Matthew 10:16 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<16> Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ```

**Revelation 4:1-5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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The Heavenly Worship

<4> After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." <2> At once I was in the spirit, and there in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne! <3> And the one seated there looks like jasper and carnelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald. <4> Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones are twenty-four elders, dressed in white robes, with golden crowns on their heads. <5> Coming from the throne are flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne burn seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God; ```

**Deuteronomy 22:5 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<5> The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. ```

**Isaiah 13:21 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<21> But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. ```

**Luke 11:27 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<27> And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. ```

**Luke 11:28 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<28> But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. ```

**Romans 8:26 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<26> Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ```

**Leviticus 18:23 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<23> Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. ```

**Revelation 21:1-5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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The New Heaven and the New Earth

<21> Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. <2> And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. <3> And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; <4> he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." <5> And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." ```

**Romans 8:28 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<28> And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ```

**Romans 13:4 - King James Version (KJV)**

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<4> For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. ```

**2 Corinthians 12:10 - Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)**

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<10> For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. ```