Micah 6Micah 7John 3.1-21Micah 6
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Hear ye now what the LORD saith Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
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O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
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For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
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Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
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Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
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Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
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Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
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Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
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Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
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For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Micah 7
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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
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The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother with a net.
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That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh now shall be their perplexity.
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Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
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For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.
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Therefore I will look unto the LORD I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
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I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.
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Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
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[In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall the decree be far removed.
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[In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.
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Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
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Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
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According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous [things].
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
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They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
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Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.
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He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
John 3
1-21
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There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
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The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
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Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
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Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
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The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
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Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
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Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our witness.
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If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things?
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And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man which is in heaven.
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And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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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.
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For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved.
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He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
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For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
