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18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.
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18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.
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19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you.
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19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you.
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20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
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20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
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21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?
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21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?
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22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.
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23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.
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24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,
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24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,
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25 or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.
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25 or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.
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26 Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;
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26 Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;
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27 if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.
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27 if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.
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28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.
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28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.
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| Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
