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Isaiah 48:17-19; Matthew 11:16-19
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Isaiah 48:17-19
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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
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O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
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your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Matthew 11:16-19
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"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
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'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon';
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the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.