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January 26 - The Real Flex: Choosing Wisdom Over Hype · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat where we have.
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  Devotional conversations rooted in Scripture and relevant for
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  today, January 20. 6th The real. Flex Choosing.
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  Wisdom over hype. It's hard not to chase what's
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  shiny. We live in a world where
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  attention feels like. Currency.
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  Likes followers, recognition being seen as.
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  Impressive or successful? Everywhere you look, there's
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  pressure. To flex something your image,
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  your intelligence, your influence.
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  And if you're not careful. You can start believing that
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  hype equals value, but God invites us to.
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  Slow down and ask a deeper question.
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  What actually? Lasts in Proverbs chapter 8
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  verses. 10:50. Wisdom speaks clearly.
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  And confidently take my instruction instead of silver
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  and knowledge rather than choice.
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  Gold for wisdom is better than jewels.
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  And all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
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  That's a bold claim. God is saying that everything
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  you're tempted. To chase status.
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  Money, applause, influence. Doesn't come close to the value.
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  Of wisdom not because those things are always.
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  Bad but. Because they can't do what?
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  Wisdom. Does wisdom.
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  Guides you when no one is clapping.
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  Wisdom protects you when hype fades.
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  Wisdom builds a life that doesn't collapse under pressure
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  then. Proverbs Chapter. 8 verse 13
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  sharpens the point even more. It says the fear of the Lord is
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  hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way
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  of evil and perverted. Speech I hate.
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  Wisdom isn't neutral. It doesn't coexist comfortably
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  with pride. Pride tells you to elevate
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  yourself. Protect your.
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  Image and always. Look impressive.
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  Wisdom tells you to walk humbly. Speak.
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  Truthfully, and reject anything that pulls you away from God's
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  heart. Jesus puts this on full display
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  in Matthew chapter 23. He.
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  Calls out religious leaders who look.
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  Spiritual on the outside but were driven by ego on the
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  inside. They loved attention, titles and
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  being seen as important, and then Jesus.
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  Flips the whole idea. Of greatness upside down, he
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  says. The greatest among you shall be
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  your servant, whoever exalts himself.
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  Will be humbled. And whoever humbles himself.
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  Will be exalted. In God's Kingdom, greatness
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  isn't about how high you climb. It's.
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  About how well. You love and serve.
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  That's the real flex. Not being the loudest voice, not
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  being the most admired person in the room, but choosing wisdom
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  when pride feels easier. Choosing humility when attention
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  is tempting. Choosing to serve when no one is
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  watching. Those choices don't always go
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  viral. But they shape your.
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  Character and character. Lasts The world's hype fades
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  fast. Trends change, platforms shift,
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  applause moves on. But wisdom stays.
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  It grounds you it. Steadies you.
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  It keeps. Your heart aligned with God when
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  everything around you is competing for it.
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  When you choose wisdom over hype, you're not missing out.
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  You're investing in something eternal.
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  You don't. Have to prove yourself you don't
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  have. To chase attention.
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  God already sees you. And when you walk in his wisdom,
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  he promises honor that doesn't depend on hype and a life that
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  doesn't fall apart when the spotlight moves on.
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  Let's pray, Heavenly Father. Thank you for reminding me that
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  your wisdom is more valuable than anything.
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  This world celebrates. Help me reject pride, arrogance
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  and the need for attention. Teach me to walk humbly.
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  Serve. Others with joy and choose your
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  truth. Over hype every day shape my
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  heart to value what? You value and lead me in wisdom
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  that lasts. Forever.
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  on spiritual leftovers. This is a journey from longing
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  to encounter, from dryness to delight.
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  Seek teaches you how to pursue God with passion and
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  intentionality. Savour trains your heart to
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  recognize and enjoy His presence in every season.
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  SEE opens your spiritual eyes to God's power, glory, and beauty
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  at work in your life. Satisfy leads your soul into
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  fullness, strength, and deep contentment in Him alone.
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  Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and worship that rises naturally
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  from intimacy with God. Stay anchors your heart in
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  Proverbs, chapter 8. Verses 1 to. 36 World.
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  English Bible doesn't wisdom. Cry out.
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  Doesn't understanding. Raise her voice.
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  On the top. Of high places, by the way,
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  where the paths? Meet she stands.
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  Beside the gates. At the entry of the city.
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  At the entry. Doors, she cries aloud.
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  I call. To you men I send my voice to
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  the sons of mankind. You simple understand prudence.
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  You fools. Be of an understanding heart
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  here. For I will.
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  Speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for
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  right things, for my mouth speaks truth.
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  Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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  All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
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  There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
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  They are all plain to him who understands.
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  Write to those who find knowledge.
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  Receive my instruction rather than silver.
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  Knowledge rather than choice. Gold for wisdom is better than
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  rubies. All the things that may be
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  desired can't be compared to it. I, wisdom, have made prudence my
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  dwelling. Find out knowledge and
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  discretion. The fear of Yahweh is to hate
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  evil. I hate pride.
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  Arrogance, the evil way and the perverse mouth, counsel and
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  sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power
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  by me, King's reign and Prince's.
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  Decree, Justice. By me prince's rule, nobles and
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  all the righteous. Rulers of the Earth I love.
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  Those who love me, those who seek me diligently, will find
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  me. With me are riches, honor,
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  enduring wealth, and prosperity. My fruit is better than gold.
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  Yes. Then fine gold my yield, then
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  choice silver. I walk.
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  In the way. Of righteousness in the middle
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  of the. Paths of Justice.
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  That I may give wealth to those who love me.
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  I feel their treasuries, Yahweh. Possessed me in the beginning of
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  his. Work before his deeds of old.
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  I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, before the
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  earth. Existed.
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  When there were no depths, I was born.
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  When there were no springs abounding with water before the
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  mountains were settled in place. Before the hills.
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  I was born while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the
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  fields, nor the beginning of the dust.
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  Of the world. When he established the heavens,
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  I was there. When He set a circle on the
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  surface of the deep, when He. Established the clouds above.
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  When the springs of the deep became strong, when he gave to
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  the sea its boundary that the waters should not violate his
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  commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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  then I was the Craftsman by his side.
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  I was a. Delight day by day, always.
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  Rejoicing before him, Rejoicing in his.
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  Whole world. My delight was with the sons of
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  men. Now, therefore, my sons, listen
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  to me for blessed. Are those who.
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  Keep my ways, hear instruction and be wise.
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  Don't refuse it. Blessed is the man who hears me
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  watching daily at my gates, waiting at my.
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  Doorposts for whoever. Finds me, finds life, and will
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  obtain favor from Yahweh. But he who sins against me
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  wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love
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  death. Matthew chapter 23 World English
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  Bible. Then Jesus spoke to the
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  multitudes and to his disciples, saying the scribes and the
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  Pharisees sit on Moses seat all things, therefore whatever.
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  They tell you to observe, Observe.
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  And do, but don't do their works, for they say.
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  And don't do for they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be
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  born, and lay them on men's shoulders.
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  But they. Themselves will not lift a
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  finger to help them. But they do all their works.
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  To be seen by men. They make their phalacteries.
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  Broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments and love the
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  place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
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  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be.
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  Called Rabbi Rabbi. By men, but you are not to be
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  called. Rabbi.
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  For one is your teacher the Christ, and all of you are.
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  Brothers. Call no man on the earth.
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  Your father, for one, is your. Father, he Who?
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  Is in heaven. Neither be called masters.
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  For one is your master. The Christ, but he who?
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  Is greatest among you will be your servant.
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  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles
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  himself. Will be exalted.
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  Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees,
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  hypocrites for you devour widows houses.
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  And as a pretense you make long. Prayers therefore you will
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  receive. Greater condemnation.
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  But woe to. You scribes and Pharisees,
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  hypocrites, because you. Shut up the Kingdom of heaven
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  against men, for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you
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  allow those who are entering in to enter.
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  Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees.
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  Hypocrites. For you travel around by sea and
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  land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes 1, you make him
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  twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
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  Woe to you. You blind guides who say.
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  Whoever swears. By the temple it is nothing.
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  But whoever swears. By the gold of the temple.
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  He is obligated. You blind fools.
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  For which is greater the gold? Or the temple that sanctifies
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  the gold and whoever. Swears by the.
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  Altar. It is nothing.
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  But whoever swears. By the gift that is on it.
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  He is obligated. You blind fools.
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  For which is greater, the gift or the?
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  Altar that sanctifies the gift. He therefore, who swears by the
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  altar, swears by. It and by everything on it.
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  He who? Swears by the temple, swears by
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  it and by him who has been living in it.
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  He who? Swears by heaven, swears by the
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  throne of God and by him who sits on it.
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  Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
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  For you tithe mint, dill, and comin, and have left undone the
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  weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith.
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  But you ought to have done these and not to have left the other
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  undone, you blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a
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  camel. Woe to you.
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  Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for you.
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  Clean the outside of the cup and of the.
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  Platter, but within. They are full of extortion and
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  unrighteousness. You blind Pharisee.
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  First clean the inside of the cup and of the.
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  Platter that it's. Outside may become clean also.
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  Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees,
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  hypocrites for you are like. White in tombs.
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  Which outwardly appear beautiful.
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  But inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all
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  uncleanness even. So you also outwardly appear
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  righteous. To men.
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  But inwardly you are full of hypocrisy.
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  And iniquity. Woe to you.
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  Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites.
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  For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs.
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  Of the righteous. And say if we had lived in the
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  days. Of our fathers.
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  We wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood.
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  Of the prophets, therefore you testify to yourselves.
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  That you are children of those who.
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  Killed the prophets. Fill up, then the measure of
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  your. Father's.
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  You serpents, you offspring of Vipers.
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  How will you? Escape the judgment of Gehenna.
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  Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes.
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  Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you
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  will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to.
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  City. That on you may come all the
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  righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood.
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  Of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah.
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  Son of Beratia, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the
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  altar, most certainly I tell you, all these things will come
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  upon this generation. Jerusalem.
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  Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to
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  her. How often I would have gathered
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  your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under
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  her wings, and you would not behold.
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  Your house is left to you desolate for I tell you.
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  You will not see me from now on until you say.
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  Blessed is he. Who comes in the name of the
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