[89]Since Christ there has been no more unmediated relationship for the human person, neither to God nor to the world.
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So people called by Jesus learn that they had lived an illusion in their relationship to the world. [90]The illusion is immediacy.[7] It has blocked faith and obedience.
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No human way leads from person to person. The most loving sensitivity, the most thoughtful psychology, the most natural openness do not really reach the other person—there are no psychic immediacies.[10] Christ stands between them. The way to one’s neighbor leads only through Christ.
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Abraham remains completely alone. He is again completely the single individual, just as he was long ago, when he left his father’s house. He receives the call as it is given. He does not try to interpret it, nor does he spiritualize it. He takes God at God’s word and is prepared to obey. [93]Against every natural immediacy, against every ethical immediacy, against every religious immediacy, he obeys God’s word. He brings his son to be sacrificed.
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Everyone enters discipleship alone, but no one remains alone in discipleship.
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Those who mourn are those who are prepared to renounce and live without everything the world calls happiness[13] and peace.
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world.[14] They mourn over the world, its guilt, its fate, and its happiness. [103]The world celebrates, and they stand apart. The world shrieks “Enjoy life,”[15] and they grieve. They see that the ship, on which there are festive cheers and celebrating, is already leaking.[16] While the world imagines progress, strength, and a grand future, the disciples know about the end, judgment, and the arrival of the kingdom of heaven, for which the world is not at all ready
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The community of disciples does not shake off suffering, as if they had nothing to do with it. Instead, they bear it. In doing so, they give witness to their connection with the people around them. At the same time, this indicates that they do not arbitrarily seek suffering, that they do not withdraw into willful contempt for the world. Instead, they bear what is laid upon them, and what happens to them in discipleship for the sake of Jesus Christ.[19] Finally, disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered, until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering by the power of him who supports them.
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for they are the meek, who renounce all rights of their own for the sake of Jesus Christ. When they are berated, they are quiet. When violence is done to them, they endure it. When they are cast out, they yield.[21] They do not sue for their rights; they do not make a scene when injustice is done them. They do not want rights of their own. They want to leave all justice to God;
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These people without possessions, these strangers, these powerless, these sinners, these followers of Jesus live with him now also in the renunciation of their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own need and lack were not enough, they share in other people’s need, debasement, and guilt.
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Who is pure in heart? Only those who have completely given their hearts to Jesus, so that he alone rules in them. Only those who do not stain their hearts with their own evil, but also not with their own good.
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conscience.[33] Those who renounce their own good and evil, their own heart, who are contrite[34] and depend solely on Jesus, have purity of heart through the word of Jesus.
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Jesus’ followers are called to peace. When Jesus called them, they found their peace. Jesus is their peace.
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Now they are not only to have peace, but they are to make peace.4 [108]To do this they renounce violence and strife. Those things never help the cause of Christ. Christ’s kingdom is a realm of peace,
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Jesus’ disciples maintain peace by choosing to suffer instead of causing others to suffer. They preserve community when others destroy it. They renounce self-assertion and are silent in the face of hatred and injustice. That is how they overcome evil with good.[41] That is how they are makers of divine peace in a world of hatred and war.
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In judgment and action those who follow Jesus will be different from the world in renouncing property, happiness, rights, righteousness, honor, and violence.[43] They will be offensive to the world. That is why the disciples will be persecuted for righteousness’ sake. Not recognition, but rejection, will be their reward from the world for their word and deed.
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[109]Here at the end of the Beatitudes the question arises as to where in this world such a faith-community actually finds a place.[45] It has become clear that there is only one place for them, namely, the place where the poorest, the most tempted, the meekest of all may be found, at the cross on Golgotha. The faith-community of the blessed is the community of the Crucified.
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They are the salt of the earth. They are the noblest asset, the highest value the world possesses. Without them the earth can no longer survive. The earth is preserved by salt; the world lives because of these poor, ignoble, and weak people, whom the world rejects.
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Everything has to be salted. But salt that has lost its taste can never again be salty. [112]Everything, even the most spoiled stuff, can be saved by salt. Only salt which has lost its saltiness is hopelessly spoiled.
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The followers are the visible community of faith; their discipleship is a visible act which separates them from the world—or it is not discipleship. And discipleship is as visible as light in the night, as a mountain in the flatland.
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Jesus will do what the law requires; therefore, he will have to suffer death. For he alone understands the law as God’s law. That means that the law itself is not God; nor is God the law, as if the law had replaced God. That is how Israel misunderstood the law.[74] Idolizing the law and legalizing God were Israel’s sins.
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The disciples’ righteousness is “better” than that of the Pharisees in that it rests solely on the call into the community of Jesus, who alone has fulfilled the law. The disciples’ righteousness really is righteousness, because they themselves now truly do the will of God and fulfill the law.
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[124]The angry words bursting out of us, which we take so lightly, reveal that we do not respect the other person, that we view ourselves to be superior, and that we thus value our own lives more than the other’s.
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Those who say that they love God and yet hate their brothers or sisters are liars.
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Our bond to Jesus Christ permits no desire without love.
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For the community of disciples, which makes no national or legal claims for itself, retribution means patiently bearing the blow, so that evil is not added to evil. That is the only way community can be established and preserved.
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The overcoming of others now occurs by allowing their evil to run its course.
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Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil; it is the death of evil.
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[142]To overcome enemies by loving them—that is God’s will which is contained in the law.
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love must not ask if it is being returned. Instead, it seeks those who need it.
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[143]If, because of love for our kindred, we are obliged to offer our goods, our honor, and our life, then in the same way we are obliged to offer them for our enemies.
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Where in the world is there greater need, where are deeper wounds and pain than those of our enemies?
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requiring us to understand that what is characteristically Christian is that which steps away from the world, rises above the world, is extraordinary. Then the next chapter links up with this perisson and reveals its ambiguity. The danger is great that the disciples will completely misunderstand this as a command to start building a heavenly kingdom on earth, despising and destroying the world order.
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not the extraordinary, but rather the completely ordinary, everyday, regular, unobtrusive behavior is the sign of genuine obedience and genuine humility.
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The call to be extraordinary is the great, inevitable danger of discipleship. Therefore, beware of this extraordinariness, of the way that discipleship becomes visible. Jesus calls a halt to our thoughtless, unbroken, simple joy in what is visible.
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Of course, what is extraordinary does have to become visible, it does have to happen, but—beware that you do not do it in order for it to become visible.
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The righteousness of the disciples is hidden from themselves. Of course, they, too, can see the extraordinariness, but not themselves in it; they remain hidden from themselves. They see the extraordinary only when they look at Jesus, and in him they do not see it as extraordinary, but as something obvious and normal.
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What is extraordinary and visible is the cross of Christ, beneath which the disciples stand.
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The genuine deed of love is always a deed hidden to myself.
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Beware—it says—that you do not mistake genuine love for the virtue of kindness or for a human “quality”![174] It is self-forgetting love in the most genuine sense of the word.
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[160]Ultimately, it does not matter whether prayer is on the street or in one’s room, whether it is short or long, whether it is in the litany of church prayer or in the sighs of those who do not know how they should pray,[180] whether it is done by an individual or a community. The only thing that matters is knowing that your Father knows what you need.
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What is a life of faith, if not an endless manifold struggle of the spirit against the flesh?
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decrease.”[200] Goods are given to us to be used, but not to be stored away. Just as Israel in the desert received manna daily from God and did not have to worry about food and drink, and just as the manna which was stored from one day for another rotted,[201] so should Jesus’ disciples receive their share daily from God.
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Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. [169]Treasure means idolatry.
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According to Jesus’ word, there can be only love or hate toward God. If we do not love God, then we hate God. There is no in-between.
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Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.
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It is our securing things for tomorrow which makes us so insecure today.
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It is not worrying which makes disciples worry-free; it is faith in Jesus Christ. Now they know: we cannot worry (v. 27). The next day, the next hour is completely out of our hands’ reach. It is meaningless to behave as if we could worry. We can change nothing about the conditions of the world.
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Because we cannot worry, because we are so powerless, we should not worry. Worrying means taking God’s rule onto ourselves.
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It is not worry, it is not even work which produces daily bread, but God the Father.
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Jesus dissolves the connection between work and food, which is conceived in terms of cause and effect apart from God. He does not value daily bread as the reward for work.
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man must necessarily work and busy himself at something. At the same time, however, he must know that it is something other than his labor which furnishes him sustenance; it is the divine blessing.
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Jesus’ disciples, even after having followed him for a long time, will be able to answer the question, “Were you ever in need?” with “Lord, never!”[212] How could they suffer need who in hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger are confident of their community with Jesus Christ?
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[178]Disciples can encounter other people only as those to whom Jesus himself comes. Jesus’ struggle for the other person, his call, his love, his grace, his judgment are all that matters. Thus the disciples do not stand in a position from which the other person is attacked. Instead, in the truthfulness of Jesus’ love they approach the other person with an unconditional offer of community.
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When we judge, we encounter other people from the distance of observation and reflection. But love does not allot time and space to do that. For those who love, other people can never become an object for spectators to observe.
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Judging is the forbidden evaluation of other persons. It corrodes simple love. Love does not prohibit my having my own thoughts about others or my perceiving their sin, but both thoughts and perceptions are liberated from evaluating them.
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My refraining from judgment of others does not validate tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner;[219] it does not concede that the other person is somehow right after all. Neither I nor the other person is right. God alone, God’s grace and judgment is proclaimed to be right.
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Judging others makes us blind, but love gives us sight.[220] When I judge, I am blind to my own evil and to the grace granted the other person. But in the love of Christ, disciples know about every imaginable kind of guilt and sin, because they know of the suffering of Jesus Christ.
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If my intent in passing judgment were really to destroy evil, then I would seek evil where it really threatens me, namely, in myself. [180]But the fact that I seek evil in another person reveals that in such judgments I am really seeking to be right myself, that I want to avoid punishment for my own evil by judging another person.
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[181]The Word accepts the resistance it encounters and bears it. It is a cruel insight: nothing is impossible for the idea, but for the gospel there are impossibilities. The Word is weaker than the idea. Likewise, the witnesses to the Word are weaker than the propagandists of an idea.[223] But this weakness liberates them from the sick restlessness of a fanatic; they suffer with the Word.
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The disciples are called to prayer. They are told that no other way leads to their neighbor except prayer to God. Judgment and forgiveness remain in God’s hand.
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Who knows whether or not lies are hiding and deceptions lurking behind Christian appearances? Deep suspicion, cynical observation, and an anxious spirit of judgment could seep into the community. This word of Jesus could cause loveless condemnation to become the fate of every sister or brother who sins. But Jesus liberates his disciples from suspicions, which would tear apart the community. He says that a bad tree brings forth bad fruit. It will reveal itself in due time. We do not need to look into the heart of anyone else. We should wait until the tree bears its fruit. In due time you will know the trees by their fruits.
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Jesus tells us that people cannot live for long under the cover of appearances. The time to bear fruit will come, the time of open difference will come. Sooner or later their situation will be revealed.
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[188]Our confession will not save us. If we think it will, then we commit Israel’s sin of making the grace of our calling into a right before God.
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People’s speech here is correlated with their self-righteousness, and their deeds are correlated with that grace, before which people cannot do anything else except humbly obey and serve.
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not.[237] [190]To what should we hold fast, if we hear how the word of Jesus draws the separation between the community and the world, and then within the community until the last judgment? If nothing is left to us, neither our confession nor obedience? Then the only thing left is his word: I have known you. This is his everlasting word, his everlasting call.
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From the human point of view there are countless possibilities of understanding and interpreting the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus knows only one possibility: simply go and obey. Do not interpret or apply, but do it and obey. That is the only way Jesus’ word is really
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God’s beloved people were lying ill-treated on the ground, and the guilt for this fell on those who were to serve them with God’s ministry. It was not the Romans who had brought this about, but the misuse of the word of God by those called to be ministers of the Word.[5]
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What they have received from Jesus is no property of their own, with which they could bargain for other goods. “You received without payment!” Being a messenger of Jesus does not grant any personal rights; it does not entitle one to respect or power.
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In the same freedom in which they do their ministry they should accept lodging and food, not as alms for beggars, but as the food laborers deserve. Jesus calls his messengers “laborers.” Sloth, to be sure, does not deserve food.
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Lack of success and enmity cannot dissuade the messengers from the fact that they are sent by Jesus.
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The disciples should not show fear of the people, nor evil mistrust, least of all hatred toward human beings, nor should they show thoughtless trustfulness or faith in the good in all people. Instead, they should show true knowledge of the relationship of the word to the people and the people to the word.
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Human beings should not be feared. They cannot do much to the disciples of Jesus. Their power stops with the disciples’ physical death. The disciples are to overcome fear of death with fear of God.
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Anyone who is still afraid of people is not afraid of God. Anyone who fears God is no longer afraid of people.
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In a very transparent allusion, John the Evangelist reports that from the crucified body of Jesus Christ there issued water and blood, the elements of both sacraments (John 19:34, 35). This testimony is confirmed by Paul when he ties membership in the body of Christ strictly to these two sacraments.15
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While we are used to thinking of the church as an institution, we ought instead to think of it as a person[14] with a body, although of course a person in a unique sense.
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In peculiar contrast to what he has been told before, David is also given the promise that one of his offspring shall build the house for God, and that his rule will last in eternity (vv. 12, 13). “I will be his father, and he shall be my son” (v. 14). Solomon, the “son of peace”—meaning God’s peace with the house of David[34]—claimed this promise for himself. He built the temple, and his action was approved by God. Nevertheless, this temple was not the fulfillment of the prophecy. For it was built by human hands, and thus doomed to destruction. The prophecy, still unfulfilled, remained valid.
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(1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19).[37] [239]The temple of God is the holy church-community in Jesus Christ. The body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity.
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Only, I wonder if he can see that the efforts to try to regulate teaching could limit learning as much as ensure it.
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I know in the face of the wide world these are small victories, but sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if an orchestra is more accomplished.
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d The LORD our God, the LORD is one. [2] 5[^] [†]You e shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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10[†]“And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities j that you did not build, 11and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 k then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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24And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, a to fear the LORD our God, b for our good always, that c he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. 25[†]And d it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’
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9[†]Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, s the faithful God t who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10and u repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. v He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
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12[†] x “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you y the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13[†]He will z love you, bless you, and multiply you. a He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above all peoples. b There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil c diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
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21You shall not be in dread of them, for the LORD your God is k in your midst, l a great and awesome God. 22[†] m The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, [2] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
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3And he humbled you and a let you hunger and b fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that c man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word [1] that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
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5[†]Know then in your heart that, e as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. 6So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7[†]For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land,
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10[†]And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
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17[†]Beware q lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18[^] [†]You shall remember the LORD your God, for r it is he who gives you power to get wealth, s that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19[†]And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, t I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
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[†]“Hear, O Israel: you are v to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations w greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2[†]a people great and tall, x the sons of the Anakim, y whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ 3[†]Know therefore today that he who z goes over before you a as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. b So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.
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4[†] c “Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is d because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. 5 e Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm f the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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h what does the LORD your God require of you, but i to fear the LORD your God, j to walk in all his ways, k to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13and l to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today m for your good? 14[†]Behold, n to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, o the earth with all that is in it. 15Yet p the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
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18[†] e “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and f you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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18[†]“And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, h he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, i approved by [3] the Levitical priests. 19And j it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, k that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he l may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, m so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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3[†] When I v look at your heavens, the work of your w fingers, the moon and the stars, x which you have set in place, 4 y what is man that you are z mindful of him, and a the son of man that you b care for him?
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10[†] And those who t know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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4[^] [†] Who has o ascended to heaven and come down? Who has p gathered the wind in his fists? Who has q wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all r the ends of the earth? s What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!
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11[^] [†]He has a made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot b find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
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