17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but didn’t see them, to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.(A)

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17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see(A) but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

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12 Also, if she divorces her husband(A) and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”(A)

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Anna’s Testimony

36 There was also a prophetess,(A) Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.(B) She was well along in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,[a](C)

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  1. 2:36 Lit years from her virginity

36 There was also a prophet,(A) Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

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35 If they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands(A) at home, since it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

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35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[a]

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  1. 1 Corinthians 14:35 In a few manuscripts these verses come after verse 40.

For I am jealous(A) for you with a godly jealousy,(B) because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure(C) virgin to Christ.

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I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband,(A) to Christ, so that I might present you(B) as a pure virgin to him.

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27 For it is written,(A)

Rejoice, childless woman,(B)
unable to give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate woman will be many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.[a](C)

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  1. 4:27 Is 54:1

27 For it is written:

“Be glad, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
shout for joy and cry aloud,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband.”[a](A)

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  1. Galatians 4:27 Isaiah 54:1