19 For the report of your obedience (A)has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but (B)I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.

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For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,

(A)As I swore in My anger,
They certainly shall not enter My rest,”

although His works were finished (B)from the foundation of the world.

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11 Therefore let’s make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same (A)example of (B)disobedience.

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27 (A)Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. (B)[a]Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor [b]fearful.

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  1. John 14:27 Or Stop letting your hearts
  2. John 14:27 Or cowardly

(A)For the mind [a]set on the flesh is (B)death, but the mind [b]set on the Spirit is life and peace,

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  1. Romans 8:6 Lit of the
  2. Romans 8:6 Lit of the

17 for the kingdom of God (A)is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and (B)peace and (C)joy in the Holy Spirit.

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The Chorus

15 (A)Catch the [a]foxes for us,
The [b]little [c]foxes that are ruining the vineyards,
While our (B)vineyards are in blossom.”

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  1. Song of Solomon 2:15 Or jackals
  2. Song of Solomon 2:15 Or young
  3. Song of Solomon 2:15 Or jackals

22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, (C)self-control; against such things (D)there is no law.

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(for (A)the fruit of the light consists in all (B)goodness, righteousness, and truth),

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11 having been filled with the (A)fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

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which has come to you, just as [a](A)in all the world also it is bearing (B)fruit and [b]increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you (C)heard it and [c]understood the grace of God in truth;

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  1. Colossians 1:6 Or it is in all the world also, bearing
  2. Colossians 1:6 Or spreading abroad
  3. Colossians 1:6 Or came to fully know

10 so that you will (A)walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, [a](B)to please Him in all respects, (C)bearing fruit in every good work and [b]increasing in the [c]knowledge of God;

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  1. Colossians 1:10 Lit unto all pleasing
  2. Colossians 1:10 Or growing by the knowledge
  3. Colossians 1:10 Or real knowledge

11 (A)For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the (B)peaceful fruit of righteousness.

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18 And the (A)fruit of righteousness is sown in peace [a]by those who make peace.

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  1. James 3:18 Or for

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle (A)according to the flesh, for the (B)weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but [a]divinely powerful (C)for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying arguments and all (D)arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the (E)obedience of Christ,

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  1. 2 Corinthians 10:4 Or mighty before God

The Armor of God

10 Finally, (A)be strong in the Lord and in (B)the strength of His might. 11 (C)Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the (D)schemes of the devil. 12 For our (E)struggle is not against [a](F)flesh and blood, but (G)against the rulers, against the powers, against the (H)world forces of this (I)darkness, against the (J)spiritual forces of wickedness in (K)the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up (L)the full armor of God, so that you will be able to (M)resist on (N)the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, (O)having belted your waist with truth, and having (P)put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having (Q)strapped on your feet the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 [b]in addition to all, taking up the (R)shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the (S)flaming arrows of (T)the evil one. 17 And take (U)the helmet of salvation and the (V)sword of the Spirit, which is (W)the word of God.

18 [c]With every (X)prayer and request, [d](Y)pray at all times (Z)in the Spirit, and with this in view, [e](AA)be alert with all (AB)perseverance and every (AC)request for all the [f]saints,

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  1. Ephesians 6:12 Lit blood and flesh
  2. Ephesians 6:16 Lit in all
  3. Ephesians 6:18 Lit Through
  4. Ephesians 6:18 Lit praying
  5. Ephesians 6:18 Lit being
  6. Ephesians 6:18 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people

And being found in appearance as a man, (A)He humbled Himself by becoming (B)obedient to the point of death: (C)death [a]on a cross.

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  1. Philippians 2:8 Lit of

19 For as through the one man’s disobedience (A)the many (B)were made sinners, so also through (C)the obedience of the One (D)the many will be made righteous.

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16 “For God so (A)loved the world, that He (B)gave His (C)only Son, so that everyone who (D)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

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knowing this, that our (A)old [a]self was (B)crucified with Him, in order that our (C)body of sin might be [b]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

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  1. Romans 6:6 Lit person (Gr anthropos)
  2. Romans 6:6 Or made powerless

20 I have been (A)crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but (B)Christ lives in me; and [a]the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in (C)the Son of God, who (D)loved me and (E)gave Himself up for me.

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  1. Galatians 2:20 Or insofar as I

For you have (A)died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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17 Therefore if anyone is (A)in Christ, this person is (B)a new [a]creation; (C)the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or creature

21 He made Him who (A)knew no sin to be [a](B)sin in our behalf, so that we might become the (C)righteousness of God in Him.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Or a sin offering

13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an (A)infant. 14 But solid food is for (B)the mature, who because of practice have their senses (C)trained to (D)distinguish between good and evil.

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