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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 18:28 NLT
Suppose there are only forty-five righteous people rather than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And the LORD said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five righteous people there.”
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:26 NLT
And the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous people in Sodom, I will spare the entire city for their sake.”
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:23 NLT
Abraham approached him and said, “Will you sweep away both the righteous and the wicked?
Jan 12
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 18:20 NLT
So the LORD told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:19 NLT
I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then I will do for Abraham all that I have promised.”
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:14 NLT
Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:12 NLT
So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:9-10 NLT
Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!” Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent. “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked. “She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
Jan 12
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highlighted Genesis 18:2 NLT
He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
Jan 12
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:20 NLT
Therefore, listen to this message from the LORD, all you captives there in Babylon.
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:14 NLT
I will be found by you,” says the LORD. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:12-13 NLT
In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:3 NLT
He sent the letter with Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah when they went to Babylon as King Zedekiah’s ambassadors to Nebuchadnezzar. This is what Jeremiah’s letter said:
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:25-26 NLT
“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: You wrote a letter on your own authority to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, and you sent copies to the other priests and people in Jerusalem. You wrote to Zephaniah, “The LORD has appointed you to replace Jehoiada as the priest in charge of the house of the LORD. You are responsible to put into stocks and neck irons any crazy man who claims to be a prophet.
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:24 NLT
The LORD sent this message to Shemaiah the Nehelamite in Babylon:
Jan 11
Marie.Irby
highlighted Jeremiah 29:31-32 NLT
“Send an open letter to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Since he has prophesied to you when I did not send him and has tricked you into believing his lies, I will punish him and his family. None of his descendants will see the good things I will do for my people, for he has incited you to rebel against me. I, the LORD, have spoken!’”
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:21-23 NLT
This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says about your prophets—Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah—who are telling you lies in my name: “I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar for execution before your eyes. Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’ For these men have done terrible things among my people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have lied in my name, saying things I did not command. I am a witness to this. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
Jan 11
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highlighted Jeremiah 29:17-19 NLT
This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: “I will send war, famine, and disease upon them and make them like bad figs, too rotten to eat. Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will scatter them around the world. In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damnation, horror, contempt, and mockery. For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either,” says the LORD.
Jan 11
Marie.Irby
highlighted Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jan 11