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He brought me into the Temple itself and measured the doorposts on each side. Each was ten and a half feet thick.

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Then the man brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits on each side.

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Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side--the width of the tabernacle.

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After that, the man brought me into the Holy Place, the large main room of the Temple, and he measured the columns that framed its doorway. They were 10 1/2 feet square.

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The entrance was seventeen and a half feet wide. The walls on each side were eight and three-quarters feet thick. He also measured the Temple Sanctuary: seventy feet by thirty-five feet.

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The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the outer sanctuary; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

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The width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.

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The entrance was 17 1/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side were 8 3/4 feet wide. The Holy Place itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide.

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He went further in and measured the doorposts at the entrance: Each was three and a half feet thick. The entrance itself was ten and a half feet wide, and the entrance walls were twelve and a quarter feet thick.

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Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits wide.

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Also he went inside and measured the doorposts, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits high; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

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Then he went into the inner room at the end of the Holy Place. He measured the columns at the entrance and found them to be 3 1/2 feet thick. The entrance was 10 1/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance extended 12 1/4 feet to the corners of the inner room.

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He measured the inside Sanctuary, thirty-five feet square, set at the end of the main Sanctuary. He told me, "This is The Holy of Holies."

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And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the outer sanctuary. He said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

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He measured the length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

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The inner room was 35 feet square. "This," he told me, "is the Most Holy Place."

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He measured the wall of the Temple. It was ten and a half feet thick. The side rooms around the Temple were seven feet wide.

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Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.

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Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side.

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Then he measured the wall of the Temple and found that it was 10 1/2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.

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There were three floors of these side rooms, thirty rooms on each of the three floors. There were supporting beams around the Temple wall to hold up the side rooms, but they were freestanding, not attached to the wall itself.

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The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.

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The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but not fastened to the wall of the temple.

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These rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these rooms rested on ledges in the Temple wall, but the supports did not extend into the wall.

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The side rooms around the Temple became wider from first floor to second floor to third floor. A staircase went from the bottom floor, through the middle, and then to the top floor.

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The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

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As one went up from story to story, the side chambers became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one.

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Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.

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I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms.

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I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits.

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I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.

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I noticed that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1/2 feet high.

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The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple

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The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple

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The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple.

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The outer wall of the Temple's side rooms was 8 3/4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms

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and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple.

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and the priests' rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

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And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.

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and the row of rooms along the outer wall of the inner courtyard. This open area measured 35 feet in width, and it went all the way around the Temple.

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There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.

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There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.

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The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around.

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Two doors opened from the side rooms into the terrace yard, which was 8 3/4 feet wide. One door faced north and the other south.

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The house that faced the Temple courtyard to the west was one hundred twenty-two and a half feet wide, with eight-and-three-quarters-foot-thick walls. The length of the wall and building was one hundred fifty-seven and a half feet.

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The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

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The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

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A large building stood on the west, facing the Temple courtyard. It was 122 1/2 feet wide and 157 1/2 feet long, and its walls were 8 3/4 feet thick.

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He measured the Temple: one hundred seventy-five feet long. The Temple courtyard and the house, including its walls, measured a hundred seventy-five feet.

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Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long;

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Then the man measured the Temple, and he found it to be 175 feet long. The courtyard around the building, including its walls, was an additional 175 feet in length.

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The breadth of the front of the Temple and the open area to the east was a hundred seventy-five feet.

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The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.

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also the width of the eastern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits.

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The inner courtyard to the east of the Temple was also 175 feet wide.

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He measured the length of the house facing the courtyard at the back of the Temple, including the shelters on each side: one hundred seventy-five feet. The main Sanctuary, the inner Sanctuary, and the vestibule facing the courtyard

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Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

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He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner temple and the porches of the court,

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The building to the west, including its two walls, was also 175 feet wide. The Holy Place, the Most Holy Place, and the foyer of the Temple were all paneled with wood,

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were paneled with wood, and had window frames and door frames in all three sections. From floor to windows the walls were paneled.

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as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries around the three of them-everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.

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their doorposts and the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with wood from the ground to the windows--the windows were covered--

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as were the frames of the recessed windows. The inner walls of the Temple were paneled with wood above and below the windows.

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Above the outside entrance to the inner Sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner Sanctuary and the main Sanctuary,

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In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary

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from the space above the door, even to the inner room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.

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The space above the door leading into the Most Holy Place was also paneled.

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angel-cherubim and palm trees were carved in alternating sequence. Each angel-cherub had two faces:

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were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:

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And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces,

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All the walls were decorated with carvings of cherubim, each with two faces, and there was a palm tree carving between each of the cherubim.

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a human face toward the palm tree on the right and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the left. They were carved around the entire Temple.

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the face of a man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple.

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so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side; thus it was made throughout the temple all around.

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One face--that of a man--looked toward the palm tree on one side. The other face--that of a young lion--looked toward the palm tree on the other side. The figures were carved all along the inside of the Temple,

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The cherubim-palm tree motif was carved from floor to door height on the wall of the main Sanctuary.

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From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

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From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved.

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from the floor to the top of the walls, including the outer wall of the Holy Place.

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The main Sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe. In front of the Holy Place was something that looked like

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The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar.

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The doorposts of the temple were square, as was the front of the sanctuary; their appearance was similar.

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There were square columns at the entrance to the Holy Place, and the ones at the entrance of the Most Holy Place were similar.

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an altar of wood, five and a quarter feet high and three and a half feet square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that stands before GOD."

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There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

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The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its sides were of wood; and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

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There was an altar made of wood, 3 1/2 feet square and 5 1/4 feet high. Its corners, base, and sides were all made of wood. "This," the man told me, "is the table that stands in the LORD's presence."

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Both the main Sanctuary and the Holy Place had double doors.

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Both the outer sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doors.

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The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

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Both the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had double doorways,

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Each door had two leaves: two hinged leaves for each door, one set swinging inward and the other set outward.

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Each door had two leaves-two hinged leaves for each door.

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The doors had two panels apiece, two folding panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the other door.

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each with two swinging doors.

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The doors of the main Sanctuary were carved with angel-cherubim and palm trees. There was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.

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And on the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.

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Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the temple just as they were carved on the walls. A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside.

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The doors leading into the Holy Place were decorated with carved cherubim and palm trees just as on the walls. And there was a wooden canopy over the front of the Temple's foyer.

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There were narrow windows alternating with carved palm trees on both sides of the porch. [JC]

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On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.

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There were beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the vestibule--also on the side chambers of the temple and on the canopies.

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On both sides of the foyer there were recessed windows decorated with carved palm trees.

Ezek.42.1

The man led me north into the outside courtyard and brought me to the rooms that are in front of the open space and the house facing north.

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Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.

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Then he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

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Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard.

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The length of the house on the north was one hundred seventy-five feet, and its width eighty-seven and a half feet.

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The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

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Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door.

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This group of structures, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1/2 feet wide.

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Across the thirty-five feet that separated the inside courtyard from the paved walkway at the edge of the outside courtyard, the rooms rose level by level for three stories.

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Both in the section twenty cubits from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery at the three levels.

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Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

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One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.

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In front of the rooms on the inside was a hallway seventeen and a half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Its entrances were from the north.

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In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

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In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

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Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced toward the north.

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The upper rooms themselves were narrower, their galleries being wider than on the first and second floors of the building.

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Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

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Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

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Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.

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The rooms on the third floor had no pillars like the pillars in the outside courtyard and were smaller than the rooms on the first and second floors.

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The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

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For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

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Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.

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There was an outside wall parallel to the rooms and the outside courtyard. It fronted the rooms for eighty-seven and a half feet.

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There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

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And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits.

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There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1/2 feet long.

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The row of rooms facing the outside courtyard was eighty-seven and a half feet long. The row on the side nearest the Sanctuary was one hundred seventy-five feet long.

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While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.

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The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.

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This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1/2 feet, while the inner block--the rooms toward the Temple--extended for 175 feet.

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The first-floor rooms had their entrance from the east, coming in from the outside courtyard.

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The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

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At the lower chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

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There was an entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms from the east.

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On the south side along the length of the courtyard's outside wall and fronting on the Temple courtyard were rooms

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On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms

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Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building.

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On the south side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north.

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with a walkway in front of them. These were just like the rooms on the north--same exits and dimensions--with the main entrance from the east leading to the hallway and the doors to the rooms the same as those on the north side.

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with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north

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There was a walk in front of them also, and their appearance was like the chambers which were toward the north; they were as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan.

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There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms just like the complex on the north side of the Temple. This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and it had the same entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were identical.

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The design on the south was a mirror image of that on the north.

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were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

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And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, as one enters them, there was a door in front of the walk, the way directly in front of the wall toward the east.

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So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway.

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Then he said to me, "The north and south rooms adjacent to the open area are holy rooms where the priests who come before GOD eat the holy offerings. There they place the holy offerings--grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. These are set-apart rooms, holy space.

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Then he said to me, "The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings-the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings-for the place is holy.

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Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separating courtyard, are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall lay the most holy offerings--the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering--for the place is holy.

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Then the man told me, "These rooms that overlook the Temple from the north and south are holy. It is there that the priests who offer sacrifices to the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. And they will use these rooms to store the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings because these rooms are holy.

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After the priests have entered the Sanctuary, they must not return to the outside courtyard and mingle among the people until they change the sacred garments in which they minister and put on their regular clothes."

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Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people."

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When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people."

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When the priests leave the Holy Place, they must not go directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering because these clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public."

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After he had finished measuring what was inside the Temple area, he took me out the east gate and measured it from the outside.

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When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:

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Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the east, and measured it all around.

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When the man had finished taking these measurements, he led me out through the east gateway to measure the entire Temple area.

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Using his measuring stick, he measured the east side: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

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He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.

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He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

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He measured the east side; it was 875 feet long.

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He measured the north side: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

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He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

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He also measured the north side and got the same measurement.

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He measured the south side: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

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He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

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The south side was the same length,

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Last of all he went to the west side and measured it: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

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Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

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and so was the west side.

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He measured the wall on all four sides. Each wall was eight hundred seventy-five feet. The walls separated the holy from the ordinary.

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So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

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He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy areas from the common.

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So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate the holy places from the common.

1Pet.1.1

I, Peter, am an apostle on assignment by Jesus, the Messiah, writing to exiles scattered to the four winds. Not one is missing, not one forgotten.

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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This letter is from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to God's chosen people who are living as foreigners in the lands of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia.

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God the Father has his eye on each of you, and has determined by the work of the Spirit to keep you obedient through the sacrifice of Jesus. May everything good from God be yours!

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who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

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elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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God the Father chose you long ago, and the Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed Jesus Christ and are cleansed by his blood. May you have more and more of God's special favor and wonderful peace.

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What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we've been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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All honor to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is by his boundless mercy that God has given us the privilege of being born again. Now we live with a wonderful expectation because Jesus Christ rose again from the dead.

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including a future in heaven--and the future starts now!

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and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade--kept in heaven for you,

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to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

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For God has reserved a priceless inheritance for his children. It is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.

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God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you'll have it all--life healed and whole.

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who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

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who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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And God, in his mighty power, will protect you until you receive this salvation, because you are trusting him. It will be revealed on the last day for all to see.

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I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime.

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In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.

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In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,

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So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though it is necessary for you to endure many trials for a while.

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Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.

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These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

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that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

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You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don't see him, yet you trust him--with laughter and singing.

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Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

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whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

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You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

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Because you kept on believing, you'll get what you're looking forward to: total salvation.

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for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.

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Your reward for trusting him will be the salvation of your souls.

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The prophets who told us this was coming asked a lot of questions about this gift of life God was preparing.

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Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,

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Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

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This salvation was something the prophets wanted to know more about. They prophesied about this gracious salvation prepared for you, even though they had many questions as to what it all could mean.

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The Messiah's Spirit let them in on some of it--that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory. They clamored to know who and when.

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trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

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searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

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They wondered what the Spirit of Christ within them was talking about when he told them in advance about Christ's suffering and his great glory afterward. They wondered when and to whom all this would happen.

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All they were told was that they were serving you, you who by orders from heaven have now heard for yourselves--through the Holy Spirit--the Message of those prophecies fulfilled. Do you realize how fortunate you are? Angels would have given anything to be in on this!

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It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

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To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

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They were told that these things would not happen during their lifetime, but many years later, during yours. And now this Good News has been announced by those who preached to you in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. It is all so wonderful that even the angels are eagerly watching these things happen.

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So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that's coming when Jesus arrives.

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Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

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Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the special blessings that will come to you at the return of Jesus Christ.

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Don't lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn't know any better then; you do now.

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As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

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as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;

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Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.

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As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness.

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But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

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but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

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But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.

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God said, "I am holy; you be holy."

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for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

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because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

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For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."

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You call out to God for help and he helps--he's a good Father that way. But don't forget, he's also a responsible Father, and won't let you get by with sloppy living. Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God.

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Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.

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And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;

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And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites when he judges. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as foreigners here on earth.

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It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

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For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,

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knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

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For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

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He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.

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but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

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but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

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He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

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And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately--at the end of the ages--become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.

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He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

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He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you

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God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.

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It's because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.

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Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

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who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And because God raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory, your faith and hope can be placed confidently in God.

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Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it.

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Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

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Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

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Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.

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Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself!

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For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

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having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

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For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

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That's why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop,

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For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,

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As the prophet says, "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall away.

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God's Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.

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but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

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But the word of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

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But the word of the Lord will last forever." And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.

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So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk.

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Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

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Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

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So get rid of all malicious behavior and deceit. Don't just pretend to be good! Be done with hypocrisy and jealousy and backstabbing.

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Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God.

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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

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as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

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You must crave pure spiritual milk so that you can grow into the fullness of your salvation. Cry out for this nourishment as a baby cries for milk,

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You've had a taste of God.

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now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

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if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

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now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness.

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GOD, I'm not trying to rule the roost, I don't want to be king of the mountain. I haven't meddled where I have no business or fantasized grandiose plans.

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My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

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LORD, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me.

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LORD, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I don't concern myself with matters too great or awesome for me.

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I've kept my feet on the ground, I've cultivated a quiet heart. Like a baby content in its mother's arms, my soul is a baby content.

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But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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But I have stilled and quieted myself, just as a small child is quiet with its mother. Yes, like a small child is my soul within me.

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Wait, Israel, for GOD. Wait with hope. Hope now; hope always!

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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

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O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forever.

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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD--now and always.