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highlighted Hosea 5:10-12 NLT
“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall. The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment because they are determined to worship idols. I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
Jun 22
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highlighted Hosea 5:7-9 NLT
They have betrayed the honor of the LORD, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth. “Sound the alarm in Gibeah! Blow the trumpet in Ramah! Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven! Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin! One thing is certain, Israel: On your day of punishment, you will become a heap of rubble.
Jun 22
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highlighted Hosea 5:6 NLT
When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them.
Jun 22
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highlighted Acts 10:29 NLT
So I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. Now tell me why you sent for me.”
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:30-31 NLT
Cornelius replied, “Four days ago I was praying in my house about this same time, three o’clock in the afternoon. Suddenly, a man in dazzling clothes was standing in front of me. He told me, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been noticed by God!
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:32-34 NLT
Now send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man named Simon Peter. He is staying in the home of Simon, a tanner who lives near the seashore.’ So I sent for you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here, waiting before God to hear the message the Lord has given you.” Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:35-38 NLT
In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right. This is the message of Good News for the people of Israel—that there is peace with God through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee, after John began preaching his message of baptism. And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:39-42 NLT
“And we apostles are witnesses of all he did throughout Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a cross, but God raised him to life on the third day. Then God allowed him to appear, not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen in advance to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is the one appointed by God to be the judge of all—the living and the dead.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:43-45 NLT
He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.” Even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message. The Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, too.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:2 NLT
He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was everyone in his household. He gave generously to the poor and prayed regularly to God.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:11-12 NLT
He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:14-16 NLT
“No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.” But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:13 NLT
Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.”
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:21 NLT
So Peter went down and said, “I’m the man you are looking for. Why have you come?”
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:22-24 NLT
They said, “We were sent by Cornelius, a Roman officer. He is a devout and God-fearing man, well respected by all the Jews. A holy angel instructed him to summon you to his house so that he can hear your message.” So Peter invited the men to stay for the night. The next day he went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa. They arrived in Caesarea the following day. Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:27-28 NLT
So they talked together and went inside, where many others were assembled. Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.
Jun 21
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highlighted Acts 10:7-8 NLT
As soon as the angel was gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of his personal attendants. He told them what had happened and sent them off to Joppa.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:19 NLT
So a mighty wind will sweep them away. Their sacrifices to idols will bring them shame.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:17 NLT
Leave Israel alone, because she is married to idolatry.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:14 NLT
But why should I punish them for their prostitution and adultery? For your men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You refuse to understand, so you will be destroyed.
Jun 21