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Ingen som er gildet, enten ved knusning eller ved å skjæres, skal være med i Herrens menighet.
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Ingen som er gildet, enten ved knusning eller ved å skjæres, skal være med i Herrens menighet.
Napsal(a) Alexander Payne
Verse 1. Those who reject faith and charity cannot enter into heaven.
Verse 2. Nor those whose good conduct is not from religion but from a spurious origin.
Verses 3-6. Nor those principles which falsify truths and adulterate goods, for they do not supply the soul with true sustenance, and also endeavour to oppose what is truly spiritual.
Verses 7-8. But external religion agreeing with internal (or with a life of usefulness for a good end) is not to be shunned.
Verse 9. In temptations it is especially essential to avoid everything known to be evil.
Verses 10-14. The soul is remitted into external states to be purified from evils, otherwise the influences from heaven would be rejected from the soul.
Verses 15-16. The rational faculty is not to be enslaved by spiritual truths.
Verses 17-18. No love of perverting truth, or falsity which denies the Lord and the necessity of a good life, shall be permitted to exist in the regenerate soul; nor are knowledges acquired for evil ends or for vanity acceptable to heaven.
Verses 19-20. The spiritual must not do good for the sake of reward as an end.
Verses 21-23. Things resolved upon as being right, must be acted upon.
Verses 24-25. Good and truth derived from others may be adjoined to the soul, but must not be mixed with the good developed therein by the Lord in regeneration.
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For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
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They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
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"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
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For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.