Psalms 50: 16 - 23
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But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
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| 17
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For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
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| 18
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If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
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| 19
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"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
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| 20
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You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
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| 21
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These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
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| 22
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"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
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| 23
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He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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