LORD, you heard the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen them, you will listen carefully,

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.

You, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, stir yourself up to punish all the nations. Show no mercy to those wicked transgressors. Interlude

He will repay them for their sin; he will annihilate them because of their evil. The LORD our God will annihilate them.

I will meditate on your precepts, and I will respect your ways.

So never worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart's intent may be forgiven you.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.

and poured him out upon us, too, through Jesus the Messiah our Savior true.

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to receive the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.