26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
    for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.(A)

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26 (A)Woe [a]to you when [b]all men speak well of you,
For so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:26 NU, M omit to you
  2. Luke 6:26 M omits all

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(A) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(B)

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19 (A)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet (B)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

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On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.(A) We are not trying to please people(B) but God, who tests our hearts.(C)

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But as (A)we have been approved by God (B)to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, (C)not as pleasing men, but God (D)who tests our hearts.

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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

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  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.

[a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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  1. James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

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They are from the world(A) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

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(A)They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and (B)the world hears them.

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