31 “No!” Peter declared emphatically. “Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you!” And all the others vowed the same.

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37 “But why can’t I come now, Lord?” he asked. “I’m ready to die for you.”

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And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.” So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the Lord.

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“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
    and desperately wicked.
    Who really knows how bad it is?

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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
    We are not able to plan our own course.

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23 Pride ends in humiliation,
    while humility brings honor.

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24 There are “friends” who destroy each other,
    but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

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18 Pride goes before destruction,
    and haughtiness before a fall.

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“I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers?
    I will cover my mouth with my hand.
I have said too much already.
    I have nothing more to say.”

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13 Hazael responded, “How could a nobody like me[a] ever accomplish such great things?”

Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are going to be the king of Aram.”

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Footnotes

  1. 8:13 Hebrew a dog.

27 Go yourself and listen to what the Lord our God says. Then come and tell us everything he tells you, and we will listen and obey.’

28 “The Lord heard the request you made to me. And he said, ‘I have heard what the people said to you, and they are right. 29 Oh, that they would always have hearts like this, that they might fear me and obey all my commands! If they did, they and their descendants would prosper forever.

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When I was prosperous, I said,
    “Nothing can stop me now!”

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