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   From: a202010@lycos.com   
      
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   John 9:40-41   
   Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him   
   heard these words, and said to Him, “"Are we blind also?”"   
   Jesus said to them, “"If you were blind, you would   
   have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’   
   Therefore your sin remains."   
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   Matthew 12:7   
   But if you had known what this means,   
   ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’   
   you would not have condemned the guiltless.   
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   Hosea 6   
      
      
     1 Come, and let us return to YHWH;   
       For He has torn, but He will heal us;   
       He has stricken, but He will bind us up.   
       After two days He will revive us;   
       On the third day He will raise us up,   
       That we may live in His sight.   
      
      3 Let us know,   
        Let us pursue the knowledge of YHWH.   
        His going forth is established as the morning;   
        He will come to us like the rain,   
        Like the latter and former rain to the earth.   
      
      
       4 “O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?   
         O Judah, what shall I do to you?   
         For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,   
         And like the early dew it goes away.   
       5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,   
         I have slain them by the words of My mouth;   
         And your judgments are like light that goes forth.   
       6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,   
         And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.   
      
        7 “But like men they transgressed the covenant;   
          There they dealt treacherously with Me.   
        8 Gilead is a city of evildoers   
          And defiled with blood.   
        9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,   
          So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;   
          Surely they commit lewdness.   
       10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:   
          There is the harlotry of Ephraim;   
          Israel is defiled.   
       11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,   
          When I return the captives of My people.   
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   Isaiah 1   
      
   1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,   
   which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem   
   in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,   
   and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.   
      
   <...2-10...>   
      
   “To what purpose is the multitude   
   of your sacrifices to Me?”   
   Says YHWH.   
      
   “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams   
   And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight   
   in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.   
   “When you come to appear before Me, Who has   
   required this from your hand,   
   To trample My courts?  Bring no more   
   futile sacrifices; Incense is   
   an abomination to Me.   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)