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⛶The Word for Friday, 2 October 2026
They are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you.
1 Peter 4:4
Keep far from a false charge.
Exodus 23:7
1 Peter 4
| 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. |
| 4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; |
| 5 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. |
Exodus 23
| 6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. |
| 7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. |
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And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. |
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