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<< The Word for Tuesday, 2 December 2025

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Be very careful to love the Lord your God.

Joshua 23:11

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.

Hebrews 12:15

Joshua 23 (English Standard Version)

8 but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.
9 For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
10 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.
11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
13 know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

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Hebrews 12 (English Standard Version)

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest

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Take great care to love the Lord your God.

Joshua 23:11

Make sure that none of you lack God's grace, in case some cause of bitterness arises to give trouble and end up corrupting many of you.

Hebrews 12:15

Joshua 23 (Free Bible Version)

8 Stay close to the Lord your God, as you have done up to now.
9 The Lord has driven out strong, powerful nations before you. No one has been able to stand up to you to this day.
10 Just one of you can chase away a thousand enemies, for the Lord your God is fighting for you, as he promised you.
11 Take great care to love the Lord your God.
12 For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one other,
13 you can be absolutely sure that the Lord your God will definitely not drive out these nations before you. On the contrary, they will be a trap and a snare to you, a whip on you back and thorns in your eyes until you die out completely from this good land the Lord your God has given you.
14 Now I am about to die, the fate of every living thing on the earth. Deep down you know that not a single one of the Lord's good promises has failed. Everything has come true. Not one has failed.

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Hebrews 12 (Free Bible Version)

12 So strengthen your feeble hands, and your weak knees!
13 Make straight paths to walk on, so that those who are crippled won't lose their way, but will be healed.
14 Do your best to live in peace with everybody, and look for holiness—if you don't have this you won't see the Lord.
15 Make sure that none of you lack God's grace, in case some cause of bitterness arises to give trouble and end up corrupting many of you.
16 Make sure there's nobody who is sexually immoral, or irreligious, like Esau was. He sold his birthright for a single meal.
17 You remember that even when he wanted to receive the blessing later on he was refused. Even though he really tried, and cried hard, Esau couldn't change what he had done.
18 You haven't arrived at a physical mountain that can be touched, that burned with fire, to a stormy place of black darkness,

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