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Isaiah 59 slaps so hard.

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save;

Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.

But your iniquities have separated you from your God;

And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth.

They trust in empty words and speak lies.

Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us;

We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes;

We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.

We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;

We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You,

And our sins testify against us;

For our transgressions are with us,

And as for our iniquities, we know them:

In transgressing and lying against the Lord,

And departing from our God,

Speaking oppression and revolt,

Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off;

For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.

So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him

That there was no justice.

He saw that there was no man,

And wondered that there was no intercessor;

Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;

And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

And a helmet of salvation on His head;

He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,

And was clad with zeal as a cloak.

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,

Fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;

The coastlands He will fully repay.

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,

And His glory from the rising of the sun;

When the enemy comes in like a flood,

The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

“The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”

Says the Lord.

“As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+59&version=NKJV

I like Matthew 10 34-39

Christ Brings Division

34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set[j] a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10&version=NKJV

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1 Timothy 2:12-15

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12 I don’t allow a wife[a] to teach or to control her husband.[b] Instead, she should be a quiet listener. 13 Adam was formed first, and then Eve. 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but rather his wife[c] became the one who stepped over the line because she was completely deceived. 15 But a wife[d] will be brought safely through childbirth,[e] if they both continue in faith, love, and holiness, together with self-control.

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