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"So I also have made you despised and low before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

But you say, ‘For what reason?' Because Yahweh has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

But not one has done so, even one who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly seed? Be careful then to keep your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied Him?" In that you say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and He delights in them," or, "Where is the God of justice?"

"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a smelter's fire and like fullers' soap.

"From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts. "But you say, ‘How shall we return?'

"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?' In tithes and contributions.

"Your words have been strong against Me," says Yahweh. "But you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?'

So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and escape.'"

"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the One who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.

But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Then after being warned by God in a dream, he departed for the district of Galilee,

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

"As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"

But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he *permitted Him.

But He answered and said, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"