For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”
I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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