7 So fto keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, ga thorn was given me in the flesh, ha messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
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“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.
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you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
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