Leviticus 13:40
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
BSB
ASV
And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
KJV
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Elisha was jeered for his bald head ( 2 Kings ii. 23 ); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any time it did appear in a bald head: The plague is in his head, he is utterly unclean,
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to…
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Romans 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
