Luke 2:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Birth of Jesus

2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus^[a]^(A) that the whole empire^[b] should be registered.

Footnotes

Luke 2:1 Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire 27 b.c.–a.d. 14; also known as Octavian, he established the peaceful era known as the Pax Romana; Caesar was a title of Roman emperors.
Luke 2:1 Or the whole inhabited world

Romans 1:32

Holman Christian Standard Bible

³²Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die^[a]^(A)—they not only do them, but even applaud^[b]^(B) others who practice them.

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Romans 1:32 Lit things are worthy of death
Romans 1:32 Lit even take pleasure in

Romans 1:32 in all English translations

Ephesians 2:15

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¹⁵He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create^(A) in Himself one^(B) new man from the two, resulting in peace.

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