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Tobit 13:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All those who hate you are cursed. All those who love you forever will be blessed. "

Tobit 13:12

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10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness, and bless the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy, and that he may make glad in you those who are captives, and love in you forever those who are miserable.

11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven. Generations of generations will praise you, and sing songs of rejoicing.

12 All those who hate you are cursed. All those who love you forever will be blessed.

13 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous; for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.

14 Oh blessed are those who love you. They will rejoice for your peace. Blessed are all those who mourned for all your scourges; because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory. They will be made glad forever.

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"They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice."

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Tobit 13:1

"And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said, “Blessed is God who lives forever! Blessed is his kingdom!"

Tobit 13:2

"For he scourges, and shows mercy. He leads down to the grave, and brings up again. There is no one who will escape his hand."

Tobit 13:3

"Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel! For he has scattered us among them."

Tobit 13:4

"Declare his greatness, there. Extol him before all the living, because he is our Lord, and God is our Father forever."

Tobit 13:5

"He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy, and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered."

Tobit 13:6

"If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul, to do truth before him, then he will turn to you, and won’t hide his face from you. See what he will do with you. Give him thanks with your whole mouth. Bless the Lord of righteousness. Exalt the everlasting King. I give him thanks in the land of my captivity, and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners. Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him. Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?"

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