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Luke 13:5

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I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
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  1. Ezekiel 18:30Rank 1 from verse 5
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    30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

  2. Luke 13:3Rank 2 from verse 5
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    3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

  3. Isaiah 28:10–13Rank 3 from verse 5
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    10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

    12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

    13But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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Luke 13:5

COMBINED MEANING

tell

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1. To speak, relate, declare, report, inform, explain, reveal, recount, or make known. 2. To know, discern, or determine, especially in 'cannot tell' or 'who can tell.' 3. To count, number, or enumerate.

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COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

nay

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1. No; a denial or refusal. 2. Rather; on the contrary.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

except

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Sense 1: Unless; with the exclusion of; apart from. Sense 2: To exclude or leave out. Sense 3: To object or take exception.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

repent

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To change one's mind or purpose concerning what has been done or intended, often coupled with grief or sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

likewise

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Sense 1: In the same, similar, or corresponding manner. Sense 2: In a matching case.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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perish

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Sense 1: Of a living person or creature, to die, be killed, be destroyed, or be lost. Sense 2: Of a thing, condition, plan, thought, or work, to be ruined, decay, fail, vanish, or come to nothing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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13:1THERE were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

13:2And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things?

13:3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

13:4Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

13:5I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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