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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He came to Jesus at night and said, &#8220;Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.3.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">again </span><span class="ft">also means </span><span class="fqa">from above</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 7.</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can someone be born when they are old?&#8221; Nicodemus asked. &#8220;Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother&#8217;s womb to be born!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">but spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">gives birth to spirit.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You should not be surprised at my saying, &#8216;You</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:7 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">must be born again.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">Spirit </span><span class="ft">is the same as that for </span><span class="fqa">wind.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.3.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can this be?&#8221; Nicodemus asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.3.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are Israel&#8217;s teacher,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and do you not understand these things?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven&#8212;the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Man, who is in heaven</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:14 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">lifted up </span><span class="ft">also means </span><span class="fqa">exalted.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.3.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God&#8217;s one and only Son. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to my wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words of insight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that you may maintain discretion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">and your lips may preserve knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">and her speech is smoother than oil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but in the end she is bitter as gall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">sharp as a double-edged sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Her feet go down to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">her steps lead straight to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She gives no thought to the way of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">do not turn aside from what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep to a path far from her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">do not go near the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">lest you lose your honor to others</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">and your dignity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">years</span></span></span><span class="content"> to one who is cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">lest strangers feast on your wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">and your toil enrich the house of another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">At the end of your life you will groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">when your flesh and body are spent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will say, &#8220;How I hated discipline!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">How my heart spurned correction!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would not obey my teachers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">or turn my ear to my instructors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And I was soon in serious trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">in the assembly of God&#8217;s people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink water from your own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">running water from your own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Should your springs overflow in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">your streams of water in the public squares?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be yours alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">never to be shared with strangers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May your fountain be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A loving doe, a graceful deer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may her breasts satisfy you always,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may you ever be intoxicated with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man&#8217;s wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For your ways are in full view of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">and he examines all your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">the cords of their sins hold them fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For lack of discipline they will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="content">led astray by their own great folly.</span></span></div>
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