EquipHer Vol. 23: "Living With Intentionality"

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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Wedding Banquet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he sent some more servants and said, &#8216;Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But they paid no attention and went off&#8212;one to his field, another to his business.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said to his servants, &#8216;The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He asked, &#8216;How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?&#8217; The man was speechless.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the king told the attendants, &#8216;Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For many are invited, but few are chosen.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. &#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:17 </span><span class="ft">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span></span></span><span class="content"> to Caesar or not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Show me the coin used for paying the tax.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> They brought him a denarius, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="content">Then he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s, and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marriage at the Resurrection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finally, the woman died. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But about the resurrection of the dead&#8212;have you not read what God said to you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:32 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest Commandment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:39 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.22.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">&#8220;The son of David,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him &#8216;Lord&#8217;? For he says,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">22:44 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 110:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.22.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If then David calls him &#8216;Lord,&#8217; how can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.22.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Tested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, &#8220;Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Take your son, your only son, whom you love&#8212;Isaac&#8212;and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to his servants, &#8220;Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, &#8220;Father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; Abraham replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The fire and wood are here,&#8221; Isaac said, &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Abraham answered, &#8220;God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.&#8221; And the two of them went on together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called out to him from heaven, &#8220;Abraham! Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not lay a hand on the boy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:13 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">a ram behind him</span></span></span><span class="content"> caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Abraham called that place The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Will Provide. And to this day it is said, &#8220;On the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> it will be provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Abraham from heaven a second time </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I swear by myself, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nahor&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some time later Abraham was told, &#8220;Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lawsuits Among Believers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord&#8217;s people? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that the Lord&#8217;s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But instead, one brother takes another to court&#8212;and this in front of unbelievers!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9 </span><span class="ft">The words </span><span class="fq">men who have sex with men </span><span class="ft">translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sexual Immorality</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have the right to do anything,&#8221; you say&#8212;but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;I have the right to do anything&#8221;&#8212;but I will not be mastered by anything. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.&#8221; The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, &#8220;The two will become one flesh.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the Spirit</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="PHM.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="content">To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier&#8212;and to the church that meets in your home:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural; also in verses 22 and 25; elsewhere in this letter &#8220;you&#8221; is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plea for Onesimus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul&#8212;an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">useful.</span></span></span><span class="content"> who became my son while I was in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am sending him&#8212;who is my very heart&#8212;back to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back&#8212;not to mention that you owe me your very self. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PHM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="JOB.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man be of benefit to God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">Can even a wise person benefit him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">What would he gain if your ways were blameless?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is it for your piety that he rebukes you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">and brings charges against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is not your wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">Are not your sins endless?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You gave no water to the weary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">and you withheld food from the hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">though you were a powerful man, owning land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">an honored man, living on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And you sent widows away empty-handed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">and broke the strength of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why snares are all around you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">why sudden peril terrifies you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">why it is so dark you cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">and why a flood of water covers you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not God in the heights of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And see how lofty are the highest stars!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet you say, &#8216;What does God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Does he judge through such darkness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Will you keep to the old path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">that the wicked have trod?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They were carried off before their time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">their foundations washed away by a flood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They said to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">What can the Almighty do to us?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">the innocent mock them, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8216;Surely our foes are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">and fire devours their wealth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Submit to God and be at peace with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">in this way prosperity will come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Accept instruction from his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">and lay up his words in your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">If you remove wickedness far from your tent</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and assign your nuggets to the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then the Almighty will be your gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">the choicest silver for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">and will lift up your face to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will pray to him, and he will hear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">and you will fulfill your vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">What you decide on will be done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">and light will shine on your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When people are brought low and you say, &#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">then he will save the downcast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will deliver even one who is not innocent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 22</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Doe of the Morning.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">Why are you so far from saving me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">so far from my cries of anguish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">by night, but I find no rest.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, and am not silent</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">you are the one Israel praises.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In you our ancestors put their trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">they trusted and you delivered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">To you they cried out and were saved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I am a worm and not a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All who see me mock me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;He trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220;let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rescue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">Let him deliver him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">since he delights in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yet you brought me out of the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">you made me trust in you, even at my mother&#8217;s breast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From birth I was cast on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb you have been my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">for trouble is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">and there is no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Many bulls surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Roaring lions that tear their prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">open their mouths wide against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am poured out like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">and all my bones are out of joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">My heart has turned to wax;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">it has melted within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:15 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">strength</span></span></span><span class="content"> is dried up like a potsherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dogs surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">a pack of villains encircles me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">they pierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me, / like a lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> my hands and my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All my bones are on display;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">people stare and gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They divide my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not be far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will declare your name to my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">in the assembly I will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, praise him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For he has not despised or scorned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">the suffering of the afflicted one;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">he has not hidden his face from him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">but has listened to his cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">before those who fear you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will fulfill my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The poor will eat and be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will praise him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">may your hearts live forever!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">All the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will remember and turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">and all the families of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will bow down before him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for dominion belongs to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">and he rules over the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Posterity will serve him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">future generations will be told about the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">declaring to a people yet unborn:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">He has done it!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is more desirable than great riches;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rich and poor have this in common:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the Maker of them all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Humility is the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">its wages are riches and honor and life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Start children off on the way they should go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">and even when they are old they will not turn from it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The rich rule over the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">and the borrower is slave to the lender.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The generous will themselves be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">for they share their food with the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">quarrels and insults are ended.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">will have the king for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch over knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sluggard says, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lion outside!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll be killed in the public square!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">a man who is under the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath falls into it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">and one who gives gifts to the rich&#8212;both come to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Thirty Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 1</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">apply your heart to what I teach,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">and have all of them ready on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So that your trust may be in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">I teach you today, even you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have I not written thirty sayings for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">sayings of counsel and knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">so that you bring back truthful reports</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">to those you serve?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not exploit the poor because they are poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">and do not crush the needy in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take up their case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">and will exact life for life.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 3</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">do not associate with one easily angered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">or you may learn their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">and get yourself ensnared.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 4</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">or puts up security for debts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">if you lack the means to pay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">your very bed will be snatched from under you.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 5</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not move an ancient boundary stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">set up by your ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 6</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do you see someone skilled in their work?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">They will serve before kings;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">they will not serve before officials of low rank.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eastern Tribes Return Home</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and said to them, &#8220;You have done all that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For a long time now&#8212;to this very day&#8212;you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you on the other side of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you: to love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">saying, &#8220;Return to your homes with your great wealth&#8212;with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing&#8212;and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead&#8212;to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they went to Gilead&#8212;to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh&#8212;they said to them: </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;The whole assembly of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;How could you break faith with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and build yourselves an altar in rebellion against him now? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And are you now turning away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.22.18"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If you rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> did not wrath come on the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not spare us this day. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If we have built our own altar to turn away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself call us to account.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;No! We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, &#8216;What do you have to do with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you&#8212;you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;That is why we said, &#8216;Let us get ready and build an altar&#8212;but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, &#8216;You have no share in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;And we said, &#8216;If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Far be it from us to rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God that stands before his tabernacle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community&#8212;the heads of the clans of the Israelites&#8212;heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, &#8220;Today we know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, because you have not been unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in this matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.22.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us&#8212;that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy About Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">What troubles you now,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">that you have all gone up on the roofs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you town so full of commotion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">you city of tumult and revelry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">Your slain were not killed by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">nor did they die in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All your leaders have fled together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">they have been captured without using the bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">having fled while the enemy was still far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore I said, &#8220;Turn away from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">let me weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">Do not try to console me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">over the destruction of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, has a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">of tumult and trampling and terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Vision,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">a day of battering down walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">and of crying out to the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Elam takes up the quiver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">with her charioteers and horses;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">Kir uncovers the shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">and horsemen are posted at the city gates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">and you looked in that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You saw that the walls of the City of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">were broken through in many places;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">you stored up water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">in the Lower Pool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You counted the buildings in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You built a reservoir between the two walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">for the water of the Old Pool,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">but you did not look to the One who made it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">called you on that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to weep and to wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But see, there is joy and revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">eating of meat and drinking of wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,&#8221; you say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;for tomorrow we die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: &#8220;Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,&#8221; says the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, say to this steward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">to Shebna the palace administrator:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What are you doing here and who gave you permission</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">to cut out a grave for yourself here,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">hewing your grave on the height</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">and chiseling your resting place in the rock?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to take firm hold of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">and hurl you away, you mighty man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will roll you up tightly like a ball</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and throw you into a large country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">There you will die</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and there the chariots you were so proud of</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">will become a disgrace to your master&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will depose you from your office,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">and you will be ousted from your position.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">throne</span></span></span><span class="content"> of honor for the house of his father. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots&#8212;all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="content">Then Paul said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Who are you, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;What shall I do, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Get up,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> the Lord said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He stood beside me and said, &#8216;Brother Saul, receive your sight!&#8217; And at that very moment I was able to see him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said: &#8216;The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and saw the Lord speaking to me. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Quick!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Lord,&#8217; I replied, &#8216;these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when the blood of your martyr</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">witness</span></span></span><span class="content"> Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the Lord said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.&#8217; </span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul the Roman Citizen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, &#8220;Rid the earth of him! He&#8217;s not fit to live!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and interrogated in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, &#8220;Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn&#8217;t even been found guilty?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. &#8220;What are you going to do?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;This man is a Roman citizen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The commander went to Paul and asked, &#8220;Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the commander said, &#8220;I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="content">&#8220;But I was born a citizen,&#8221; Paul replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Those who were about to interrogate him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Before the Sanhedrin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The commander wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews. So the next day he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the members of the Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.</span></span></div>
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