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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zacchaeus the Tax Collector</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All the people saw this and began to mutter, &#8220;He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, &#8220;Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Ten Minas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:13 </span><span class="ft">A mina was about three months&#8217; wages.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Put this money to work,&#8217; he said, &#8216;until I come back.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, &#8216;We don&#8217;t want this man to be our king.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The first one came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned ten more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Well done, my good servant!&#8217; his master replied. &#8216;Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The second came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned five more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master answered, &#8216;You take charge of five cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then another servant came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master replied, &#8216;I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Why then didn&#8217;t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said to those standing by, &#8216;Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; they said, &#8216;he already has ten!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He replied, &#8216;I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them&#8212;bring them here and kill them in front of me.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone asks you, &#8216;Why are you untying it?&#8217; say, &#8216;The Lord needs it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, &#8220;Why are you untying the colt?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;The Lord needs it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.19.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.19.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, &#8220;Teacher, rebuke your disciples!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.19.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.19.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace&#8212;but now it is hidden from your eyes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.19.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.19.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God&#8217;s coming to you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus at the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.19.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.19.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.19.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;My house will be a house of prayer&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:46 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 56:7</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">; but you have made it &#8216;a den of robbers.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:46 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 7:11</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.19.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.19.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.19.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Signs for Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Moses answered, &#8220;What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not appear to you&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;What is that in your hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;A staff,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Throw it on the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.4.3"><span class="content">Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.&#8221; So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;This,&#8221; said the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;is so that they may believe that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their fathers&#8212;the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob&#8212;has appeared to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Put your hand inside your cloak.&#8221; So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">leprous </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;it had become as white as snow.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now put it back into your cloak,&#8221; he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Moses said, &#8220;Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger burned against Moses and he said, &#8220;What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moses Returns to Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, &#8220;Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.4.18"><span class="content">Jethro said, &#8220;Go, and I wish you well.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Moses in Midian, &#8220;Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then say to Pharaoh, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Israel is my firstborn son, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and I told you, &#8220;Let my son go, so he may worship me.&#8221; But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">At a lodging place on the way, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> met Moses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> and was about to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son&#8217;s foreskin and touched Moses&#8217; feet with it.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:25 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> &#8220;Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,&#8221; she said. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> let him alone. (At that time she said &#8220;bridegroom of blood,&#8221; referring to circumcision.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Aaron, &#8220;Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.&#8221; So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Moses told Aaron everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.4.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">and Aaron told them everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and they believed. And when they heard that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkROM">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="ROM.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Released From the Law, Bound to Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do you not know, brothers and sisters&#8212;for I am speaking to those who know the law&#8212;that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we were in the realm of the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Law and Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, &#8220;You shall not covet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do&#8212;this I keep on doing. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For in my inner being I delight in God&#8217;s law; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="content">So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God&#8217;s law, but in my sinful nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> a slave to the law of sin.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkREV">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="REV.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Sardis</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">messenger</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7 and 14</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of the church in Sardis write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Philadelphia</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars&#8212;I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Laodicea</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God&#8217;s creation.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So, because you are lukewarm&#8212;neither hot nor cold&#8212;I am about to spit you out of my mouth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You say, &#8216;I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.&#8217; But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="REV.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkSNG">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="SNG.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s Song of Songs.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">The main male and female speakers (identified primarily on the basis of the gender of the relevant Hebrew forms) are indicated by the captions </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">He </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">and </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">She </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">respectively. The words of others are marked </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">Friends. </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In some instances the divisions and their captions are debatable.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">for your love is more delightful than wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">your name is like perfume poured out.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">No wonder the young women love you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Take me away with you&#8212;let us hurry!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">Let the king bring me into his chambers.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We rejoice and delight in you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is masculine singular.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">we will praise your love more than wine.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">How right they are to adore you!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Dark am I, yet lovely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">dark like the tents of Kedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">like the tent curtains of Solomon.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Salma</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not stare at me because I am dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">because I am darkened by the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">My mother&#8217;s sons were angry with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">and made me take care of the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">my own vineyard I had to neglect.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tell me, you whom I love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">where you graze your flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">and where you rest your sheep at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Why should I be like a veiled woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">beside the flocks of your friends?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you do not know, most beautiful of women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">follow the tracks of the sheep</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">and graze your young goats</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">by the tents of the shepherds.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I liken you, my darling, to a mare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">among Pharaoh&#8217;s chariot horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">your neck with strings of jewels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We will make you earrings of gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">studded with silver.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While the king was at his table,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">my perfume spread its fragrance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">resting between my breasts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">from the vineyards of En Gedi.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are, my darling!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Oh, how beautiful!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Your eyes are doves.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How handsome you are, my beloved!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Oh, how charming!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">And our bed is verdant.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The beams of our house are cedars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="content">our rafters are firs.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch91" data-usfm="PSA.91">
         <div class="label">91</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 91</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;He is my refuge and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">my God, in whom I trust.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he will save you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">and from the deadly pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will not fear the terror of night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">nor the arrow that flies by day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">nor the plague that destroys at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand may fall at your side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">but it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will only observe with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my refuge,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">and you make the Most High your dwelling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">no harm will overtake you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">no disaster will come near your tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">to guard you in all your ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You will tread on the lion and the cobra;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> loves me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I will rescue him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will call on me, and I will answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will be with him in trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will deliver him and honor him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life I will satisfy him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">and show him my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="PRO.24">
         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 20</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not envy the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">do not desire their company;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for their hearts plot violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">and their lips talk about making trouble.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 21</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">By wisdom a house is built,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">and through understanding it is established;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">through knowledge its rooms are filled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">with rare and beautiful treasures.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 22</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The wise prevail through great power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">and those who have knowledge muster their strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely you need guidance to wage war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">and victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 23</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wisdom is too high for fools;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 24</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever plots evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">will be known as a schemer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The schemes of folly are sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">and people detest a mocker.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 25</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you falter in a time of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">how small is your strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rescue those being led away to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">hold back those staggering toward slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;But we knew nothing about this,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Does not he who guards your life know it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 26</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Eat honey, my son, for it is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">If you find it, there is a future hope for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">and your hope will not be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 27</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">do not plunder their dwelling place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 28</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not gloat when your enemy falls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will see and disapprove</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">and turn his wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 29</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not fret because of evildoers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">or be envious of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">for the evildoer has no future hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 30</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the king, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">and do not join with rebellious officials,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for those two will send sudden destruction on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">and who knows what calamities they can bring?</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Further Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">These also are sayings of the wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">To show partiality in judging is not good:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever says to the guilty, &#8220;You are innocent,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">and rich blessing will come on them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">An honest answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">is like a kiss on the lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Put your outdoor work in order</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">and get your fields ready;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">after that, build your house.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not testify against your neighbor without cause&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">would you use your lips to mislead?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll do to them as they have done to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll pay them back for what they did.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I went past the field of a sluggard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">thorns had come up everywhere,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">the ground was covered with weeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">and the stone wall was in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I applied my heart to what I observed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">and learned a lesson from what I saw:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">a little folding of the hands to rest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and poverty will come on you like a thief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="content">and scarcity like an armed man.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Esther Made Queen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Later when King Xerxes&#8217; fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the king&#8217;s personal attendants proposed, &#8220;Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king&#8217;s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.&#8221; This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Jeconiah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the king&#8217;s order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king&#8217;s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king&#8217;s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Before a young woman&#8217;s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king&#8217;s palace. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king&#8217;s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EST.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king&#8217;s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EST.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EST.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EST.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EST.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And the king gave a great banquet, Esther&#8217;s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EST.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EST.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king&#8217;s gate. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EST.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai&#8217;s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EST.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EST.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king&#8217;s gate, Bigthana</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Bigthan, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Bigthana</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Teresh, two of the king&#8217;s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EST.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EST.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ZEC.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment on Israel&#8217;s Enemies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is against the land of Hadrak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="content">and will come to rest on Damascus&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="content">for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="content">are on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Damascus. / For the eye of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is on all people, / as well as on the tribes of Israel,</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and on Hamath too, which borders on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.9.2"><span class="content">and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Tyre has built herself a stronghold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.9.3"><span class="content">she has heaped up silver like dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.9.3"><span class="content">and gold like the dirt of the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the Lord will take away her possessions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.9.4"><span class="content">and destroy her power on the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.9.4"><span class="content">and she will be consumed by fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Ashkelon will see it and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="content">Gaza will writhe in agony,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="content">and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="content">Gaza will lose her king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="content">and Ashkelon will be deserted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.9.6"><span class="content">and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will take the blood from their mouths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="content">the forbidden food from between their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="content">Those who are left will belong to our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="content">and become a clan in Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="content">and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I will encamp at my temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.9.8"><span class="content">to guard it against marauding forces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.9.8"><span class="content">Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.9.8"><span class="content">for now I am keeping watch.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Coming of Zion&#8217;s King</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">See, your king comes to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">righteous and victorious,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">lowly and riding on a donkey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">on a colt, the foal of a donkey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will take away the chariots from Ephraim</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">and the warhorses from Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">and the battle bow will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">He will proclaim peace to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">His rule will extend from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">and from the River</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.9.11"><span class="content">I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.9.12"><span class="content">even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will bend Judah as I bend my bow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="content">and fill it with Ephraim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="content">I will rouse your sons, Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="content">against your sons, Greece,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="content">and make you like a warrior&#8217;s sword.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Will Appear</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will appear over them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.9.14"><span class="content">his arrow will flash like lightning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.9.14"><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will sound the trumpet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.9.14"><span class="content">he will march in the storms of the south,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">They will destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">and overcome with slingstones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">They will drink and roar as with wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">they will be full like a bowl</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">used for sprinkling</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">bowl, / like</span></span></span><span class="content"> the corners of the altar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God will save his people on that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.9.16"><span class="content">as a shepherd saves his flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.9.16"><span class="content">They will sparkle in his land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.9.16"><span class="content">like jewels in a crown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How attractive and beautiful they will be!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.9.17"><span class="content">Grain will make the young men thrive,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.9.17"><span class="content">and new wine the young women.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Thessalonica</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. &#8220;This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason&#8217;s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the assembly of the people</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: &#8220;These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar&#8217;s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Berea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Athens</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, &#8220;What is this babbler trying to say?&#8221; Others remarked, &#8220;He seems to be advocating foreign gods.&#8221; They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, &#8220;May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: &#8220;People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">to an unknown god</span></span><span class="content">. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship&#8212;and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8216;For in him we live and move and have our being.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides</span></span></span><span class="content"> As some of your own poets have said, &#8216;We are his offspring.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore since we are God&#8217;s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone&#8212;an image made by human design and skill. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, &#8220;We want to hear you again on this subject.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At that, Paul left the Council. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.</span></span></div>
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