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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals on the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stand up in front of everyone.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> But they remained silent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Crowds Follow Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, &#8220;You are the Son of God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Appoints the Twelve</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He appointed twelve</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:14 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">twelve&#8212;designating them apostles&#8212;</span></span></span><span class="content"> that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and to have authority to drive out demons. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Boanerges</span></span><span class="content">, which means &#8220;sons of thunder&#8221;), </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Accused by His Family and by Teachers of the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When his family</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">his associates</span></span></span><span class="content"> heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, &#8220;He is out of his mind.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, &#8220;He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How can Satan drive out Satan?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In fact, no one can enter a strong man&#8217;s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man&#8217;s house.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.3.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He said this because they were saying, &#8220;He has an impure spirit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Jesus&#8217; mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.3.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, &#8220;Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.3.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.3.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who are my mother and my brothers?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.3.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.3.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Here are my mother and my brothers!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.3.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever does God&#8217;s will is my brother and sister and mother.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="GEN.31">
         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Flees From Laban</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob heard that Laban&#8217;s sons were saying, &#8220;Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Jacob noticed that Laban&#8217;s attitude toward him was not what it had been.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Jacob, &#8220;Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;I see that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You know that I&#8217;ve worked for your father with all my strength, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If he said, &#8216;The speckled ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, &#8216;The streaked ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks bore streaked young. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So God has taken away your father&#8217;s livestock and has given them to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of God said to me in the dream, &#8216;Jacob.&#8217; I answered, &#8216;Here I am.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8216;Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Rachel and Leah replied, &#8220;Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father&#8217;s estate? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father&#8217;s household gods. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laban Pursues Jacob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;What have you done? You&#8217;ve deceived me, and you&#8217;ve carried off my daughters like captives in war. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn&#8217;t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You didn&#8217;t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, &#8216;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father&#8217;s household. But why did you steal my gods?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob answered Laban, &#8220;I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.&#8221; Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Laban went into Jacob&#8217;s tent and into Leah&#8217;s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah&#8217;s tent, he entered Rachel&#8217;s tent. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Rachel said to her father, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I&#8217;m having my period.&#8221; So he searched but could not find the household gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. &#8220;What is my crime?&#8221; he asked Laban. &#8220;How have I wronged you that you hunt me down? </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.31.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Laban answered Jacob, &#8220;The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Come now, let&#8217;s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.31.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.31.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He said to his relatives, &#8220;Gather some stones.&#8221; So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:47 </span><span class="ft">The Aramaic </span><span class="fq">Jegar Sahadutha </span><span class="ft">and the Hebrew </span><span class="fq">Galeed </span><span class="ft">both mean </span><span class="fqa">witness heap.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="GEN.31.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;This heap is a witness between you and me today.&#8221; That is why it was called Galeed. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.31.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">It was also called Mizpah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:49 </span><span class="fq">Mizpah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">watchtower.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because he said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="GEN.31.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Laban also said to Jacob, &#8220;Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="GEN.31.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="content">So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="GEN.31.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:55 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (31:55) is numbered 32:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you at the first</span></span></span><span class="content">: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and that he appeared to Cephas,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> and then to the Twelve. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them&#8212;yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection of the Dead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The last enemy to be destroyed is death. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For he &#8220;has put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:27 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 8:6</span></span></span><span class="content"> Now when it says that &#8220;everything&#8221; has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I face death every day&#8212;yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="content">for tomorrow we die.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:32 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 22:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1CO.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do not be misled: &#8220;Bad company corrupts good character.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:33 </span><span class="ft">From the Greek poet Menander</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God&#8212;I say this to your shame.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection Body</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But someone will ask, &#8220;How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1CO.15.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1CO.15.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.15.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1CO.15.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1CO.15.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1CO.15.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1CO.15.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1CO.15.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1CO.15.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1CO.15.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1CO.15.44"><span class="content">If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="1CO.15.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">So it is written: &#8220;The first man Adam became a living being&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:45 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:7</span></span></span><span class="content">; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="1CO.15.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="1CO.15.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="1CO.15.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1CO.15.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:49 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">so let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> bear the image of the heavenly man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1CO.15.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="1CO.15.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1CO.15.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="1CO.15.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="1CO.15.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="1CO.15.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: &#8220;Death has been swallowed up in victory.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:54 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="1CO.15.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, O death, is your victory?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"><span class="content">Where, O death, is your sting?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:55 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 13:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="1CO.15.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="1CO.15.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="1CO.15.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="1CO.15.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Living for God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do&#8212;living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God&#8217;s grace in its various forms. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Suffering for Being a Christian</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1PE.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1PE.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1PE.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1PE.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1PE.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For it is time for judgment to begin with God&#8217;s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.4.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.4.18"><span class="content">what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:18 </span><span class="ft">Prov. 11:31 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1PE.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1PE.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So then, those who suffer according to God&#8217;s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="JOB.31">
         <div class="label">31</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I made a covenant with my eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">not to look lustfully at a young woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For what is our lot from God above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">our heritage from the Almighty on high?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Is it not ruin for the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">disaster for those who do wrong?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Does he not see my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">and count my every step?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have walked with falsehood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">or my foot has hurried after deceit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">let God weigh me in honest scales</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">and he will know that I am blameless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">if my steps have turned from the path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">if my heart has been led by my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">or if my hands have been defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">then may others eat what I have sown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">and may my crops be uprooted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my heart has been enticed by a woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">or if I have lurked at my neighbor&#8217;s door,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then may my wife grind another man&#8217;s grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">and may other men sleep with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For that would have been wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">a sin to be judged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It is a fire that burns to Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">it would have uprooted my harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied justice to any of my servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">whether male or female,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">when they had a grievance against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">what will I do when God confronts me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">What will I answer when called to account?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Did not he who made me in the womb make them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied the desires of the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">if I have kept my bread to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">not sharing it with the fatherless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but from my youth I reared them as a father would,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">and from my birth I guided the widow&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">or the needy without garments,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and their hearts did not bless me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">knowing that I had influence in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">then let my arm fall from the shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">let it be broken off at the joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For I dreaded destruction from God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have put my trust in gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">or said to pure gold, &#8216;You are my security,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">the fortune my hands had gained,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">if I have regarded the sun in its radiance</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">or the moon moving in splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">so that my heart was secretly enticed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">then these also would be sins to be judged,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have rejoiced at my enemy&#8217;s misfortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">or gloated over the trouble that came to him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have not allowed my mouth to sin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">by invoking a curse against their life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">if those of my household have never said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">&#8216;Who has not been filled with Job&#8217;s meat?&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">for my door was always open to the traveler&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">if I have concealed my sin as people do,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">as Adam did</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">by hiding my guilt in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">because I so feared the crowd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">and so dreaded the contempt of the clans</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">that I kept silent and would not go outside&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">(&#8220;Oh, that I had someone to hear me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">I sign now my defense&#8212;let the Almighty answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">let my accuser put his indictment in writing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">I would put it on like a crown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">I would give him an account of my every step;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">I would present it to him as to a ruler.)&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;if my land cries out against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">and all its furrows are wet with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">if I have devoured its yield without payment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">or broken the spirit of its tenants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">then let briers come up instead of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">and stinkweed instead of barley.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">The words of Job are ended.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="PSA.31">
         <div class="label">31</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 31</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 31:1-24 is numbered 31:2-25.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I have taken refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="content">let me never be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="content">deliver me in your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Turn your ear to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">come quickly to my rescue;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">be my rock of refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">a strong fortress to save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Since you are my rock and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="content">for the sake of your name lead and guide me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Keep me free from the trap that is set for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="content">for you are my refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Into your hands I commit my spirit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="content">deliver me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my faithful God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I hate those who cling to worthless idols;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="content">as for me, I trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will be glad and rejoice in your love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="content">for you saw my affliction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="content">and knew the anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have not given me into the hands of the enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="content">but have set my feet in a spacious place.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Be merciful to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for I am in distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="content">my eyes grow weak with sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="content">my soul and body with grief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My life is consumed by anguish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">and my years by groaning;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">my strength fails because of my affliction,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">guilt</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">and my bones grow weak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Because of all my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">I am the utter contempt of my neighbors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">and an object of dread to my closest friends&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">those who see me on the street flee from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am forgotten as though I were dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="content">I have become like broken pottery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For I hear many whispering,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Terror on every side!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">They conspire against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">and plot to take my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I trust in you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="content">I say, &#8220;You are my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My times are in your hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="content">deliver me from the hands of my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="content">from those who pursue me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let your face shine on your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="content">save me in your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let me not be put to shame, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">for I have cried out to you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">but let the wicked be put to shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">and be silent in the realm of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let their lying lips be silenced,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="content">for with pride and contempt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="content">they speak arrogantly against the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How abundant are the good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">that you have stored up for those who fear you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">that you bestow in the sight of all,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">on those who take refuge in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In the shelter of your presence you hide them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">from all human intrigues;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">you keep them safe in your dwelling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">from accusing tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="content">for he showed me the wonders of his love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="content">when I was in a city under siege.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In my alarm I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">&#8220;I am cut off from your sight!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">Yet you heard my cry for mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">when I called to you for help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all his faithful people!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> preserves those who are true to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="content">but the proud he pays back in full.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Be strong and take heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.31.24"><span class="content">all you who hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Sayings of King Lemuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The sayings of King Lemuel&#8212;an inspired utterance his mother taught him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Listen, my son! Listen, son of my womb!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="content">Listen, my son, the answer to my prayers!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not spend your strength</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wealth</span></span></span><span class="content"> on women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.31.3"><span class="content">your vigor on those who ruin kings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It is not for kings, Lemuel&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="content">it is not for kings to drink wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="content">not for rulers to crave beer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">lest they drink and forget what has been decreed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.31.5"><span class="content">and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Let beer be for those who are perishing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.31.6"><span class="content">wine for those who are in anguish!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let them drink and forget their poverty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.31.7"><span class="content">and remember their misery no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="content">for the rights of all who are destitute.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Speak up and judge fairly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="content">defend the rights of the poor and needy.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">31:10 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Verses 10-31 are an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content"> A wife of noble character who can find?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.31.10"><span class="content">She is worth far more than rubies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Her husband has full confidence in her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.31.11"><span class="content">and lacks nothing of value.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">She brings him good, not harm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.31.12"><span class="content">all the days of her life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She selects wool and flax</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.31.13"><span class="content">and works with eager hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">She is like the merchant ships,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.31.14"><span class="content">bringing her food from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She gets up while it is still night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="content">she provides food for her family</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="content">and portions for her female servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She considers a field and buys it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.31.16"><span class="content">out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She sets about her work vigorously;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.31.17"><span class="content">her arms are strong for her tasks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She sees that her trading is profitable,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.31.18"><span class="content">and her lamp does not go out at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">In her hand she holds the distaff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.31.19"><span class="content">and grasps the spindle with her fingers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">She opens her arms to the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.31.20"><span class="content">and extends her hands to the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When it snows, she has no fear for her household;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.31.21"><span class="content">for all of them are clothed in scarlet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">She makes coverings for her bed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.31.22"><span class="content">she is clothed in fine linen and purple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Her husband is respected at the city gate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.31.23"><span class="content">where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She makes linen garments and sells them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.31.24"><span class="content">and supplies the merchants with sashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">She is clothed with strength and dignity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.31.25"><span class="content">she can laugh at the days to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.31.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">She speaks with wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.31.26"><span class="content">and faithful instruction is on her tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.31.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">She watches over the affairs of her household</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.31.27"><span class="content">and does not eat the bread of idleness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.31.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Her children arise and call her blessed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.31.28"><span class="content">her husband also, and he praises her:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.31.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many women do noble things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.31.29"><span class="content">but you surpass them all.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.31.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.31.30"><span class="content">but a woman who fears the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is to be praised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Honor her for all that her hands have done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.31.31"><span class="content">and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJDG">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="JDG.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon Defeats the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, &#8216;My own strength has saved me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now announce to the army, &#8216;Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, &#8216;This one shall go with you,&#8217; he shall go; but if I say, &#8216;This one shall not go with you,&#8217; he shall not go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him, &#8220;Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="content">Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">During that night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.&#8221; So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. &#8220;I had a dream,&#8221; he was saying. &#8220;A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His friend responded, &#8220;This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, &#8220;Get up! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the Midianite camp into your hands.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Watch me,&#8221; he told them. &#8220;Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, &#8216;For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, &#8220;A sword for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, &#8220;Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="content">So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="ISA.31">
         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">he does not take back his words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">He will rise up against that wicked nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">against those who help evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">their horses are flesh and not spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stretches out his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who help will stumble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who are helped will fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">all will perish together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">&#8220;As a lion growls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">a great lion over its prey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">and though a whole band of shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">is called together against it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">it is not frightened by their shouts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">or disturbed by their clamor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like birds hovering overhead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will shield it and deliver it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will &#8216;pass over&#8217; it and will rescue it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria will fall by no human sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">They will flee before the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">and their young men will be put to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their stronghold will fall because of terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose fire is in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkACT">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="ACT.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Heals a Lame Beggar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer&#8212;at three in the afternoon. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, &#8220;Look at us!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Peter said, &#8220;Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man&#8217;s feet and ankles became strong. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When all the people saw him walking and praising God, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Speaks to the Onlookers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon&#8217;s Colonnade. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Peter saw this, he said to them: &#8220;Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus&#8217; name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you&#8212;even Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For Moses said, &#8216;The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:23 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 18:15,18,19</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, &#8216;Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:25 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 22:18; 26:4</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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