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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Faith of the Centurion</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There a centurion&#8217;s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, &#8220;This man deserves to have you do this, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Jesus went with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.7.6"><span class="content">He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: &#8220;Lord, don&#8217;t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, &#8216;Go,&#8217; and he goes; and that one, &#8216;Come,&#8217; and he comes. I say to my servant, &#8216;Do this,&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Raises a Widow&#8217;s Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out&#8212;the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t cry.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Young man, I say to you, get up!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They were all filled with awe and praised God. &#8220;A great prophet has appeared among us,&#8221; they said. &#8220;God has come to help his people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus and John the Baptist</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">John&#8217;s disciples told him about all these things. Calling two of them, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">he sent them to the Lord to ask, &#8220;Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When the men came to Jesus, they said, &#8220;John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, &#8216;Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At that very time Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he replied to the messengers, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:22 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After John&#8217;s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the one about whom it is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will send my messenger ahead of you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">who will prepare your way before you.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">7:27 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Mal. 3:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus&#8217; words, acknowledged that God&#8217;s way was right, because they had been baptized by John. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God&#8217;s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.7.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jesus went on to say, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;We played the pipe for you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not dance;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">we sang a dirge,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not cry.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, &#8216;He has a demon.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, &#8216;Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But wisdom is proved right by all her children.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.7.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee&#8217;s house and reclined at the table. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee&#8217;s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.7.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.7.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.7.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, &#8220;If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is&#8212;that she is a sinner.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.7.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.7.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Jesus answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Simon, I have something to tell you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.7.40"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell me, teacher,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.7.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.7.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">7:41 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the other fifty.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.7.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.7.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Simon replied, &#8220;I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have judged correctly,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.7.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.7.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.7.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.7.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven&#8212;as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.7.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.7.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Your sins are forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.7.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.7.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">The other guests began to say among themselves, &#8220;Who is this who even forgives sins?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.7.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.7.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Jesus said to the woman, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Your faith has saved you; go in peace.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="EXO.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Israelites Oppressed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27) </span><span class="fqa">seventy-five</span></span></span><span class="content"> in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said to his people, &#8220;the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and worked them ruthlessly. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, &#8220;Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The midwives answered Pharaoh, &#8220;Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: &#8220;Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkGAL">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="GAL.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doing Good to All</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Carry each other&#8217;s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">for each one should carry their own load. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Not Circumcision but the New Creation</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whom</span></span></span><span class="content"> the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule&#8212;to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">rule and to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Israel of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God&#8217;s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God&#8217;s people, went up before God from the angel&#8217;s hand. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Trumpets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the name of the star is Wormwood.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:11 </span><span class="ft">Wormwood is a bitter substance.</span></span></span><span class="content"> A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: &#8220;Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Common Destiny for All</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God&#8217;s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All share a common destiny&#8212;the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have </span><span class="fq">and the bad</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="content">As it is with the good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="content">so with the sinful;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="content">as it is with those who take oaths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="content">so with those who are afraid to take them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Anyone who is among the living has hope</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">What then is to be chosen? With all who live, there is hope</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For the living know that they will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.9.5"><span class="content">but the dead know nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.9.5"><span class="content">they have no further reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.9.5"><span class="content">and even their name is forgotten.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their love, their hate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.9.6"><span class="content">and their jealousy have long since vanished;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.9.6"><span class="content">never again will they have a part</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.9.6"><span class="content">in anything that happens under the sun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun&#8212;all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have seen something else under the sun:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">The race is not to the swift</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">or the battle to the strong,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">nor does food come to the wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">or wealth to the brilliant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">or favor to the learned;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">but time and chance happen to them all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="content">As fish are caught in a cruel net,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="content">or birds are taken in a snare,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="content">so people are trapped by evil times</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="content">that fall unexpectedly upon them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom Better Than Folly</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So I said, &#8220;Wisdom is better than strength.&#8221; But the poor man&#8217;s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.9.17"><span class="content">than the shouts of a ruler of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Wisdom is better than weapons of war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.9.18"><span class="content">but one sinner destroys much good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">51</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 51</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Have mercy on me, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your unfailing love;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your great compassion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">blot out my transgressions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Wash away all my iniquity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">and cleanse me from my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I know my transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">and my sin is always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Against you, you only, have I sinned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and done what is evil in your sight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">so you are right in your verdict</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and justified when you judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely I was sinful at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">sinful from the time my mother conceived me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">you taught me wisdom in that secret place.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let me hear joy and gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">let the bones you have crushed rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hide your face from my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">and blot out all my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Create in me a pure heart, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">and renew a steadfast spirit within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not cast me from your presence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">or take your Holy Spirit from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Restore to me the joy of your salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">so that sinners will turn back to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">you who are God my Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Open my lips, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">and my mouth will declare your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My sacrifice, O God, is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The sacrifices of God are</span></span></span><span class="content"> a broken spirit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">a broken and contrite heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">you, God, will not despise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May it please you to prosper Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">to build up the walls of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">in burnt offerings offered whole;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">then bulls will be offered on your altar.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="content">whoever is led astray by them is not wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="content">those who anger him forfeit their lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is to one&#8217;s honor to avoid strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="content">but every fool is quick to quarrel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Sluggards do not plow in season;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="content">so at harvest time they look but find nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The purposes of a person&#8217;s heart are deep waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="content">but one who has insight draws them out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many claim to have unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="content">but a faithful person who can find?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The righteous lead blameless lives;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="content">blessed are their children after them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When a king sits on his throne to judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="content">he winnows out all evil with his eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who can say, &#8220;I have kept my heart pure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="content">I am clean and without sin&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Differing weights and differing measures&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Even small children are known by their actions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="content">so is their conduct really pure and upright?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Ears that hear and eyes that see&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="content">stay awake and you will have food to spare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;It&#8217;s no good, it&#8217;s no good!&#8221; says the buyer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="content">then goes off and boasts about the purchase.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Gold there is, and rubies in abundance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="content">but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="content">hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Food gained by fraud tastes sweet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="content">but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Plans are established by seeking advice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="content">so if you wage war, obtain guidance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A gossip betrays a confidence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="content">so avoid anyone who talks too much.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If someone curses their father or mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="content">their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">An inheritance claimed too soon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="content">will not be blessed at the end.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll pay you back for this wrong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="content">Wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will avenge you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests differing weights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="content">and dishonest scales do not please him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s steps are directed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="content">How then can anyone understand their own way?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">It is a trap to dedicate something rashly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="content">and only later to consider one&#8217;s vows.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">A wise king winnows out the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="content">he drives the threshing wheel over them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The human spirit is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A person&#8217;s words are</span></span></span><span class="content"> the lamp of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="content">that sheds light on one&#8217;s inmost being.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="content">through love his throne is made secure.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The glory of young men is their strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="content">gray hair the splendor of the old.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Blows and wounds scrub away evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.20.30"><span class="content">and beatings purge the inmost being.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hannah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Hannah prayed and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">&#8220;My heart rejoices in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my horn</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength; also in verse 10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is lifted high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">My mouth boasts over my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">for I delight in your deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one holy like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no one besides you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no Rock like our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not keep talking so proudly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">or let your mouth speak such arrogance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a God who knows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">and by him deeds are weighed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The bows of the warriors are broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="content">but those who stumbled are armed with strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who were full hire themselves out for food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but those who were hungry are hungry no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">She who was barren has borne seven children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but she who has had many sons pines away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brings death and makes alive;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="content">he brings down to the grave and raises up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sends poverty and wealth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="content">he humbles and he exalts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He raises the poor from the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and lifts the needy from the ash heap;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">he seats them with princes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and has them inherit a throne of honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;For the foundations of the earth are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">on them he has set the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will guard the feet of his faithful servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not by strength that one prevails;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">those who oppose the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">The Most High will thunder from heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will judge the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">&#8220;He will give strength to his king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">and exalt the horn of his anointed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> under Eli the priest.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eli&#8217;s Wicked Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Eli&#8217;s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest&#8217;s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But even before the fat was burned, the priest&#8217;s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, &#8220;Give the priest some meat to roast; he won&#8217;t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the person said to him, &#8220;Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,&#8221; the servant would answer, &#8220;No, hand it over now; if you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll take it by force.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This sin of the young men was very great in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight, for they</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people</span></span></span><span class="content"> were treating the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s offering with contempt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Samuel was ministering before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;a boy wearing a linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">and asked from</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; Then they would go home. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So he said to them, &#8220;Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people is not good. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">If one person sins against another, God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who will intercede for them?&#8221; His sons, however, did not listen to their father&#8217;s rebuke, for it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s will to put them to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and with people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prophecy Against the House of Eli</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor&#8217;s family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I chose your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your ancestor&#8217;s family all the food offerings presented by the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Why do you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:29 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.2.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, declares: &#8216;I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.&#8217; But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares: &#8216;Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.2.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you&#8212;they will both die on the same day. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed one always. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, &#8220;Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">51</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Everlasting Salvation for Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and who seek 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.51.1"><span class="content">Look to the rock from which you were cut</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and to the quarry from which you were hewn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">look to Abraham, your father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and to Sarah, who gave you birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">When I called him he was only one man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and I blessed him and made him many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely comfort Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">and will look with compassion on all her ruins;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">he will make her deserts like Eden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">her wastelands like the garden of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">Joy and gladness will be found in her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">thanksgiving and the sound of singing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">hear me, my nation:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">Instruction will go out from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">my justice will become a light to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My righteousness draws near speedily,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">my salvation is on the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and my arm will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">The islands will look to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and wait in hope for my arm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">look at the earth beneath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the heavens will vanish like smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the earth will wear out like a garment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">and its inhabitants die like flies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">But my salvation will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">my righteousness will never fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear me, you who know what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">you people who have taken my instruction to heart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">or be terrified by their insults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the moth will eat them up like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">the worm will devour them like wool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">But my righteousness will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">my salvation through all generations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, arm of 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.51.9"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Awake, as in days gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">as in generations of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">who pierced that monster through?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Was it not you who dried up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">the waters of the great deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">who made a road in the depths of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">so that the redeemed might cross over?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued will return.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">They will enter Zion with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">everlasting joy will crown their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">Gladness and joy will overtake them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">and sorrow and sighing will flee away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who comforts you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">Who are you that you fear mere mortals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">human beings who are but grass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that you forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">and who lays the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">that you live in constant terror every day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">because of the wrath of the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who is bent on destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">For where is the wrath of the oppressor?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">they will not die in their dungeon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">nor will they lack bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have put my words in your mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and covered you with the shadow of my hand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">I who set the heavens in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">who laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and who say to Zion, &#8216;You are my people.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cup of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Wrath</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Awake, awake!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">Rise up, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drunk from the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the cup of his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drained to its dregs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the goblet that makes people stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Among all the children she bore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to guide her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">among all the children she reared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to take her by the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These double calamities have come upon you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can comfort you?&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">ruin and destruction, famine and sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:19 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ how can I</span></span></span><span class="content"> console you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your children have fainted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">they lie at every street corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">like antelope caught in a net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">They are filled with the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">with the rebuke of your God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">made drunk, but not with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what your Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">your God, who defends his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have taken out of your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">the cup that made you stagger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">you will never drink again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">who said to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">And you made your back like the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">like a street to be walked on.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, &#8220;My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At this the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Paul said to him, &#8220;God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who were standing near Paul said, &#8220;How dare you insult God&#8217;s high priest!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Paul replied, &#8220;Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: &#8216;Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:5 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 22:28</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, &#8220;My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. &#8220;We find nothing wrong with this man,&#8221; they said. &#8220;What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plot to Kill Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">More than forty men were involved in this plot. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, &#8220;We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when the son of Paul&#8217;s sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, &#8220;Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So he took him to the commander.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">The centurion said, &#8220;Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, &#8220;What is it you want to tell me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He said: &#8220;Some Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The commander dismissed the young man with this warning: &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Transferred to Caesarea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, &#8220;Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Greek for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to Caesarea at nine tonight. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Provide horses for Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He wrote a letter as follows:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Claudius Lysias,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">To His Excellency, Governor Felix:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">Greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I wanted to know why they were accusing him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When I was informed of a plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you their case against him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul with them during the night and brought him as far as Antipatris. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The next day they let the cavalry go on with him, while they returned to the barracks. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the cavalry arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The governor read the letter and asked what province he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;I will hear your case when your accusers get here.&#8221; Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod&#8217;s palace.</span></span></div>
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