Christian Foundations 10 - Beliefs Part 2

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Word Became Flesh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was with God in the beginning. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">understood</span></span></span><span class="content"> it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There was a man sent from God whose name was John. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband&#8217;s will, but born of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, &#8220;This is the one I spoke about when I said, &#8216;He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;) </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">but the only Son, who</span></span></span><span class="content"> is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now this was John&#8217;s testimony when the Jewish leaders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:19 </span><span class="ft">The Greek term traditionally translated </span><span class="fqa">the Jews </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">hoi Ioudaioi</span>) refers here and elsewhere in John&#8217;s Gospel to those Jewish leaders who opposed Jesus; also in 5:10, 15,16; 7:1,11,13; 9:22; 18:14,28,36; 19:7,12,31,38; 20:19.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, &#8220;I am not the Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They asked him, &#8220;Then who are you? Are you Elijah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;I am not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the Prophet?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;No.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Finally they said, &#8220;Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, &#8220;I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, &#8216;Make straight the way for the Lord.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:3</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Now the Pharisees who had been sent </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">questioned him, &#8220;Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;I baptize with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 31 and 33 (twice)</span></span></span><span class="content"> water,&#8221; John replied, &#8220;but among you stands one you do not know. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John Testifies About Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, &#8220;Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This is the one I meant when I said, &#8216;A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then John gave this testimony: &#8220;I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, &#8216;The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I have seen and I testify that this is God&#8217;s Chosen One.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:34 </span><span class="ft">See Isaiah 42:1; many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">is the Son of God.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John&#8217;s Disciples Follow Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.1.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, &#8220;Look, the Lamb of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.1.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.1.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.1.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.1.38"><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Rabbi&#8221; (which means &#8220;Teacher&#8221;), &#8220;where are you staying?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.1.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.1.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and you will see.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.1.39"><span class="content">So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.1.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.1.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Andrew, Simon Peter&#8217;s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.1.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, &#8220;We have found the Messiah&#8221; (that is, the Christ). </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.1.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">And he brought him to Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.1.42"><span class="content">Jesus looked at him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> (which, when translated, is Peter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:42 </span><span class="fq">Cephas </span><span class="ft">(Aramaic) and </span><span class="fq">Peter </span><span class="ft">(Greek) both mean </span><span class="fqa">rock.</span></span></span><span class="content">).</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.1.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.1.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.1.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.1.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.1.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Philip found Nathanael and told him, &#8220;We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote&#8212;Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.1.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.1.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">&#8220;Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?&#8221; Nathanael asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.1.46"><span class="content">&#8220;Come and see,&#8221; said Philip.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.1.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.1.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.1.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.1.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">&#8220;How do you know me?&#8221; Nathanael asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.1.48"><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.1.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.1.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Then Nathanael declared, &#8220;Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.1.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.1.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You believe</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:50 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do you believe&#8230;?</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.1.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">He then added, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:51 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">you</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:51 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will see &#8216;heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:51 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 28:12</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Son of Man.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At Mount Sinai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt&#8212;on that very day&#8212;they came to the Desert of Sinai. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Moses went up to God, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to him from the mountain and said, &#8220;This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles&#8217; wings and brought you to myself. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:5,6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">possession, for the whole earth is mine. </span><span class="fv">6 </span><span class="fqa">You</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.&#8217; These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded him to speak. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people all responded together, &#8220;We will do everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said.&#8221; So Moses brought their answer back to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.&#8221; Then Moses told the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> what the people had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and be ready by the third day, because on that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, &#8216;Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.&#8217; Only when the ram&#8217;s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he said to the people, &#8220;Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">and all the people</span></span></span><span class="content"> trembled violently. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and God answered him with thunder</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and many of them perish. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even the priests, who approach the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, must consecrate themselves, or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, &#8216;Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, or he will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So Moses went down to the people and told them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">because those who heard did not combine it with faith</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8220;So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: &#8220;On the seventh day God rested from all his works.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:2</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And again in the passage above he says, &#8220;They shall never enter my rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God again set a certain day, calling it &#8220;Today.&#8221; This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for anyone who enters God&#8217;s rest also rests from their works,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">labor</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as God did from his. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Nothing in all creation is hidden from God&#8217;s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus the Great High Priest</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">has gone through the heavens</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are&#8212;yet he did not sin. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let us then approach God&#8217;s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Living to Please God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is God&#8217;s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that each of you should learn to control your own body</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">learn to live with your own wife</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">learn to acquire a wife</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a way that is holy and honorable, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And in fact, you do love all of God&#8217;s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Believers Who Have Died</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">According to the Lord&#8217;s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore encourage one another with these words.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down I think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">69</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 69</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 69:1-36 is numbered 69:2-37.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Lilies.&#8221; Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="content">for the waters have come up to my neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I sink in the miry depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">where there is no foothold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">I have come into the deep waters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">the floods engulf me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am worn out calling for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">my throat is parched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">My eyes fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">looking for my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who hate me without reason</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">outnumber the hairs of my head;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">many are my enemies without cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">those who seek to destroy me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">I am forced to restore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">what I did not steal.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, God, know my folly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="content">my guilt is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">may those who hope in you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">not be disgraced because of me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">may those who seek you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">not be put to shame because of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For I endure scorn for your sake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="content">and shame covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am a foreigner to my own family,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="content">a stranger to my own mother&#8217;s children;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for zeal for your house consumes me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="content">and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When I weep and fast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="content">I must endure scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">when I put on sackcloth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="content">people make sport of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who sit at the gate mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="content">and I am the song of the drunkards.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I pray to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">in the time of your favor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">in your great love, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">answer me with your sure salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">do not let me sink;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">deliver me from those who hate me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">from the deep waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not let the floodwaters engulf me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">or the depths swallow me up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">or the pit close its mouth over me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Answer me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, out of the goodness of your love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="content">in your great mercy turn to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not hide your face from your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="content">answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come near and rescue me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="content">deliver me because of my foes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="content">all my enemies are before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Scorn has broken my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">and has left me helpless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">I looked for sympathy, but there was none,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">for comforters, but I found none.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They put gall in my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="content">and gave me vinegar for my thirst.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May the table set before them become a snare;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="content">may it become retribution and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">69:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">snare / and their fellowship become</span></span></span><span class="content"> a trap.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="content">and their backs be bent forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="content">let your fierce anger overtake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">May their place be deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="content">let there be no one to dwell in their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For they persecute those you wound</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="content">and talk about the pain of those you hurt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Charge them with crime upon crime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="content">do not let them share in your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">May they be blotted out of the book of life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="content">and not be listed with the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But as for me, afflicted and in pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="content">may your salvation, God, protect me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I will praise God&#8217;s name in song</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="content">and glorify him with thanksgiving.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">This will please the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> more than an ox,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="content">more than a bull with its horns and hooves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The poor will see and be glad&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="content">you who seek God, may your hearts live!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hears the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="content">and does not despise his captive people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Let heaven and earth praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="content">the seas and all that move in them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">for God will save Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">and rebuild the cities of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">Then people will settle there and possess it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.69.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">the children of his servants will inherit it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.69.36"><span class="content">and those who love his name will dwell there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Adulterous Woman</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, keep my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Keep my commands and you will live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bind them on your fingers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">write them on the tablet of your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say to wisdom, &#8220;You are my sister,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">and to insight, &#8220;You are my relative.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They will keep you from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At the window of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">I looked down through the lattice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I saw among the simple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">I noticed among the young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">a youth who had no sense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He was going down the street near her corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">walking along in the direction of her house</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">at twilight, as the day was fading,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">as the dark of night set in.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then out came a woman to meet him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(She is unruly and defiant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">her feet never stay at home;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">now in the street, now in the squares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">at every corner she lurks.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She took hold of him and kissed him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">and with a brazen face she said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Today I fulfilled my vows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I came out to meet you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">I looked for you and have found you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have covered my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">with colored linens from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have perfumed my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come, let&#8217;s drink deeply of love till morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">let&#8217;s enjoy ourselves with love!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My husband is not at home;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">he has gone on a long journey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He took his purse filled with money</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">and will not be home till full moon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">With persuasive words she led him astray;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">she seduced him with her smooth talk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All at once he followed her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">like an ox going to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">like a deer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:22 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">fool</span></span></span><span class="content"> stepping into a noose</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:22 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">till an arrow pierces his liver,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">like a bird darting into a snare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">little knowing it will cost him his life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">pay attention to what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do not let your heart turn to her ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">or stray into her paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Many are the victims she has brought down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">her slain are a mighty throng.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her house is a highway to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="content">leading down to the chambers of death.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David and Jonathan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, &#8220;What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never!&#8221; Jonathan replied. &#8220;You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn&#8217;t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn&#8217;t so!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But David took an oath and said, &#8220;Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, &#8216;Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.&#8217; Yet as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Whatever you want me to do, I&#8217;ll do for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So David said, &#8220;Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If your father misses me at all, tell him, &#8216;David earnestly asked my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because an annual sacrifice is being made there for his whole clan.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If he says, &#8216;Very well,&#8217; then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper, you can be sure that he is determined to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never!&#8221; Jonathan said. &#8220;If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn&#8217;t I tell you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David asked, &#8220;Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; Jonathan said, &#8220;let&#8217;s go out into the field.&#8221; So they went there together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan said to David, &#8220;I swear by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But if my father intends to harm you, may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you as he has been with my father. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But show me unfailing kindness like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family&#8212;not even when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has cut off every one of David&#8217;s enemies from the face of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> call David&#8217;s enemies to account.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then I will send a boy and say, &#8216;Go, find the arrows.&#8217; If I say to him, &#8216;Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,&#8217; then come, because, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, you are safe; there is no danger. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But if I say to the boy, &#8216;Look, the arrows are beyond you,&#8217; then you must go, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent you away. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And about the matter you and I discussed&#8212;remember, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is witness between you and me forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:25 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">wall. Jonathan arose</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Abner sat next to Saul, but David&#8217;s place was empty. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, &#8220;Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean&#8212;surely he is unclean.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But the next day, the second day of the month, David&#8217;s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, &#8220;Why hasn&#8217;t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jonathan answered, &#8220;David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He said, &#8216;Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.&#8217; That is why he has not come to the king&#8217;s table.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.20.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Saul&#8217;s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, &#8220;You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don&#8217;t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you? </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.20.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why should he be put to death? What has he done?&#8221; Jonathan asked his father. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.20.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father&#8217;s shameful treatment of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.20.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.20.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for his meeting with David. He had a small boy with him, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.20.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">and he said to the boy, &#8220;Run and find the arrows I shoot.&#8221; As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.20.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When the boy came to the place where Jonathan&#8217;s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the arrow beyond you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.20.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then he shouted, &#8220;Hurry! Go quickly! Don&#8217;t stop!&#8221; The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.20.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">(The boy knew nothing about all this; only Jonathan and David knew.) </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.20.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said, &#8220;Go, carry them back to town.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.20.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.20.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together&#8212;but David wept the most.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.20.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.20.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, saying, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:42 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this sentence (20:42b) is numbered 21:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JER.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man divorces his wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">and she leaves him and marries another man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">should he return to her again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">Would not the land be completely defiled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">would you now return to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">declares 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="JER.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look up to the barren heights and see.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">Is there any place where you have not been ravished?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">sat like a nomad in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">You have defiled the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">with your prostitution and wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore the showers have been withheld,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">and no spring rains have fallen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">you refuse to blush with shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Have you not just called to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">&#8216;My Father, my friend from my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">will you always be angry?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">Will your wrath continue forever?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">This is how you talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">but you do all the evil you can.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unfaithful Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During the reign of King Josiah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because Israel&#8217;s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Go, proclaim this message toward the north:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Return, faithless Israel,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will frown on you no longer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">for I am faithful,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will not be angry forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Only acknowledge your guilt&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have rebelled against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have scattered your favors to foreign gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">under every spreading tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">and have not obeyed me,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for I am your husband. I will choose you&#8212;one from a town and two from a clan&#8212;and bring you to Zion. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;people will no longer say, &#8216;The ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I myself said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How gladly would I treat you like my children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and give you a pleasant land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">I thought you would call me &#8216;Father&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and not turn away from following me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A cry is heard on the barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">because they have perverted their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">and have forgotten the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">I will cure you of backsliding.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we will come to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">for you are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">and mountains is a deception;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">surely in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">is the salvation of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">From our youth shameful gods have consumed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">the fruits of our ancestors&#8217; labor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their flocks and herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let us lie down in our shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">and let our disgrace cover us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">We have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">both we and our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">from our youth till this day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">we have not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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   <div class="book bkACT">
      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="ACT.13">
         <div class="label">13</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, &#8220;Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">On Cyprus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.13.11"><span class="content">Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Pisidian Antioch</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, &#8220;Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand and said: &#8220;Fellow Israelites and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for about forty years he endured their conduct</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">he cared for them</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the wilderness; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and he overthrew seven nations in Canaan, giving their land to his people as their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All this took about 450 years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.13.20"><span class="content">&#8220;After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: &#8216;I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;From this man&#8217;s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As John was completing his work, he said: &#8216;Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for. But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But God raised him from the dead, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You are my son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">today I have become your father.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:33 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:34 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 55:3</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So it is also stated elsewhere:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You will not let your holy one see decay.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 16:10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now when David had served God&#8217;s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.13.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.13.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.13.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Look, you scoffers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">wonder and perish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">for I am going to do something in your days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">that you would never believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">even if someone told you.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:41 </span><span class="ft">Hab. 1:5</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.13.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.13.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.13.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.13.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.13.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.13.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.13.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: &#8220;We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">For this is what the Lord has commanded us:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I have made you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a light for the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">that you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:6</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.13.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.13.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.13.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">The word of the Lord spread through the whole region. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="ACT.13.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="ACT.13.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">So they shook the dust off their feet as a warning to them and went to Iconium. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="ACT.13.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div>
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