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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">No Confidence in the Flesh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHP.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">though I myself have reasons for such confidence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="content">If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">through the faithfulness of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ&#8212;the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I want to know Christ&#8212;yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHP.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Following Paul&#8217;s Example</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHP.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Only let us live up to what we have already attained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHP.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHP.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHP.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 33</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sing joyfully to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.33.1"><span class="content">it is fitting for the upright to praise him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.33.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with the harp;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.33.2"><span class="content">make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Sing to him a new song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.33.3"><span class="content">play skillfully, and shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is right and true;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.33.4"><span class="content">he is faithful in all he does.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves righteousness and justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.33.5"><span class="content">the earth is full of his unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">By the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the heavens were made,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.33.6"><span class="content">their starry host by the breath of his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He gathers the waters of the sea into jars</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sea as into a heap</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.33.7"><span class="content">he puts the deep into storehouses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let all the earth fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.33.8"><span class="content">let all the people of the world revere him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For he spoke, and it came to be;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.33.9"><span class="content">he commanded, and it stood firm.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> foils the plans of the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.33.10"><span class="content">he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the plans of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stand firm forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.33.11"><span class="content">the purposes of his heart through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the nation whose God is 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="PSA.33.12"><span class="content">the people he chose for his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From heaven the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looks down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="content">and sees all mankind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">from his dwelling place he watches</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="content">all who live on earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">he who forms the hearts of all,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="content">who considers everything they do.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No king is saved by the size of his army;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="content">no warrior escapes by his great strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="content">despite all its great strength it cannot save.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are on those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="content">on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">to deliver them from death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="content">and keep them alive in famine.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We wait in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="content">he is our help and our shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In him our hearts rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="content">for we trust in his holy name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love be with us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.33.22"><span class="content">even as we put our hope in you.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:39 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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