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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To Timothy my true son in the faith:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God&#8217;s work&#8212;which is by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers&#8212;and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lord&#8217;s Grace to Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners&#8212;of whom I am the worst. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Charge to Timothy Renewed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TI.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TI.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TI.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But he went only as far as the king&#8217;s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When Esther&#8217;s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king&#8217;s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king&#8217;s gate. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king&#8217;s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;All the king&#8217;s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Esther&#8217;s words were reported to Mordecai, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">he sent back this answer: &#8220;Do not think that because you are in the king&#8217;s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father&#8217;s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EST.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EST.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EST.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EST.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther&#8217;s instructions.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jesus came to them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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