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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whoever wants to save their life</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:25 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word means either </span><span class="fqa">life </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">soul</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 26.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father&#8217;s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Peter said to him, &#8220;We have left all we had to follow you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.18.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person&#8217;s work. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved&#8212;even though only as one escaping through the flames.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="2CO.4.11+2CO.4.12+2CO.4.13+2CO.4.14+2CO.4.15+2CO.4.16+2CO.4.17+2CO.4.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus&#8217; sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It is written: &#8220;I believed; therefore I have spoken.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:13 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 116:10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content"> Since we have that same spirit of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit-given</span></span></span><span class="content"> faith, we also believe and therefore speak, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else&#8217;s territory. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, &#8220;Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 9:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage&#8212;with great patience and careful instruction. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day&#8212;and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.</span></span></div>
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