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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Even today my complaint is bitter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">his hand</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/&#160;the hand on me</span></span></span><span class="content"> is heavy in spite of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heavy on me in</span></span></span><span class="content"> my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If only I knew where to find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">if only I could go to his dwelling!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would state my case before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">and fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would find out what he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">and consider what he would say to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Would he vigorously oppose me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No, he would not press charges against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the upright can establish their innocence before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I go to the east, he is not there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">if I go to the west, I do not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knows the way that I take;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My feet have closely followed his steps;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">I have kept to his way without turning aside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have not departed from the commands of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">He does whatever he pleases.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He carries out his decree against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">and many such plans he still has in store.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is why I am terrified before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">when I think of all this, I fear him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">God has made my heart faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">the Almighty has terrified me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">by the thick darkness that covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There are those who move boundary stones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">they pasture flocks they have stolen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They drive away the orphan&#8217;s donkey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">and take the widow&#8217;s ox in pledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They thrust the needy from the path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">and force all the poor of the land into hiding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like wild donkeys in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the poor go about their labor of foraging food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the wasteland provides food for their children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They gather fodder in the fields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are drenched by mountain rains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they go about naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They crush olives among the terraces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The groans of the dying rise from the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">But God charges no one with wrongdoing.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are those who rebel against the light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">who do not know its ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">or stay in its paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">kills the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">and in the night steals forth like a thief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">he thinks, &#8216;No eye will see me,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">and he keeps his face concealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the dark, thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">but by day they shut themselves in;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">they want nothing to do with the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For all of them, midnight is their morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">they make friends with the terrors of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">their portion of the land is cursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">so that no one goes to the vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The womb forgets them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the worm feasts on them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the wicked are no longer remembered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">but are broken like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They prey on the barren and childless woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">and to the widow they show no kindness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God drags away the mighty by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">though they become established, they have no assurance of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He may let them rest in a feeling of security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">but his eyes are on their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are brought low and gathered up like all others;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are cut off like heads of grain.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me false</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="content">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">121</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 121</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I lift up my eyes to the mountains&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="content">where does my help come from?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My help comes from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="content">the Maker of heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will not let your foot slip&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="content">he who watches over you will not slumber;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">indeed, he who watches over Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="content">will neither slumber nor sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> watches over you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is your shade at your right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the sun will not harm you by day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="content">nor the moon by night.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will keep you from all harm&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="content">he will watch over your life;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will watch over your coming and going</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin, Faith, Duty</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus said to his disciples: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So watch yourselves.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If your brother or sister</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:3 </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 fellow disciple, whether man or woman.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying &#8216;I repent,&#8217; you must forgive them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The apostles said to the Lord, &#8220;Increase our faith!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, &#8216;Be uprooted and planted in the sea,&#8217; and it will obey you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, &#8216;Come along now and sit down to eat&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Won&#8217;t he rather say, &#8216;Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, &#8216;We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:12 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> met him. They stood at a distance </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and called out in a loud voice, &#8220;Jesus, Master, have pity on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he saw them, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, show yourselves to the priests.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And as they went, they were cleansed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He threw himself at Jesus&#8217; feet and thanked him&#8212;and he was a Samaritan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and go; your faith has made you well.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Coming of the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">nor will people say, &#8216;Here it is,&#8217; or &#8216;There it is,&#8217; because the kingdom of God is in your midst.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is within you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will tell you, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; or &#8216;Here he is!&#8217; Do not go running off after them.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man in his day</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">in his day.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember Lot&#8217;s wife!</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.17.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="label">[36]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:36 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to <span class="ref" usfm="MAT.24.40">Matt. 24:40</span>.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, Lord?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman and the Dragon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to a son, a male child, who &#8220;will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.2.9">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The great dragon was hurled down&#8212;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now have come the salvation and the power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the kingdom of our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the authority of his Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">who accuses them before our God day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">has been hurled down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They triumphed over him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">by the blood of the Lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">and by the word of their testimony;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">they did not love their lives so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">as to shrink from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore rejoice, you heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">and you who dwell in them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">But woe to the earth and the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because the devil has gone down to you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">He is filled with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because he knows that his time is short.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent&#8217;s reach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring&#8212;those who keep God&#8217;s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.</span></span></div>
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