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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ten Commandments</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And God spoke all these words:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.20.1"></span></div><div class="pi3"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.20.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall have no other gods before</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">besides</span></span></span><span class="content"> me.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.20.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.20.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not misuse the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.20.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Six days you shall labor and do all your work, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but the seventh day is a sabbath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For in six days the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.20.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.20.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not murder.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.20.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not commit adultery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.20.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not steal.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.20.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.20.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not covet your neighbor&#8217;s house. You shall not covet your neighbor&#8217;s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and said to Moses, &#8220;Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.20.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moses said to the people, &#8220;Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.20.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Idols and Altars</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.20.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell the Israelites this: &#8216;You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.20.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.20.26"></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.119.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.119.1"><span class="content">who walk according to the law of 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="PSA.119.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.119.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who keep his statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.119.2"><span class="content">and seek him with all their heart&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.119.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.119.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">they do no wrong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.119.3"><span class="content">but follow his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.119.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.119.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have laid down precepts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.119.4"><span class="content">that are to be fully obeyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.119.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.119.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, that my ways were steadfast</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.119.5"><span class="content">in obeying your decrees!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.119.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.119.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then I would not be put to shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.119.6"><span class="content">when I consider all your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.119.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.119.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will praise you with an upright heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.119.7"><span class="content">as I learn your righteous laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.119.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.119.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will obey your decrees;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.119.8"><span class="content">do not utterly forsake me.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1489; Beth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.119.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How can a young person stay on the path of purity?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"><span class="content">By living according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I seek you with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"><span class="content">do not let me stray from your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have hidden your word in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"><span class="content">that I might not sin against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.119.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Praise be to you, </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.119.12"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.119.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With my lips I recount</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"><span class="content">all the laws that come from your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I rejoice in following your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"><span class="content">as one rejoices in great riches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I meditate on your precepts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"><span class="content">and consider your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I delight in your decrees;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"><span class="content">I will not neglect your word.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1490; Gimel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Be good to your servant while I live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"><span class="content">that I may obey your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Open my eyes that I may see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"><span class="content">wonderful things in your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.119.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I am a stranger on earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.119.19"><span class="content">do not hide your commands from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.119.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.119.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My soul is consumed with longing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.119.20"><span class="content">for your laws at all times.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.119.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.119.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.119.21"><span class="content">those who stray from your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.119.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.119.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Remove from me their scorn and contempt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.119.22"><span class="content">for I keep your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.119.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.119.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Though rulers sit together and slander me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.119.23"><span class="content">your servant will meditate on your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.119.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.119.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Your statutes are my delight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.119.24"><span class="content">they are my counselors.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1491; Daleth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.119.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I am laid low in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I gave an account of my ways and you answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Cause me to understand the way of your precepts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"><span class="content">that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">My soul is weary with sorrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="content">strengthen me according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Keep me from deceitful ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="content">be gracious to me and teach me your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have chosen the way of faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="content">I have set my heart on your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I hold fast to your statutes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I run in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="content">for you have broadened my understanding.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1492; He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Teach me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the way of your decrees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="content">that I may follow it to the end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">119:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">follow it for its reward</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="content">and obey it with all my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Direct me in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="content">for there I find delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Turn my heart toward your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="content">and not toward selfish gain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Turn my eyes away from worthless things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your word.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">119:37 </span><span class="ft">Two manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">life in your way</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Fulfill your promise to your servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"><span class="content">so that you may be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Take away the disgrace I dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"><span class="content">for your laws are good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How I long for your precepts!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"><span class="content">In your righteousness preserve my life.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1493; Waw</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love come to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"><span class="content">your salvation, according to your promise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">then I can answer anyone who taunts me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"><span class="content">for I trust in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Never take your word of truth from my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"><span class="content">for I have put my hope in your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">I will always obey your law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">I will walk about in freedom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"><span class="content">for I have sought out your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">I will speak of your statutes before kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"><span class="content">and will not be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">for I delight in your commands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"><span class="content">because I love them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.119.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">I reach out for your commands, which I love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.119.48"><span class="content">that I may meditate on your decrees.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Or don&#8217;t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be rendered powerless</span></span></span><span class="content"> that we should no longer be slaves to sin&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Slaves to Righteousness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.6.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey&#8212;whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">through</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div>
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