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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;These are the laws you are to set before them:</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hebrew Servants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.21.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.21.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if the servant declares, &#8216;I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">then his master must take him before the judges.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God</span></span></span><span class="content"> He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.21.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">master so that he does not choose her</span></span></span><span class="content"> he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Personal Injuries</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.21.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.21.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who attacks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">kills</span></span></span><span class="content"> their father or mother is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.21.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper&#8217;s possession.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.21.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.21.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with a tool</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.21.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.21.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">she has a miscarriage</span></span></span><span class="content"> but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman&#8217;s husband demands and the court allows. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.21.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.21.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:32 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 12 ounces or about 345 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.21.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.21.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone&#8217;s bull injures someone else&#8217;s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch119" data-usfm="PSA.119.49+PSA.119.50+PSA.119.51+PSA.119.52+PSA.119.53+PSA.119.54+PSA.119.55+PSA.119.56+PSA.119.57+PSA.119.58+PSA.119.59+PSA.119.60+PSA.119.61+PSA.119.62+PSA.119.63+PSA.119.64+PSA.119.65+PSA.119.66+PSA.119.67+PSA.119.68+PSA.119.69+PSA.119.70+PSA.119.71+PSA.119.72+PSA.119.73+PSA.119.74+PSA.119.75+PSA.119.76+PSA.119.77+PSA.119.78+PSA.119.79+PSA.119.80+PSA.119.81+PSA.119.82+PSA.119.83+PSA.119.84+PSA.119.85+PSA.119.86+PSA.119.87+PSA.119.88+PSA.119.89+PSA.119.90+PSA.119.91+PSA.119.92+PSA.119.93+PSA.119.94+PSA.119.95+PSA.119.96">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.119.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Remember your word to your servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.119.49"><span class="content">for you have given me hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.119.49"></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.119.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">My comfort in my suffering is this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.119.50"><span class="content">Your promise preserves my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.119.50"></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.119.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">The arrogant mock me unmercifully,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.119.51"><span class="content">but I do not turn from your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.119.51"></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.119.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">I remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your ancient laws,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.119.52"><span class="content">and I find comfort in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.119.52"></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.119.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Indignation grips me because of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.119.53"><span class="content">who have forsaken your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.119.53"></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.119.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Your decrees are the theme of my song</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.119.54"><span class="content">wherever I lodge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.119.54"></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.119.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">In the night, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I remember your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.119.55"><span class="content">that I may keep your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.119.55"></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.119.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">This has been my practice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.119.56"><span class="content">I obey your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1495; Heth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.119.56"></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.119.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">You are my portion, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.119.57"><span class="content">I have promised to obey your words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.119.57"></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.119.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">I have sought your face with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.119.58"><span class="content">be gracious to me according to your promise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.119.58"></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.119.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">I have considered my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.119.59"><span class="content">and have turned my steps to your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.119.59"></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.119.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">I will hasten and not delay</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.119.60"><span class="content">to obey your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.119.60"></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.119.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">Though the wicked bind me with ropes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.119.61"><span class="content">I will not forget your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.119.61"></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.119.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">At midnight I rise to give you thanks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.119.62"><span class="content">for your righteous laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.119.62"></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.119.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">I am a friend to all who fear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.119.63"><span class="content">to all who follow your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.119.63"></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.119.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">The earth is filled with your love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.119.64"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1496; Teth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.119.64"></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.119.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Do good to your servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.119.65"><span class="content">according to your word, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.119.65"></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.119.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">Teach me knowledge and good judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.119.66"><span class="content">for I trust your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.119.66"></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.119.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">Before I was afflicted I went astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.119.67"><span class="content">but now I obey your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.119.67"></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.119.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">You are good, and what you do is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.119.68"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.119.68"></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.119.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.119.69"><span class="content">I keep your precepts with all my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.119.69"></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.119.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">Their hearts are callous and unfeeling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.119.70"><span class="content">but I delight in your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.119.70"></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">It was good for me to be afflicted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"><span class="content">so that I might learn your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">The law from your mouth is more precious to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"><span class="content">than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1497; Yodh</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"></span><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">Your hands made me and formed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="content">give me understanding to learn your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"></span><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="label">74</span><span class="content">May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="content">for I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"></span><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="label">75</span><span class="content">I know, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that your laws are righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="content">and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"></span><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="label">76</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love be my comfort,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="content">according to your promise to your servant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"></span><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="label">77</span><span class="content">Let your compassion come to me that I may live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="content">for your law is my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"></span><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"><span class="label">78</span><span class="content">May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"><span class="content">but I will meditate on your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"></span><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"><span class="label">79</span><span class="content">May those who fear you turn to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"><span class="content">those who understand your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"></span><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"><span class="label">80</span><span class="content">May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"><span class="content">that I may not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1499; Kaph</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"></span><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"><span class="label">81</span><span class="content">My soul faints with longing for your salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"><span class="content">but I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"></span><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"><span class="label">82</span><span class="content">My eyes fail, looking for your promise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"><span class="content">I say, &#8220;When will you comfort me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"></span><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"><span class="label">83</span><span class="content">Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"><span class="content">I do not forget your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"></span><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"><span class="label">84</span><span class="content">How long must your servant wait?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"><span class="content">When will you punish my persecutors?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"></span><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"><span class="label">85</span><span class="content">The arrogant dig pits to trap me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"><span class="content">contrary to your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"></span><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"><span class="label">86</span><span class="content">All your commands are trustworthy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"><span class="content">help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"></span><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"><span class="label">87</span><span class="content">They almost wiped me from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"><span class="content">but I have not forsaken your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"></span><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"><span class="label">88</span><span class="content">In your unfailing love preserve my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"><span class="content">that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1500; Lamedh</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"></span><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="label">89</span><span class="content">Your word, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is eternal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="content">it stands firm in the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"></span><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="label">90</span><span class="content">Your faithfulness continues through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="content">you established the earth, and it endures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"></span><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="label">91</span><span class="content">Your laws endure to this day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="content">for all things serve you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"></span><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="label">92</span><span class="content">If your law had not been my delight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="content">I would have perished in my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"></span><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="label">93</span><span class="content">I will never forget your precepts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="content">for by them you have preserved my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"></span><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="label">94</span><span class="content">Save me, for I am yours;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="content">I have sought out your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"></span><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="label">95</span><span class="content">The wicked are waiting to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="content">but I will ponder your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"></span><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="label">96</span><span class="content">To all perfection I see a limit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="content">but your commands are boundless.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Released From the Law, Bound to Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do you not know, brothers and sisters&#8212;for I am speaking to those who know the law&#8212;that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we were in the realm of the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Law and Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, &#8220;You shall not covet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.20.17">Exodus 20:17</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DEU.5.21">Deut. 5:21</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do&#8212;this I keep on doing. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For in my inner being I delight in God&#8217;s law; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="content">So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God&#8217;s law, but in my sinful nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> a slave to the law of sin.</span></span></div>
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