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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Abraham was now very old, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had blessed him in every way. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, &#8220;Put your hand under my thigh. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I want you to swear by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The servant asked him, &#8220;What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make sure that you do not take my son back there,&#8221; Abraham said. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father&#8217;s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, &#8216;To your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give this land&#8217;&#8212;he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master&#8217;s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made his way to the town of Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then he prayed, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May it be that when I say to a young woman, &#8216;Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,&#8217; and she says, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll water your camels too&#8217;&#8212;let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1+JDG.1.2+JDG.1.3+JDG.1.4+JDG.1.5+JDG.1.6+JDG.1.7+JDG.1.8+JDG.1.9+JDG.1.10+JDG.1.11+JDG.1.12+JDG.1.13+JDG.1.14+JDG.1.15+JDG.1.16+JDG.1.17+JDG.1.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, &#8220;Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.&#8221; So the Simeonites went with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When Judah attacked, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Adoni-Bezek said, &#8220;Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.&#8221; They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After that, Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev and the western foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From there they advanced against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Caleb said, &#8220;I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">Othniel, he urged her</span></span></span><span class="content"> to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She replied, &#8220;Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.&#8221; So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The descendants of Moses&#8217; father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jericho</span></span></span><span class="content"> with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="fq">Hormah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">destruction.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Judah also took</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">Judah did not take</span></span></span><span class="content"> Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron&#8212;each city with its territory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch33" data-usfm="PSA.33.12+PSA.33.13+PSA.33.14+PSA.33.15+PSA.33.16+PSA.33.17+PSA.33.18+PSA.33.19+PSA.33.20+PSA.33.21+PSA.33.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the nation whose God is the </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.33.12"><span class="content">the people he chose for his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From heaven the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looks down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="content">and sees all mankind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">from his dwelling place he watches</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="content">all who live on earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">he who forms the hearts of all,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="content">who considers everything they do.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No king is saved by the size of his army;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="content">no warrior escapes by his great strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="content">despite all its great strength it cannot save.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are on those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="content">on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">to deliver them from death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="content">and keep them alive in famine.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We wait in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="content">he is our help and our shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In him our hearts rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="content">for we trust in his holy name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love be with us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.33.22"><span class="content">even as we put our hope in you.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="ISA.29.1+ISA.29.2+ISA.29.3+ISA.29.4+ISA.29.5+ISA.29.6+ISA.29.7+ISA.29.8+ISA.29.9+ISA.29.10+ISA.29.11+ISA.29.12">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">the city where David settled!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">Add year to year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">and let your cycle of festivals go on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet I will besiege Ariel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will mourn and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will be to me like an altar hearth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">altar hearth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">Ariel</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will encamp against you on all sides;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">I will encircle you with towers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">and set up my siege works against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Brought low, you will speak from the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">your speech will mumble out of the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">out of the dust your speech will whisper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But your many enemies will become like fine dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">Suddenly, in an instant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with thunder and earthquake and great noise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">will be as it is with a dream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">with a vision in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as when a hungry person dreams of eating,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens hungry still;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens faint and thirsty still.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">So will it be with the hordes of all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">that fight against Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Be stunned and amazed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">blind yourselves and be sightless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">be drunk, but not from wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">stagger, but not from beer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought over you a deep sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">he has covered your heads (the seers).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I can&#8217;t; it is sealed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to read.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="MAT.13.1+MAT.13.2+MAT.13.3+MAT.13.4+MAT.13.5+MAT.13.6+MAT.13.7+MAT.13.8+MAT.13.9+MAT.13.10+MAT.13.11+MAT.13.12+MAT.13.13+MAT.13.14+MAT.13.15">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then he told them many things in parables, saying: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A farmer went out to sow his seed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop&#8212;a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The disciples came to him and asked, &#8220;Why do you speak to the people in parables?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is why I speak to them in parables:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.13.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Though seeing, they do not see;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.13.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">though hearing, they do not hear or understand.</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.13.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You will be ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.13.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For this people&#8217;s heart has become calloused;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they hardly hear with their ears,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and they have closed their eyes.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">understand with their hearts</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and turn, and I would heal them.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">13:15 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will say then, &#8220;Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!</span></span></div>
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