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Overcoming Suffering

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The servant hurried to meet her and said, &#8220;Please give me a little water from your jar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Drink, my lord,&#8221; she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After she had given him a drink, she said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had made his journey successful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.7 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 4 ounces or about 115 grams</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he asked, &#8220;Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father&#8217;s house for us to spend the night?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She answered him, &#8220;I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And she added, &#8220;We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.24.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the man bowed down and worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">saying, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has led me on the journey to the house of my master&#8217;s relatives.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The young woman ran and told her mother&#8217;s household about these things. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister&#8217;s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, you who are blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.24.31"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JDG.1.19+JDG.1.20+JDG.1.21+JDG.1.22+JDG.1.23+JDG.1.24+JDG.1.25+JDG.1.26+JDG.1.27+JDG.1.28+JDG.1.29+JDG.1.30+JDG.1.31+JDG.1.32+JDG.1.33+JDG.1.34+JDG.1.35+JDG.1.36">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now the tribes of Joseph attacked Bethel, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with them. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz), </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, &#8220;Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch34" data-usfm="PSA.34.1+PSA.34.2+PSA.34.3+PSA.34.4+PSA.34.5+PSA.34.6+PSA.34.7+PSA.34.8+PSA.34.9+PSA.34.10">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at all times;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.34.1"><span class="content">his praise will always be on my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.34.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will glory in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.34.2"><span class="content">let the afflicted hear and rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Glorify the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.34.3"><span class="content">let us exalt his name together.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.34.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I sought the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.34.4"><span class="content">he delivered me from all my fears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who look to him are radiant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.34.5"><span class="content">their faces are never covered with shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This poor man called, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.34.6"><span class="content">he saved him out of all his troubles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> encamps around those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.34.7"><span class="content">and he delivers them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Taste and see that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.34.8"><span class="content">blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.34.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his holy people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.34.9"><span class="content">for those who fear him lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lions may grow weak and hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.34.10"><span class="content">but those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lack no good thing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="ISA.29.13+ISA.29.14+ISA.29.15+ISA.29.16+ISA.29.17+ISA.29.18+ISA.29.19+ISA.29.20+ISA.29.21+ISA.29.22+ISA.29.23+ISA.29.24">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">&#8220;These people come near to me with their mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">and honor me with their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">Their worship of me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">is based on merely human rules they have been taught.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore once more I will astound these people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">with wonder upon wonder;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the wisdom of the wise will perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go to great depths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">to hide their plans from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">who do their work in darkness and think,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Who sees us? Who will know?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You turn things upside down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You did not make me&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Can the pot say to the potter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You know nothing&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">and the fertile field seem like a forest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">and out of gloom and darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">the eyes of the blind will see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Once more the humble will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The ruthless will vanish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">the mockers will disappear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">who ensnare the defender in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">&#8220;No longer will Jacob be ashamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">no longer will their faces grow pale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they see among them their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">the work of my hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will keep my name holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="content">those who complain will accept instruction.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and in this way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and so</span></span></span><span class="content"> all Israel will be saved. As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">&#8220;The deliverer will come from Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And this is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will be</span></span></span><span class="content"> my covenant with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">when I take away their sins.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">for God&#8217;s gifts and his call are irrevocable. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:31 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">now.</span></span></span><span class="content"> receive mercy as a result of God&#8217;s mercy to you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.</span></span></div>
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