Healing From God

Unmasking Narcissism

Overcoming Suffering

From Acceptance to Approval: Living a Life That Pleases the Father

Be Still and Know: 7 Days to Recenter Your Heart on God

Islands, Tides, and the Deep: A Marriage Message From the Sea

Men of God: Ancient Virtues for Modern Warriors

Alive and on Fire - a Video Devo With Illusionist, Dustin Tavella

Living With a Strong-Willed Child

Be Ye Holy: The Holy Spirit's Role in Our Lives

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there was a famine in the land&#8212;besides the previous famine in Abraham&#8217;s time&#8212;and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Isaac and said, &#8220;Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Isaac stayed in Gerar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, &#8220;She is my sister,&#8221; because he was afraid to say, &#8220;She is my wife.&#8221; He thought, &#8220;The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">Isaac answered him, &#8220;Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said, &#8220;What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: &#8220;Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said to Isaac, &#8220;Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="JDG.6.1+JDG.6.2+JDG.6.3+JDG.6.4+JDG.6.5+JDG.6.6+JDG.6.7+JDG.6.8+JDG.6.9+JDG.6.10+JDG.6.11+JDG.6.12+JDG.6.13+JDG.6.14+JDG.6.15+JDG.6.16+JDG.6.17+JDG.6.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of Midian, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he sent them a prophet, who said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said to you, &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.&#8217; But you have not listened to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Gideon, he said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with you, mighty warrior.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, &#8216;Did not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bring us up out of Egypt?&#8217; But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> turned to him and said, &#8220;Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian&#8217;s hand. Am I not sending you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Gideon replied, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wait until you return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="PSA.37.1+PSA.37.2+PSA.37.3+PSA.37.4+PSA.37.5+PSA.37.6+PSA.37.7+PSA.37.8+PSA.37.9+PSA.37.10+PSA.37.11+PSA.37.12+PSA.37.13">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not fret because of those who are evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.37.1"><span class="content">or be envious of those who do wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.37.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for like the grass they will soon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.37.2"><span class="content">like green plants they will soon die away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.37.3"><span class="content">dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.37.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Take delight in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.37.4"><span class="content">and he will give you the desires of your heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.37.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Commit your way to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.37.5"><span class="content">trust in him and he will do this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.37.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.37.6"><span class="content">your vindication like the noonday sun.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.37.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Be still before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.37.7"><span class="content">and wait patiently for him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.37.7"><span class="content">do not fret when people succeed in their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.37.7"><span class="content">when they carry out their wicked schemes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.37.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.37.8"><span class="content">do not fret&#8212;it leads only to evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For those who are evil will be destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.37.9"><span class="content">but those who hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will inherit the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.37.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A little while, and the wicked will be no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.37.10"><span class="content">though you look for them, they will not be found.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.37.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the meek will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.37.11"><span class="content">and enjoy peace and prosperity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.37.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The wicked plot against the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="content">and gnash their teeth at them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">but the Lord laughs at the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.37.13"><span class="content">for he knows their day is coming.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch33" data-usfm="ISA.33.1+ISA.33.2+ISA.33.3+ISA.33.4+ISA.33.5+ISA.33.6+ISA.33.7+ISA.33.8+ISA.33.9+ISA.33.10+ISA.33.11+ISA.33.12">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, destroyer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you who have not been destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">Woe to you, betrayer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you who have not been betrayed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">When you stop destroying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you will be destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">when you stop betraying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you will be betrayed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, be gracious to us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">we long for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">Be our strength every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">our salvation in time of distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="content">when you rise up, the nations scatter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="content">like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted, for he dwells on high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="content">he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will be the sure foundation for your times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the key to this treasure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is a treasure from him</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="content">the envoys of peace weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The highways are deserted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">no travelers are on the roads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">The treaty is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">its witnesses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:8 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ the cities</span></span></span><span class="content"> are despised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">no one is respected.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The land dries up and wastes away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">Lebanon is ashamed and withers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">Sharon is like the Arabah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now will I arise,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now will I be exalted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">now will I be lifted up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You conceive chaff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">you give birth to straw;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">your breath is a fire that consumes you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The peoples will be burned to ashes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.33.12"><span class="content">like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, &#8220;This is a remote place, and it&#8217;s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring them here to me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="ROM.13.8+ROM.13.9+ROM.13.10+ROM.13.11+ROM.13.12+ROM.13.13+ROM.13.14">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The commandments, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not murder,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not steal,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not covet,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21</span></span></span><span class="content"> and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day Is Near</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </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></div>
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