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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I&#8217;ve done for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Laban said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed me because of you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He added, &#8220;Name your wages, and I will pay them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said to him, &#8220;You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I give you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t give me anything,&#8221; Jacob replied. &#8220;But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.30.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Agreed,&#8221; said Laban. &#8220;Let it be as you have said.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.30.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban&#8217;s flocks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.30.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.30.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.30.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.30.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban&#8217;s animals. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.30.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.30.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.30.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah and Ephraim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, &#8220;Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We&#8217;re going to burn down your house over your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn&#8217;t save me out of their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I saw that you wouldn&#8217;t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, &#8220;You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, &#8220;Let me cross over,&#8221; the men of Gilead asked him, &#8220;Are you an Ephraimite?&#8221; If he replied, &#8220;No,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they said, &#8220;All right, say &#8216;Shibboleth.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; If he said, &#8220;Sibboleth,&#8221; because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8-14</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ibzan, Elon and Abdon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On another day the angels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the sons of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Where have you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="content">Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Skin for skin!&#8221; Satan replied. &#8220;A man will give all he has for his own life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Satan went out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His wife said to him, &#8220;Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;You are talking like a foolish</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered </span><span class="fq">foolish </span><span class="ft">denotes moral deficiency.</span></span></span><span class="content"> woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When Job&#8217;s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch40" data-usfm="ISA.40.18+ISA.40.19+ISA.40.20+ISA.40.21+ISA.40.22+ISA.40.23+ISA.40.24+ISA.40.25+ISA.40.26+ISA.40.27+ISA.40.28+ISA.40.29+ISA.40.30+ISA.40.31">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.40.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">With whom, then, will you compare God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.40.18"><span class="content">To what image will you liken him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.40.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.40.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.40.19"><span class="content">and a goldsmith overlays it with gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.40.19"><span class="content">and fashions silver chains for it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.40.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.40.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">A person too poor to present such an offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.40.20"><span class="content">selects wood that will not rot;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.40.20"><span class="content">they look for a skilled worker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.40.20"><span class="content">to set up an idol that will not topple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.40.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.40.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do you not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.40.21"><span class="content">Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.40.21"><span class="content">Has it not been told you from the beginning?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.40.21"><span class="content">Have you not understood since the earth was founded?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.40.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.40.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.40.22"><span class="content">and its people are like grasshoppers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.40.22"><span class="content">He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.40.22"><span class="content">and spreads them out like a tent to live in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.40.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.40.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He brings princes to naught</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.40.23"><span class="content">and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.40.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">No sooner are they planted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="content">no sooner are they sown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="content">no sooner do they take root in the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="content">than he blows on them and they wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="content">and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.40.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.40.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;To whom will you compare me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.40.25"><span class="content">Or who is my equal?&#8221; says the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.40.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">Who created all these?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">He who brings out the starry host one by one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">and calls forth each of them by name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">Because of his great power and mighty strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">not one of them is missing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.40.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.40.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Why do you complain, Jacob?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.40.27"><span class="content">Why do you say, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.40.27"><span class="content">&#8220;My way is hidden from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.40.27"><span class="content">my cause is disregarded by my God&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.40.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do you not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the everlasting God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">the Creator of the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">He will not grow tired or weary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">and his understanding no one can fathom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.40.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.40.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He gives strength to the weary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.40.29"><span class="content">and increases the power of the weak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.40.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.40.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Even youths grow tired and weary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.40.30"><span class="content">and young men stumble and fall;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.40.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.40.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">but those who hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.40.31"><span class="content">will renew their strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.40.31"><span class="content">They will soar on wings like eagles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.40.31"><span class="content">they will run and not grow weary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.40.31"><span class="content">they will walk and not be faint.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t your teacher pay the temple tax?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he does,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think, Simon?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes&#8212;from their own children or from others?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;From others,&#8221; Peter answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the children are exempt,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="MAT.18.1+MAT.18.2+MAT.18.3+MAT.18.4+MAT.18.5+MAT.18.6+MAT.18.7+MAT.18.8+MAT.18.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Causing to Stumble</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone causes one of these little ones&#8212;those who believe in me&#8212;to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8212;their Lord and ours:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div>
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