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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.36.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.36.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.36.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.36.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.36.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.36.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.36.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.36.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.36.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.36.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.36.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.36.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.36.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.36.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.36.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Akbor succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.36.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.36.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:39 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac (see also 1 Chron. 1:50); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Hadar</span></span></span><span class="content"> succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife&#8217;s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.36.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.36.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.36.40"><span class="content">Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.36.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.36.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.36.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.36.43"><span class="content">This is the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Ruth&#8217;s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, &#8220;My daughter, I must find a home</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">find rest </span><span class="ft">(see 1:9).</span></span></span><span class="content"> for you, where you will be well provided for. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don&#8217;t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will do whatever you say,&#8221; Ruth answered. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned&#8212;and there was a woman lying at his feet!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who are you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your servant Ruth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55); also in verses 12 and 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of our family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you, my daughter,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And now, my daughter, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, &#8220;No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He also said, &#8220;Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.&#8221; When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">she</span></span></span><span class="content"> went back to town.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, &#8220;How did it go, my daughter?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="content">Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and added, &#8220;He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Naomi said, &#8220;Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">that we might confront each other in court.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If only there were someone to mediate between us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">someone to bring us together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">someone to remove God&#8217;s rod from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">so that his terror would frighten me no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then I would speak up without fear of him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="content">but as it now stands with me, I cannot.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I loathe my very life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">therefore I will give free rein to my complaint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">but tell me what charges you have against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does it please you to oppress me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">to spurn the work of your hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">while you smile on the plans of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do you have eyes of flesh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">Do you see as a mortal sees?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Are your days like those of a mortal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">or your years like those of a strong man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">that you must search out my faults</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">and probe after my sin&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">though you know that I am not guilty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">and that no one can rescue me from your hand?</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch48" data-usfm="ISA.48.12+ISA.48.13+ISA.48.14+ISA.48.15+ISA.48.16+ISA.48.17+ISA.48.18+ISA.48.19+ISA.48.20+ISA.48.21+ISA.48.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">Israel, whom I have called:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">I am he;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">I am the first and I am the last.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.48.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">and my right hand spread out the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">when I summon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">they all stand up together.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.48.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come together, all of you, and listen:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">Which of the idols has foretold these things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s chosen ally</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">will carry out his purpose against Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">his arm will be against the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.48.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I, even I, have spoken;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">yes, I have called him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">I will bring him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">and he will succeed in his mission.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.48.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come near me and listen to this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">&#8220;From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">at the time it happens, I am there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">And now the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">endowed with his Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.48.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">who teaches you what is best for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">who directs you in the way you should go.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.48.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If only you had paid attention to my commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">your peace would have been like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">your well-being like the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.48.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your descendants would have been like the sand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">your children like its numberless grains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">their name would never be blotted out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">nor destroyed from before me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.48.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Leave Babylon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">flee from the Babylonians!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">Announce this with shouts of joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">and proclaim it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">Send it out to the ends of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has redeemed his servant Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.48.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">he made water flow for them from the rock;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">he split the rock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">and water gushed out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.48.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.48.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch49" data-usfm="ISA.49.1+ISA.49.2+ISA.49.3+ISA.49.4+ISA.49.5+ISA.49.6+ISA.49.7">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen to me, you islands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.49.1"><span class="content">hear this, you distant nations:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.49.1"><span class="content">Before I was born the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.49.1"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb he has spoken my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.49.2"><span class="content">in the shadow of his hand he hid me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.49.2"><span class="content">he made me into a polished arrow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.49.2"><span class="content">and concealed me in his quiver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;You are my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.49.3"><span class="content">Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;I have labored in vain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.49.4"><span class="content">I have spent my strength for nothing at all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.49.4"><span class="content">Yet what is due me is in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.49.4"><span class="content">and my reward is with my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">he who formed me in the womb to be his servant</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">to bring Jacob back to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">and gather Israel to himself,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">for I am</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be</span></span></span><span class="content"> honored in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">and my God has been my strength&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">he says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">&#8220;It is too small a thing for you to be my servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">to restore the tribes of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">and bring back those of Israel I have kept.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">to the servant of rulers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Kings will see you and stand up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">princes will see and bow down,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who is faithful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.49.7"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkMAT">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="MAT.22.23+MAT.22.24+MAT.22.25+MAT.22.26+MAT.22.27+MAT.22.28+MAT.22.29+MAT.22.30+MAT.22.31+MAT.22.32+MAT.22.33">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finally, the woman died. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But about the resurrection of the dead&#8212;have you not read what God said to you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:32 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk1CO">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="1CO.6.12+1CO.6.13+1CO.6.14+1CO.6.15+1CO.6.16+1CO.6.17+1CO.6.18+1CO.6.19+1CO.6.20">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have the right to do anything,&#8221; you say&#8212;but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;I have the right to do anything&#8221;&#8212;but I will not be mastered by anything. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.&#8221; The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, &#8220;The two will become one flesh.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the Spirit</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.</span></span></div>
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