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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now his brothers had gone to graze their father&#8217;s flocks near Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he said to him, &#8220;Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.&#8221; Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="content">When Joseph arrived at Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;They have moved on from here,&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="content">So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here comes that dreamer!&#8221; they said to each other. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come now, let&#8217;s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we&#8217;ll see what comes of his dreams.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. &#8220;Let&#8217;s not take his life,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221; Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe&#8212;the ornate robe he was wearing&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The women said to Naomi: &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The women living there said, &#8220;Naomi has a son!&#8221; And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Genealogy of David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">This, then, is the family line of Perez:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="content">Perez was the father of Hezron,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hezron the father of Ram,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="content">Ram the father of Amminadab,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amminadab the father of Nahshon,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="content">Nahshon the father of Salmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:20 </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate (see also verse 21 and Septuagint of 1 Chron. 2:11); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Salma</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Salmon the father of Boaz,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="content">Boaz the father of Obed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Obed the father of Jesse,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="content">and Jesse the father of David.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are all these words to go unanswered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">Is this talker to be vindicated?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You say to God, &#8216;My beliefs are flawless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">that he would open his lips against you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">for true wisdom has two sides.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are higher than the heavens above&#8212;what can you do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">They are deeper than the depths below&#8212;what can you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their measure is longer than the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">and wider than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If he comes along and confines you in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely he recognizes deceivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the witless can no more become wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">than a wild donkey&#8217;s colt can be born human.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wild donkey can be born tame</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if you devote your heart to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">and stretch out your hands to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if you put away the sin that is in your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">you will stand firm and without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will surely forget your trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">recalling it only as waters gone by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Life will be brighter than noonday,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">and darkness will become like morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You will be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">and many will court your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">and escape will elude them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">their hope will become a dying gasp.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Sin and the Servant&#8217;s Obedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your mother&#8217;s certificate of divorce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">with which I sent her away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Or to which of my creditors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">did I sell you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Because of your sins you were sold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I came, why was there no one?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">When I called, why was there no one to answer?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Was my arm too short to deliver you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Do I lack the strength to rescue you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">I turn rivers into a desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">their fish rot for lack of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">and die of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I clothe the heavens with darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">and make sackcloth its covering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me a well-instructed tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">to know the word that sustains the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">He wakens me morning by morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has opened my ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not been rebellious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not turned away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I offered my back to those who beat me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">I did not hide my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">from mocking and spitting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helps me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">I will not be disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">Therefore have I set my face like flint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">and I know I will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who vindicates me is near.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who then will bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let us face each other!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who is my accuser?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let him confront me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who helps me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">Who will condemn me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">They will all wear out like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">the moths will eat them up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who among you fears the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and obeys the word of his servant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">Let the one who walks in the dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">who has no light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and rely on their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now, all you who light fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and provide yourselves with flaming torches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">go, walk in the light of your fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and of the torches you have set ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">This is what you shall receive from my hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">You will lie down in torment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses&#8217; seat.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people&#8217;s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">23:5 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">That is, boxes containing Scripture verses, worn on forehead and arm</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">wide and the tassels on their garments long;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called &#8216;Rabbi&#8217; by others.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But you are not to be called &#8216;Rabbi,&#8217; for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And do not call anyone on earth &#8216;father,&#8217; for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The greatest among you will be your servant.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="1CO.7.10+1CO.7.11+1CO.7.12+1CO.7.13+1CO.7.14+1CO.7.15+1CO.7.16">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?</span></span></div>
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