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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, &#8220;Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David answered Ahimelek the priest, &#8220;The king sent me on a mission and said to me, &#8216;No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.&#8217; As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the priest answered David, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here&#8212;provided the men have kept themselves from women.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from us in the past few days since</span></span></span><span class="content"> I set out. The men&#8217;s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now one of Saul&#8217;s servants was there that day, detained before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul&#8217;s chief shepherd.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">David asked Ahimelek, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven&#8217;t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king&#8217;s mission was urgent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The priest replied, &#8220;The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">David said, &#8220;There is none like it; give it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Gath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the servants of Achish said to him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this David, the king of the land? Isn&#8217;t he the one they sing about in their dances:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Achish said to his servants, &#8220;Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Adullam and Mizpah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father&#8217;s household heard about it, they went down to him there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, &#8220;Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the prophet Gad said to David, &#8220;Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.&#8221; So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Kills the Priests of Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul&#8217;s officials, said, &#8220;I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Ahimelek inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Saul said, &#8220;Listen now, son of Ahitub.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my lord,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Saul said to him, &#8220;Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Ahimelek answered the king, &#8220;Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king&#8217;s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father&#8217;s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the king said, &#8220;You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the king ordered the guards at his side: &#8220;Turn and kill the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">But the king&#8217;s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The king then ordered Doeg, &#8220;You turn and strike down the priests.&#8221; So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then David said to Abiathar, &#8220;That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Stay with me; don&#8217;t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">91</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 91</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;He is my refuge and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">my God, in whom I trust.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he will save you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">and from the deadly pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will not fear the terror of night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">nor the arrow that flies by day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">nor the plague that destroys at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand may fall at your side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">but it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will only observe with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my refuge,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">and you make the Most High your dwelling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">no harm will overtake you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">no disaster will come near your tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">to guard you in all your ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You will tread on the lion and the cobra;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> loves me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I will rescue him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will call on me, and I will answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will be with him in trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will deliver him and honor him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life I will satisfy him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">and show him my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">92</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 92</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 92:1-15 is numbered 92:2-16.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.92.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It is good to praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.92.1"><span class="content">and make music to your name, O Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.92.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.92.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">proclaiming your love in the morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.92.2"><span class="content">and your faithfulness at night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.92.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.92.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to the music of the ten-stringed lyre</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.92.3"><span class="content">and the melody of the harp.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.92.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.92.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For you make me glad by your deeds, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.92.4"><span class="content">I sing for joy at what your hands have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.92.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.92.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How great are your works, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.92.5"><span class="content">how profound your thoughts!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.92.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.92.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Senseless people do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.92.6"><span class="content">fools do not understand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.92.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.92.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">that though the wicked spring up like grass</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.92.7"><span class="content">and all evildoers flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.92.7"><span class="content">they will be destroyed forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.92.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.92.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are forever exalted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.92.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.92.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For surely your enemies, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.92.9"><span class="content">surely your enemies will perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.92.9"><span class="content">all evildoers will be scattered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.92.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.92.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have exalted my horn</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">92:10 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength.</span></span></span><span class="content"> like that of a wild ox;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.92.10"><span class="content">fine oils have been poured on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.92.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.92.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.92.11"><span class="content">my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.92.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.92.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.92.12"><span class="content">they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.92.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.92.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">planted in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.92.13"><span class="content">they will flourish in the courts of our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.92.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.92.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They will still bear fruit in old age,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.92.14"><span class="content">they will stay fresh and green,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.92.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.92.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">proclaiming, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is upright;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.92.15"><span class="content">he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest Commandment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:39 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.22.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">&#8220;The son of David,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him &#8216;Lord&#8217;? For he says,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">22:44 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
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          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.22.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If then David calls him &#8216;Lord,&#8217; how can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.22.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in him you have been enriched in every way&#8212;with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Church Divided Over Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 11 and 26; and in 2:1; 3:1; 4:6; 6:8; 7:24, 29; 10:1; 11:33; 12:1; 14:6, 20, 26, 39; 15:1, 6, 50, 58; 16:15, 20.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe&#8217;s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What I mean is this: One of you says, &#8220;I follow Paul&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Apollos&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;; still another, &#8220;I follow Christ.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don&#8217;t remember if I baptized anyone else.) </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel&#8212;not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.</span></span></div>
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