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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Levite and His Concubine</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Israel had no king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.19.1"><span class="content">Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents&#8217; home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents&#8217; home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His father-in-law, the woman&#8217;s father, prevailed on him to stay; so he remained with him three days, eating and drinking, and sleeping there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman&#8217;s father said to his son-in-law, &#8220;Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the woman&#8217;s father said, &#8220;Please stay tonight and enjoy yourself.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And when the man got up to go, his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman&#8217;s father said, &#8220;Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!&#8221; So the two of them ate together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman&#8217;s father, said, &#8220;Now look, it&#8217;s almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His master replied, &#8220;No. We won&#8217;t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He added, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, &#8220;Where are you going? Where did you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">going home</span></span></span><span class="content"> No one has taken me in for the night. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants&#8212;me, the woman and the young man with us. We don&#8217;t need anything.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are welcome at my house,&#8221; the old man said. &#8220;Let me supply whatever you need. Only don&#8217;t spend the night in the square.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, &#8220;Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The owner of the house went outside and said to them, &#8220;No, my friends, don&#8217;t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don&#8217;t do this outrageous thing. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don&#8217;t do such an outrageous thing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He said to her, &#8220;Get up; let&#8217;s go.&#8221; But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, &#8220;Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch79" data-usfm="PSA.79">
         <div class="label">79</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 79</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have defiled your holy temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They have left the dead bodies of your servants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">as food for the birds of the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have poured out blood like water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">all around Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">and there is no one to bury the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">of scorn and derision to those around us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Will you be angry forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">How long will your jealousy burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">on the kingdoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not call on your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for they have devoured Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">and devastated his homeland.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">may your mercy come quickly to meet us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">for we are in desperate need.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Help us, God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for the glory of your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">deliver us and forgive our sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for your name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Why should the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">Before our eyes, make known among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May the groans of the prisoners come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">will praise you forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">from generation to generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">we will proclaim your praise.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch80" data-usfm="PSA.80">
         <div class="label">80</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 80</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lilies of the Covenant.&#8221; Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">you who lead Joseph like a flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">shine forth </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">Awaken your might;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">come and save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Restore us, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">will your anger smolder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">against the prayers of your people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have fed them with the bread of tears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have made us an object of derision</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">contention</span></span></span><span class="content"> to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">and our enemies mock us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Restore us, God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You transplanted a vine from Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">you drove out the nations and planted it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You cleared the ground for it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">and it took root and filled the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The mountains were covered with its shade,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">the mighty cedars with its branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Its branches reached as far as the Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Mediterranean</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">its shoots as far as the River.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why have you broken down its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">so that all who pass by pick its grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Boars from the forest ravage it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">and insects from the fields feed on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Return to us, God Almighty!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Watch over this vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the root your right hand has planted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">the son</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">branch</span></span></span><span class="content"> you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">at your rebuke your people perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">the son of man you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then we will not turn away from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">revive us, and we will call on your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Restore us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have heard that it was said, &#8216;You shall not commit adultery.&#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">5:27 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Exodus 20:14
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Divorce</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.5.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It has been said, &#8216;Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.&#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">5:31 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Deut. 24:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Oaths</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.5.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, &#8216;Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.5.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God&#8217;s throne;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.5.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.5.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.5.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All you need to say is simply &#8216;Yes&#8217; or &#8216;No&#8217;; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:37 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from evil</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eye for Eye</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.5.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.5.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have heard that it was said, &#8216;Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.&#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">5:38 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Exodus 21:24
        ; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.5.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.5.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.5.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.5.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love for Enemies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.5.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.5.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have heard that it was said, &#8216;Love your neighbor</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">5:43 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Lev. 19:18
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and hate your enemy.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.5.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.5.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.5.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MAT.5.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MAT.5.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham&#8217;s faith was credited to him as righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham&#8217;s offspring&#8212;not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is written: &#8220;I have made you a father of many nations.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 17:5</span></span></span><span class="content"> He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed&#8212;the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, &#8220;So shall your offspring be.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:18 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 15:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead&#8212;since he was about a hundred years old&#8212;and that Sarah&#8217;s womb was also dead. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is why &#8220;it was credited to him as righteousness.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The words &#8220;it was credited to him&#8221; were written not for him alone, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness&#8212;for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.</span></span></div>
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