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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the king was settled in his palace and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had given him rest from all his enemies around him, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">he said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Nathan replied to the king, &#8220;Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But that night the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Nathan, saying:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? </span></span></div>
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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.7.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself will establish a house for you: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content">; your throne will be established forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that is</span></span></span><span class="content"> faith&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">In the sixth month of Elizabeth&#8217;s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin&#8217;s name was Mary. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The angel went to her and said, &#8220;Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But the angel said to her, &#8220;Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">and he will reign over Jacob&#8217;s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.1.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;How will this be,&#8221; Mary asked the angel, &#8220;since I am a virgin?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.1.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The angel answered, &#8220;The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:35 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">So the child to be born will be called holy,</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Son of God. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.1.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">For no word from God will ever fail.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.1.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.1.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the Lord&#8217;s servant,&#8221; Mary answered. &#8220;May your word to me be fulfilled.&#8221; Then the angel left her.</span></span></div>
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