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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, &#8220;Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand and said: &#8220;Fellow Israelites and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for about forty years he endured their conduct</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">he cared for them</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the wilderness; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and he overthrew seven nations in Canaan, giving their land to his people as their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All this took about 450 years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.13.20"><span class="content">&#8220;After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: &#8216;I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;From this man&#8217;s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As John was completing his work, he said: &#8216;Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for. But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But God raised him from the dead, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You are my son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">today I have become your father.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:33 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:34 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 55:3</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.13.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So it is also stated elsewhere:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You will not let your holy one see decay.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 16:10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.13.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now when David had served God&#8217;s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.13.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.13.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.13.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Look, you scoffers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">wonder and perish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">for I am going to do something in your days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">that you would never believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">even if someone told you.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:41 </span><span class="ft">Hab. 1:5</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.13.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.13.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.13.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.13.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.13.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.13.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.13.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.13.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: &#8220;We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">For this is what the Lord has commanded us:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I have made you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a light for the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">that you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:47 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:6</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.13.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.13.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.13.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.13.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">The word of the Lord spread through the whole region. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="ACT.13.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="ACT.13.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">So they shook the dust off their feet as a warning to them and went to Iconium. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="ACT.13.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</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.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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