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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Transfiguration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Peter said to Jesus, &#8220;Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters&#8212;one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Jesus came and touched them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The disciples asked him, &#8220;Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, have mercy on my son,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You unbelieving and perverse generation,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t we drive it out?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, &#8216;Move from here to there,&#8217; and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="label">[21]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Mark 9:29.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And the disciples were filled with grief.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Temple Tax</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t your teacher pay the temple tax?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he does,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think, Simon?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes&#8212;from their own children or from others?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;From others,&#8221; Peter answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the children are exempt,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="GEN.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant of Circumcision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content">; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will you be called Abram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abram </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">exalted father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; your name will be Abraham,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abraham </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">father of many</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for I have made you a father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then God said to Abraham, &#8220;As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner&#8212;those who are not your offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">God also said to Abraham, &#8220;As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, &#8220;Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And Abraham said to God, &#8220;If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and his son Ishmael was thirteen; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And every male in Abraham&#8217;s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Christ Crucified Is God&#8217;s Power and Wisdom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">&#8220;I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:19 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 29:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things&#8212;and the things that are not&#8212;to nullify the things that are, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">so that no one may boast before him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God&#8212;that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore, as it is written: &#8220;Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:31 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 9:24</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Final Charge to Timothy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">persecutions, sufferings&#8212;what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so that the servant of God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that you, a man of God,</span></span></span><span class="content"> may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My spirit is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">my days are cut short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">the grave awaits me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely mockers surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">Who else will put up security for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have closed their minds to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">therefore you will not let them triumph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone denounces their friends for reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">the eyes of their children will fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;God has made me a byword to everyone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">a man in whose face people spit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My eyes have grown dim with grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">my whole frame is but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The upright are appalled at this;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">and those with clean hands will grow stronger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;But come on, all of you, try again!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">I will not find a wise man among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days have passed, my plans are shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">Yet the desires of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">turn night into day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">in the face of the darkness light is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If the only home I hope for is the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if I say to corruption, &#8216;You are my father,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">and to the worm, &#8216;My mother&#8217; or &#8216;My sister,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">where then is my hope&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">who can see any hope for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Will it go down to the gates of death?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="content">Will we descend together into the dust?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Better a dry crust with peace and quiet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="content">than a house full of feasting, with strife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="content">and will share the inheritance as one of the family.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> tests the heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="content">a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="content">whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Children&#8217;s children are a crown to the aged,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="content">and parents are the pride of their children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="content">how much worse lying lips to a ruler!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="content">they think success will come at every turn.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A rebuke impresses a discerning person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="content">more than a hundred lashes a fool.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Evildoers foster rebellion against God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="content">the messenger of death will be sent against them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="content">than a fool bent on folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Evil will never leave the house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="content">of one who pays back evil for good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="content">so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="content">when they are not able to understand it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A friend loves at all times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">and a brother is born for a time of adversity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="content">and puts up security for a neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="content">whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="content">one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To have a fool for a child brings grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="content">there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">A cheerful heart is good medicine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="content">but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The wicked accept bribes in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="content">to pervert the course of justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="content">but a fool&#8217;s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A foolish son brings grief to his father</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="content">and bitterness to the mother who bore him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="content">surely to flog honest officials is not right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="content">and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.17.28"><span class="content">and discerning if they hold their tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph&#8217;s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh&#8217;s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So this allotment was for the rest of the people of Manasseh&#8212;the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.&#8221; So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Manasseh&#8217;s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The territory of Manasseh extended from Asher to Mikmethath east of Shechem. The boundary ran southward from there to include the people living at En Tappuah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah itself, on the boundary of Manasseh, belonged to the Ephraimites.) </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, Naphoth Dor</span></span></span><span class="content">).</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph said to Joshua, &#8220;Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed us abundantly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you are so numerous,&#8221; Joshua answered, &#8220;and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph replied, &#8220;The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph&#8212;to Ephraim and Manasseh&#8212;&#8220;You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Thessalonica</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. &#8220;This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason&#8217;s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the assembly of the people</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: &#8220;These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar&#8217;s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Berea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Athens</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, &#8220;What is this babbler trying to say?&#8221; Others remarked, &#8220;He seems to be advocating foreign gods.&#8221; They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, &#8220;May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: &#8220;People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">to an unknown god</span></span><span class="content">. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship&#8212;and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8216;For in him we live and move and have our being.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides</span></span></span><span class="content"> As some of your own poets have said, &#8216;We are his offspring.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore since we are God&#8217;s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone&#8212;an image made by human design and skill. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, &#8220;We want to hear you again on this subject.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At that, Paul left the Council. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.</span></span></div>
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