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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin, Faith, Duty</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus said to his disciples: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So watch yourselves.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If your brother or sister</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">17:3 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying &#8216;I repent,&#8217; you must forgive them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The apostles said to the Lord, &#8220;Increase our faith!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, &#8216;Be uprooted and planted in the sea,&#8217; and it will obey you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, &#8216;Come along now and sit down to eat&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Won&#8217;t he rather say, &#8216;Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, &#8216;We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:12 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> met him. They stood at a distance </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and called out in a loud voice, &#8220;Jesus, Master, have pity on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he saw them, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, show yourselves to the priests.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And as they went, they were cleansed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He threw himself at Jesus&#8217; feet and thanked him&#8212;and he was a Samaritan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and go; your faith has made you well.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Coming of the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">nor will people say, &#8216;Here it is,&#8217; or &#8216;There it is,&#8217; because the kingdom of God is in your midst.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is within you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will tell you, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; or &#8216;Here he is!&#8217; Do not go running off after them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man in his day</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">in his day.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember Lot&#8217;s wife!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.17.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="label">[36]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:36 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, Lord?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew can also mean </span><span class="fqa">ark</span><span class="ft">, as in Gen. 6:14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. &#8220;This is one of the Hebrew babies,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then his sister asked Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter, &#8220;Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, go,&#8221; she answered. So the girl went and got the baby&#8217;s mother. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter said to her, &#8220;Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.&#8221; So the woman took the baby and nursed him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="fq">Moses </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">draw out.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;I drew him out of the water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moses Flees to Midian</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, &#8220;Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?&#8221; Then Moses was afraid and thought, &#8220;What I did must have become known.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father&#8217;s flock. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, &#8220;Why have you returned so early today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;And where is he?&#8221; Reuel asked his daughters. &#8220;Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="fq">Gershom </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">a foreigner </span><span class="fqa">there.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="ROM.5">
         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peace and Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:1 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> boast in the hope of the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">perseverance, character; and character, hope. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And hope does not put us to shame, because God&#8217;s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God&#8217;s wrath through him! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For if, while we were God&#8217;s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone&#8217;s account where there is no law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God&#8217;s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man&#8217;s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God&#8217;s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="REV.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prologue</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who testifies to everything he saw&#8212;that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Greetings and Doxology</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">John,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.1.4"><span class="content">To the seven churches in the province of Asia:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.1.4"><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> before his throne, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.1.5"><span class="content">To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father&#8212;to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look, he is coming with the clouds,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Daniel 7:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="content">and &#8220;every eye will see him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="content">even those who pierced him&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="content">and all peoples on earth &#8220;will mourn because of him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Zech. 12:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="content">So shall it be! Amen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the Alpha and the Omega,&#8221; says the Lord God, &#8220;who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John&#8217;s Vision of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the Lord&#8217;s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">which said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">See Daniel 7:13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">messengers</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.</span></span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkECC">
      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="ECC.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invest in Many Ventures</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ship your grain across the sea;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.11.1"><span class="content">after many days you may receive a return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.11.2"><span class="content">you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If clouds are full of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.11.3"><span class="content">they pour rain on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.11.3"><span class="content">Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.11.3"><span class="content">in the place where it falls, there it will lie.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Whoever watches the wind will not plant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.11.4"><span class="content">whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As you do not know the path of the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.11.5"><span class="content">or how the body is formed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">know how life </span><span class="ft">(or </span><span class="fqa">the spirit</span><span class="ft">) / </span><span class="fqa">enters the body being formed</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a mother&#8217;s womb,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.11.5"><span class="content">so you cannot understand the work of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.11.5"><span class="content">the Maker of all things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sow your seed in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="content">and at evening let your hands not be idle,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="content">for you do not know which will succeed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="content">whether this or that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="content">or whether both will do equally well.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Remember Your Creator While Young</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Light is sweet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.11.7"><span class="content">and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">However many years anyone may live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="content">let them enjoy them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="content">But let them remember the days of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="content">for there will be many.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="content">Everything to come is meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You who are young, be happy while you are young,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">Follow the ways of your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">and whatever your eyes see,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">but know that for all these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">God will bring you into judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So then, banish anxiety from your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.11.10"><span class="content">and cast off the troubles of your body,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.11.10"><span class="content">for youth and vigor are meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="PRO.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is more desirable than great riches;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rich and poor have this in common:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the Maker of them all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Humility is the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">its wages are riches and honor and life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Start children off on the way they should go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">and even when they are old they will not turn from it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The rich rule over the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">and the borrower is slave to the lender.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The generous will themselves be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">for they share their food with the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">quarrels and insults are ended.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">will have the king for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch over knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sluggard says, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lion outside!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll be killed in the public square!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">a man who is under the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath falls into it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">and one who gives gifts to the rich&#8212;both come to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Thirty Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 1</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">apply your heart to what I teach,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">and have all of them ready on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So that your trust may be in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">I teach you today, even you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have I not written thirty sayings for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">sayings of counsel and knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">so that you bring back truthful reports</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">to those you serve?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not exploit the poor because they are poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">and do not crush the needy in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take up their case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">and will exact life for life.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 3</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">do not associate with one easily angered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">or you may learn their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">and get yourself ensnared.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 4</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">or puts up security for debts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">if you lack the means to pay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">your very bed will be snatched from under you.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 5</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not move an ancient boundary stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">set up by your ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 6</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do you see someone skilled in their work?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">They will serve before kings;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">they will not serve before officials of low rank.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nehemiah&#8217;s Final Reforms</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.) </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah&#8217;s household goods out of the room. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I rebuked the officials and asked them, &#8220;Why is the house of God neglected?&#8221; Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, &#8220;What is this wicked thing you are doing&#8212;desecrating the Sabbath day? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Didn&#8217;t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But I warned them and said, &#8220;Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.&#8221; From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="content">Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God&#8217;s name and said: &#8220;You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.13.31"><span class="content">Remember me with favor, my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Justice and Mercy, Not Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">by asking the priests of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty and the prophets, &#8220;Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask all the people of the land and the priests, &#8216;When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Are these not the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came again to Zechariah: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty said: &#8216;Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty was very angry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,&#8217; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8216;I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Council at Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: &#8220;Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, &#8220;The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The apostles and elders met to consider this question. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: &#8220;Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When they finished, James spoke up. &#8220;Brothers,&#8221; he said, &#8220;listen to me. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Simon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Simeon</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Simon</span><span class="ft">; that is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;After this I will return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.15.16"><span class="content">and rebuild David&#8217;s fallen tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.15.16"><span class="content">Its ruins I will rebuild,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.15.16"><span class="content">and I will restore it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.15.17"><span class="content">even all the Gentiles who bear my name,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.15.17"><span class="content">says the Lord, who does these things&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:17 </span><span class="ft">Amos 9:11,12 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">things known from long ago.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:17,18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">things&#8217;&#8212; / </span><span class="fv">18 </span><span class="fqa">the Lord&#8217;s work is known to him from long ago</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Council&#8217;s Letter to Gentile Believers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">With them they sent the following letter:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.15.23"><span class="content">The apostles and elders, your brothers,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.15.23"><span class="content">To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.15.23"><span class="content">Greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.</span></span></div><div class="pmc"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.15.29"><span class="content">Farewell.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">After spending some time there, they were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.15.34"><span class="label">[34]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:34 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">But Silas decided to remain there.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.15.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.15.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, &#8220;Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.15.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.15.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.15.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.15.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.15.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.</span></span></div>
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