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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Divorce</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What did Moses command you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But at the beginning of creation God &#8216;made them male and female.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:6 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 1:27</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">and be united to his wife.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the two will become one flesh.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they are no longer two, but one flesh.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Little Children and Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Rich and the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. &#8220;Good teacher,&#8221; he asked, &#8220;what must I do to inherit eternal life?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you call me good?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus answered. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is good&#8212;except God alone.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You know the commandments: &#8216;You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:12-16; Deut. 5:16-20</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; he declared, &#8220;all these I have kept since I was a boy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus looked at him and loved him. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;One thing you lack,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At this the man&#8217;s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Children, how hard it is</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">is for those who trust in riches</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to enter the kingdom of God!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, &#8220;Who then can be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jesus looked at them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.10.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Peter spoke up, &#8220;We have left everything to follow you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.10.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields&#8212;along with persecutions&#8212;and in the age to come eternal life.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But many who are first will be last, and the last first.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;We are going up to Jerusalem,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Request of James and John</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.10.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. &#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we want you to do for us whatever we ask.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.10.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.10.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.10.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.10.39"><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.10.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jesus called them together and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.10.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.10.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.10.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MRK.10.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means &#8220;son of Timaeus&#8221;), was sitting by the roadside begging. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.10.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, &#8220;Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.10.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.10.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, &#8220;Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.10.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.10.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Jesus stopped and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Call him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.10.49"><span class="content">So they called to the blind man, &#8220;Cheer up! On your feet! He&#8217;s calling you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MRK.10.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MRK.10.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="content">The blind man said, &#8220;Rabbi, I want to see.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="MRK.10.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;your faith has healed you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judah and Tamar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Er, Judah&#8217;s firstborn, was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Sleep with your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother&#8217;s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">What he did was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s household until my son Shelah grows up.&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;He may die too, just like his brothers.&#8221; So Tamar went to live in her father&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After a long time Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Tamar was told, &#8220;Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she took off her widow&#8217;s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, &#8220;Come now, let me sleep with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">&#8220;And what will you give me to sleep with you?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from my flock,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,&#8221; she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow&#8217;s clothes again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He asked the men who lived there, &#8220;Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he went back to Judah and said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, &#8216;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">About three months later Judah was told, &#8220;Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">Judah said, &#8220;Bring her out and have her burned to death!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. &#8220;I am pregnant by the man who owns these,&#8221; she said. And she added, &#8220;See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn&#8217;t give her to my son Shelah.&#8221; And he did not sleep with her again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.38.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.38.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, &#8220;This one came out first.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.38.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, &#8220;So this is how you have broken out!&#8221; And he was named Perez.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:29 </span><span class="fq">Perez </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">breaking out.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.38.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:30 </span><span class="fq">Zerah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">scarlet </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">brightness.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As God&#8217;s co-workers we urge you not to receive God&#8217;s grace in vain. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of my favor I heard you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">and in the day of salvation I helped you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">I tell you, now is the time of God&#8217;s favor, now is the day of salvation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Hardships</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We put no stumbling block in anyone&#8217;s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a fair exchange&#8212;I speak as to my children&#8212;open wide your hearts also.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Idolatry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What harmony is there between Christ and Belial</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Beliar</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Belial</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will live with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and walk among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and I will be their God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and they will be my people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out from them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and be separate,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and I will receive you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be a Father to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">and you will be my sons and daughters,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">says the Lord Almighty.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:18 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8</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="1JN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">when it is made known</span></span></span><span class="content"> we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil&#8217;s work. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1JN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God&#8217;s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God&#8217;s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">More on Love and Hatred</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1JN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother&#8217;s were righteous. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1JN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </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 verse 16.</span></span></span><span class="content"> if the world hates you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1JN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1JN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1JN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1JN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1JN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1JN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The one who keeps God&#8217;s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch38" data-usfm="JOB.38">
         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who is this that obscures my plans</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.38.2"><span class="content">with words without knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Brace yourself like a man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.38.3"><span class="content">I will question you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.38.3"><span class="content">and you shall answer me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where were you when I laid the earth&#8217;s foundation?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.38.4"><span class="content">Tell me, if you understand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.38.5"><span class="content">Who stretched a measuring line across it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On what were its footings set,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.38.6"><span class="content">or who laid its cornerstone&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">while the morning stars sang together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.38.7"><span class="content">and all the angels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the sons of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> shouted for joy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who shut up the sea behind doors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.38.8"><span class="content">when it burst forth from the womb,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">when I made the clouds its garment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.38.9"><span class="content">and wrapped it in thick darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">when I fixed limits for it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.38.10"><span class="content">and set its doors and bars in place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">when I said, &#8216;This far you may come and no farther;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.38.11"><span class="content">here is where your proud waves halt&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you ever given orders to the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.38.12"><span class="content">or shown the dawn its place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that it might take the earth by the edges</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.38.13"><span class="content">and shake the wicked out of it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.38.14"><span class="content">its features stand out like those of a garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The wicked are denied their light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.38.15"><span class="content">and their upraised arm is broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.38.16"><span class="content">or walked in the recesses of the deep?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Have the gates of death been shown to you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.38.17"><span class="content">Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.38.18"><span class="content">Tell me, if you know all this.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is the way to the abode of light?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.38.19"><span class="content">And where does darkness reside?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Can you take them to their places?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.38.20"><span class="content">Do you know the paths to their dwellings?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely you know, for you were already born!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.38.21"><span class="content">You have lived so many years!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you entered the storehouses of the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.38.22"><span class="content">or seen the storehouses of the hail,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.38.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.38.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">which I reserve for times of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.38.23"><span class="content">for days of war and battle?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.38.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.38.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.38.24"><span class="content">or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.38.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.38.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.38.25"><span class="content">and a path for the thunderstorm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.38.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.38.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">to water a land where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.38.26"><span class="content">an uninhabited desert,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.38.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.38.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">to satisfy a desolate wasteland</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.38.27"><span class="content">and make it sprout with grass?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.38.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.38.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Does the rain have a father?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.38.28"><span class="content">Who fathers the drops of dew?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.38.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.38.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">From whose womb comes the ice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.38.29"><span class="content">Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.38.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.38.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">when the waters become hard as stone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.38.30"><span class="content">when the surface of the deep is frozen?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.38.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.38.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you bind the chains</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:31 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">beauty</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Pleiades?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.38.31"><span class="content">Can you loosen Orion&#8217;s belt?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.38.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.38.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:32 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the morning star in its season</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.38.32"><span class="content">or lead out the Bear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:32 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">out Leo</span></span></span><span class="content"> with its cubs?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.38.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.38.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do you know the laws of the heavens?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.38.33"><span class="content">Can you set up God&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">their</span></span></span><span class="content"> dominion over the earth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.38.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.38.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you raise your voice to the clouds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.38.34"><span class="content">and cover yourself with a flood of water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.38.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.38.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.38.35"><span class="content">Do they report to you, &#8216;Here we are&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.38.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.38.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Who gives the ibis wisdom</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:36 </span><span class="ft">That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.38.36"><span class="content">or gives the rooster understanding?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:36 </span><span class="ft">That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.38.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.38.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.38.37"><span class="content">Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.38.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.38.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">when the dust becomes hard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.38.38"><span class="content">and the clods of earth stick together?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.38.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.38.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you hunt the prey for the lioness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.38.39"><span class="content">and satisfy the hunger of the lions</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.38.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.38.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">when they crouch in their dens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.38.40"><span class="content">or lie in wait in a thicket?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.38.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOB.38.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Who provides food for the raven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOB.38.41"><span class="content">when its young cry out to God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOB.38.41"><span class="content">and wander about for lack of food?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch38" data-usfm="PSA.38">
         <div class="label">38</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 38</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David. A petition.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not rebuke me in your anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your arrows have pierced me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My guilt has overwhelmed me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">like a burden too heavy to bear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds fester and are loathsome</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">because of my sinful folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am bowed down and brought very low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">all day long I go about mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My back is filled with searing pain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">there is no health in my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and utterly crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I groan in anguish of heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All my longings lie open before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart pounds, my strength fails me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">even the light has gone from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">my neighbors stay far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to kill me set their traps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">those who would harm me talk of my ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">all day long they scheme and lie.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">like the mute, who cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have become like one who does not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">whose mouth can offer no reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">you will answer, Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, &#8220;Do not let them gloat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I am about to fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I confess my iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I am troubled by my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Many have become my enemies without cause</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:19 </span><span class="ft">One Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">my vigorous enemies</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">those who hate me without reason are numerous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Those who repay my good with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">lodge accusations against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">though I seek only to do what is good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not forsake me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">do not be far from me, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Come quickly to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">my Lord and my Savior.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="PRO.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Adulterous Woman</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, keep my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Keep my commands and you will live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bind them on your fingers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">write them on the tablet of your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say to wisdom, &#8220;You are my sister,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">and to insight, &#8220;You are my relative.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They will keep you from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At the window of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">I looked down through the lattice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I saw among the simple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">I noticed among the young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">a youth who had no sense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He was going down the street near her corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">walking along in the direction of her house</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">at twilight, as the day was fading,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">as the dark of night set in.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then out came a woman to meet him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(She is unruly and defiant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">her feet never stay at home;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">now in the street, now in the squares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">at every corner she lurks.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She took hold of him and kissed him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">and with a brazen face she said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Today I fulfilled my vows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I came out to meet you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">I looked for you and have found you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have covered my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">with colored linens from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have perfumed my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come, let&#8217;s drink deeply of love till morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">let&#8217;s enjoy ourselves with love!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My husband is not at home;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">he has gone on a long journey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He took his purse filled with money</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">and will not be home till full moon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">With persuasive words she led him astray;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">she seduced him with her smooth talk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All at once he followed her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">like an ox going to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">like a deer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:22 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">fool</span></span></span><span class="content"> stepping into a noose</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:22 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">till an arrow pierces his liver,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">like a bird darting into a snare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">little knowing it will cost him his life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">pay attention to what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do not let your heart turn to her ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">or stray into her paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Many are the victims she has brought down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">her slain are a mighty throng.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her house is a highway to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="content">leading down to the chambers of death.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJDG">
      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JDG.14">
         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he returned, he said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His father and mother replied, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="content">But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me. She&#8217;s the right one for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">(His parents did not know that this was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion&#8217;s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion&#8217;s carcass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let me tell you a riddle,&#8221; Samson said to them. &#8220;If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us your riddle,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He replied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Out of the eater, something to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">out of the strong, something sweet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">For three days they could not give the answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">seventh</span></span></span><span class="content"> day, they said to Samson&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father&#8217;s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson&#8217;s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, &#8220;You hate me! You don&#8217;t really love me. You&#8217;ve given my people a riddle, but you haven&#8217;t told me the answer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even explained it to my father or mother,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;so why should I explain it to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">Samson said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">you would not have solved my riddle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father&#8217;s home. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Samson&#8217;s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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      <div class="chapter ch38" data-usfm="ISA.38">
         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><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"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;In the prime of my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">must I go through the gates of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">and be robbed of the rest of my years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will not again see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">no longer will I look on my fellow man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">or be with those who now dwell in this world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like a shepherd&#8217;s tent my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">has been pulled down and taken from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">and he has cut me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I waited patiently till dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">but like a lion he broke all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cried like a swift or thrush,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moaned like a mourning dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">I will walk humbly all my years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of this anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lord, by such things people live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and my spirit finds life in them too.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">You restored me to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and let me live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my benefit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I suffered such anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">In your love you kept me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">you have put all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the grave cannot praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot sing your praise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">cannot hope for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living&#8212;they praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I am doing today;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">parents tell their children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">about your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing with stringed instruments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaiah had said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked, &#8220;What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkACT">
      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="ACT.10">
         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cornelius Calls for Peter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, &#8220;Cornelius!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Cornelius stared at him in fear. &#8220;What is it, Lord?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.10.4"><span class="content">The angel answered, &#8220;Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then a voice told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely not, Lord!&#8221; Peter replied. &#8220;I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The voice spoke to him a second time, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon&#8217;s house was and stopped at the gate. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, &#8220;Simon, three</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">One early manuscript </span><span class="fqa">two</span><span class="ft">; other manuscripts do not have the number.</span></span></span><span class="content"> men are looking for you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Peter went down and said to the men, &#8220;I&#8217;m the one you&#8217;re looking for. Why have you come?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The men replied, &#8220;We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter at Cornelius&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.10.23"><span class="content">The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the believers from Joppa went along. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Peter made him get up. &#8220;Stand up,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I am only a man myself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He said to them: &#8220;You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Cornelius answered: &#8220;Three days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and said, &#8216;Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Peter began to speak: &#8220;I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen&#8212;by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.10.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.10.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">For they heard them speaking in tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:46 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">other languages</span></span></span><span class="content"> and praising God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="content">Then Peter said, </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.10.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.10.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.</span></span></div>
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