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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some of the Pharisees asked, &#8220;Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus answered them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up and stand in front of everyone.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he got up and stood there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> He did so, and his hand was completely restored. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Twelve Apostles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Blessings and Woes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Looking at his disciples, he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.6.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed are you who are poor,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.6.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for yours is the kingdom of God.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed are you who hunger now,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.6.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for you will be satisfied.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.6.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed are you who weep now,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.6.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for you will laugh.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed are you when people hate you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.6.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">when they exclude you and insult you</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.6.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and reject your name as evil,</span></span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.6.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because of the Son of Man.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But woe to you who are rich,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.6.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for you have already received your comfort.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to you who are well fed now,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.6.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for you will go hungry.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.6.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to you who laugh now,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.6.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for you will mourn and weep.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.6.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love for Enemies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do to others as you would have them do to you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.6.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.6.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judging Others</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.6.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.6.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.6.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.6.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.6.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He also told them this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.6.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.6.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.6.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother&#8217;s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.6.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How can you say to your brother, &#8216;Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,&#8217; when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother&#8217;s eye.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Tree and Its Fruit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.6.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.6.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.6.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.6.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Wise and Foolish Builders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.6.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.6.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you call me, &#8216;Lord, Lord,&#8217; and do not do what I say?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.6.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.6.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.6.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh&#8217;s court, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8216;My father made me swear an oath and said, &#8220;I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.&#8221; Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh&#8217;s officials accompanied him&#8212;the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">besides all the members of Joseph&#8217;s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father&#8217;s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> also went up with him. It was a very large company.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, &#8220;The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.&#8221; That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:11 </span><span class="fq">Abel Mizraim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">mourning </span><span class="fqa">of the </span><span class="fq">Egyptians</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Jacob&#8217;s sons did as he had commanded them: </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Reassures His Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So they sent word to Joseph, saying, &#8220;Your father left these instructions before he died: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When their message came to him, Joseph wept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. &#8220;We are your slaves,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Joseph said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.&#8221; And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Joseph</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father&#8217;s family. He lived a hundred and ten years </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and saw the third generation of Ephraim&#8217;s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph&#8217;s knees.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, were counted as his</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.50.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, &#8220;God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.50.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Freedom in Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Life by the Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:13 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24; and in 6:8.</span></span></span><span class="content">; rather, serve one another humbly in love. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you do not do what</span></span></span><span class="content"> you want. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GAL.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GAL.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GAL.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="REV.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">144,000 Sealed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Levi 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Great Multitude in White Robes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And they cried out in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Salvation belongs to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">who sits on the throne,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">and to the Lamb.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Amen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Praise and glory</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and wisdom and thanks and honor</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and power and strength</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">be to our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then one of the elders asked me, &#8220;These in white robes&#8212;who are they, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Sir, you know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">&#8220;they are before the throne of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and serve him day and night in his temple;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and he who sits on the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">will shelter them with his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8216;Never again will they hunger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">never again will they thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">The sun will not beat down on them,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">nor any scorching heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the Lamb at the center of the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">will be their shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;he will lead them to springs of living water.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who is like the wise?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">Who knows the explanation of things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">A person&#8217;s wisdom brightens their face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">and changes its hard appearance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obey the King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Obey the king&#8217;s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not be in a hurry to leave the king&#8217;s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since a king&#8217;s word is supreme, who can say to him, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="content">and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="content">though a person may be weighed down by misery.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Since no one knows the future,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="content">who can tell someone else what is to come?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As no one has power over the wind to contain it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">so</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">over the human spirit to retain it, / and so</span></span></span><span class="content"> no one has power over the time of their death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">As no one is discharged in time of war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">so wickedness will not release those who practice it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to their</span></span></span><span class="content"> hurt. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then too, I saw the wicked buried&#8212;those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and are forgotten</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people&#8217;s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth&#8212;people getting no sleep day or night&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Better the poor whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">than a fool whose lips are perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Desire without knowledge is not good&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">how much more will hasty feet miss the way!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s own folly leads to their ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">yet their heart rages against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth attracts many friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will not go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many curry favor with a ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The poor are shunned by all their relatives&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">how much more do their friends avoid them!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">Though the poor pursue them with pleading,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">they are nowhere to be found.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who gets wisdom loves life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s wisdom yields patience;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">it is to one&#8217;s glory to overlook an offense.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s rage is like the roar of a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">but his favor is like dew on the grass.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A foolish child is a father&#8217;s ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">and a quarrelsome wife is like</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">the constant dripping of a leaky roof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">but a prudent wife is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laziness brings on deep sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">and the shiftless go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">and he will reward them for what they have done.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">do not be a willing party to their death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">rescue them, and you will have to do it again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Listen to advice and accept discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">and at the end you will be counted among the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Many are the plans in a person&#8217;s heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">but it is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s purpose that prevails.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What a person desires is unfailing love</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Greed is a person&#8217;s shame</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">better to be poor than a liar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> leads to life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">then one rests content, untouched by trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">he will not even bring it back to his mouth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">is a child who brings shame and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Stop listening to instruction, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">and you will stray from the words of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A corrupt witness mocks at justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Penalties are prepared for mockers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="content">and beatings for the backs of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Samuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 6:26-27,33-35; or </span><span class="fqa">from Ramathaim Zuphim.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had closed her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had closed Hannah&#8217;s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Her husband Elkanah would say to her, &#8220;Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don&#8217;t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don&#8217;t I mean more to you than ten sons?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, weeping bitterly. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And she made a vow, saying, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, if you will only look on your servant&#8217;s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As she kept on praying to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, Eli observed her mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and said to her, &#8220;How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Not so, my lord,&#8221; Hannah replied, &#8220;I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Eli answered, &#8220;Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She said, &#8220;May your servant find favor in your eyes.&#8221; Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> remembered her. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Samuel </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">heard by God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;Because I asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hannah Dedicates Samuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to fulfill his vow, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, &#8220;After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will live there always.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:22 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">always. I have dedicated him as a Nazirite&#8212;all the days of his life.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do what seems best to you,&#8221; her husband Elkanah told her. &#8220;Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make good his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">your</span></span></span><span class="content"> word.&#8221; So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">with three bulls</span></span></span><span class="content"> an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and she said to him, &#8220;Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I prayed for this child, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has granted me what I asked of him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So now I give him to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For his whole life he will be given over to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; And he worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Sin and the Servant&#8217;s Obedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your mother&#8217;s certificate of divorce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">with which I sent her away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Or to which of my creditors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">did I sell you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Because of your sins you were sold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I came, why was there no one?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">When I called, why was there no one to answer?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Was my arm too short to deliver you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Do I lack the strength to rescue you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">I turn rivers into a desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">their fish rot for lack of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">and die of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I clothe the heavens with darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">and make sackcloth its covering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me a well-instructed tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">to know the word that sustains the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">He wakens me morning by morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has opened my ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not been rebellious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not turned away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I offered my back to those who beat me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">I did not hide my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">from mocking and spitting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helps me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">I will not be disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">Therefore have I set my face like flint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">and I know I will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who vindicates me is near.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who then will bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let us face each other!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who is my accuser?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let him confront me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who helps me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">Who will condemn me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">They will all wear out like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">the moths will eat them up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who among you fears the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and obeys the word of his servant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">Let the one who walks in the dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">who has no light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and rely on their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now, all you who light fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and provide yourselves with flaming torches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">go, walk in the light of your fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and of the torches you have set ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">This is what you shall receive from my hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">You will lie down in torment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="content">Then Paul said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Who are you, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;What shall I do, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Get up,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> the Lord said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He stood beside me and said, &#8216;Brother Saul, receive your sight!&#8217; And at that very moment I was able to see him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said: &#8216;The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and saw the Lord speaking to me. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Quick!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Lord,&#8217; I replied, &#8216;these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when the blood of your martyr</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">witness</span></span></span><span class="content"> Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the Lord said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.&#8217; </span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul the Roman Citizen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, &#8220;Rid the earth of him! He&#8217;s not fit to live!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and interrogated in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, &#8220;Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn&#8217;t even been found guilty?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. &#8220;What are you going to do?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;This man is a Roman citizen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The commander went to Paul and asked, &#8220;Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the commander said, &#8220;I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="content">&#8220;But I was born a citizen,&#8221; Paul replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Those who were about to interrogate him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Before the Sanhedrin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The commander wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews. So the next day he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the members of the Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.</span></span></div>
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