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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the days when the judges ruled,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The man&#8217;s name was Elimelek, his wife&#8217;s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Elimelek, Naomi&#8217;s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.1.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Naomi heard in Moab that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.1.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, &#8220;Go back, each of you, to your mother&#8217;s home. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.1.9"><span class="content">Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and said to her, &#8220;We will go back with you to your people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Naomi said, &#8220;Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me&#8212;even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand has turned against me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.1.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; said Naomi, &#8220;your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.1.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Ruth replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.1.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, &#8220;Can this be Naomi?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.1.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t call me Naomi,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Naomi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">pleasant.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; she told them. &#8220;Call me Mara,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Mara </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">bitter</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 21</span></span></span><span class="content"> has made my life very bitter. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I went away full, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has afflicted</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">has testified against</span></span></span><span class="content"> me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.1.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ruth Meets Boaz in the Grain Field</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Naomi had a relative on her husband&#8217;s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, &#8220;Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.2.2"><span class="content">Naomi said to her, &#8220;Go ahead, my daughter.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you!&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, &#8220;Who does that young woman belong to?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The overseer replied, &#8220;She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">She said, &#8216;Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.&#8217; She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Boaz said to Ruth, &#8220;My daughter, listen to me. Don&#8217;t go and glean in another field and don&#8217;t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, &#8220;Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me&#8212;a foreigner?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Boaz replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband&#8212;how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant&#8212;though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At mealtime Boaz said to her, &#8220;Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="content">When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, &#8220;Let her gather among the sheaves and don&#8217;t reprimand her. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don&#8217;t rebuke her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 30 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Her mother-in-law asked her, &#8220;Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="content">Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. &#8220;The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless him!&#8221; Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. &#8220;He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.&#8221; She added, &#8220;That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see <span class="ref" usfm="LEV.25.25+LEV.25.26+LEV.25.27+LEV.25.28+LEV.25.29+LEV.25.30+LEV.25.31+LEV.25.32+LEV.25.33+LEV.25.34+LEV.25.35+LEV.25.36+LEV.25.37+LEV.25.38+LEV.25.39+LEV.25.40+LEV.25.41+LEV.25.42+LEV.25.43+LEV.25.44+LEV.25.45+LEV.25.46+LEV.25.47+LEV.25.48+LEV.25.49+LEV.25.50+LEV.25.51+LEV.25.52+LEV.25.53+LEV.25.54+LEV.25.55">Lev. 25:25-55</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Ruth the Moabite said, &#8220;He even said to me, &#8216;Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, &#8220;It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else&#8217;s field you might be harmed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="RUT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">His disciples asked him, &#8220;Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.9.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Neither this man nor his parents sinned,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man&#8217;s eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;wash in the Pool of Siloam&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> (this word means &#8220;Sent&#8221;). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.9.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the same man who used to sit and beg?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Some claimed that he was.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.9.9"><span class="content">Others said, &#8220;No, he only looks like him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.9.9"><span class="content">But he himself insisted, &#8220;I am the man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;How then were your eyes opened?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.9.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where is this man?&#8221; they asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.9.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Pharisees Investigate the Healing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.9.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man&#8217;s eyes was a Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. &#8220;He put mud on my eyes,&#8221; the man replied, &#8220;and I washed, and now I see.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.9.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Some of the Pharisees said, &#8220;This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.9.16"><span class="content">But others asked, &#8220;How can a sinner perform such signs?&#8221; So they were divided.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.9.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then they turned again to the blind man, &#8220;What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.9.17"><span class="content">The man replied, &#8220;He is a prophet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.9.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man&#8217;s parents. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is this your son?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.9.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;We know he is our son,&#8221; the parents answered, &#8220;and we know he was born blind. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don&#8217;t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">That was why his parents said, &#8220;He is of age; ask him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.9.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. &#8220;Give glory to God by telling the truth,&#8221; they said. &#8220;We know this man is a sinner.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.9.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Whether he is a sinner or not, I don&#8217;t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.9.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then they asked him, &#8220;What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.9.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.9.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then they hurled insults at him and said, &#8220;You are this fellow&#8217;s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don&#8217;t even know where he comes from.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.9.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The man answered, &#8220;Now that is remarkable! You don&#8217;t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.9.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">To this they replied, &#8220;You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!&#8221; And they threw him out.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A person is praised according to their prudence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"><span class="content">and one with a warped mind is despised.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"><span class="content">than pretend to be somebody and have no food.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The righteous care for the needs of their animals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"><span class="content">but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those who work their land will have abundant food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"><span class="content">but those who chase fantasies have no sense.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"><span class="content">but the root of the righteous endures.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"><span class="content">and so the innocent escape trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"><span class="content">and the work of their hands brings them reward.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The way of fools seems right to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.12.15"><span class="content">but the wise listen to advice.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.12.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.12.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Fools show their annoyance at once,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.12.16"><span class="content">but the prudent overlook an insult.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.12.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.12.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">An honest witness tells the truth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.12.17"><span class="content">but a false witness tells lies.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.12.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.12.17"></span></div>
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