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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To Timothy my true son in the faith:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God&#8217;s work&#8212;which is by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers&#8212;and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lord&#8217;s Grace to Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners&#8212;of whom I am the worst. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Charge to Timothy Renewed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TI.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TI.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TI.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">88</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 88</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath leannoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Possibly a tune, &#8220;The Suffering of Affliction&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Heman the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the God who saves me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">day and night I cry out to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am overwhelmed with troubles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">and my life draws near to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">I am like one without strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am set apart with the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">like the slain who lie in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">whom you remember no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">who are cut off from your care.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have put me in the lowest pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">in the darkest depths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your wrath lies heavily on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have taken from me my closest friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">and have made me repulsive to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">I am confined and cannot escape;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">my eyes are dim with grief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, every day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do you show your wonders to the dead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is your love declared in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">your faithfulness in Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I cry to you for help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you reject me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">and hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your wrath has swept over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">your terrors have destroyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All day long they surround me like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">they have completely engulfed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have taken from me friend and neighbor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="content">darkness is my closest friend.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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