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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.5.5"><span class="content">&#8220;You are my Son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.5.5"><span class="content">today I have become your Father.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he says in another place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.5.6"><span class="content">&#8220;You are a priest forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.5.6"><span class="content">in the order of Melchizedek.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">During the days of Jesus&#8217; life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Falling Away</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God&#8217;s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Time for Everything</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There is a time for everything,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.3.1"><span class="content">and a season for every activity under the heavens:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">a time to be born and a time to die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.3.2"><span class="content">a time to plant and a time to uproot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">a time to kill and a time to heal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.3.3"><span class="content">a time to tear down and a time to build,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">a time to weep and a time to laugh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.3.4"><span class="content">a time to mourn and a time to dance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.3.5"><span class="content">a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">a time to search and a time to give up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.3.6"><span class="content">a time to keep and a time to throw away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">a time to tear and a time to mend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.3.7"><span class="content">a time to be silent and a time to speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">a time to love and a time to hate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.3.8"><span class="content">a time for war and a time for peace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do workers gain from their toil? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that</span></span></span><span class="content"> no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil&#8212;this is the gift of God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whatever is has already been,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.3.15"><span class="content">and what will be has been before;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.3.15"><span class="content">and God will call the past to account.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God calls back the past</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And I saw something else under the sun:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.3.16"><span class="content">In the place of judgment&#8212;wickedness was there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.3.16"><span class="content">in the place of justice&#8212;wickedness was there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I said to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="content">&#8220;God will bring into judgment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="content">both the righteous and the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="content">for there will be a time for every activity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="content">a time to judge every deed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I also said to myself, &#8220;As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">spirit</span></span></span><span class="content">; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Honor the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">with the firstfruits of all your crops;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then your barns will be filled to overflowing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="content">and your vats will brim over with new wine.</span></span></div>
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