The Triumph of the Cross:  Christ’s Victory Over Death

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Learning to Pray

Stop Saying You Are “Bad With Money”

The Shepherd and His Names: Finding God in Psalm 23

Horizon Church May Bible Reading Plan - Faith in the Wilderness: The Book of Numbers

The Battle of Pride vs. Humility

DON’T FIGHT ALONE: How Isolation Keeps Us Stuck in Anxiety and Why Community Helps Us Win Mental Battles

Love Your Neighbor

God’s Economy: The More You Give, the More You Gain

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Sower</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water&#8217;s edge. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 6:9,10  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The farmer sows the word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop&#8212;some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Lamp on a Stand</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don&#8217;t you put it on its stand?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Consider carefully what you hear,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he continued. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;With the measure you use, it will be measured to you&#8212;and even more.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Growing Seed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.4.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He also said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All by itself the soil produces grain&#8212;first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Mustard Seed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.4.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Again he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.4.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calms the Storm</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.4.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us go over to the other side.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, &#8220;Teacher, don&#8217;t you care if we drown?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.4.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Quiet! Be still!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.4.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">He said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.4.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">They were terrified and asked each other, &#8220;Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 20</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not envy the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">do not desire their company;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for their hearts plot violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">and their lips talk about making trouble.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 21</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">By wisdom a house is built,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">and through understanding it is established;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">through knowledge its rooms are filled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">with rare and beautiful treasures.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 22</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The wise prevail through great power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">and those who have knowledge muster their strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely you need guidance to wage war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">and victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 23</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wisdom is too high for fools;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 24</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever plots evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">will be known as a schemer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The schemes of folly are sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">and people detest a mocker.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 25</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you falter in a time of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">how small is your strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rescue those being led away to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">hold back those staggering toward slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;But we knew nothing about this,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Does not he who guards your life know it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 26</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Eat honey, my son, for it is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">If you find it, there is a future hope for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">and your hope will not be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 27</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">do not plunder their dwelling place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 28</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not gloat when your enemy falls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will see and disapprove</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">and turn his wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 29</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not fret because of evildoers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">or be envious of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">for the evildoer has no future hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 30</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the king, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">and do not join with rebellious officials,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for those two will send sudden destruction on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">and who knows what calamities they can bring?</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Further Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">These also are sayings of the wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">To show partiality in judging is not good:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever says to the guilty, &#8220;You are innocent,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">and rich blessing will come on them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.24.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">An honest answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">is like a kiss on the lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Put your outdoor work in order</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">and get your fields ready;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">after that, build your house.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not testify against your neighbor without cause&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">would you use your lips to mislead?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll do to them as they have done to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll pay them back for what they did.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I went past the field of a sluggard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.24.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">thorns had come up everywhere,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">the ground was covered with weeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">and the stone wall was in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.24.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I applied my heart to what I observed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">and learned a lesson from what I saw:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.24.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">a little folding of the hands to rest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.24.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and poverty will come on you like a thief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.24.34"><span class="content">and scarcity like an armed man.</span></span></div>
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