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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peace and Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:1 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> boast in the hope of the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">perseverance, character; and character, hope. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And hope does not put us to shame, because God&#8217;s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God&#8217;s wrath through him! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For if, while we were God&#8217;s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone&#8217;s account where there is no law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God&#8217;s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man&#8217;s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God&#8217;s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">60</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 60</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lily of the Covenant.&#8221; A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">miktam</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 David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Aram Zobah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria</span></span></span><span class="content"> and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"><span class="content">you have been angry&#8212;now restore us!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have shaken the land and torn it open;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"><span class="content">mend its fractures, for it is quaking.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You have shown your people desperate times;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"><span class="content">you have given us wine that makes us stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"><span class="content">to be unfurled against the bow.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">60:4 </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"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Save us and help us with your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"><span class="content">that those you love may be delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God has spoken from his sanctuary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="content">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="content">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="content">Ephraim is my helmet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="content">Judah is my scepter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moab is my washbasin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="content">on Edom I toss my sandal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="content">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"><span class="content">Who will lead me to Edom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"><span class="content">and no longer go out with our armies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Give us aid against the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"><span class="content">for human help is worthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.60.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">With God we will gain the victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.60.12"><span class="content">and he will trample down our enemies.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.13.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Never will I leave you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.13.5"><span class="content">never will I forsake you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:5 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DEU.31.6">Deut. 31:6</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.13.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So we say with confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.13.6"><span class="content">&#8220;The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.13.6"><span class="content">What can mere mortals do to me?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:6 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.118.6">Psalm 118:6</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="PSA.118.7">7</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.13.6"></span></div>
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