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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHP.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">though I myself have reasons for such confidence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="content">If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">through the faithfulness of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ&#8212;the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I want to know Christ&#8212;yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Living Stone and a Chosen People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As you come to him, the living Stone&#8212;rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">into a temple of the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Scripture it says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">and the one who trusts in him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="ISA.28.16">Isaiah 28:16</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.118.22">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="ISA.8.14">Isaiah 8:14</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">They stumble because they disobey the message&#8212;which is also what they were destined for.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God&#8217;s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</span></span></div>
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