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         <div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">in the assembly I will sing your praises.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my trust in him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:17</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">And again he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Here am I, and the children God has given me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death&#8212;that is, the devil&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham&#8217;s descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like his brothers</span></span></span><span class="content"> fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Abram, &#8220;Go from your country, your people and your father&#8217;s household to the land I will show you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make you into a great nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and I will bless you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">I will make your name great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and you will be a blessing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be seen as blessed</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will bless those who bless you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and whoever curses you I will curse;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and all peoples on earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">will be blessed through you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">earth / will use your name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Peter began to speak: &#8220;I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen&#8212;by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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