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The Way of the Cross

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Two are better than one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"><span class="content">because they have a good return for their labor:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If either of them falls down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">one can help the other up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">But pity anyone who falls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">and has no one to help them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"><span class="content">But how can one keep warm alone?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though one may be overpowered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="content">two can defend themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="content">A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, &#8220;Of all the commandments, which is the most important?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The most important one,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> answered Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;is this: &#8216;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The Lord our God is one Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DEU.6.4">Deut. 6:4</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="DEU.6.5">5</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The second is this: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="LEV.19.18">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">There is no commandment greater than these.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Well said, teacher,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are not far from the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are my friends if you do what I command.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master&#8217;s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><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></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. </span></span></div>
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