Lifestyle of Worship - Part 2

Who Owns Your Time?

Journey Through 1 Thessalonians

DRAWING FROM the RIGHT WELL

Competing for Christ

Praying God's Word: 7-Day Guide for the Buddhist World

When to Forgive and Stand Firm

Wait Well: Trusting God's Timing

Faith That Endures

Overcoming Marital Anxiety

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Charge Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a charge to bring</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">against you who live in the land:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no faithfulness, no love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">no acknowledgment of God in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There is only cursing,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, to pronounce a curse on</span></span></span><span class="content"> lying and murder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">stealing and adultery;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">they break all bounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">and bloodshed follows bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of this the land dries up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">and all who live in it waste away;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">and the fish in the sea are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But let no one bring a charge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">let no one accuse another,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">for your people are like those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">who bring charges against a priest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You stumble day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">and the prophets stumble with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">So I will destroy your mother&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have rejected knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">I also reject you as my priests;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">because you have ignored the law of your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">I also will ignore your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The more priests there were,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">the more they sinned against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">they exchanged their glorious God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me; / I will exchange their glory</span></span></span><span class="content"> for something disgraceful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They feed on the sins of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="content">and relish their wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And it will be: Like people, like priests.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">I will punish both of them for their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">and repay them for their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;They will eat but not have enough;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">they will engage in prostitution but not flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">because they have deserted the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.4.10"><span class="content">to give themselves </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">to prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">old wine and new wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">take away their understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My people consult a wooden idol,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">and a diviner&#8217;s rod speaks to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">they are unfaithful to their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They sacrifice on the mountaintops</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">and burn offerings on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">under oak, poplar and terebinth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">where the shade is pleasant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">and your daughters-in-law to adultery.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will not punish your daughters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">when they turn to prostitution,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">nor your daughters-in-law</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">when they commit adultery,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">because the men themselves consort with harlots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">a people without understanding will come to ruin!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though you, Israel, commit adultery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">do not let Judah become guilty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not go to Gilgal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">do not go up to Beth Aven.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="fq">Beth Aven </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of wickedness </span><span class="ft">(a derogatory name for Bethel, which means </span><span class="fqa">house of God</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">And do not swear, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The Israelites are stubborn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">like a stubborn heifer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> pasture them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">like lambs in a meadow?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Ephraim is joined to idols;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="content">leave him alone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even when their drinks are gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">they continue their prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">their rulers dearly love shameful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HOS.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A whirlwind will sweep them away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HOS.4.19"><span class="content">and their sacrifices will bring them shame.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear this, you priests!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">Pay attention, you Israelites!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">Listen, royal house!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">This judgment is against you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">You have been a snare at Mizpah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">a net spread out on Tabor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="content">I will discipline all of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I know all about Ephraim;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Israel is not hidden from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">Israel is corrupt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Their deeds do not permit them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">to return to their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">A spirit of prostitution is in their heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s arrogance testifies against them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">Judah also stumbles with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they go with their flocks and herds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">to seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">they will not find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">he has withdrawn himself from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They are unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">they give birth to illegitimate children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">When they celebrate their New Moon feasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">he will devour</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Now their New Moon feasts / will devour them and</span></span></span><span class="content"> their fields.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sound the trumpet in Gibeah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">the horn in Ramah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:8 </span><span class="fq">Beth Aven </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of wickedness </span><span class="ft">(a derogatory name for Bethel, which means </span><span class="fqa">house of God</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">lead on, Benjamin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Ephraim will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">on the day of reckoning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">Among the tribes of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">I proclaim what is certain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Judah&#8217;s leaders are like those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">who move boundary stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">I will pour out my wrath on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">like a flood of water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim is oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">trampled in judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">intent on pursuing idols.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am like a moth to Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="content">like rot to the people of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;When Ephraim saw his sickness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">and Judah his sores,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">then Ephraim turned to Assyria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">and sent to the great king for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">But he is not able to cure you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">not able to heal your sores.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">like a great lion to Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">I will tear them to pieces and go away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will return to my lair</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">until they have borne their guilt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">and seek my face&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">in their misery</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.5.15"><span class="content">they will earnestly seek me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Unrepentant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, let us return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">He has torn us to pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">but he will heal us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">he has injured us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">but he will bind up our wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After two days he will revive us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">on the third day he will restore us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">that we may live in his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let us acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">let us press on to acknowledge him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">As surely as the sun rises,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">he will appear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">he will come to us like the winter rains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">like the spring rains that water the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;What can I do with you, Ephraim?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">What can I do with you, Judah?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">Your love is like the morning mist,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">like the early dew that disappears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">I killed you with the words of my mouth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">then my judgments go forth like the sun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:5 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="content">and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As at Adam,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Like Adam</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">Like human beings</span></span></span><span class="content"> they have broken the covenant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="content">they were unfaithful to me there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gilead is a city of evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="content">stained with footprints of blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">so do bands of priests;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">they murder on the road to Shechem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">carrying out their wicked schemes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have seen a horrible thing in Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">There Ephraim is given to prostitution,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">Israel is defiled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Also for you, Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="content">a harvest is appointed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">whenever I would heal Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">the sins of Ephraim are exposed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">and the crimes of Samaria revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">They practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">bandits rob in the streets;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but they do not realize</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">that I remember all their evil deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">Their sins engulf them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">they are always before me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They delight the king with their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">the princes with their lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">burning like an oven</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">whose fire the baker need not stir</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">from the kneading of the dough till it rises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the day of the festival of our king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">the princes become inflamed with wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">and he joins hands with the mockers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their hearts are like an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">they approach him with intrigue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">Their passion smolders all night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All of them are hot as an oven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">they devour their rulers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">All their kings fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">and none of them calls on me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim mixes with the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Foreigners sap his strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not realize it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">His hair is sprinkled with gray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">but he does not notice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s arrogance testifies against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">but despite all this</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">he does not return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">or search for him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ephraim is like a dove,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">easily deceived and senseless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now calling to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">now turning to Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they go, I will throw my net over them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">When I hear them flocking together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">I will catch them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Woe to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have strayed from me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">Destruction to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">because they have rebelled against me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">I long to redeem them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">but they speak about me falsely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They do not cry out to me from their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but wail on their beds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">They slash themselves,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">They gather together</span></span></span><span class="content"> appealing to their gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">for grain and new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">but they turn away from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I trained them and strengthened their arms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">but they plot evil against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They do not turn to the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">they are like a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">Their leaders will fall by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">because of their insolent words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">For this they will be ridiculed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.7.16"><span class="content">in the land of Egypt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Tenants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, &#8216;They will respect my son.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But the tenants said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir. Come, let&#8217;s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Haven&#8217;t you read this passage of Scripture:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Lord has done this,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and it is marvelous in our eyes&#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">12:11 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          <span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.118.22">Psalm 118:22</span>,<span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.118.23">23</span>  </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 v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They came to him and said, &#8220;Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:14 </span><span class="ft">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span></span></span><span class="content"> to Caesar or not? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Should we pay or shouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="content">But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you trying to trap me?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They brought the coin, and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="content">And they were amazed at him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marriage at the Resurrection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses wrote for us that if a man&#8217;s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">At the resurrection</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">resurrection, when people rise from the dead,</span></span></span><span class="content"> whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now about the dead rising&#8212;have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, &#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:26 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="EXO.3.6">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest Commandment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.12.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><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 class="content">  </span></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" data-usfm="DEU.6.4">Deut. 6:4</span>,<span class="ref" data-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" data-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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#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">12:36 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          <span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.110.1">Psalm 110:1</span>
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself calls him &#8216;Lord.&#8217; How then can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">The large crowd listened to him with delight.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">As he taught, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They devour widows&#8217; houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Widow&#8217;s Offering</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything&#8212;all she had to live on.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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