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 <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1">Protection of Property</div><div class="p"> # In Hebrew texts 22:1 is numbered 21:37, and 22:2-31 is numbered 22:1-30. 1&#8220;Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.</div><div class="p"> 2&#8220;If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; 3but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.</div><div class="p">&#8220;Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. 4If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession&#8212;whether ox or donkey or sheep&#8212;they must pay back double.</div><div class="p"> 5&#8220;If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else&#8217;s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.</div><div class="p"> 6&#8220;If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.</div><div class="p"> 7&#8220;If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor&#8217;s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. 8But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must#22:8 Or before God, and he will determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person&#8217;s property. 9In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, &#8216;This is mine,&#8217; both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.#22:9 Or before God The one whom the judges declare#22:9 Or whom God declares guilty must pay back double to the other.</div><div class="p"> 10&#8220;If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking, 11the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the Lord that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person&#8217;s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required. 12But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner. 13If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.</div><div class="p"> 14&#8220;If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution. 15But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.</div><div class="s1">Social Responsibility</div><div class="p"> 16&#8220;If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. 17If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.</div><div class="p"> 18&#8220;Do not allow a sorceress to live.</div><div class="p"> 19&#8220;Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.</div><div class="p"> 20&#8220;Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.#22:20 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.</div><div class="p"> 21&#8220;Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.</div><div class="p"> 22&#8220;Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. 23If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 24My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.</div><div class="p"> 25&#8220;If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. 26If you take your neighbor&#8217;s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, 27because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.</div><div class="p"> 28&#8220;Do not blaspheme God#22:28 Or Do not revile the judges or curse the ruler of your people.</div><div class="p"> 29&#8220;Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.#22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</div><div class="p">&#8220;You must give me the firstborn of your sons. 30Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.</div><div class="p"> 31&#8220;You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.</div>
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 <div class="q1">97Oh, how I love your law!</div><div class="q2">I meditate on it all day long.</div><div class="q1"> 98Your commands are always with me</div><div class="q2">and make me wiser than my enemies.</div><div class="q1"> 99I have more insight than all my teachers,</div><div class="q2">for I meditate on your statutes.</div><div class="q1"> 100I have more understanding than the elders,</div><div class="q2">for I obey your precepts.</div><div class="q1"> 101I have kept my feet from every evil path</div><div class="q2">so that I might obey your word.</div><div class="q1"> 102I have not departed from your laws,</div><div class="q2">for you yourself have taught me.</div><div class="q1"> 103How sweet are your words to my taste,</div><div class="q2">sweeter than honey to my mouth!</div><div class="q1"> 104I gain understanding from your precepts;</div><div class="q2">therefore I hate every wrong path.</div><div class="qa">&#1504; Nun</div><div class="q1"> 105Your word is a lamp for my feet,</div><div class="q2">a light on my path.</div><div class="q1"> 106I have taken an oath and confirmed it,</div><div class="q2">that I will follow your righteous laws.</div><div class="q1"> 107I have suffered much;</div><div class="q2">preserve my life, Lord, according to your word.</div><div class="q1"> 108Accept, Lord, the willing praise of my mouth,</div><div class="q2">and teach me your laws.</div><div class="q1"> 109Though I constantly take my life in my hands,</div><div class="q2">I will not forget your law.</div><div class="q1"> 110The wicked have set a snare for me,</div><div class="q2">but I have not strayed from your precepts.</div><div class="q1"> 111Your statutes are my heritage forever;</div><div class="q2">they are the joy of my heart.</div><div class="q1"> 112My heart is set on keeping your decrees</div><div class="q2">to the very end.#119:112 Or decrees / for their enduring reward</div><div class="qa">&#1505; Samekh</div><div class="q1"> 113I hate double-minded people,</div><div class="q2">but I love your law.</div><div class="q1"> 114You are my refuge and my shield;</div><div class="q2">I have put my hope in your word.</div><div class="q1"> 115Away from me, you evildoers,</div><div class="q2">that I may keep the commands of my God!</div><div class="q1"> 116Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live;</div><div class="q2">do not let my hopes be dashed.</div><div class="q1"> 117Uphold me, and I will be delivered;</div><div class="q2">I will always have regard for your decrees.</div><div class="q1"> 118You reject all who stray from your decrees,</div><div class="q2">for their delusions come to nothing.</div><div class="q1"> 119All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross;</div><div class="q2">therefore I love your statutes.</div><div class="q1"> 120My flesh trembles in fear of you;</div><div class="q2">I stand in awe of your laws.</div><div class="qa">&#1506; Ayin</div><div class="q1"> 121I have done what is righteous and just;</div><div class="q2">do not leave me to my oppressors.</div><div class="q1"> 122Ensure your servant&#8217;s well-being;</div><div class="q2">do not let the arrogant oppress me.</div><div class="q1"> 123My eyes fail, looking for your salvation,</div><div class="q2">looking for your righteous promise.</div><div class="q1"> 124Deal with your servant according to your love</div><div class="q2">and teach me your decrees.</div><div class="q1"> 125I am your servant; give me discernment</div><div class="q2">that I may understand your statutes.</div><div class="q1"> 126It is time for you to act, Lord;</div><div class="q2">your law is being broken.</div><div class="q1"> 127Because I love your commands</div><div class="q2">more than gold, more than pure gold,</div><div class="q1"> 128and because I consider all your precepts right,</div><div class="q2">I hate every wrong path.</div><div class="qa">&#1508; Pe</div><div class="q1"> 129Your statutes are wonderful;</div><div class="q2">therefore I obey them.</div><div class="q1"> 130The unfolding of your words gives light;</div><div class="q2">it gives understanding to the simple.</div><div class="q1"> 131I open my mouth and pant,</div><div class="q2">longing for your commands.</div><div class="q1"> 132Turn to me and have mercy on me,</div><div class="q2">as you always do to those who love your name.</div><div class="q1"> 133Direct my footsteps according to your word;</div><div class="q2">let no sin rule over me.</div><div class="q1"> 134Redeem me from human oppression,</div><div class="q2">that I may obey your precepts.</div><div class="q1"> 135Make your face shine on your servant</div><div class="q2">and teach me your decrees.</div><div class="q1"> 136Streams of tears flow from my eyes,</div><div class="q2">for your law is not obeyed.</div>
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 <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1">Life Through the Spirit</div><div class="p"> 1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you#8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,#8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13. God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.#8:3 Or flesh, for sin And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</div><div class="p"> 5Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God&#8217;s law, nor can it do so. 8Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.</div><div class="p"> 9You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life#8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of#8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.</div><div class="p"> 12Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation&#8212;but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.</div><div class="p"> 14For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.#8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23. And by him we cry, &#8220;Abba,#8:15 Aramaic for father Father.&#8221; 16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God&#8217;s children. 17Now if we are children, then we are heirs&#8212;heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.</div><div class="s1">Present Suffering and Future Glory</div><div class="p"> 18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that#8:20,21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.</div><div class="p"> 22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.</div><div class="p"> 26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God&#8217;s people in accordance with the will of God.</div><div class="p"> 28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who#8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good&#8212;with those who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.</div><div class="s1">More Than Conquerors</div><div class="p"> 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all&#8212;how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died&#8212;more than that, who was raised to life&#8212;is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;For your sake we face death all day long;</div><div class="q2">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.&#8221;#8:36 Psalm 44:22</div><div class="m"> 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,#8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</div>
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