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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are my own flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="content">After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laban said to him, &#8220;Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Leah had weak</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">delicate</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;It&#8217;s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn&#8217;t I? Why have you deceived me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Laban replied, &#8220;It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finish this daughter&#8217;s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JDG.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The next day the people of Shechem went out to the fields, and this was reported to Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JDG.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JDG.9.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JDG.9.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JDG.9.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JDG.9.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, &#8220;Quick! Do what you have seen me do!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JDG.9.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JDG.9.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women&#8212;all the people of the city&#8212;had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JDG.9.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JDG.9.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, &#8220;Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can&#8217;t say, &#8216;A woman killed him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So his servant ran him through, and he died. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JDG.9.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JDG.9.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">41</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 41</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 41:1-13 is numbered 41:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivers them in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects and preserves them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">they are counted among the blessed in the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains them on their sickbed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">and restores them from their bed of illness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">heal me, for I have sinned against you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My enemies say of me in malice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will he die and his name perish?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When one of them comes to see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">then he goes out and spreads it around.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All my enemies whisper together against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">they imagine the worst for me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;A vile disease has afflicted him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">he will never get up from the place where he lies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Even my close friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">someone I trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">one who shared my bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">has turned</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span></span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But may you have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">raise me up, that I may repay them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know that you are pleased with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">for my enemy does not triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Because of my integrity you uphold me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">and set me in your presence forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">from everlasting to everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;In the prime of my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">must I go through the gates of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">and be robbed of the rest of my years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will not again see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">no longer will I look on my fellow man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">or be with those who now dwell in this world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like a shepherd&#8217;s tent my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">has been pulled down and taken from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">and he has cut me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I waited patiently till dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">but like a lion he broke all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cried like a swift or thrush,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moaned like a mourning dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">I will walk humbly all my years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of this anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lord, by such things people live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and my spirit finds life in them too.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">You restored me to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and let me live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my benefit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I suffered such anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">In your love you kept me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">you have put all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the grave cannot praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot sing your praise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">cannot hope for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living&#8212;they praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I am doing today;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">parents tell their children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">about your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing with stringed instruments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaiah had said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked, &#8220;What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. &#8220;Never, Lord!&#8221; he said. &#8220;This shall never happen to you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus turned and said to Peter, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whoever wants to save their life</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:25 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word means either </span><span class="fqa">life </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">soul</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 26.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father&#8217;s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ROM.16.1+ROM.16.2+ROM.16.3+ROM.16.4+ROM.16.5+ROM.16.6+ROM.16.7+ROM.16.8+ROM.16.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">servant</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="ft">The word </span><span class="fq">deacon </span><span class="ft">refers here to a Christian designated to serve with the overseers/elders of the church in a variety of ways; similarly in Phil. 1:1 and 1 Tim. 3:8,12.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the church in Cenchreae. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Greet Priscilla</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Prisca</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Priscilla</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Greet also the church that meets at their house.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="content">Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">are esteemed by</span></span></span><span class="content"> the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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