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      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="GEN.31.22+GEN.31.23+GEN.31.24+GEN.31.25+GEN.31.26+GEN.31.27+GEN.31.28+GEN.31.29+GEN.31.30+GEN.31.31+GEN.31.32+GEN.31.33+GEN.31.34+GEN.31.35+GEN.31.36+GEN.31.37+GEN.31.38+GEN.31.39+GEN.31.40+GEN.31.41+GEN.31.42">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;What have you done? You&#8217;ve deceived me, and you&#8217;ve carried off my daughters like captives in war. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn&#8217;t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You didn&#8217;t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, &#8216;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father&#8217;s household. But why did you steal my gods?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob answered Laban, &#8220;I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.&#8221; Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Laban went into Jacob&#8217;s tent and into Leah&#8217;s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah&#8217;s tent, he entered Rachel&#8217;s tent. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Rachel said to her father, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I&#8217;m having my period.&#8221; So he searched but could not find the household gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. &#8220;What is my crime?&#8221; he asked Laban. &#8220;How have I wronged you that you hunt me down? </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he returned, he said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His father and mother replied, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="content">But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me. She&#8217;s the right one for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">(His parents did not know that this was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion&#8217;s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion&#8217;s carcass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let me tell you a riddle,&#8221; Samson said to them. &#8220;If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us your riddle,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He replied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Out of the eater, something to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">out of the strong, something sweet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">For three days they could not give the answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">seventh</span></span></span><span class="content"> day, they said to Samson&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father&#8217;s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson&#8217;s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, &#8220;You hate me! You don&#8217;t really love me. You&#8217;ve given my people a riddle, but you haven&#8217;t told me the answer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even explained it to my father or mother,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;so why should I explain it to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">Samson said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">you would not have solved my riddle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father&#8217;s home. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Samson&#8217;s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JOB.3.11+JOB.3.12+JOB.3.13+JOB.3.14+JOB.3.15+JOB.3.16+JOB.3.17+JOB.3.18+JOB.3.19+JOB.3.20+JOB.3.21+JOB.3.22+JOB.3.23+JOB.3.24+JOB.3.25+JOB.3.26">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with kings and rulers of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">who filled their houses with silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">like an infant who never saw the light of day?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from turmoil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Captives also enjoy their ease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">they no longer hear the slave driver&#8217;s shout.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">and the slaves are freed from their owners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to those in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">and life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to those who long for death that does not come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">who search for it more than for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who are filled with gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">and rejoice when they reach the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Why is life given to a man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For sighing has become my daily food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">my groans pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">What I feared has come upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have no peace, no quietness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">I have no rest, but only turmoil.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;The poor and needy search for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">but there is none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">their tongues are parched with thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">But I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will make rivers flow on barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and springs within the valleys.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">I will turn the desert into pools of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and the parched ground into springs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will put in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">I will set junipers in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the fir and the cypress together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">so that people may see and know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">may consider and understand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">that the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">that the Holy One of Israel has created it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Present your case,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Set forth your arguments,&#8221; says Jacob&#8217;s King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us, you idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">what is going to happen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Tell us what the former things were,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">so that we may consider them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">and know their final outcome.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Or declare to us the things to come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">tell us what the future holds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so we may know that you are gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">Do something, whether good or bad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But you are less than nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">and your works are utterly worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">whoever chooses you is detestable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">one from the rising sun who calls on my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">He treads on rulers as if they were mortar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">as if he were a potter treading the clay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">or beforehand, so we could say, &#8216;He was right&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">No one told of this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one foretold it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one heard any words from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I was the first to tell Zion, &#8216;Look, here they are!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I look but there is no one&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one among the gods to give counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one to give answer when I ask them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">See, they are all false!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">Their deeds amount to nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">their images are but wind and confusion.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seventy times seven</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:24 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">ten thousand talents</span><span class="ft">; a talent was worth about 20 years of a day laborer&#8217;s wages.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">was brought to him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At this the servant fell on his knees before him. &#8216;Be patient with me,&#8217; he begged, &#8216;and I will pay back everything.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The servant&#8217;s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">18:28 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">a hundred denarii</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">; a denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see 20:2).</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He grabbed him and began to choke him. &#8216;Pay back what you owe me!&#8217; he demanded.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.18.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, &#8216;Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.18.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the master called the servant in. &#8216;You wicked servant,&#8217; he said, &#8216;I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Shouldn&#8217;t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.18.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.18.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.18.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="1CO.1.10+1CO.1.11+1CO.1.12+1CO.1.13+1CO.1.14+1CO.1.15+1CO.1.16+1CO.1.17">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 11 and 26; and in 2:1; 3:1; 4:6; 6:8; 7:24, 29; 10:1; 11:33; 12:1; 14:6, 20, 26, 39; 15:1, 6, 50, 58; 16:15, 20.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe&#8217;s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What I mean is this: One of you says, &#8220;I follow Paul&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Apollos&#8221;; another, &#8220;I follow Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;; still another, &#8220;I follow Christ.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don&#8217;t remember if I baptized anyone else.) </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel&#8212;not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.</span></span></div>
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