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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Let me go, for it is daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="content">But Jacob replied, &#8220;I will not let you go unless you bless me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The man asked him, &#8220;What is your name?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Jacob,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:28 </span><span class="fq">Israel </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">he struggles with God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said, &#8220;Please tell me your name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;Why do you ask my name?&#8221; Then he blessed him there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So Jacob called the place Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:30 </span><span class="fq">Peniel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">face of God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he was limping because of his hip. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip was touched near the tendon.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="JDG.16.23+JDG.16.24+JDG.16.25+JDG.16.26+JDG.16.27+JDG.16.28+JDG.16.29+JDG.16.30+JDG.16.31">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, &#8220;Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">&#8220;Our god has delivered our enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">into our hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">the one who laid waste our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">and multiplied our slain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">While they were in high spirits, they shouted, &#8220;Bring out Samson to entertain us.&#8221; So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="content">When they stood him among the pillars, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Samson said to the servant who held his hand, &#8220;Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Samson prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Samson said, &#8220;Let me die with the Philistines!&#8221; Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then his brothers and his father&#8217;s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:31 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty years.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JDG.17.1+JDG.17.2+JDG.17.3+JDG.17.4+JDG.17.5+JDG.17.6+JDG.17.7+JDG.17.8+JDG.17.9+JDG.17.10+JDG.17.11+JDG.17.12+JDG.17.13">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">said to his mother, &#8220;The eleven hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 28 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse&#8212;I have that silver with me; I took it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.17.2"><span class="content">Then his mother said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you, my son!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, &#8220;I solemnly consecrate my silver to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">To carry on his profession</span></span></span><span class="content"> he came to Micah&#8217;s house in the hill country of Ephraim.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Micah asked him, &#8220;Where are you from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.17.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I&#8217;m looking for a place to stay.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Micah said to him, &#8220;Live with me and be my father and priest, and I&#8217;ll give you ten shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 4 ounces or about 115 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver a year, your clothes and your food.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So the Levite agreed to live with him, and the young man became like one of his sons to him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And Micah said, &#8220;Now I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="JOB.5.17+JOB.5.18+JOB.5.19+JOB.5.20+JOB.5.21+JOB.5.22+JOB.5.23+JOB.5.24+JOB.5.25+JOB.5.26+JOB.5.27">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">and the wild animals will be at peace with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch43" data-usfm="ISA.43.1+ISA.43.2+ISA.43.3+ISA.43.4+ISA.43.5+ISA.43.6+ISA.43.7+ISA.43.8+ISA.43.9+ISA.43.10+ISA.43.11+ISA.43.12+ISA.43.13">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But now, this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who created you, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who formed you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">I have summoned you by name; you are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you pass through the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">I will be with you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">and when you pass through the rivers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">they will not sweep over you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">When you walk through the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">you will not be burned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">the flames will not set you ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">I give Egypt for your ransom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Seba in your stead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since you are precious and honored in my sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">and because I love you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">I will give people in exchange for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">nations in exchange for your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, for I am with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">I will bring your children from the east</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">and gather you from the west.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will say to the north, &#8216;Give them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and to the south, &#8216;Do not hold them back.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">Bring my sons from afar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and my daughters from the ends of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">everyone who is called by my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I created for my glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I formed and made.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Lead out those who have eyes but are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">who have ears but are deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations gather together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and the peoples assemble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Which of their gods foretold this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and proclaimed to us the former things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">so that others may hear and say, &#8220;It is true.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </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="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">&#8220;and my servant whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">so that you may know and believe me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">and understand that I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">Before me no god was formed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">nor will there be one after me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I, even I, am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">and apart from me there is no savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have revealed and saved and proclaimed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">I, and not some foreign god among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;that I am God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yes, and from ancient days I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">No one can deliver out of my hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">When I act, who can reverse it?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He agreed to pay them a denarius</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:2 </span><span class="ft">A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for the day and sent them into his vineyard.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He told them, &#8216;You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they went.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.20.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, &#8216;Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Because no one has hired us,&#8217; they answered.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He said to them, &#8216;You also go and work in my vineyard.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, &#8216;Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;These who were hired last worked only one hour,&#8217; they said, &#8216;and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he answered one of them, &#8216;I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn&#8217;t you agree to work for a denarius?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Don&#8217;t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So the last will be first, and the first will be last.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No, we declare God&#8217;s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">However, as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;What no eye has seen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">what no ear has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">and what no human mind has conceived&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 64:4</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">the things God has prepared for those who love him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.2.10"><span class="content">The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For who knows a person&#8217;s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">so as to instruct him?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">But we have the mind of Christ.</span></span></div>
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