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      <div class="chapter ch35" data-usfm="GEN.35.1+GEN.35.2+GEN.35.3+GEN.35.4+GEN.35.5+GEN.35.6+GEN.35.7+GEN.35.8+GEN.35.9+GEN.35.10+GEN.35.11+GEN.35.12+GEN.35.13+GEN.35.14+GEN.35.15">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.35.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, &#8220;Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:7 </span><span class="fq">El Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God of Bethel.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now Deborah, Rebekah&#8217;s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:8 </span><span class="fq">Allon Bakuth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">oak of weeping.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verse 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> God appeared to him again and blessed him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">God said to him, &#8220;Your name is Jacob,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:10 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel, </span><span class="ft">a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content"> but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:10 </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">&#8221; So he named him Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.35.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And God said to him, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">El-Shaddai</span></span></span></span><span class="content">; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.35.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:15 </span><span class="fq">Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of God.</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="JDG.20.24+JDG.20.25+JDG.20.26+JDG.20.27+JDG.20.28+JDG.20.29+JDG.20.30+JDG.20.31+JDG.20.32+JDG.20.33+JDG.20.34+JDG.20.35+JDG.20.36+JDG.20.37+JDG.20.38+JDG.20.39+JDG.20.40+JDG.20.41+JDG.20.42+JDG.20.43+JDG.20.44+JDG.20.45+JDG.20.46+JDG.20.47+JDG.20.48">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And the Israelites inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, &#8220;Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.20.28"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> responded, &#8220;Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads&#8212;the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">While the Benjamites were saying, &#8220;We are defeating them as before,&#8221; the Israelites were saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.20.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:33 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Gibeah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:33 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Geba, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Gibeah</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then ten thousand of Israel&#8217;s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.20.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.20.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.20.36"><span class="content">Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.20.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Those who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.20.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.20.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">and then the Israelites would counterattack.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.20.39"><span class="content">The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, &#8220;We are defeating them as in the first battle.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.20.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.20.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JDG.20.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JDG.20.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:43 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JDG.20.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.20.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.20.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JDG.20.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JDG.20.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JDG.20.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="JOB.8.1+JOB.8.2+JOB.8.3+JOB.8.4+JOB.8.5+JOB.8.6+JOB.8.7">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you say such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">Your words are a blustering wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does God pervert justice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">Does the Almighty pervert what is right?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When your children sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But if you will seek God earnestly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">and plead with the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if you are pure and upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">even now he will rouse himself on your behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">and restore you to your prosperous state.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your beginnings will seem humble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">so prosperous will your future be.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch45" data-usfm="ISA.45.11+ISA.45.12+ISA.45.13+ISA.45.14+ISA.45.15+ISA.45.16+ISA.45.17+ISA.45.18+ISA.45.19+ISA.45.20+ISA.45.21+ISA.45.22+ISA.45.23+ISA.45.24+ISA.45.25">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;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 v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="content">Concerning things to come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="content">do you question me about my children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="content">or give me orders about the work of my hands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.45.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.45.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It is I who made the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.45.12"><span class="content">and created mankind on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.45.12"><span class="content">My own hands stretched out the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.45.12"><span class="content">I marshaled their starry hosts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.45.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will raise up Cyrus</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> in my righteousness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">I will make all his ways straight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">He will rebuild my city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">and set my exiles free,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">but not for a price or reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.45.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">&#8220;The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">and those tall Sabeans&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">they will come over to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">and will be yours;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">they will trudge behind you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">coming over to you in chains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">They will bow down before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">and plead with you, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">&#8216;Surely God is with you, and there is no other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">there is no other god.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.45.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.45.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.45.15"><span class="content">the God and Savior of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.45.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.45.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.45.16"><span class="content">they will go off into disgrace together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.45.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.45.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Israel will be saved by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.45.17"><span class="content">with an everlasting salvation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.45.17"><span class="content">you will never be put to shame or disgraced,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.45.17"><span class="content">to ages everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.45.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he who created the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he is God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he who fashioned and made the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he founded it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he did not create it to be empty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">but formed it to be inhabited&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">he says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">&#8220;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 v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">and there is no other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.45.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I have not spoken in secret,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">from somewhere in a land of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">I have not said to Jacob&#8217;s descendants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">&#8216;Seek me in vain.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, speak the truth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">I declare what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.45.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.45.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather together and come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.45.20"><span class="content">assemble, you fugitives from the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.45.20"><span class="content">Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.45.20"><span class="content">who pray to gods that cannot save.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.45.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Declare what is to be, present it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">let them take counsel together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">Who foretold this long ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">who declared it from the distant past?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">Was it not I, 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.45.21"><span class="content">And there is no God apart from me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">a righteous God and a Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">there is none but me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.45.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.45.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Turn to me and be saved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.45.22"><span class="content">all you ends of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.45.22"><span class="content">for I am God, and there is no other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.45.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By myself I have sworn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="content">my mouth has uttered in all integrity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="content">a word that will not be revoked:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="content">Before me every knee will bow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="content">by me every tongue will swear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.45.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.45.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They will say of me, &#8216;In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> alone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.45.24"><span class="content">are deliverance and strength.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.45.24"><span class="content">All who have raged against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.45.24"><span class="content">will come to him and be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.45.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.45.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But all the descendants of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.45.25"><span class="content">will find deliverance in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.45.25"><span class="content">and will make their boast in him.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="MAT.21.23+MAT.21.24+MAT.21.25+MAT.21.26+MAT.21.27+MAT.21.28+MAT.21.29+MAT.21.30+MAT.21.31+MAT.21.32">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. &#8220;By what authority are you doing these things?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;And who gave you this authority?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">John&#8217;s baptism&#8212;where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.21.25"><span class="content">They discussed it among themselves and said, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will ask, &#8216;Then why didn&#8217;t you believe him?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But if we say, &#8216;Of human origin&#8217;&#8212;we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So they answered Jesus, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.21.27"><span class="content">Then he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Two Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, &#8216;Son, go and work today in the vineyard.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will not,&#8217; he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, &#8216;I will, sir,&#8217; but he did not go.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Which of the two did what his father wanted?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.21.31"><span class="content">&#8220;The first,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.21.31"><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, &#8220;Do not go beyond what is written.&#8221; Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign&#8212;and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world&#8212;right up to this moment.</span></span></div>
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