Journey Through Exodus 20-40

Healing Family Relationships Through Boundaries

The Kingdom Manifesto

The Journey of Yes

Forgive and Be Free

How We Gave $1 Million (Without Being Rich)

Creating to Heal: 7 Days of Healing Through Art & Prayer

Rest in God’s Love: 3 Days of Contemplative Prayer

Healing the Wounds of Rejection

Lift Others Up: 3 Days of Encouragement

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted&#8212;thin and scorched by the east wind. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cannot do it,&#8221; Joseph replied to Pharaoh, &#8220;but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After them, seven other cows came up&#8212;scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After them, seven other heads sprouted&#8212;withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust on his head. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Eli heard the outcry and asked, &#8220;What is the meaning of this uproar?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.4.14"><span class="content">The man hurried over to Eli, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He told Eli, &#8220;I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.4.16"><span class="content">Eli asked, &#8220;What happened, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The man who brought the news replied, &#8220;Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:18 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel forty years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As she was dying, the women attending her said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t despair; you have given birth to a son.&#8221; But she did not respond or pay any attention.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She named the boy Ichabod,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:21 </span><span class="fq">Ichabod </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">no </span><span class="fq">glory</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;The Glory has departed from Israel&#8221;&#8212;because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">She said, &#8220;The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="label">1</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 v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Maintain justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and do what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">for my salvation is close at hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and my righteousness will soon be revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who does this&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">the person who holds it fast,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">and keeps their hands from doing any evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let no foreigner who is bound to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely exclude me from his people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">And let no eunuch complain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am only a dry tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For 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 v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">&#8220;To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">who choose what pleases me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">and hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to them I will give within my temple and its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">a memorial and a name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">better than sons and daughters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">I will give them an everlasting name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">that will endure forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And foreigners who bind themselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to minister to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to love the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and to be his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and who hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">these I will bring to my holy mountain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">and give them joy in my house of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">Their burnt offerings and sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">will be accepted on my altar;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">for my house will be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">a house of prayer for all nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">he who gathers the exiles of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I will gather still others to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">besides those already gathered.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Five of them were foolish and five were wise.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At midnight the cry rang out: &#8216;Here&#8217;s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The foolish ones said to the wise, &#8216;Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;No,&#8217; they replied, &#8216;there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Later the others also came. &#8216;Lord, Lord,&#8217; they said, &#8216;open the door for us!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he replied, &#8216;Truly I tell you, I don&#8217;t know you.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="1CO.9.19+1CO.9.20+1CO.9.21+1CO.9.22+1CO.9.23+1CO.9.24+1CO.9.25+1CO.9.26+1CO.9.27">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God&#8217;s law but am under Christ&#8217;s law), so as to win those not having the law. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Need for Self-Discipline</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.</span></span></div>
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