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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Ruth&#8217;s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, &#8220;My daughter, I must find a home</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">find rest </span><span class="ft">(see 1:9).</span></span></span><span class="content"> for you, where you will be well provided for. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don&#8217;t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will do whatever you say,&#8221; Ruth answered. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned&#8212;and there was a woman lying at his feet!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who are you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your servant Ruth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see <span class="ref" usfm="LEV.25.25+LEV.25.26+LEV.25.27+LEV.25.28+LEV.25.29+LEV.25.30+LEV.25.31+LEV.25.32+LEV.25.33+LEV.25.34+LEV.25.35+LEV.25.36+LEV.25.37+LEV.25.38+LEV.25.39+LEV.25.40+LEV.25.41+LEV.25.42+LEV.25.43+LEV.25.44+LEV.25.45+LEV.25.46+LEV.25.47+LEV.25.48+LEV.25.49+LEV.25.50+LEV.25.51+LEV.25.52+LEV.25.53+LEV.25.54+LEV.25.55">Lev. 25:25-55</span>); also in verses 12 and 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of our family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you, my daughter,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And now, my daughter, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, &#8220;No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He also said, &#8220;Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.&#8221; When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">she</span></span></span><span class="content"> went back to town.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, &#8220;How did it go, my daughter?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="content">Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and added, &#8220;He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Naomi said, &#8220;Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Boaz Marries Ruth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see <span class="ref" usfm="LEV.25.25+LEV.25.26+LEV.25.27+LEV.25.28+LEV.25.29+LEV.25.30+LEV.25.31+LEV.25.32+LEV.25.33+LEV.25.34+LEV.25.35+LEV.25.36+LEV.25.37+LEV.25.38+LEV.25.39+LEV.25.40+LEV.25.41+LEV.25.42+LEV.25.43+LEV.25.44+LEV.25.45+LEV.25.46+LEV.25.47+LEV.25.48+LEV.25.49+LEV.25.50+LEV.25.51+LEV.25.52+LEV.25.53+LEV.25.54+LEV.25.55">Lev. 25:25-55</span>); also in verses 3, 6, 8 and 14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, &#8220;Come over here, my friend, and sit down.&#8221; So he went over and sat down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, &#8220;Sit here,&#8221; and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, &#8220;Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will redeem it,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Boaz said, &#8220;On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, you acquire the</span></span></span><span class="content"> dead man&#8217;s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At this, the guardian-redeemer said, &#8220;Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, &#8220;Buy it yourself.&#8221; And he removed his sandal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, &#8220;Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon&#8217;s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, &#8220;We are witnesses. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Through the offspring the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi Gains a Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The women said to Naomi: &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The women living there said, &#8220;Naomi has a son!&#8221; And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Genealogy of David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">This, then, is the family line of Perez:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="content">Perez was the father of Hezron,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hezron the father of Ram,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="content">Ram the father of Amminadab,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amminadab the father of Nahshon,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="content">Nahshon the father of Salmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:20 </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate (see also verse 21 and Septuagint of <span class="ref" usfm="1CH.2.11">1 Chron. 2:11</span>); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Salma</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Salmon the father of Boaz,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="content">Boaz the father of Obed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Obed the father of Jesse,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="content">and Jesse the father of David.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The End Has Come</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to the land of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.7.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The end! The end has come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.7.2"><span class="content">upon the four corners of the land!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.7.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The end is now upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.7.3"><span class="content">and I will unleash my anger against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.7.3"><span class="content">I will judge you according to your conduct</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.7.3"><span class="content">and repay you for all your detestable practices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will not look on you with pity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"><span class="content">I will not spare you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"><span class="content">I will surely repay you for your conduct</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"><span class="content">and for the detestable practices among you.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.7.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.7.5"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Disaster! Unheard-of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">Disaster after</span></span></span><span class="content"> disaster!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.7.5"><span class="content">See, it comes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The end has come!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.7.6"><span class="content">The end has come!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.7.6"><span class="content">It has roused itself against you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.7.6"><span class="content">See, it comes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Doom has come upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.7.7"><span class="content">upon you who dwell in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.7.7"><span class="content">The time has come! The day is near!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.7.7"><span class="content">There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am about to pour out my wrath on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.7.8"><span class="content">and spend my anger against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.7.8"><span class="content">I will judge you according to your conduct</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.7.8"><span class="content">and repay you for all your detestable practices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will not look on you with pity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"><span class="content">I will not spare you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"><span class="content">I will repay you for your conduct</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"><span class="content">and for the detestable practices among you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then you will know that it is I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who strikes you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;See, the day!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"><span class="content">See, it comes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"><span class="content">Doom has burst forth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"><span class="content">the rod has budded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"><span class="content">arrogance has blossomed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.7.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Violence has arisen,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The violent one has become</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="content">a rod to punish the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="content">None of the people will be left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="content">none of that crowd&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="content">none of their wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"><span class="content">nothing of value.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The time has come!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"><span class="content">The day has arrived!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"><span class="content">Let not the buyer rejoice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"><span class="content">nor the seller grieve,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"><span class="content">for my wrath is on the whole crowd.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The seller will not recover</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">the property that was sold&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">as long as both buyer and seller live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">For the vision concerning the whole crowd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">will not be reversed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">Because of their sins, not one of them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"><span class="content">will preserve their life.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;They have blown the trumpet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.7.14"><span class="content">they have made all things ready,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.7.14"><span class="content">but no one will go into battle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.7.14"><span class="content">for my wrath is on the whole crowd.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.7.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Outside is the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="content">inside are plague and famine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="content">Those in the country</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="content">will die by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="content">those in the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"><span class="content">will be devoured by famine and plague.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The fugitives who escape</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"><span class="content">will flee to the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"><span class="content">Like doves of the valleys,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"><span class="content">they will all moan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"><span class="content">each for their own sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.7.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Every hand will go limp;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.7.17"><span class="content">every leg will be wet with urine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.7.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They will put on sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"><span class="content">and be clothed with terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"><span class="content">Every face will be covered with shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"><span class="content">and every head will be shaved.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.7.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;They will throw their silver into the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">Their silver and gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">will not be able to deliver them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">in the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">It will not satisfy their hunger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">or fill their stomachs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"><span class="content">for it has caused them to stumble into sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They took pride in their beautiful jewelry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.7.20"><span class="content">and used it to make their detestable idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.7.20"><span class="content">They made it into vile images;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.7.20"><span class="content">therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.7.21"><span class="content">and as loot to the wicked of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.7.21"><span class="content">who will defile it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.7.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will turn my face away from the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"><span class="content">and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"><span class="content">They will enter it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"><span class="content">and will defile it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.7.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Prepare chains!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.7.23"><span class="content">For the land is full of bloodshed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.7.23"><span class="content">and the city is full of violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.7.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I will bring the most wicked of nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.7.24"><span class="content">to take possession of their houses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.7.24"><span class="content">I will put an end to the pride of the mighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.7.24"><span class="content">and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.7.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When terror comes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.7.25"><span class="content">they will seek peace in vain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.7.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Calamity upon calamity will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"><span class="content">and rumor upon rumor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"><span class="content">They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"><span class="content">priestly instruction in the law will cease,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"><span class="content">the counsel of the elders will come to an end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.7.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The king will mourn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="content">the prince will be clothed with despair,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="content">and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="content">I will deal with them according to their conduct,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="content">and by their own standards I will judge them.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.7.27"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.9.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, &#8220;This fellow is blaspheming!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.9.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Which is easier: to say, &#8216;Your sins are forgiven,&#8217; or to say, &#8216;Get up and walk&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he said to the paralyzed man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up, take your mat and go home.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the man got up and went home. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Calling of Matthew</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.9.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector&#8217;s booth. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew&#8217;s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, &#8220;Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But go and learn what this means: &#8216;I desire mercy, not sacrifice.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="HOS.6.6">Hosea 6:6</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.9.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then John&#8217;s disciples came and asked him, &#8220;How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.9.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.9.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Released From the Law, Bound to Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do you not know, brothers and sisters&#8212;for I am speaking to those who know the law&#8212;that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we were in the realm of the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Law and Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, &#8220;You shall not covet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.20.17">Exodus 20:17</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DEU.5.21">Deut. 5:21</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do&#8212;this I keep on doing. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For in my inner being I delight in God&#8217;s law; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="content">So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God&#8217;s law, but in my sinful nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> a slave to the law of sin.</span></span></div>
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