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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1CH.17">
            <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Promise to David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is under a tent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Nathan replied to David, &#8220;Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:6 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judges</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 10</span></span></span><span class="content"> whom I commanded to shepherd my people, &#8220;Why have you not built me a house of cedar?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I declare to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will build a house for you: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then King David went in and sat before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Who am I, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CH.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And who is like your people Israel&#8212;the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have become their God.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CH.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel&#8217;s God!&#8217; And the house of your servant David will be established before you.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CH.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CH.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God! You have promised these good things to your servant. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CH.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="1CH.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Victories</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to him and brought him tribute.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Moreover, David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, in the vicinity of Hamath, when he went to set up his monument at</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to restore his control over</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Euphrates River. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought him tribute. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave David victory wherever he went.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">David took the gold shields carried by the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From Tebah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Tibhath, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Tebah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Kun, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, David took a great quantity of bronze, which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">King David dedicated these articles to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave David victory wherever he went.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Officials</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:16 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Samuel 8:17); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Abimelek</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was secretary; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David&#8217;s sons were chief officials at the king&#8217;s side.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="PRO.19.14+PRO.19.15+PRO.19.16+PRO.19.17+PRO.19.18+PRO.19.19+PRO.19.20+PRO.19.21+PRO.19.22+PRO.19.23+PRO.19.24+PRO.19.25+PRO.19.26+PRO.19.27+PRO.19.28+PRO.19.29">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">but a prudent wife is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laziness brings on deep sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">and the shiftless go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">and he will reward them for what they have done.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">do not be a willing party to their death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">rescue them, and you will have to do it again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Listen to advice and accept discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">and at the end you will be counted among the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Many are the plans in a person&#8217;s heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">but it is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s purpose that prevails.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What a person desires is unfailing love</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Greed is a person&#8217;s shame</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">better to be poor than a liar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> leads to life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">then one rests content, untouched by trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">he will not even bring it back to his mouth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">is a child who brings shame and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Stop listening to instruction, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">and you will stray from the words of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A corrupt witness mocks at justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Penalties are prepared for mockers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="content">and beatings for the backs of fools.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="1TH.4.13+1TH.4.14+1TH.4.15+1TH.4.16+1TH.4.17+1TH.4.18">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">According to the Lord&#8217;s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore encourage one another with these words.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the Lord</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">While people are saying, &#8220;Peace and safety,&#8221; destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Instructions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TH.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Rejoice always, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">pray continually, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God&#8217;s will for you in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TH.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not quench the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TH.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do not treat prophecies with contempt </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1TH.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">but test them all; hold on to what is good, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1TH.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">reject every kind of evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1TH.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1TH.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1TH.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1TH.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1TH.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, pray for us. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1TH.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Greet all God&#8217;s people with a holy kiss. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1TH.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1TH.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1TH.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</span></span></div>
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