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            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John the Baptist Beheaded</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and he said to his attendants, &#8220;This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip&#8217;s wife, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for John had been saying to him: &#8220;It is not lawful for you to have her.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people, because they considered John a prophet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On Herod&#8217;s birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for the guests and pleased Herod so much </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Prompted by her mother, she said, &#8220;Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and had John beheaded in the prison. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">John&#8217;s disciples came and took his body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, &#8220;This is a remote place, and it&#8217;s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring them here to me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Walks on the Water</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.14.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. &#8220;It&#8217;s a ghost,&#8221; they said, and cried out in fear.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.14.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Jesus immediately said to them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take courage! It is I. Don&#8217;t be afraid.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.14.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, if it&#8217;s you,&#8221; Peter replied, &#8220;tell me to come to you on the water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.14.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.14.29"><span class="content">Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.14.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, &#8220;Lord, save me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.14.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.14.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You of little faith,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;why did you doubt?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.14.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.14.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.14.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, &#8220;Truly you are the Son of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.14.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.14.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.14.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.14.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="LEV.13">
            <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">defiling skin disease</span><span class="ft">, traditionally translated &#8220;leprosy,&#8221; was used for various diseases affecting the skin; here and throughout verses 3-46.</span></span></span><span class="content"> they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">descendants</span></span></span><span class="content"> who is a priest. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;When anyone has a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall pronounce them clean. Since it has all turned white, they are clean. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But whenever raw flesh appears on them, they will be unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce them unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; they have a defiling disease. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;When someone has a boil on their skin and it heals, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling disease. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;When someone has a burn on their skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But if, when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">then the man or woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep them isolated another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But if the sore does spread in the skin after they are pronounced clean, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if he finds that the sore has spread in the skin, he does not need to look for yellow hair; they are unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LEV.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;When a man or woman has white spots on the skin, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.13.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; they are clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.13.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LEV.13.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LEV.13.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LEV.13.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LEV.13.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.13.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.13.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LEV.13.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:45 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">clothes, uncover their head</span></span></span><span class="content"> cover the lower part of their face and cry out, &#8216;Unclean! Unclean!&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LEV.13.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Regulations About Defiling Molds</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LEV.13.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LEV.13.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for any fabric that is spoiled with a defiling mold&#8212;any woolen or linen clothing, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LEV.13.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LEV.13.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">if the affected area in the fabric, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a defiling mold and must be shown to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LEV.13.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine the affected area and isolate the article for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LEV.13.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent defiling mold; the article is unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LEV.13.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has been spoiled; because the defiling mold is persistent, the article must be burned.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LEV.13.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LEV.13.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article, </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LEV.13.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">he shall order that the spoiled article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LEV.13.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LEV.13.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">If, when the priest examines it, the mold has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the spoiled part out of the fabric, the leather, or the woven or knitted material. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LEV.13.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is a spreading mold; whatever has the mold must be burned. </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LEV.13.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">Any fabric, woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and is rid of the mold, must be washed again. Then it will be clean.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LEV.13.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LEV.13.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">These are the regulations concerning defiling molds in woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted material, or any leather article, for pronouncing them clean or unclean.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1CO">
        <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="1CO.9">
            <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Rights as an Apostle</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t we have the right to food and drink? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord&#8217;s brothers and Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn&#8217;t the Law say the same thing? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For it is written in the Law of Moses: &#8220;Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 25:4</span></span></span><span class="content"> Is it about oxen that God is concerned? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Surely he says this for us, doesn&#8217;t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If others have this right of support from you, shouldn&#8217;t we have it all the more?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.9.12"><span class="content">But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Use of His Freedom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><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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        <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="1JN.3">
            <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1JN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">when it is made known</span></span></span><span class="content"> we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil&#8217;s work. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1JN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God&#8217;s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God&#8217;s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">More on Love and Hatred</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1JN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother&#8217;s were righteous. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1JN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verse 16.</span></span></span><span class="content"> if the world hates you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1JN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1JN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1JN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1JN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1JN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1JN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The one who keeps God&#8217;s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="JOB.41">
            <div class="label">41</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">41 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">or tie down its tongue with a rope?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Can you put a cord through its nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">or pierce its jaw with a hook?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will it keep begging you for mercy?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">Will it speak to you with gentle words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Will it make an agreement with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">for you to take it as your slave for life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Can you make a pet of it like a bird</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will traders barter for it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">Will they divide it up among the merchants?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Can you fill its hide with harpoons</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">or its head with fishing spears?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you lay a hand on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">you will remember the struggle and never do it again!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Any hope of subduing it is false;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">the mere sight of it is overpowering.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">No one is fierce enough to rouse it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">Who then is able to stand against me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Who has a claim against me that I must pay?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">Everything under heaven belongs to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will not fail to speak of Leviathan&#8217;s limbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">its strength and its graceful form.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who can strip off its outer coat?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">Who can penetrate its double coat of armor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:13 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">double bridle</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who dares open the doors of its mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">ringed about with fearsome teeth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Its back has</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Its pride is its</span></span></span><span class="content"> rows of shields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">tightly sealed together;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">each is so close to the next</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">that no air can pass between.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They are joined fast to one another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">they cling together and cannot be parted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Its snorting throws out flashes of light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">its eyes are like the rays of dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Flames stream from its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">sparks of fire shoot out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Smoke pours from its nostrils</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Its breath sets coals ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">and flames dart from its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Strength resides in its neck;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">dismay goes before it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">they are firm and immovable.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Its chest is hard as rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">hard as a lower millstone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">they retreat before its thrashing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sword that reaches it has no effect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Iron it treats like straw</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">and bronze like rotten wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Arrows do not make it flee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">slingstones are like chaff to it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A club seems to it but a piece of straw;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Its undersides are jagged potsherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It leaves a glistening wake behind it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">one would think the deep had white hair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Nothing on earth is its equal&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">a creature without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">It looks down on all that are haughty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="content">it is king over all that are proud.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">103</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 103</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my soul;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="content">all my inmost being, praise his holy name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="content">and forget not all his benefits&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">who forgives all your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="content">and heals all your diseases,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who redeems your life from the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="content">and crowns you with love and compassion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who satisfies your desires with good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="content">so that your youth is renewed like the eagle&#8217;s.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> works righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="content">and justice for all the oppressed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He made known his ways to Moses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="content">his deeds to the people of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is compassionate and gracious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="content">slow to anger, abounding in love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will not always accuse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="content">nor will he harbor his anger forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he does not treat us as our sins deserve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="content">or repay us according to our iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as high as the heavens are above the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="content">so great is his love for those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">as far as the east is from the west,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="content">so far has he removed our transgressions from us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a father has compassion on his children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has compassion on those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">for he knows how we are formed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="content">he remembers that we are dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The life of mortals is like grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="content">they flourish like a flower of the field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the wind blows over it and it is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="content">and its place remembers it no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But from everlasting to everlasting</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s love is with those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">and his righteousness with their children&#8217;s children&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">with those who keep his covenant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="content">and remember to obey his precepts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has established his throne in heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="content">and his kingdom rules over all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his angels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">you mighty ones who do his bidding,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">who obey his word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all his heavenly hosts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="content">you his servants who do his will.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all his works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="content">everywhere in his dominion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my soul.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkPRO">
        <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="PRO.10">
            <div class="label">10</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Proverbs of Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The proverbs of Solomon:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.10.1"><span class="content">A wise son brings joy to his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.10.1"><span class="content">but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.10.2"><span class="content">but righteousness delivers from death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not let the righteous go hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.10.3"><span class="content">but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Lazy hands make for poverty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.10.4"><span class="content">but diligent hands bring wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.10.5"><span class="content">but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Blessings crown the head of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.10.6"><span class="content">but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">righteous, / but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The name of the righteous is used in blessings,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">See Gen. 48:20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.10.7"><span class="content">but the name of the wicked will rot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The wise in heart accept commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.10.8"><span class="content">but a chattering fool comes to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.10.9"><span class="content">but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whoever winks maliciously causes grief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.10.10"><span class="content">and a chattering fool comes to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.10.11"><span class="content">but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Hatred stirs up conflict,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.10.12"><span class="content">but love covers over all wrongs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.10.13"><span class="content">but a rod is for the back of one who has no sense.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The wise store up knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.10.14"><span class="content">but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.10.15"><span class="content">but poverty is the ruin of the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The wages of the righteous is life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.10.16"><span class="content">but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.10.17"><span class="content">but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.10.18"><span class="content">and spreads slander is a fool.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Sin is not ended by multiplying words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.10.19"><span class="content">but the prudent hold their tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.10.20"><span class="content">but the heart of the wicked is of little value.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The lips of the righteous nourish many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.10.21"><span class="content">but fools die for lack of sense.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The blessing of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brings wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.10.22"><span class="content">without painful toil for it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.10.23"><span class="content">but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What the wicked dread will overtake them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.10.24"><span class="content">what the righteous desire will be granted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.10.25"><span class="content">but the righteous stand firm forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.10.26"><span class="content">so are sluggards to those who send them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> adds length to life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.10.27"><span class="content">but the years of the wicked are cut short.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.10.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The prospect of the righteous is joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.10.28"><span class="content">but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.10.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a refuge for the blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.10.29"><span class="content">but it is the ruin of those who do evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The righteous will never be uprooted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.10.30"><span class="content">but the wicked will not remain in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.10.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.10.31"><span class="content">but a perverse tongue will be silenced.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The lips of the righteous know what finds favor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.10.32"><span class="content">but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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            <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Last Words</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the last words of David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="content">&#8220;The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="content">the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="content">the man anointed by the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="content">the hero of Israel&#8217;s songs:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke through me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.23.2"><span class="content">his word was on my tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The God of Israel spoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.23.3"><span class="content">the Rock of Israel said to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.23.3"><span class="content">&#8216;When one rules over people in righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.23.3"><span class="content">when he rules in the fear of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he is like the light of morning at sunrise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.23.4"><span class="content">on a cloudless morning,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.23.4"><span class="content">like the brightness after rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.23.4"><span class="content">that brings grass from the earth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my house were not right with God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="content">surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="content">arranged and secured in every part;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="content">surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="content">and grant me my every desire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.23.6"><span class="content">which are not gathered with the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Whoever touches thorns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.23.7"><span class="content">uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.23.7"><span class="content">they are burned up where they lie.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Mighty Warriors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">These are the names of David&#8217;s mighty warriors:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.23.8"><span class="content">Josheb-Basshebeth,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts suggest </span><span class="fqa">Ish-Bosheth, </span><span class="ft">that is, </span><span class="fqa">Esh-Baal </span><span class="ft">(see also 1 Chron. 11:11  </span><span class="fqa">Jashobeam</span><span class="ft">).</span></span></span><span class="content"> a Tahkemonite,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably a variant of </span><span class="fqa">Hakmonite </span><span class="ft">(see 1 Chron. 11:11)</span></span></span><span class="content"> was chief of the Three; he raised his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:8 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:11); Hebrew and other Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Three; it was Adino the Eznite who killed eight hundred men</span></span></span><span class="content"> in one encounter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Next to him was Eleazar son of Dodai the Ahohite. As one of the three mighty warriors, he was with David when they taunted the Philistines gathered at Pas Dammim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:9 </span><span class="ft">See 1 Chron. 11:13; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">gathered there.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for battle. Then the Israelites retreated, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but Eleazar stood his ground and struck down the Philistines till his hand grew tired and froze to the sword. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought about a great victory that day. The troops returned to Eleazar, but only to strip the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Next to him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines banded together at a place where there was a field full of lentils, Israel&#8217;s troops fled from them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought about a great victory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">During harvest time, three of the thirty chief warriors came down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">David longed for water and said, &#8220;Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Far be it from me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, to do this!&#8221; he said. &#8220;Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?&#8221; And David would not drink it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.23.17"><span class="content">Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abishai the brother of Joab son of Zeruiah was chief of the Three.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:18 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:20); two Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">Thirty</span></span></span><span class="content"> He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Was he not held in greater honor than the Three? He became their commander, even though he was not included among them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2SA.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab&#8217;s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian&#8217;s hand and killed him with his own spear. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2SA.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he too was as famous as the three mighty warriors. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Among the Thirty were:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.23.24"><span class="content">Asahel the brother of Joab,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.23.24"><span class="content">Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Shammah the Harodite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.23.25"><span class="content">Elika the Harodite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Helez the Paltite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.23.26"><span class="content">Ira son of Ikkesh from Tekoa,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Abiezer from Anathoth,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.23.27"><span class="content">Sibbekai</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:27 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 21:18; 1 Chron. 11:29); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Mebunnai</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Hushathite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.23.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Zalmon the Ahohite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.23.28"><span class="content">Maharai the Netophathite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Heled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:29 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate (see also 1 Chron. 11:30); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Heleb</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Baanah the Netophathite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.23.29"><span class="content">Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.23.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Benaiah the Pirathonite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.23.30"><span class="content">Hiddai</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:30 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:32) </span><span class="fqa">Hurai</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the ravines of Gaash,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2SA.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Abi-Albon the Arbathite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2SA.23.31"><span class="content">Azmaveth the Barhumite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2SA.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2SA.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Eliahba the Shaalbonite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2SA.23.32"><span class="content">the sons of Jashen,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2SA.23.32"><span class="content">Jonathan </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2SA.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">son of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:34); Hebrew does not have </span><span class="fq">son of</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Shammah the Hararite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2SA.23.33"><span class="content">Ahiam son of Sharar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:35) </span><span class="fqa">Sakar</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Hararite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2SA.23.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2SA.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maakathite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2SA.23.34"><span class="content">Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2SA.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2SA.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Hezro the Carmelite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2SA.23.35"><span class="content">Paarai the Arbite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2SA.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2SA.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Igal son of Nathan from Zobah,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2SA.23.36"><span class="content">the son of Hagri,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:36 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 11:38); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Haggadi</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2SA.23.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2SA.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Zelek the Ammonite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2SA.23.37"><span class="content">Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2SA.23.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2SA.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Ira the Ithrite,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2SA.23.38"><span class="content">Gareb the Ithrite</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2SA.23.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="2SA.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">and Uriah the Hittite.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="2SA.23.39"><span class="content">There were thirty-seven in all.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="JER.37">
            <div class="label">37</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah in Prison</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Koniah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoiakim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">King Zedekiah, however, sent Jehukal son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: &#8220;Please pray to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God for us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.37.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Pharaoh&#8217;s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8, 9, 13 and 14</span></span></span><span class="content"> who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.37.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Jeremiah the prophet: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217;s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, &#8216;The Babylonians will surely leave us.&#8217; They will not! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldean</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span><span class="content"> army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.37.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After the Babylonian army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh&#8217;s army, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, &#8220;You are deserting to the Babylonians!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.37.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;That&#8217;s not true!&#8221; Jeremiah said. &#8220;I am not deserting to the Babylonians.&#8221; But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, &#8220;Is there any word from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.37.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Jeremiah replied, &#8220;you will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.37.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, &#8220;What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, &#8216;The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or I will die there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="ACT.19">
            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul in Ephesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and asked them, &#8220;Did you receive the Holy Spirit when</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">after</span></span></span><span class="content"> you believed?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.19.2"><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Paul asked, &#8220;Then what baptism did you receive?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.19.3"><span class="content">&#8220;John&#8217;s baptism,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Paul said, &#8220;John&#8217;s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">other languages</span></span></span><span class="content"> and prophesied. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There were about twelve men in all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, &#8220;In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One day the evil spirit answered them, &#8220;Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">A drachma was a silver coin worth about a day&#8217;s wages.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After all this had happened, Paul decided</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">decided in the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. &#8220;After I have been there,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I must visit Rome also.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia a little longer.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Riot in Ephesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: &#8220;You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited; and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting: &#8220;Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul&#8217;s traveling companions from Macedonia, and all of them rushed into the theater together. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Paul wanted to appear before the crowd, but the disciples would not let him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The Jews in the crowd pushed Alexander to the front, and they shouted instructions to him. He motioned for silence in order to make a defense before the people. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: &#8220;Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: &#8220;Fellow Ephesians, doesn&#8217;t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven? </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Therefore, since these facts are undeniable, you ought to calm down and not do anything rash. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">You have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They can press charges. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">If there is anything further you want to bring up, it must be settled in a legal assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">As it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of what happened today. In that case we would not be able to account for this commotion, since there is no reason for it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.</span></span></div>
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