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            <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Joy Over the Church&#8217;s Repentance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn&#8212;conflicts on the outside, fears within. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it&#8212;I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By all this we are encouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="content">In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I am glad I can have complete confidence in you.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Collection for the Lord&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But since you excel in everything&#8212;in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and in your love for us</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;see that you also excel in this grace of giving.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">as it is written: &#8220;The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 16:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Titus Sent to Receive the Collection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker among you; as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do the nations conspire</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">rage</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and against his anointed, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us break their chains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="content">and throw off their shackles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The One enthroned in heaven laughs;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="content">the Lord scoffs at them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He rebukes them in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="content">and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have installed my king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="content">on Zion, my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will proclaim the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s decree:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;You are my son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">today I have become your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">and I will make the nations your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">the ends of the earth your possession.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You will break them with a rod of iron</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will rule them with an iron scepter </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint and Syriac)</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="content">you will dash them to pieces like pottery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, you kings, be wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="content">be warned, you rulers of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="content">and celebrate his rule with trembling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Kiss his son, or he will be angry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">and your way will lead to your destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">for his wrath can flare up in a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">Blessed are all who take refuge in him.</span></span></div>
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