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         <div class="label">72</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 72</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of Solomon.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Endow the king with your justice, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">the royal son with your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May he judge your people in righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">your afflicted ones with justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the mountains bring prosperity to the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">the hills the fruit of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he defend the afflicted among the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">and save the children of the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">may he crush the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May he endure</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:5 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">You will be feared</span></span></span><span class="content"> as long as the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">as long as the moon, through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May he be like rain falling on a mown field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">like showers watering the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In his days may the righteous flourish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May he rule from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">and from the River</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May the desert tribes bow before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">and his enemies lick the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">bring tribute to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">May the kings of Sheba and Seba</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">present him gifts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May all kings bow down to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">and all nations serve him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For he will deliver the needy who cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">the afflicted who have no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will take pity on the weak and the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">and save the needy from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will rescue them from oppression and violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">for precious is their blood in his sight.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Long may he live!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May gold from Sheba be given him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May people ever pray for him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">and bless him all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May grain abound throughout the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">on the tops of the hills may it sway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">May the crops flourish like Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">and thrive</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:16 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Lebanon, / from the city</span></span></span><span class="content"> like the grass of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May his name endure forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">may it continue as long as the sun.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">Then all nations will be blessed through him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use his name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">and they will call him blessed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">who alone does marvelous deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Praise be to his glorious name forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">may the whole earth be filled with his glory.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.72.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch119" data-usfm="PSA.119.73+PSA.119.74+PSA.119.75+PSA.119.76+PSA.119.77+PSA.119.78+PSA.119.79+PSA.119.80+PSA.119.81+PSA.119.82+PSA.119.83+PSA.119.84+PSA.119.85+PSA.119.86+PSA.119.87+PSA.119.88+PSA.119.89+PSA.119.90+PSA.119.91+PSA.119.92+PSA.119.93+PSA.119.94+PSA.119.95+PSA.119.96">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">Your hands made me and formed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="content">give me understanding to learn your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="label">74</span><span class="content">May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="content">for I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="label">75</span><span class="content">I know, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that your laws are righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="content">and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="label">76</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love be my comfort,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="content">according to your promise to your servant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="label">77</span><span class="content">Let your compassion come to me that I may live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="content">for your law is my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"><span class="label">78</span><span class="content">May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"><span class="content">but I will meditate on your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v78" data-usfm="PSA.119.78"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"><span class="label">79</span><span class="content">May those who fear you turn to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"><span class="content">those who understand your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v79" data-usfm="PSA.119.79"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"><span class="label">80</span><span class="content">May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"><span class="content">that I may not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1499; Kaph</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v80" data-usfm="PSA.119.80"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"><span class="label">81</span><span class="content">My soul faints with longing for your salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"><span class="content">but I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v81" data-usfm="PSA.119.81"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"><span class="label">82</span><span class="content">My eyes fail, looking for your promise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"><span class="content">I say, &#8220;When will you comfort me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v82" data-usfm="PSA.119.82"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"><span class="label">83</span><span class="content">Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"><span class="content">I do not forget your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v83" data-usfm="PSA.119.83"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"><span class="label">84</span><span class="content">How long must your servant wait?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"><span class="content">When will you punish my persecutors?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v84" data-usfm="PSA.119.84"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"><span class="label">85</span><span class="content">The arrogant dig pits to trap me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"><span class="content">contrary to your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v85" data-usfm="PSA.119.85"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"><span class="label">86</span><span class="content">All your commands are trustworthy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"><span class="content">help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v86" data-usfm="PSA.119.86"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"><span class="label">87</span><span class="content">They almost wiped me from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"><span class="content">but I have not forsaken your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v87" data-usfm="PSA.119.87"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"><span class="label">88</span><span class="content">In your unfailing love preserve my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"><span class="content">that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1500; Lamedh</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v88" data-usfm="PSA.119.88"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="label">89</span><span class="content">Your word, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is eternal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="content">it stands firm in the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="label">90</span><span class="content">Your faithfulness continues through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="content">you established the earth, and it endures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="label">91</span><span class="content">Your laws endure to this day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="content">for all things serve you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="label">92</span><span class="content">If your law had not been my delight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="content">I would have perished in my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="label">93</span><span class="content">I will never forget your precepts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="content">for by them you have preserved my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="label">94</span><span class="content">Save me, for I am yours;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="content">I have sought out your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="label">95</span><span class="content">The wicked are waiting to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="content">but I will ponder your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="label">96</span><span class="content">To all perfection I see a limit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="content">but your commands are boundless.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.42.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On the third day, Joseph said to them, &#8220;Do this and you will live, for I fear God: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.42.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.42.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.&#8221; This they proceeded to do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.42.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.42.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They said to one another, &#8220;Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that&#8217;s why this distress has come on us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.42.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.42.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Reuben replied, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn&#8217;t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.42.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.42.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.42.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.42.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.42.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man&#8217;s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.42.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.42.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.42.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;My silver has been returned,&#8221; he said to his brothers. &#8220;Here it is in my sack.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"><span class="content">Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, &#8220;What is this that God has done to us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.42.28"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 8:11, 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">God will judge those outside. &#8220;Expel the wicked person from among you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:13 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="1CO.6.1+1CO.6.2+1CO.6.3+1CO.6.4+1CO.6.5+1CO.6.6+1CO.6.7+1CO.6.8+1CO.6.9+1CO.6.10+1CO.6.11">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord&#8217;s people? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that the Lord&#8217;s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But instead, one brother takes another to court&#8212;and this in front of unbelievers!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9 </span><span class="ft">The words </span><span class="fq">men who have sex with men </span><span class="ft">translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water&#8217;s edge. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 6:9,10  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The farmer sows the word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop&#8212;some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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