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         <div class="label">136</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 136</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.136.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Give thanks to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for he is good.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.136.1"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.136.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.136.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Give thanks to the God of gods.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.136.2"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.136.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.136.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give thanks to the Lord of lords:</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.136.3"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.136.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.136.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">to him who alone does great wonders,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.136.4"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.136.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.136.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who by his understanding made the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.136.5"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.136.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.136.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">who spread out the earth upon the waters,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.136.6"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.136.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.136.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">who made the great lights&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.136.7"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.136.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.136.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the sun to govern the day,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.136.8"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.136.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.136.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the moon and stars to govern the night;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.136.9"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.136.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.136.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.136.10"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.136.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.136.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and brought Israel out from among them</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.136.11"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.136.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.136.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.136.12"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.136.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.136.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">to him who divided the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">136:13 </span><span class="ft">Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verse 15</span></span></span><span class="content"> asunder</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.136.13"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.136.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.136.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and brought Israel through the midst of it,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.136.14"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.136.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.136.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.136.15"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.136.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.136.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">to him who led his people through the wilderness;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.136.16"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.136.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.136.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">to him who struck down great kings,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.136.17"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.136.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.136.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and killed mighty kings&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.136.18"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.136.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.136.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Sihon king of the Amorites</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.136.19"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.136.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.136.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and Og king of Bashan&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.136.20"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.136.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.136.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and gave their land as an inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.136.21"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.136.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.136.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">an inheritance to his servant Israel.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.136.22"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.136.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.136.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He remembered us in our low estate</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.136.23"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.136.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.136.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and freed us from our enemies.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.136.24"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.136.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.136.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He gives food to every creature.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.136.25"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.136.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.136.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give thanks to the God of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.136.26"><span class="content">His love endures forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">137</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 137</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">when we remembered Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There on the poplars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">we hung our harps,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">for there our captors asked us for songs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">our tormentors demanded songs of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">they said, &#8220;Sing us one of the songs of Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How can we sing the songs of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">while in a foreign land?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If I forget you, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">may my right hand forget its skill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not remember you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not consider Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">my highest joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what the Edomites did</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">on the day Jerusalem fell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Tear it down,&#8221; they cried,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;tear it down to its foundations!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">happy is the one who repays you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">according to what you have done to us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Happy is the one who seizes your infants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="content">and dashes them against the rocks.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EPH.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EPH.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EPH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EPH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EPH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">one Lord, one faith, one baptism; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EPH.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is why it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God</span></span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">&#8220;When he ascended on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">he took many captives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">and gave gifts to his people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 68:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EPH.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">(What does &#8220;he ascended&#8221; mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the depths of the earth</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EPH.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EPH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EPH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EPH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EPH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EPH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Instructions for Christian Living</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EPH.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EPH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EPH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EPH.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">That, however, is not the way of life you learned </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EPH.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EPH.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">to be made new in the attitude of your minds; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EPH.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EPH.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;In your anger do not sin&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 4:4 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content">: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EPH.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and do not give the devil a foothold. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EPH.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EPH.4.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EPH.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EPH.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EPH.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EPH.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.</span></span></div>
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