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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.35.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.35.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, dwell among the Israelites.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Inheritance of Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: &#8220;What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commands for Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father&#8217;s tribal clan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father&#8217;s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters&#8212;Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah&#8212;married their cousins on their father&#8217;s side. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father&#8217;s tribe and clan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These are the commands and regulations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Restoration of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.30.2"><span class="label">2</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: &#8216;Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The days are coming,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,&#8217; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These are the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke concerning Israel and Judah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.30.5"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Cries of fear are heard&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.30.5"><span class="content">terror, not peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Ask and see:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="content">Can a man bear children?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="content">Then why do I see every strong man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="content">with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="content">every face turned deathly pale?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How awful that day will be!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.30.7"><span class="content">No other will be like it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.30.7"><span class="content">It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.30.7"><span class="content">but he will be saved out of it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;In that day,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.30.8"><span class="content">&#8216;I will break the yoke off their necks</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.30.8"><span class="content">and will tear off their bonds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.30.8"><span class="content">no longer will foreigners enslave them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Instead, they will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.30.9"><span class="content">and David their king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.30.9"><span class="content">whom I will raise up for them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;So do not be afraid, Jacob my servant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">do not be dismayed, Israel,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">&#8216;I will surely save you out of a distant place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">your descendants from the land of their exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">Jacob will again have peace and security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">and no one will make him afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I am with you and will save you,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">&#8216;Though I completely destroy all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">among which I scatter you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">I will not completely destroy you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">I will discipline you but only in due measure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">I will not let you go entirely unpunished.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.30.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wound is incurable,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.30.12"><span class="content">your injury beyond healing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">There is no one to plead your cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.30.13"><span class="content">no remedy for your sore,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.30.13"><span class="content">no healing for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">All your allies have forgotten you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">they care nothing for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">I have struck you as an enemy would</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">and punished you as would the cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">because your guilt is so great</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">and your sins so many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Why do you cry out over your wound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.30.15"><span class="content">your pain that has no cure?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.30.15"><span class="content">Because of your great guilt and many sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.30.15"><span class="content">I have done these things to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But all who devour you will be devoured;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.30.16"><span class="content">all your enemies will go into exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.30.16"><span class="content">Those who plunder you will be plundered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.30.16"><span class="content">all who make spoil of you I will despoil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But I will restore you to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="content">and heal your wounds,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="content">&#8216;because you are called an outcast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="content">Zion for whom no one cares.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will restore the fortunes of Jacob&#8217;s tents</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="content">and have compassion on his dwellings;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="content">the city will be rebuilt on her ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="content">and the palace will stand in its proper place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From them will come songs of thanksgiving</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">and the sound of rejoicing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">I will add to their numbers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">and they will not be decreased;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">I will bring them honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">and they will not be disdained.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Their children will be as in days of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.30.20"><span class="content">and their community will be established before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.30.20"><span class="content">I will punish all who oppress them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Their leader will be one of their own;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">their ruler will arise from among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">I will bring him near and he will come close to me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">for who is he who will devote himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">to be close to me?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;So you will be my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.30.22"><span class="content">and I will be your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">See, the storm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.30.23"><span class="content">will burst out in wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.30.23"><span class="content">a driving wind swirling down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.30.23"><span class="content">on the heads of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The fierce anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will not turn back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.30.24"><span class="content">until he fully accomplishes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.30.24"><span class="content">the purposes of his heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.30.24"><span class="content">In days to come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.30.24"><span class="content">you will understand this.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="LUK.12.35+LUK.12.36+LUK.12.37+LUK.12.38+LUK.12.39+LUK.12.40+LUK.12.41+LUK.12.42+LUK.12.43+LUK.12.44+LUK.12.45+LUK.12.46+LUK.12.47+LUK.12.48+LUK.12.49+LUK.12.50+LUK.12.51+LUK.12.52+LUK.12.53+LUK.12.54+LUK.12.55+LUK.12.56+LUK.12.57+LUK.12.58+LUK.12.59">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.12.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Peter asked, &#8220;Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.12.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The Lord answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.12.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But suppose the servant says to himself, &#8216;My master is taking a long time in coming,&#8217; and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.12.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.12.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.12.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The servant who knows the master&#8217;s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.12.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Not Peace but Division</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.12.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.12.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.12.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.12.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.12.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.12.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Interpreting the Times</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.12.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.12.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">He said to the crowd: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, &#8216;It&#8217;s going to rain,&#8217; and it does.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.12.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And when the south wind blows, you say, &#8216;It&#8217;s going to be hot,&#8217; and it is.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.12.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don&#8217;t know how to interpret this present time?</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.12.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LUK.12.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you judge for yourselves what is right?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LUK.12.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LUK.12.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them&#8212;do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he told this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, &#8216;For three years now I&#8217;ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven&#8217;t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the man replied, &#8216;leave it alone for one more year, and I&#8217;ll dig around it and fertilize it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, &#8220;There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Lord answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You hypocrites! Doesn&#8217;t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Again he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:21 </span><span class="ft">Or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of flour until it worked all through the dough.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saved in Order to Do Good</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="TIT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="TIT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="TIT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="TIT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="TIT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="TIT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="TIT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="TIT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="TIT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Remarks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="TIT.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="TIT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="TIT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="TIT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="TIT.3.15"><span class="content">Grace be with you all.</span></span></div>
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