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 \v 21 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and fought against them, and they killed 22,000 soldiers from Israel on that day.
 
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-\v 22 But the soldiers of Israel strengthened themselves. They  formed the battle line in the same place where they had taken positions on the first day. 
-\v 23 And the people of Israel went up and they cried out to Yahweh for help, and they prayed until evening. And they sought counsel and advice from Yahweh about what they should do: "Should we draw near again to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" And Yahweh said, "Attack them!"
+\v 22 But the soldiers of Israel encouraged themselves. Then they got ready to fight the next day in the same battle lines as on the first day. 
+\v 23 Then they came together and begged Yahweh for help; they prayed until evening. They asked advice from Yahweh about what they should do: "Should we go again to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" Yahweh answered, "Attack them!"
 
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 \v 24 The next day they again stood in their positions for fighting, just as they had done on the previous day.

09-1SA/07.usfm

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-\v 10 While Samuel was burning the offering, the Philistine army came near to attack the Israelites. But Yahweh caused it to thunder very loudly. The men of the Philistine army became very frightened, and then they became confused. So the Israelites were able to defeat them.
-\v 11 The Israelite men ran out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistine soldiers almost to the town of Bethcar, and killed many Philistine soldiers while they were trying to run away.
+\v 10 While Samuel was burning the offering, the Philistine army came near to attack the Israelites. But Yahweh caused it to thunder very loudly. The men of the Philistine army became very frightened, and then they panicked. So the Israelites were able to drive them back completely.
+\v 11 The Israelite men ran out of Mizpah and chased the Philistine soldiers almost to the town of Bethcar. They killed many Philistine soldiers who were trying to run away.
 
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09-1SA/14.usfm

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-\v 36 Then Saul said to the Israelite soldiers, "Let us pursue the Philistine soldiers tonight. We can attack them all night. We will not allow any of them to escape alive."
+\v 36 Then Saul said to the Israelite soldiers, "Let us chase the Philistine soldiers tonight. We can attack them all night. We will not allow any of them to escape alive."
 \p The Israelite soldiers answered, "We will do whatever you think is the best thing for us to do."
 \p But the priest said, "We should ask Yahweh what he thinks we should do."
-\v 37 So Saul asked God, "Should we pursue the Philistine soldiers? Will you enable us to defeat them?" But God did not answer Saul that day.
+\v 37 So Saul asked God, "Should we chase the Philistine soldiers? Will you enable us to defeat them?" But God did not answer Saul that day.
 
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23-ISA/55.usfm

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 \q2 you can come and buy wine and milk from me, the finest wine and the best milk!
 \q1 You can get what you need from me,
 \q2 and you can buy it now! 
-\q1 You can buy it even though you don't have any money, 
+\q1 You can buy it even though you do not have any money, 
 \q2 and even though you could never afford it!
 
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23-ISA/58.usfm

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 \q1 They act as though they were a nation that does things that are righteous,
 \q2 that would never abandon the commands of me, their God.
 \q1 They request me to decide matters justly,
-\q2 and they delight in coming to worship me.
+\q2 and they are eager that I should come to them.
 
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41-MAT/04.usfm

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 \v 1 Then God's Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness for the devil to tempt him. 
 \v 2 After he had not eaten food day and night for forty days, he was hungry.
 \v 3 Satan, the tempter, came to him and said, "If you are really the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread for yourself!"
-\v 4 But Jesus said to him, "No! I will not do this, because God has said in the Scriptures, 'For people to truly live, they must have more than food; they must listen to every word that God has spoken.'"
+\v 4 But Jesus said to him, "No! I will not do this, because God has said in the scriptures, 'For people to truly live, they must have more than food; they must listen to every word that God has spoken.'"
 
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 \v 5 Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the city that was especially for God. He set him on the highest part of the temple
-\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt, because God has said in the Scriptures, 
+\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt, because God has said in the scriptures, 
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 \q They will lift you up in their hands when you are falling, \q and they will keep you from even hitting your foot on a stone.'"
 
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-\v 7 But Jesus said, "No! I will not jump down, because God has also said in the Scriptures, 'Do not try to make your God prove who he is.'"
+\v 7 But Jesus said, "No! I will not jump down, because God has also said in the scriptures, 'Do not try to make your God prove who he is.'"
 \v 8 Then the devil took him on top of a very high mountain. There he showed him all the nations in the world and the magnificent things in those nations.
 \v 9 Then he said to him, "I will let you rule all these nations and give you the magnificent things in them if you bow down and worship me."
 
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-\v 10 But Jesus said to him, "No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! God has said in the Scriptures, 'It is to the Lord your God whom you must bow down, and you must worship only him!'"
+\v 10 But Jesus said to him, "No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! God has said in the scriptures, 'It is to the Lord your God whom you must bow down, and you must worship only him!'"
 \v 11 Then the devil went away, and at that moment, angels came to Jesus and took care of him.
 
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41-MAT/05.usfm

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-\v 31 "God has said in the Scriptures, 'If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.'
+\v 31 "God has said in the scriptures, 'If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.'
 \v 32 But now listen to what I say to you: a man may divorce his wife only if she has committed adultery. If a man divorces his wife for any other reason, she commits adultery if she marries someone else. And the man who marries her also commits adultery."
 
 

41-MAT/06.usfm

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-\v 1 "When you do good deeds, make certain that you do not do them when other people are watching. Do not let them see you and think highly of you. If you do good deeds merely in order that other people may think highly of you, God, your Father who is in heaven, will not give you any reward.
-\v 2 So whenever you give something to the poor, do not make other people notice it, as they would notice someone playing a trumpet. That is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the main roads in order that people might praise them. Keep in mind that people praise those hypocrites, but that is the only reward the hypocrites will receive!
+\v 1 "Make certain when you do good deeds do not do them to let other people watch so they will think highly of you. God, your Father who is in heaven, will not give you any reward.
+\v 2 So whenever you give something to the poor, do not make other people notice it as if playing a trumpet. That is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the main roads in order that people might praise them. That is the only reward the hypocrites will receive!
 
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 \v 3 Instead of doing as they do, when you give something to the poor, do not let other people know what you are doing.
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-\v 5 "Also when you pray, do not do what the hypocrites do. They like to stand in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets to pray, in order that other people will see them and think highly of them. Keep in mind that people praise them, but that is the only reward they will get.
-\v 6 But as for you, when you pray, go into your private room and close the door in order to pray to God, your Father, whom no one can see. He observes you where no one else observes you, and he will reward you.
+\v 5 "Also when you pray, do not do what the hypocrites do. They like to stand in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets to pray, in order that other people will see them and think highly of them. That is the only reward they will get.
+\v 6 But as for you, when you pray, go into your private room and close the door in order to pray to God, your Father, whom no one can see. He observes you and will reward you.
 \v 7 When you pray, do not repeat words many times as the people who do not know God do when they pray. They think that if they use many words, their gods will listen to them and give them what they ask for.
 
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-\v 16 When you keep from eating food in order to please God, do not look sad as the hypocrites look. They make their faces appear sad in order that people will see that they are not eating food and will think highly of them. Keep in mind that others will think highly of those people for that, but that is the only reward those people will get!
+\v 16 When you keep from eating food in order to please God, do not look sad as the hypocrites look. They make their faces appear sad in order that people will see that they are not eating food. Keep in mind that is the only reward those people will get!
 \v 17 Instead, each of you, when you keep from eating food, should comb your hair and wash your face as usual,
 \v 18 in order that other people will not notice that you are fasting. But God, your Father, whom no one can see, will observe that you are not eating food. He sees you even though no one else sees you, and he will reward you.
 
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-\v 19 Do not selfishly accumulate large quantities of money and material goods for yourselves on this earth, because the earth is where everything perishes. For example, where moths ruin clothing, rust destroys metals, and thieves steal what belongs to other people.
-\v 20 Instead, do deeds that will please God. If you do good deeds, it will be like storing treasures in heaven. Nothing perishes in heaven. In heaven no moths can ruin clothing, there is no rust, and there are no thieves who could steal. 
+\v 19 Do not selfishly accumulate large quantities of money and material goods for yourselves on this earth, because the earth is where everything perishes where moths ruin clothing, rust destroys metals, and thieves steal what belongs to other people.
+\v 20 Instead, do deeds that will please God so that you store up treasures in heaven. Nothing perishes in heaven. In heaven no moths can ruin clothing, there is no rust, and there are no thieves who could steal. 
 \v 21 Remember that whatever is most important to you, that is what you will be thinking about.
 
 
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 \v 25 That is why I tell you that you should not worry about things that you need in order to live. Do not worry about whether you will have enough food to eat and things to drink, or enough clothes to wear. The way you conduct your lives is much more important than those things.
-\v 26 Think about the birds. They do not plant seeds, and they do not harvest crops or gather produce into barns. They always have food to eat because God, your Father who is in heaven, provides food for them. And you are certainly worth a lot more than birds! So you can be assured that God will supply what you need!
+\v 26 Think about the birds. They do not plant seeds, and they do not harvest crops or gather produce into barns. They always have food to eat because God, your Father who is in heaven, provides food for them.
 
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 \v 27 None of you can, just by worrying, add years to your life. You cannot add even one minute to your life! So you should not worry about things you need.
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 \v 29 But I tell you that even though King Solomon, who lived long ago, wore very beautiful clothes, his clothes were not as beautiful as one of those flowers.
 
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-\v 30 God makes the wild plants very beautiful, but they grow in the field for only a short time. One day they grow, and the next day people will throw them into an oven to bake bread. But you are more important to God than wild plants are, and you live much longer. So trust in God, you who have so little faith!
+\v 30 God makes the wild plants very beautiful, but they grow in the field for only a short time. One day they grow, and the next day people will throw them into an oven to burn them. But you are more important to God than wild plants are, and you live much longer. So trust in God, you who have so little faith!
 \v 31 So do not worry and say, 'Will we have anything to eat?' or 'Will we have anything to drink?' or 'Will we have clothes to wear?' 
 
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-\v 32 Those who do not know God are always worrying about things like that. But God, your Father who is in heaven, knows that you need all those things, so you should not worry about them.
+\v 32 Those who do not know God are always worrying about things like that. But God, your Father who is in heaven, knows that you need all those things.
 \v 33 Instead, make it the most important thing in your life to accept God when he rules over you, and to try to live righteously. If you do that, he will give you all the things that you need.
 \v 34 So do not be worried about what will happen to you the next day, because when that day comes, you will have enough to be concerned about. So do not worry ahead of time."
 

41-MAT/07.usfm

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 \v 2 If you condemn other people, God will condemn you. To the same extent that you condemn others, you will be condemned.
 
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-\v 3 None of you should be concerned about someone else's small faults! That would be like noticing a speck of straw in that person's eye. But you should be concerned about your own big faults. That is like noticing a speck of straw in that person's eye while not noticing a huge wooden plank in your own eye.
-\v 4 You should not say to other people about their minor faults, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye!' You should not say that if a wooden pland is still in your own eye.
-\v 5 If you do that, you are a hypocrite! You should first remove the plank out of your own eye before trying to get the speck out of someone else's eye. When you have stopped sinning, then you will have the spiritual insight to help others get rid of their sins."
+\v 3 None of you should be concerned about someone else's small faults! That would be like noticing a speck of straw in that person's eye. But you should be concerned about your own big faults because you do not notice a huge wooden plank in your own eye.
+\v 4 You should not say to other people about their minor faults, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye!' while you still have a wooden plank in your own eye.
+\v 5 If you do that, you are a hypocrite! You should first remove the plank out of your own eye before trying to get the speck out of someone else's eye."
 
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-\v 15 Watch out for people who come to you and say falsely that they are telling you what God has said. They seem to be harmless, but that is not true. They are like wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins. They want people to believe that they are harmless sheep, but they will actually attack you like wolves. 
-\v 16 So how will you know that they are false? Well, by seeing the fruit that plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. For example, thornbushes cannot
-produce grapes, so no one even thinks of picking grapes from thornbushes. And thistles cannot produce figs, so no one thinks of picking figs from thistles.
+\v 15 Watch out for people who come to you and say falsely that they are telling you what God has said. They are like wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins to appear harmless but will attack you. 
+\v 16 By seeing the fruit that plants produce you know what kind of plants they are. Thornbushes cannot
+produce grapes and thistles cannot produce figs, so no one thinks of picking grapes from thorns or figs from thistles.
 \v 17 Here is another example: all good fruit trees produce good fruit, but all rotten trees produce worthless fruit.
 
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 \v 18 No good fruit tree produces worthless fruit, and no rotten tree produces good fruit.
 \v 19 Workers chop down and burn up all the trees that do not produce good fruit.
-\v 20 By seeing what plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do, you will know if they truly speak for God or not.
+\v 20 By seeing what plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do, you will know if they truly produce good or not.
 
 
 

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 \v 3 Then Jesus stretched out his hand and touched the man. He said to him, "I am willing to heal you, and I heal you now!" Immediately the man was healed from his sickness.
 
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-\v 4 Then Jesus said to him, "Go and show yourself to a nearby priest so that he can examine you and verify that you are no longer sick. Then, after he tells the local people, they will know that you no longer have leprosy, and you will be able to associate with them again. Make sure that now you do not report about my healing you to anyone other than the priest. Then go to the temple in Jerusalem and give the priest the offering that Moses commanded that people who have been healed from this sickness should offer as a sacrifice to God."
+\v 4 Then Jesus said to him, "Make sure that now you do not report about my healing you to anyone other than the priest. Then go to the temple in Jerusalem and give the offering that Moses commanded so people will know about it."
 
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 \v 7 Jesus said to him, "I will go to your house and heal him."
 
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-\v 8 But the officer said to him, "Lord, do not bother to go. I am not worthy for you to come into my house and associate with me. Instead, just say that my servant is healed, and he will be healed.
-\v 9 It is the same way with me. I am a soldier; I have to obey my commanders, and I also have soldiers that I command. When I say to one of them 'Go!' he goes. When I say to another 'Come!' he comes. When I say to my slave, 'Do this!' he does it. You also speak with a similar kind of authority."
-\v 10 When Jesus heard this, he marveled. He said to the crowd that was walking with him, "Listen to this: I have never before found anyone who trusts in me as much this non-Jewish man. Not even in Israel, where I would expect people to believe in me, have I found anyone who trusts as much in me!
+\v 8 But the officer said to him, "I am not worthy for you to come into my house. Instead, just say that my servant is healed, and he will be healed.
+\v 9 It is the same way with me. I am a soldier; I have to obey my commanders, and I also have soldiers that I command. When I say to one of them 'Go!' he goes. When I say to another 'Come!' he comes. When I say to my slave, 'Do this!' he does it."
+\v 10 When Jesus heard this, he marveled. He said to the crowd that was walking with him, "Listen to this: I have never before found anyone who trusts in me as much this non-Jewish man. Not even in Israel, where I would expect people to believe in me, have I found anyone who trusts so much in me!
 
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 \v 11 I tell you truly that many other non-Jewish people will believe in me also, and they will come from distant countries, including those far to the east and far to the west, and they will sit down to eat with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when God will rule over everything completely.
 \v 12 But the Jews who should have allowed God to rule over them--God will throw them into hell, where there is total darkness. There they will weep because of their suffering, and they will grind their teeth because they will have severe pain."
-\v 13 Then Jesus said to the officer, "Go home. What you believed would happen, that I would heal your servant from a distance, will happen." Then the officer went home and found out that his servant had become well at the exact time that Jesus told him that he would heal him.
+\v 13 Then Jesus said to the officer, "Go home. What you believed will happen." Then the officer went home and found out that his servant had become well at the exact time that Jesus told him that he would heal him.
 
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-\v 18 Jesus saw the crowd around him, but he needed to rest. So he told his disciples to take him by boat to the other side of the lake.
+\v 18 Jesus saw the crowd around him he told his disciples to take him by boat to the other side of the lake.
 \v 19 As they were walking toward the boat, a man who taught the Jewish laws came to him and said, "Teacher, I will go with you wherever you go."
 \v 20 Jesus answered him, "Foxes have holes in the ground in which to live, and birds have nests, but even though I am the Son of Man, I do not have a home where I can sleep."
 
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-\v 23 Then Jesus and his disciples got into the boat, and they started sailing around the Sea of Galilee.
+\v 23 Then Jesus got into the boat and his disciples followed him.
 \v 24 Suddenly strong winds blew on the water, and very high waves were splashing into the boat and filling it. But Jesus was sleeping.
 \v 25 They went and woke him up, and said to him, "Lord, rescue us! We are about to drown!"
 

41-MAT/09.usfm

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 \v 3 Some of the men who taught the Jewish laws said among themselves, "This man thinks he is God; he cannot forgive sins!"
 \v 4 Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said, "You should not think evil thoughts!
 \v 5 What is easier, to tell him that his sins are forgiven or to tell him to get up and walk? 
-\v 6 So I am going to do something in order that you may know that God has authorized me, the Son of Man, to forgive the sins of people while I am on the earth." Then he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your sleeping pad, and go home!"
+\v 6 So I am going to do something in order that you may know that God has authorized me, the Son of Man, to forgive sins." Then he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your sleeping pad, and go home!"
 
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 \v 9 As Jesus was going away from there, he saw a man named Matthew. He was sitting at a table where he collected taxes for the Roman government. Jesus said to him, "Come with me and be my disciple!" So Matthew got up and went with him.
 
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-\v 10 Jesus and his disciples sat down in a house for a meal. While they were eating, many tax collectors and other persons who did not care about the law of Moses came and ate with them.
+\v 10 Jesus and his disciples sat down in a house for a meal. While they were eating, many tax collectors and other persons came and ate with them.
 \v 11 When the Pharisees saw that, they went up to the disciples and said, "It is disgusting that your teacher eats and associates with tax collectors and other people like them."
 
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 \v 19 So Jesus got up, and he and the disciples went with the man.
 
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-\v 20-21 Then a woman who had been suffering constant bleeding for twelve years came near Jesus. She was saying to herself, "I want Jesus to heal me without anyone finding out that I have this problem of bleeding. So if I touch him or even if I just touch his garment, I will be healed without anyone finding out about it." So she came behind him and touched the edge of his garment.
+\v 20 Then a woman who had been suffering constant bleeding for twelve years came near Jesus. She came behind him and touched the edge of his garment.
+\v 21 She was saying to herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be healed."
 \v 22 Then Jesus turned around to see who had touched him. And when he saw the woman, he said to her, "Be encouraged, dear woman. Because you believed that I could heal you, I have healed you." The woman was healed at that very moment.
 
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 \v 27 As Jesus went away from there, two blind men followed him and shouted, "Have mercy on us and heal us, you Descendant of King David!"
-\v 28 Jesus went into his own house, and then the blind men went in, too. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to heal you?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord!"
+\v 28 Jesus went into the house, and then the blind men went in, too. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to heal you?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord!"
 
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 \v 8 Heal sick people, cause dead people to become alive, heal people with leprosy and bring them back into society, and cause demons to leave those whom they control. Do not charge any money for helping people, because God did not charge you anything for helping you.
-\v 9-10 Do not take any money with you, nor a bag for what belongs to you. Do not take an extra tunic, nor sandals in addition to what you are wearing, nor a walking stick. Every worker deserves to get pay from the people for whom he works, so you deserve to receive food and a place to stay from the people to whom you go.
+\v 9 Do not take any money with you, 
+\v 10 nor a bag for what belongs to you. Do not take an extra tunic, nor sandals in addition to what you are wearing, nor a walking stick. Every worker deserves to get pay from the people for whom he works, so you deserve to receive food from the people to whom you go.
 
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-\v 11-12 In any town or village that you enter, find a person who wants you to stay in his home. As you go into that house, call upon God to do good to the people who live there. Stay in that home until you leave that town or village.
+\v 11 In any town or village that you enter, find a person who wants you to stay in his home.
+\v 12 As you go into that house, call upon God to do good to the people who live there. Stay in that home until you leave that town or village.
 \v 13 If the people who live in that house receive you well, God will indeed do good to them. But if they do not receive you well, then your prayer will not help them, and God will not do them good. 
 
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-\v 16 "Take note: When I send you out, you will be as defenseless as sheep, among people who are as dangerous as wolves. And you must no more harm them than doves would. You should be on your guard such people, as snakes are on their guard against people.
-\v 17 Also, be on guard against people, because they will arrest you and take you to the members of the governing councils to put you on trial; they will punish you because you are my disciples. They will whip you in their synagogues.
+\v 16 "Take note: When I send you out, you will be as defenseless as sheep, among people who are as dangerous as wolves. So be careful like snakes are careful and be harmless to them like doves are harmless.
+\v 17 Also, be on guard against people, because they will arrest you and take you to the members of the governing councils to put you on trial. They will whip you in their synagogues.
 \v 18 And because you belong to me, they will take you before governors and kings in order that they may put you on trial and punish you. But you will testify to those rulers and to other non-Jews about me.
 
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-\v 19 When those people arrest you, do not be worried about what you will say to them, because at that very time the Holy Spirit will tell you the words that you should say.
+\v 19 When those people arrest you, do not be worried about what you will say to them, because the words that you should say will come to you.
 \v 20 It is not that you will decide what to say. Instead, you will say what the Spirit of your heavenly Father tells you to say.
 
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 \v 24 A disciple should not expect to be greater than his teacher, and servants are not superior to their master.
-\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me. The most you can expect is that people will treat you like they treat me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?"
+\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?"
 
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-\v 26 "Do not be afraid of those people. Everything that is unknown to people, God wants you now to reveal it. He does not want you to hide what is true about him, neither to keep it secret.
+\v 26 "Do not be afraid of those people. Everything that is unknown to people, God wants you now to reveal it. He does not want you to hide what is true, neither to keep it secret.
 \v 27 So, instead of being afraid, what I say to you secretly as people do at night, tell it publicly as people do during the daytime. What I say to you privately as people do when they whisper to you, proclaim it publicly.
 
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 \v 9 So really, what kind of person did you expect to see? A prophet? Oh, yes! But let me tell you this: John is not just any ordinary prophet.
 \v 10 He is the one to whom God was referring when someone wrote in the scriptures and said,
-\q 'Listen! I am sending my messenger to go ahead of you to prepare the people for your coming.'
+\q 'Notice this! I am sending my messenger to go ahead of you to prepare the people for your coming.'
 
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 \p
 \v 11 Note this: of all the people who have ever lived, God does not consider any of them to be greater than John the Baptizer. At the same time, God considers that all the people over whom he will agree to rule are greater than John, even if they are the least people whom he rules.
-\v 12 From the time that John the Baptizer preached until now, some people have tried to force God to rule as they want him to rule, and they have tried to force him to rule so they can profit from it.
+\v 12 From the time that John the Baptizer preached until now, some people have tried to force God to rule as they want him to rule, and they have tried to force him to rule the way they want.
 
 
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41-MAT/12.usfm

@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@
 \v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our day of rest. The law does not allow that!"
 
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-\v 3 But Jesus answered, "It is written in the Scriptures what our ancestor King David did when he and the men with him were hungry. You have read about that, but you do not think about what it means!
-\v 4 David entered the Sacred Tent where they worshiped God and asked for some food. The high priest gave him the bread that had been on display before God. But according to the law of Moses, only priests were permitted to eat that bread, but David and the men who were with him ate it. And God did not consider that what they did was wrong!
+\v 3 But Jesus answered, "It is written in the scriptures what our ancestor King David did when he and the men with him were hungry.
+\v 4 David entered the Sacred Tent where they worshiped God and ate the bread that had been on display before God. But according to the law of Moses, only priests were permitted to eat that bread, but David and the men who were with him ate it.
 
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 \v 5 Also, surely you have read what Moses wrote, when he said that even though the priests, by working in the temple on our Sabbath day, are not obeying the Jewish day of rest laws, they are not guilty. 
 \v 6 Let me tell you what this means: I have come to you, and I am more important than the temple, so what I teach is more important for you to obey than what our ancestors said about the Sabbath day. 
 
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-\v 7 You should think about these words of God in the Scriptures: 'I want you to act mercifully toward people, and not just offer sacrifices.' If you understood what that means, you would not condemn my disciples, who have done no wrong.
+\v 7 You should think about these words of God in the scriptures: 'I want you to act mercifully toward people, and not just offer sacrifices.' If you understood what that means, you would not condemn my disciples, who have done no wrong.
 \v 8 I am the Son of Man, and I have the authority to tell people what they can do on the Sabbath day." 
 
 

41-MAT/19.usfm

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 \v 3 Some Pharisees approached him and said to him, "Does our Jewish law permit a man to divorce his wife for any reason whatever?" They asked that in order to be able to debate with him.
-\v 4 Jesus said to them, "You have read the Scriptures, so you should know that at the time when God first created people, 'He made one man, and he made one woman.'
+\v 4 Jesus said to them, "You have read the scriptures, so you should know that at the time when God first created people, 'He made one man, and he made one woman.'
 
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 \v 5 That explains why God said, 'When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers. Instead, the two of them must live together, and they will become so closely united that they are like one person.'

41-MAT/21.usfm

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 \v 12 Then Jesus went into the temple courtyard and chased out all of those who were buying and selling things there. He also overturned the tables of those who were changing Roman coins for temple tax money, and he overturned the seats of those who were selling pigeons for sacrifices.
-\v 13 Then he said to them, "A prophet wrote in the Scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a place where people pray to me,' but you people have made it into a place where robbers gather!"
+\v 13 Then he said to them, "A prophet wrote in the scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a place where people pray to me,' but you people have made it into a place where robbers gather!"
 \p
 \v 14 After that, many blind people and lame people came to Jesus in the temple in order that he would heal them, and he did so.
 
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 \v 15 The high priests and the men who taught the people the Jewish laws saw the marvelous deeds that Jesus did. They also saw the children shouting in the temple, "We praise the Christ, the descendant of King David!" They were indignant because they did not believe that Jesus was the Christ.
-\v 16 They thought that Jesus should not be allowing the children to say that, so they asked him, "How can you tolerate this? Do you hear what these children are shouting?" Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, I hear them, but if you remembered what you have read in the Scriptures about children praising me, you would know that God is pleased with them. The psalmist wrote, saying to God, 'You have taught infants and other children to praise you perfectly.'"
+\v 16 They thought that Jesus should not be allowing the children to say that, so they asked him, "How can you tolerate this? Do you hear what these children are shouting?" Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, I hear them, but if you remembered what you have read in the scriptures about children praising me, you would know that God is pleased with them. The psalmist wrote, saying to God, 'You have taught infants and other children to praise you perfectly.'"
 \p
 \v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany, and they stayed there that night.
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ and sat on the cloaks.
 \v 41 The people replied, "He will thoroughly destroy those wicked men! Then he will rent the vineyard to others. They will give him his share of the grapes when they are ripe."
 
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-\v 42 Jesus said to them, "That is right, so you need to think carefully about these words that you have read in the Scriptures:
+\v 42 Jesus said to them, "That is right, so you need to think carefully about these words that you have read in the scriptures:
 \q 'The men who were building a large building rejected a certain stone. But others put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone of the building. The Lord has done this, and we marvel as we look at it.'
 
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41-MAT/22.usfm

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 \v 23 During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are a Jewish group who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die. They wanted to ask Jesus a question.
-\v 24 They said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote in the Scriptures, 'If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man's widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.'
+\v 24 They said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote in the scriptures, 'If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man's widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.'
 
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 \v 25 Well, there were seven boys in a family living near us. The oldest one married someone. He and his wife did not have any children, and he died. So the second brother married the widow. But he also died without having a child.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 \v 28 So, at the time when God will raise people  from the dead, which of the seven brothers do you think will be her husband? Keep in mind that they had all been married to her."
 
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-\v 29 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the Scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again.
+\v 29 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again.
 \v 30 The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry.
 
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@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@
 \v 36 "Teacher, which commandment in the laws that God gave Moses is the most important?"
 
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-\v 37 Jesus quoted the Scriptures as he replied, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your inner being. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.'
+\v 37 Jesus quoted the scriptures as he replied, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your inner being. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.'
 \v 38 That is the most important commandment in the laws that God gave Moses.
 
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 \v 39 The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: 'You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.'
-\v 40 These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the Scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote."
+\v 40 These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote."
 
 
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 
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 \v 43 Jesus said to them, "If the Christ is King David's descendant, then David should not have called him 'Lord' when David was saying what the Holy Spirit told him to say.
-\v 44 David wrote this in the Scriptures about the Christ: 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me on my right, where I will greatly honor you, while I put your enemies under your feet."'
+\v 44 David wrote this in the scriptures about the Christ: 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me on my right, where I will greatly honor you, while I put your enemies under your feet."'
 
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 \v 45 So, since King David called the Christ 'my Lord,' the Christ cannot be just someone descended from David! He must be much greater than David!"

41-MAT/23.usfm

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 \v 4 They require you to obey many rules that are difficult to obey. But they themselves do not help anyone obey those rules. It is as if they were tying up very heavy loads and putting them on your shoulders for you to carry. But they will not even move one finger to help you carry them.
-\v 5 Whatever they do, they do those things so that other people will see them and admire them. For example, they make extra wide the tiny boxes containing portions of Scripture that they wear on their arms. They enlarge the tassels on their robes to make others think that they honor God.
+\v 5 Whatever they do, they do those things so that other people will see them and admire them. For example, they make extra wide the tiny boxes containing portions of scripture that they wear on their arms. They enlarge the tassels on their robes to make others think that they honor God.
 
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 \v 6 They want other people to honor them. For example, at dinners they sit in the seats where the most important people sit. In the synagogues they want to sit in the same kind of places.

41-MAT/26.usfm

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
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 \v 23 He replied, "The one who will enable my enemies to arrest me is the one of you who is dipping bread into the sauce in the dish along with me.
-\v 24 It is certain that I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what the Scriptures say about me. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who enables my enemies to arrest me! It would be better for that man if he had never been born!"
+\v 24 It is certain that I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what the scriptures say about me. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who enables my enemies to arrest me! It would be better for that man if he had never been born!"
 \v 25 Then Judas, the one who was going to betray him, said, "Teacher, surely it is not I!" Jesus replied, "Yes, you are the one."
 
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 
 
 \p
-\v 31 On the way, Jesus told them, "This night all of you will desert me because of what will happen to me! This is certain to happen because these words that God said are written in the Scriptures: 
+\v 31 On the way, Jesus told them, "This night all of you will desert me because of what will happen to me! This is certain to happen because these words that God said are written in the scriptures: 
 \q 'I will cause men to kill the shepherd, 
 \q and they will scatter all the sheep.'
 \v 32 But after I have died and become alive again, I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there."
@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@
 \v 51 Suddenly, one of the men who was with Jesus pulled his sword out of its sheath. He struck the servant of the high priest to kill him, but only cut off his ear.
 \v 52 Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its sheath! All those who try to kill others with a sword--someone else will kill them with a sword!
 \v 53 Do you think that if I asked my Father, he would not immediately send more than twelve armies of angels to help me?
-\v 54 But if I did that, what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about what will happen to the Messiah would not be fulfilled."
+\v 54 But if I did that, what the prophets have written in the scriptures about what will happen to the Messiah would not be fulfilled."
 
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 \v 55 At that time Jesus said to the crowd that was seizing him, "It is ridiculous that you have come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a bandit! Day after day I sat in the temple courtyard, teaching the people. Why did you not arrest me then?
-\v 56 But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me." Then all of the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.
+\v 56 But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the scriptures about me." Then all of the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.
 
 
 

42-MRK/05.usfm

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
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 \v 9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion because there are many of us evil spirits in this man."
-\v 10 Then the evil spirits fervently kept begging Jesus that he not send them out of the region.
+\v 10 Then the evil spirits kept asking Jesus fervently that he not send them out of the region.
 
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 \v 11 At the same time, a large herd of pigs was grazing nearby on the hillside.

42-MRK/09.usfm

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
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 \v 11 They asked Jesus, "Why do the men who teach the our laws say that Elijah must come back to the earth before the Messiah comes to earth?"
-\v 12-13 Jesus answered them, "It is true that God promised to send Elijah to come first to put everything as it should be. But Elijah has already come, and our leaders treated him very badly, just like they wanted to do, as prophets long ago had said they would. But I also want you to consider what is written in the Scriptures about me, the Son of Man. They say that I would suffer much and that people would reject me."
+\v 12-13 Jesus answered them, "It is true that God promised to send Elijah to come first to put everything as it should be. But Elijah has already come, and our leaders treated him very badly, just like they wanted to do, as prophets long ago had said they would. But I also want you to consider what is written in the scriptures about me, the Son of Man. They say that I would suffer much and that people would reject me."
 
 
 

42-MRK/11.usfm

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 \v 16 He would not allow anyone who was carrying anything to sell to go through the temple area.
 
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-\v 17 Then as he taught those people, he said to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a house where people from all nations can pray,' but you bandits have made it like a cave where robbers hide."
+\v 17 Then as he taught those people, he said to them, "It is written in the scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a house where people from all nations can pray,' but you bandits have made it like a cave where robbers hide."
 \v 18 The chief priests and the men who taught the Jewish laws later heard about what he had done. They were planning how they might kill him, but they feared him because they realized that the crowd was amazed at what he was teaching.
 \v 19 Every evening Jesus and his disciples would leave the city.
 

42-MRK/12.usfm

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 \v 9 So do you know what the owner of the vineyard will do? He will come kill those evil men who were taking care of his vineyard. Then he will arrange for other people to take care of it.
 
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-\v 10 Now think carefully about these words, which you have read in the Scriptures:
+\v 10 Now think carefully about these words, which you have read in the scriptures:
 \p "The men who were building the building refused to use a certain stone. But the Lord has put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone in the building!
 \v 11 The Lord has done this, and we marvel as we look at it."
 \p
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 \v 23 Now on the day when people will become alive again after they die, whose wife will that woman be? Keep in mind that she had been married to all seven brothers!"
 
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-\v 24 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong. You do not know what they wrote in the Scriptures about this. You also do not understand God's power to make people alive again.
+\v 24 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong. You do not know what they wrote in the scriptures about this. You also do not understand God's power to make people alive again.
 \v 25 That woman will not be the wife of any of those brothers, because when people become alive again, instead of men having wives and women having husbands, they will be like the angels in heaven.  Angels do not marry.
 
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42-MRK/14.usfm

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
 
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-\v 27 While they were on their way, Jesus said to them, "They wrote in the Scriptures that God said about me, 'I will kill the shepherd and scatter his sheep.' Those words will come true. You will leave me and run away.
+\v 27 While they were on their way, Jesus said to them, "They wrote in the scriptures that God said about me, 'I will kill the shepherd and scatter his sheep.' Those words will come true. You will leave me and run away.
 
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 \v 28 But after God makes me alive again, I will go ahead of you to the district of Galilee and meet you there."
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 
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 \v 47 But one of the disciples who was standing nearby drew his sword. He struck the servant of the high priest with it, but he only cut off his ear.
-\v 48-49 Jesus said to them, "It is ridiculous that you come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber! Day after day I was with you in the temple courtyard teaching the people! Why did you not arrest me then? But this is happening so that what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me may come true."
+\v 48-49 Jesus said to them, "It is ridiculous that you come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber! Day after day I was with you in the temple courtyard teaching the people! Why did you not arrest me then? But this is happening so that what the prophets have written in the scriptures about me may come true."
 
 
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43-LUK/21.usfm

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 \v 20 "When you see armies surround Jerusalem, then you will know that they will soon destroy this city.
 \v 21 At that time those of you who are in the region of Judea must flee to the mountains. And those of you who are in this city must leave. Those of you who are in the nearby countryside must not come into the city.
-\v 22 For this will be the time when God will punish this city; when he does, the words in the Scriptures will come true.
+\v 22 For this will be the time when God will punish this city; when he does, the words in the scriptures will come true.
 
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 \v 23 How terrible it will be for the pregnant women and those nursing their babies in those days, because there will be great suffering in the land, and its people will suffer enormously because God will be angry with them.

43-LUK/24.usfm

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
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 \v 25 He said to them, "You two foolish men! You are so slow to believe all that the prophets have written about the Messiah!
 \v 26 You should certainly have known that it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven!"
-\v 27 Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the Scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote.
+\v 27 Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote.
 
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
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 \v 30 When they sat down to eat, he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it and gave some pieces to them.
 \v 31 And then God enabled them to recognize him. But immediately he disappeared!
-\v 32 They said to each other, "While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us to understand the Scriptures, we started thinking that something very, very good was going to happen, although we did not know what. We should not stay here; we should go tell others what happened!"
+\v 32 They said to each other, "While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us to understand the scriptures, we started thinking that something very, very good was going to happen, although we did not know what. We should not stay here; we should go tell others what happened!"
 
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 \v 33 So they left immediately and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven apostles and others who had gathered together with them.
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 \v 44 Then he said to them, "I will repeat what I told you while I was with you: Everything that was written about me by Moses and the other prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled!"
 
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-\v 45 Then he enabled them to understand the things that had been written about him in the Scriptures.
+\v 45 Then he enabled them to understand the things that had been written about him in the scriptures.
 \v 46 He said to them, "This is what they wrote: That Jesus the Christ would suffer and die, but on the third day after that he would become alive again.
 \v 47 They also wrote that those who believed in him must preach everywhere that people should turn from committing sin to God, for him to forgive their sins. Christ's followers should preach that message because God sent them to do so. They wrote that they should start preaching it in Jerusalem and then go and preach it to all people groups.
 

44-JHN/05.usfm

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 \v 38 The proof that you do not have his word living in you is that you do not trust me, the one he sent. 
 
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-\v 39 You carefully study the Scriptures because you think that by studying them you will find eternal life, and those Scriptures tell about me.
+\v 39 You carefully study the scriptures because you think that by studying them you will find eternal life, and those scriptures tell about me.
 \v 40 Yet still you refuse to come to me in order that you might receive everlasting life from me.
 
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 \v 30 So they said to him, "Then perform another miracle to prove who you are so that we can see it and believe that you came from God. What will you do for us?
-\v 31 Our ancestors ate manna, just as the Scriptures say: 'God gave them bread out of the heavens to eat.'"
+\v 31 Our ancestors ate manna, just as the scriptures say: 'God gave them bread out of the heavens to eat.'"
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 \v 32 Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: It was not Moses who gave your ancestors that bread from heaven. No, it was my Father, the same one who is giving you the true bread from heaven.

44-JHN/07.usfm

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 \v 37  So on the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood up cried out with a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink."
-\v 38 Whoever trusts in me, as the Scripture said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
+\v 38 Whoever trusts in me, as the scripture said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
 
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 \v 39 He said this about the Spirit, whom the Father was going to give to those who trusted in him. God had not yet sent the Spirit to live within those who trusted him because Jesus had not yet finished his work, that work which would bring great honor to God by saving his people through his death.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
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 \v 40 When some of the crowd heard those words, they said, "This truly is the Prophet that we were expecting."
 \v 41 Others said, "The Christ cannot come from Galilee.  
-\v 42 Do not the Scriptures say that Christ must come through the descendants of David and that he must be born in Bethlehem, the village that was David's home?"
+\v 42 Do not the scriptures say that Christ must come through the descendants of David and that he must be born in Bethlehem, the village that was David's home?"
 
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 \v 43 So there was a division of opinion about Jesus.
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 \v 50 Then Nicodemus spoke. (He was the one who had gone to see Jesus at night to speak with him, and he was one of the Pharisees.) He said to them, 
 \v 51 "Our Jewish law does not permit us to condemn a man before we have listened to him. First, we give him a hearing, and we must learn about what he has done."
-\v 52 They replied to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search carefully and read what is written in the Scriptures! You will find that no prophet comes from Galilee." 
+\v 52 They replied to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search carefully and read what is written in the scriptures! You will find that no prophet comes from Galilee." 
 
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44-JHN/10.usfm

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 \v 33 The Jewish opponents replied, "We are wanting to take your life, not because you did any good work, but because you, just a man, are insulting God and are making yourself God!"
 
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-\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In the Scriptures it is written what God said to the rulers whom he had appointed: 'I have said that you are like gods (with great honor and with power over many).'
-\v 35 God said that to those leaders when he appointed them. No one objected to that, and nothing that is in Scripture can be shown to be false.
+\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In the scriptures it is written what God said to the rulers whom he had appointed: 'I have said that you are like gods (with great honor and with power over many).'
+\v 35 God said that to those leaders when he appointed them. No one objected to that, and nothing that is in scripture can be shown to be false.
 \v 36 I am the one whom my Father chose to send here into this world. So why are you angry with me for saying that I am equal with God when I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
 
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44-JHN/12.usfm

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 \v 13 So they cut branches from palm trees and went out to welcome him as he came into the city. They were shouting, "Hosanna! Praise God! God bless the One who comes in the Name of the Lord! Welcome, King of Israel!"
 
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-\v 14 When Jesus came near to Jerusalem, he found a young donkey and sat on it, riding into the city. By doing this, he fulfilled what had been written in Scripture:
+\v 14 When Jesus came near to Jerusalem, he found a young donkey and sat on it, riding into the city. By doing this, he fulfilled what had been written in scripture:
 \q
 \v 15 "Do not be afraid, you who live in Jerusalem.
 \q Look! Your King is coming.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 
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-\v 34 Someone in the crowd answered him, "We understand from the Scriptures that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say that the Son of Man will die? Who is this 'Son of Man'?"
+\v 34 Someone in the crowd answered him, "We understand from the scriptures that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say that the Son of Man will die? Who is this 'Son of Man'?"
 \v 35 Jesus answered, "My light will shine on you for just a little longer. Walk in the light while you have my light, or the darkness will overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are going!
 \v 36 Trust in that light while you have the light; then you will belong to the light.
 

44-JHN/13.usfm

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-\v 18 I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in Scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.'
+\v 18 I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.'
 
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44-JHN/17.usfm

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 \v 11 I am not staying in the world any longer. However, they are staying in the world. I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe; keep them belonging to yourself by the same power that you gave to me so that they may be united together, just as we are.
 
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-\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe and watched over them by your own power. Not one of them was lost, except the one whom you had destined for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold long ago.
+\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe and watched over them by your own power. Not one of them was lost, except the one whom you had destined for destruction, as the scriptures foretold long ago.
 \p
 \v 13 Now I am coming to you, Father. I have said these things while I am here in the world so that I may give them my complete joy.   
 \v 14 I have spoken your messages to them, and those who are part of this world hate your people because they do not belong to this world.

44-JHN/19.usfm

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-\v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the Scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!"
+\v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!"
 \v 29 A jar of sour wine stood there, so they took a short branch from a hyssop plant and put a sponge on it, and they dipped in the sour wine and held it up to Jesus' mouth.
 \v 30 After Jesus drank the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and died.
 
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@
 \v 35 The one who saw this bears witness—his testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth—so that you may put your trust in Jesus. 
 
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-\v 36 These things happened in order to fulfill what was written in Scripture: "No one will break any of his bones."
+\v 36 These things happened in order to fulfill what was written in scripture: "No one will break any of his bones."
 \p
-\v 37 And they fulfilled another Scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.'
+\v 37 And they fulfilled another scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.'
 
 
 

44-JHN/20.usfm

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
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 \v 8 Then the other disciple also went inside; he saw these things and began to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead.
-\v 9 They still did not understand the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
+\v 9 They still did not understand the scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
 
 
 \p

45-ACT/04.usfm

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
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 \p 
-\v 11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the one of whom the Scriptures speak: 
+\v 11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the one of whom the scriptures speak: 
 \q "The stone that the builders threw away has become the most important stone in the building."
 
 \v 12 Only Jesus can save us, for God has given no other man in the world to us who can save us from the guilt of our sins!" 

45-ACT/08.usfm

@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@
 \v 31 He answered Philip, "No! I cannot possibly understand it if there is no one to explain it to me!" Then the man said to Philip, "Please come up and sit beside me." 
 
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-\v 32 The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He was silent like a sheep when people lead it away to kill it. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off, he does not speak.
+\v 32 The part of the scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He was silent like a sheep when people lead it away to kill it. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off, he does not speak.
 \q
 \v 33 He will be humiliated and not receive justice. No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will be killed."
 
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 \p
 \v 34 The official asked Philip concerning these words that he was reading, "Tell me, who was the prophet writing about? Was he writing about himself or about someone else?"
-\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that Scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus.
+\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus.
 
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45-ACT/09.usfm

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 \p
 \v 20 Right away he began to preach about Jesus in the Jewish synagogues. He told them that Jesus is the Son of God.
 \v 21 All the people who heard him preach were amazed.  Some of them were saying, "We can hardly believe that this is the same man who pursued the believers in Jerusalem and who has come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests in Jerusalem!"
-\v 22 But God enabled Saul to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think how to disprove what he said.
+\v 22 But God enabled Saul to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving from the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think how to disprove what he said.
 
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45-ACT/13.usfm

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 \v 46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said to those Jewish leaders, "We had to speak the message from God about Jesus to you Jews first before we proclaim it to non-Jews, because God commanded us to do that. But you are rejecting God's message. By doing that, you have shown that you are not worthy of eternal life. Therefore, we are leaving you, and now we will go to the non-Jewish people to tell them the message from God.
-\v 47 We are doing this also because the Lord God has commanded us to do it. He said in the Scriptures,
+\v 47 We are doing this also because the Lord God has commanded us to do it. He said in the scriptures,
 \q 'I have chosen you to reveal things about me to non-Jewish people that will be like a light to them. I have chosen you to tell people everywhere in the world the message that I want to save them.'"
 
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45-ACT/17.usfm

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
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 \v 1 They traveled through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to the city of Thessalonica. There was a Jewish meeting place there.
-\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the Scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
+\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ.
 
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-\v 3 He showed from the Scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Messiah would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would."
+\v 3 He showed from the scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Messiah would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would."
 \v 4 Some of the Jews there believed what Paul had said and began to meet with Paul and Silas. There were also many non-Jewish people and important women who worshiped God who also believed the message about Jesus, and they also began to meet with Paul and Silas.
 
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 \p
 \v 10 So that same night, the believers sent Paul and Silas out of Thessalonica to the town of Berea. When Paul and Silas arrived there, they went to the Jewish meeting place.
-\v 11 Most of the Jews in Thessalonica had not been willing to listen to God's message, but the Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened closely to the message about Jesus. Every day they read the Scriptures for themselves to find out if what Paul said about Jesus was true.
+\v 11 Most of the Jews in Thessalonica had not been willing to listen to God's message, but the Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened closely to the message about Jesus. Every day they read the scriptures for themselves to find out if what Paul said about Jesus was true.
 \v 12 Because of Paul's teaching, many of the Jewish people believed in Jesus, and also some of the important non-Jewish women and many non-Jewish men believed in him.
 
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45-ACT/18.usfm

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 
 \p
-\v 24 While Paul was going through Galatia and Phrygia, a Jewish man named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was from the city of Alexandria and spoke very well about the Scriptures.
+\v 24 While Paul was going through Galatia and Phrygia, a Jewish man named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was from the city of Alexandria and spoke very well about the scriptures.
 \v 25 Other believers had taught Apollos how the Lord Jesus wanted people to live, and he enthusiastically taught those things to the people. However, he was not teaching everything about Jesus, because he only knew about the baptism of John the Baptizer.
 \v 26 Apollos went to the Jewish meeting place, and he told the people there about the things that he had learned. When Priscilla and Aquila heard what he taught, they asked him to come to their home where they taught him more about Jesus.
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 
 \p
 \v 27 When Apollos decided that he would like to go to the region of Achaia, the believers in Ephesus told him that it would be good for him to do that. So they wrote a letter to the believers in Achaia saying that they should welcome Apollos. After he got there, he helped those whom God had kindly enabled to believe in Jesus.
-\v 28 Apollos was talking very powerfully with the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened. By reading from the Scriptures, he was able to show them that Jesus was the Messiah.
+\v 28 Apollos was talking very powerfully with the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened. By reading from the scriptures, he was able to show them that Jesus was the Messiah.
 
 
 

47-1CO/01.usfm

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
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 \v 18 For those who are dead to the things of God cannot know him. Christ died for them on the cross, but this message is pointless to them. However, for those of us whom God has rescued and brought to life, this message allows God to powerfully work in us. 
-\v 19 A prophet wrote in the Scriptures: 
+\v 19 A prophet wrote in the scriptures: 
 \p 
 \q "The wisdom of those who think they are wise, 
 \q I will destroy,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 
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 \v 30  Because of what God has done, you are now joined to Christ Jesus, who has made clear to us how wise God is, he has put us right with God, he has set us apart for God, and he has rescued us and brought us to safety.
-\v 31 So, as the Scriptures say: 
+\v 31 So, as the scriptures say: 
 \q "The one who praises himself should praise himself only in what the Lord has done for him."
 \m 
 

47-1CO/02.usfm

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
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 \v 8 None of those who rule this world knew about God's wise plans. If they had understood them, they never would have nailed the Lord to the cross, but they should have honored Christ instead. 
-\v 9 But in the Scriptures it says:
+\v 9 But in the scriptures it says:
 \q "Things that no one has seen,
 \q no one has heard,
 \q no one could imagine,

47-1CO/03.usfm

@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@
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 \p
 \v 18 Be on guard that you do not deceive yourself. If any of you thinks he has great wisdom that unbelievers will admire, he should be careful. He would be far better off if he leaves alone all the things that unbelievers want, even if they consider him to be a fool for doing so. When he leaves those things alone, he will begin to learn what is true wisdom.
-\v 19 What the world considers to be great wisdom, is really foolishness to God. For Scripture says, 
+\v 19 What the world considers to be great wisdom, is really foolishness to God. For scripture says, 
 \q "God catches the wise in their own foolish plans."
 \m
-\v 20 And again Scripture teaches, 
+\v 20 And again scripture teaches, 
 \q "The Lord overhears all the planning of the wise, and he knows that in the end, they will lose everything."
 \m
 

47-1CO/05.usfm

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
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 \v 11 Instead, I mean that you are not to be close friends with a fellow believer who is living in sexual immorality. We must include other sins, such as greed, or idolatry, or one who is abusive in the way he talks to others, or a drunkard, or a swindler. You must not even eat with these people who claim to trust in Christ, yet they do these terrible things.
 \v 12 For I have no obligation to judge those who are outside the church of Christ. Your duty is to judge the those who are in it.
-\v 13 God is the one who will judge those who are outside the church. The Scriptures command us,   
+\v 13 God is the one who will judge those who are outside the church. The scriptures command us,   
 \q "You must take away the evil person who is among you!"
 \m
 

47-1CO/06.usfm

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 \v 15 You should know that your bodies are joined to Christ. Should you take away that which is a part of Christ and join it together with a prostitute? Never! 
 
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-\v 16 You understand that anyone who sleeps with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the Scriptures say about marriage: "The two will become one."
+\v 16 You understand that anyone who sleeps with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the scriptures say about marriage: "The two will become one."
 \v 17 And those who are joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
 
 

47-1CO/14.usfm

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-\v 26 Brothers and sisters, it should be this way when you worship God together. Each of you should come with a psalm to sing, or something to teach from the Scriptures, or something that God has told you, or with a message in a language that God has given, or with an interpretation of such a message. Everything you do together should encourage each other, for you are Christ's church.
+\v 26 Brothers and sisters, it should be this way when you worship God together. Each of you should come with a psalm to sing, or something to teach from the scriptures, or something that God has told you, or with a message in a language that God has given, or with an interpretation of such a message. Everything you do together should encourage each other, for you are Christ's church.
 \v 27 If there are any who wish to speak a message in a language from God, there should be no more than two or three such persons. They should speak one at a time, and someone should interpret the messages.
 \v 28 However, if there is no one able to interpret those messages, then those who speak in languages from God should keep silent and speak only to God.
 
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 \p
-\v 29 If there are any who want to speak a message from God, there should be only two or three such persons; and everyone else should judge those messages according to what the Scriptures say.
+\v 29 If there are any who want to speak a message from God, there should be only two or three such persons; and everyone else should judge those messages according to what the scriptures say.
 \v 30 But if God allows someone seated in the assembly to understand a message, then the one speaking the message should stop speaking. In this way, all the believers can listen to the meaning of the message.
 
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47-1CO/15.usfm

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 3 For I have passed on to you what others first told me, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scripture foretold he would; 
-\v 4 also that they buried him, and that God raised him to life on the third day, all in conformity with what the Scriptures said would happen.
+\v 3 For I have passed on to you what others first told me, that Christ died for our sins, as the scripture foretold he would; 
+\v 4 also that they buried him, and that God raised him to life on the third day, all in conformity with what the scriptures said would happen.
 
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 \v 5 Then Christ appeared to Cephas (known as Peter), and then he appeared to the rest of the apostles. 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 \v 26 The final enemy that God will destroy is death itself. 
 
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-\v 27  For the Scriptures say, "God has placed everything under his feet," that is, Christ's feet. But it is clear that this does not include God himself.
+\v 27  For the scriptures say, "God has placed everything under his feet," that is, Christ's feet. But it is clear that this does not include God himself.
 \v 28 After God has placed all things into Christ's power, then the Son, also, will place himself in the power of God the Father, so that God may be the same in relation to everyone and everything.
 
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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 45 So the Scriptures say, "The first man, Adam, was a living being who gave his children and descendants life." But Christ, the second Adam, gave people God's power to live forever.
+\v 45 So the scriptures say, "The first man, Adam, was a living being who gave his children and descendants life." But Christ, the second Adam, gave people God's power to live forever.
 \v 46 What belongs to the earth came first, the natural, and then came what belongs to God, that is the spiritual. 
 
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@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 
 
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-\v 54 When this happens, then it will come true, what the Scriptures say:
+\v 54 When this happens, then it will come true, what the scriptures say:
 \q "God has totally defeated death."
 \q1 
 \v 55  "Death will never win again!

48-2CO/04.usfm

@@ -19,18 +19,18 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 7 Now we carry these precious gifts from God in our bodies, which are fragile like clay pots. There there can be no mistake about where our strength come from: it comes only from God.
+\v 7 Now we carry these precious gifts from God in our bodies, which are fragile like clay pots. There can be no mistake about where our strength comes from: it comes only from God. 
 \v 8 We have suffered many different kinds of trouble, but they have not destroyed us. We may be confused about what we should do, but we never give up.
 \v 9 Some people try to harm us, but we are never alone; it is as if some people knocked us down, but we always get up again.
-\v 10 We are often in danger of dying, as Jesus dies, but our bodies will live again, because Jesus is alive.
+\v 10 We are often in danger of dying, as Jesus died, but our bodies will live again, because Jesus is alive.
 
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-\v 11 Those of us who are alive, God is always leading us to face death because we are joined to Jesus, so that when people look at us, they can know that Jesus is alive.
+\v 11 For those of us who are alive, God is always leading us to face death because we are joined to Jesus, so that when people look at us, they can know that Jesus is alive.
 \v 12 So you can see that death is doing its work in us, but that life is working in you. 
 
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 \p
-\v 13 We trust in God, just as the Scriptures say: "I trust in God; this is why I speak." We also trust in God, and we also speak about what he has done for us. 
+\v 13 We trust in God, just as the scriptures say: "I trust in God; this is why I speak." We also trust in God, and we also speak about what he has done for us. 
 \v 14 We know that God, who raised up the Lord Jesus from the dead, will also raise us up from the dead with him, and that Jesus will take us along with you, and take us to be where God is.  
 \v 15 All that I have suffered is to help you, so that more and more people can know how God loves them freely, and so that they may praise him more and more.
 

48-2CO/06.usfm

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
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 \v 14 Do not work in unsuitable ways with people who do not trust Christ. What do people who live by God's measure and rules have in common with those who break his laws and do what they want? Darkness and light cannot be together.
 \v 15 How can Christ agree in any way with the demon Beliar? What does a person who trusts in God have in common with another person who does not trust in God? 
-\v 16  How right would it do to bring pagan idols into the temple of God? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said:
+\v 16  How right would it be to bring pagan idols into the temple of God? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said:
 \q "I will have my home among my people.
 \q I will live my life among them. 
 \q  I will be their God 
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
 
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 \p
-\v 17 The Scriptures therefore say:
+\v 17 The scriptures therefore say:
 \q "Come out from among the unbelievers
 \q1 and be separate from them," says the Lord,
-\q "Do not handle anything makes you filthy and unable to worship me;
+\q "Do not handle anything that makes you filthy and unable to worship me;
 \q1 and I will open my arms and welcome you.
 \q
 \v 18

48-2CO/07.usfm

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 \v 14 I told him very good things about you, how proud I was of you, and you did not put me to shame when he came to you. We praised you so much to Titus, and you proved it was all true!
 
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-\v 15 Now his love for you has grown because he has seen for himself how much you follow God, and he knows how you welcomed him among yourselves—you welcomed him with fear, because God is holy, and with trembling, because they know God is great.
+\v 15 Now his love for you has grown because he has seen for himself how much you follow God, and he knows how you welcomed him among yourselves—you welcomed him with fear, because God is holy, and with trembling, because you know God is great.
 \v 16 I am filled with joy because in everything, I have confidence in you. 
 
 

48-2CO/08.usfm

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
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 \v 13 We are not taxing you because we do not want others to have to support themselves. But it is fair for you to help them.
 \v 14 You have more than you need at this time; what you have left over will be enough for them, too. In the future, they will have more than they need, and perhaps then, they will be able to help you. That is fair for everyone. 
-\v 15 This is like the Scriptures say:
+\v 15 This is like the scriptures say:
 \q "The one who had much did not have anything left to share;
 \q1 but the one who had only a little did not need anything more."
 \m

48-2CO/09.usfm

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 \p
 \v 1 Now about this collection of money for the believers in Jerusalem—all those people whom God has set apart for himself, I really do not need to write anything more to you.
 
-\v 2 I already know that you want to help, and I praised you for this to the believers of Macedonia. In fact, I told them that you and the other people of the province of Achaia, have been preparing for this collection since last year. Your enthusiasm is an example that has moved the believers of Macedonia to take action. 
+\v 2 I already know that you want to help, and I praised you for this to the believers of Macedonia. In fact, I told them that you, and the other people of the province of Achaia, have been preparing for this collection since last year. Your enthusiasm is an example that has moved the believers of Macedonia to take action. 
 
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 \v 3 For I am sending the brothers ahead of me, so that when they meet you, they will see that we did not praise you for nothing; I also sent them ahead of me so that you would be ready to finish the work, as I promised others you would be.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
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 \v 8 God can give you all kinds of gifts more and more, so that you will always have what you yourselves need, and also enough to do good things with.
-\v 9 As it is written in the Scriptures:
+\v 9 As it is written in the scriptures:
 \q "He gives good things to people everywhere, 
 \q and he gives to the poor what they need.
 \q He does these things forever.

48-2CO/10.usfm

@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@
 \v 16 We hope for this, in order that we may share the good news with people beyond where you live. We will not take credit for work that any other servants of God are doing, in their own regions where they serve him. 
 
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-\v 17 The Scriptures say,
+\v 17 The scriptures say,
 \q      "Let the one who is proud, be proud of the Lord."
-\m
-\v 18 When a person praises himself for what he has done, God does not reward him for doing that. Instead, he rewards those of whom he approves.
+\p
+\v 18 When a person praises himself for what he has done, God does not reward him for doing that. Instead, he rewards those whom he approves. 
 
 
 

48-2CO/11.usfm

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
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-\v 12 I will continue to serve you in this same way, so that I stop those who say that they are equal to us. They will no excuse to offer for how they boast. 
+\v 12 I will continue to serve you in this same way, so that I stop those who say that they are equal to us. They will have no excuse to offer for how they boast. 
 \v 13 Such people are false apostles claiming that God has sent them. They are workers who always tell lies, and they are pretending to be apostles of Christ. 
 
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 
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-\v 32 At the city of Damascus, the governor under King Aretas, put a guard around the city, hoping to arrest me.
+\v 32 At the city of Damascus, the governor under King Aretas put a guard around the city, hoping to arrest me.
 \v 33 But my friends put me in a basket and let me down me out of the city, through a window in the wall, and I escaped from him. 
 
 

48-2CO/12.usfm

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 \c 12
 \p
 \v 1 I must continue to defend myself, so I will continue by boasting about some visions that the Lord gave me.
-\v 2 Fourteen years ago, God took me, a man who is joined to Christ, up to the highest heaven—although only God knows whether he took me up only in my spirit or in my body, too.
+\v 2 Fourteen years ago God took me, a man who is joined to Christ, up to the highest heaven—although only God knows whether he took me up only in my spirit or in my body, too.
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 \v 3  And I—whether in my body or only in my spirit, God alone knows—
 \v 4 I was taken up into a place in heaven called paradise. There I heard things that were much too holy for me to be able to tell you.

48-2CO/13.usfm

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 \c 13
 \p
 \v 1 This is the third time I am coming to you to deal with these matters. The principle in dealing with these issues is that every accusation against another must be based on the testimony of two or three persons, not just one. 
-\v 2 When I was there on the second visit I said to those who had sinned and who being charged before the church, and to the entire church, and I will say it again: I will not overlook these charges.
+\v 2 When I was there on the second visit I said to those who had sinned and who had been charged before the church, and to the entire church, and I will say it again: I will not overlook these charges.
 
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 \v 3 I tell you this because you are looking for proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you; instead, he is working in you by his great power.

49-GAL/03.usfm

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 \v 23 Before God revealed the good news about how people should trust in Christ, his law was like a soldier who kept us in prison, unable to move about. 
 \v 24 Like a father protects his small child by telling a slave to take care of him, God was supervising us by his law until Christ came. He did this so that he might now declare us good in his sight, if we trust in Christ. 
-\v 25 But now that we can trust in Christ, we do no longer need God's law to supervise us .
+\v 25 But now that we can trust in Christ, we no longer need God's law to supervise us.
 \p
 \v 26 I say this because you are all God's children because you have trusted in Christ Jesus.
 

49-GAL/04.usfm

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 \v 2 Until the day that his father has previously determined, other persons supervise the child and manage his property.
 
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-\v 3 Likewise, when we were like young children, we were under the evil rules that everyone in this world live by. Those rules controlled us like masters control their slaves.
+\v 3 Likewise, when we were like young children, we were under the evil rules that everyone in this world lives by. Those rules controlled us like masters control their slaves.
 \v 4 But when the time that God had determined arrived, he sent Jesus, his Son, into the world. Jesus was born to a human mother, and he had to obey the law.
 \v 5 God sent Jesus to rescue us from the law controlling us. He did this to adopt us as his own children.
 
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 \v 24 Now these two women symbolize two covenants. God made the first covenant with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. That covenant requires the Israelites to live like a slave to the law. So Hagar, the female slave, symbolizes this covenant.
-\v 25 So Hagar symbolizes Mount Sinai, in the land of Arabia. But Hagar also symbolizes the city of Jerusalem as it is today. This is because Jerusalem is like a slave mother; she and all her children, that is, her people, are like slaves, because they all must obey the law that God gave to Israel at Mount Sinai.
+\v 25 So Hagar symbolizes Mount Sinai, in the land of Arabia. But Hagar also symbolizes the city of Jerusalem as it is today. This is because Jerusalem is like a slave mother: she and all her children—that is, her people—are like slaves, because they all must obey the law that God gave to Israel at Mount Sinai.
 
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 \v 26 But there is a new Jerusalem in heaven, and that city is like a mother of all us who believe in Christ, and that city is free!
@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@
 \v 29 But long ago Abraham's son Ishmael, who was born naturally, caused trouble for Abraham's son Isaac, who was born because the Holy Spirit made it happen. It is the same way now the people who are slaves to God's law persecute those of us who trust in what Christ has promised to give us.
 
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-\v 30 But these are the words in the Scriptures: "The son of the woman who was not a slave will inherit what his father owns. The slave boy will inherit nothing. So send away from this place the female slave and her son!"
+\v 30 But these are the words in the scriptures: "The son of the woman who was not a slave will inherit what his father owns. The slave boy will inherit nothing. So send away from this place the female slave and her son!"
 \v 31 My fellow believers, our ancestor is not a slave woman; instead, our ancestor is the free woman!

49-GAL/05.usfm

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 \v 22 But as we grow in trusting Christ, God's Spirit starts causing us to love others. We are joyful. We are peaceful. We are patient. We are kind. We are good. We are ones whom others can trust.
 \v 23 We are gentle. We control our behavior. There is no law that says people should not think and act in such ways.
-\v 24 Furthermore, we who belong to Christ Jesus have stopped obsessing over the evil things we wanted to do.
+\v 24 Furthermore, we who belong to Christ Jesus have stopped allowing ourselves to do the evil things that we did in the past.
 It is as though we had nailed them to a cross and killed these evil things!
 
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 \v 1 I, Paul, write this letter to my dear fellow believers whom God has set apart for himself, and who are loyal to Christ Jesus—I am writing to the fellow believers who are living in the city of Ephesus. I am Paul, whom God chose and whom God sent to you as an apostle of Christ Jesus.
 \v 2 I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will give you his kindness and peace.
 
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 \v 3 Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He has caused us great joy through every kind of heavenly, spiritual blessing that Christ gives to us.
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 \v 11 Long ago God chose us to be joined to Christ, just as he had planned—and he always does exactly what he wishes to do. 
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 \v 12 He did those so that the Jews, who confidently expected the Messiah to come and save them before the non-Jews knew anything about Christ, would praise him for his kindness.
 
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-\v 13 Now you Ephesians and other non-Jews have heard the true message, the good news that Jesus saves everyone who believes him. And you have believed in Christ, so it is as if God's Spirit had marked you on your foreheads to show that you belong to God. 
+\v 13 Now you Ephesians and other non-Jews have heard the true message, the good news that Jesus saves everyone who believes him. And you have believed in Christ and are joined to him, so it is as if God's Spirit had marked you on your foreheads to show that you belong to God. 
 \v 14 The Holy Spirit is proof that we will receive all that God has promised. All this is great reason to praise him!
 
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 \v 4 But God acts very mercifully, and he loves us very much.
 \v 5 We were like dead people, powerless to obey God, but then he made us live again by joining us to Christ. God has saved us because he has been very, very kind to us.
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 \v 6 He raised us up from among those who are like dead people, and he gave us seats of honor to rule with Christ Jesus in heavenly places.
 \v 7 He did this to show in future times how kind he has been to us, for we are joined to Christ Jesus.
 
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-\v 8 For God has saved you from his punishment by his extreme kindness because you trust Jesus. We have not saved ourselves; this is a gift from God—
+\v 8 For God has saved you from his punishment by his extreme kindness because you trust Jesus. You have not saved yourselves; this is a gift from God—
 \v 9 a gift that no one can earn, so no one can boast and say that he has saved himself.
 \v 10 So God has created us as new people joined to Christ Jesus, so we can do good things—things that God planned long ago for us to do.
 
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-\v 11 Do not forget that you non-Jewish believers were previously called Gentiles because you were not born as Jews. The Jews insulted you by calling you "uncircumcised pagans." They call themselves "the circumcision;" by this they mean that they, not you, are God's people, although circumcision is something that only humans do, not God. 
+\v 11 Do not forget that you non-Jewish believers were previously called Gentiles because you were not born as Jews. The Jews insulted you by calling you "uncircumcised pagans." They call themselves "the circumcision"; by this they mean that they, not you, are God's people, although circumcision is something that only humans do, not God. 
 \v 12 At that time, you did not have any part of Christ and you were not part of his people Israel. You did not know God's promises and law. You did not have confidence in the future that God promised you, and as you lived your lives, you did not know God.
 
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 \v 1 God has done all this for you non-Jews for which, I, Paul, am here in prison because of Christ Jesus.
 \v 2 I assume that you know that God has honored me by giving me a certain task to do for your sake.
 
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 \v 3 He gave me this task because of the secret truth about which I wrote to you briefly;
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 \v 4 when you read what I have already written briefly about that, 
 you will be able to understand that I clearly understand the truth about Christ. 
 \v 5 Formerly, God did not fully reveal the good news that was to come to anyone. It was something that no one understood, but now his Spirit has revealed the good news to his apostles and prophets whom the Spirit called to serve God.
 
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-\v 6 This hidden truth is that the non-Jews now share together with Jews the spiritual riches of God, and belong to the same group of God's people, and will share all the things God has promised them, because they are joined to Christ Jesus—this is the gospel.
+\v 6 This hidden truth is that the non-Jews now share together with Jews the spiritual riches of God, and belong to the same group of God's people, and will share all the things God has promised them because they are joined to Christ Jesus—this is the gospel.
 \v 7 I am now God's servant to spread the good news, a work I did not deserve to do, but which God gave me working in me with his power.
 
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-\v 8 Although I am the least worthy of all God's people, God has enabled me by his kindness and mercy to proclaim to non-Jews the good news about what Christ has done for us, which is so much no one can describe it all.
+\v 8 Although I am the least worthy of all God's people, God has enabled me by his kindness and mercy to proclaim to non-Jews the good news about what Christ has done for us, which is so much that no one can learn all about it.
 \v 9 My mission is to explain to everyone what God's plan is, something that God has kept hidden from long ago, from the time when he created everything. 
 
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 \v 28 Each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. When men love their wives, it is as though they loved themselves,
 \v 29-30 because no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers in his worldwide assembly. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him.
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-\v 31 The Scriptures say this about people who marry,
+\v 31 The scriptures say this about people who marry,
 \q "When a man and a woman marry, they should permanently leave their fathers and mothers. They should be joined as husband and wife, and the two of them will become as though they were one person."
 \p
 \v 32 It is difficult to understand the meaning of these things that God has now revealed, but I am telling you about Christ's love for his worldwide assembly of believers.

50-EPH/06.usfm

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 \v 1 You children, because you belong to the Lord Jesus, obey your parents, because it is right for you to do that.
-\v 2 God commanded in the Scriptures,
+\v 2 God commanded in the scriptures,
 \p "Greatly respect your father and mother."
 That is the first law that God commanded in which he also promised something. He promised,
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55-1TI/05.usfm

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 \v 17 Let the believers give double honor to the elders who lead them well, and especially to the elders who preach and teach God's Word.
 
-\v 18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out," and "The laborer deserves to get his pay."
+\v 18 For the scripture says, "You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out," and "The laborer deserves to get his pay."
 
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56-2TI/03.usfm

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 \v 14 But as for you, keep on doing the things that you have learned to do, and the things that you have come to believe are right. Remember me, because I am the one who taught you these things. 
-\v 15 Remember also that even when you were a young child, you learned what God says in the Scriptures. These can teach you how Christ Jesus saves us, when we trust in him.
+\v 15 Remember also that even when you were a young child, you learned what God says in the scriptures. These can teach you how Christ Jesus saves us, when we trust in him.
 
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-\v 16 All the Scriptures come from God's Spirit, so we should read them in order to teach the truth about God. We should also read them in order to persuade people to believe the truth. Also to correct people when they sin. Also to teach people how to do what is right.
+\v 16 All the scriptures come from God's Spirit, so we should read them in order to teach the truth about God. We should also read them in order to persuade people to believe the truth. Also to correct people when they sin. Also to teach people how to do what is right.
 \v 17 We should do these things so that God can train every believer and give him what he needs in order to do every kind of good thing.
 
 

59-HEB/01.usfm

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 \v 4 God has made his Son to be so much more important than the angels, that he has far more honor and authority than they do.
-\v 5 In the Scriptures no one ever reported that God said to any angel what he said to his Son:
+\v 5 In the scriptures no one ever reported that God said to any angel what he said to his Son:
 \q "You are my Son!
 \q Today I have declared to all that I am your Father!"
-\p And he said in another Scripture passage,
+\p And he said in another scripture passage,
 \q "I will be his Father,
 \q and he will be my Son."
 
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 \v 6 When God brought his honored Son, his only Son, into the world, he commanded: 
 \q "All my angels must worship him."
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-\v 7 And in the Scriptures it is written about the angels:
+\v 7 And in the scriptures it is written about the angels:
 \q "God has made his angels to be spirits who  serve him with power like flames of fire."
 
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-\v 8 But in the Scriptures, it is also written about God's Son:
+\v 8 But in the scriptures, it is also written about God's Son:
 \q "You who are God will rule forever,
 \q and you will reign justly over your kingdom.
 \q
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-\v 10 We also know that his Son is superior to angels because in the Scriptures it is written about God's Son,
+\v 10 We also know that his Son is superior to angels because in the scriptures it is written about God's Son,
 \q "Lord, it was you who created the earth in the beginning.
 \q You also made the rest of the universe, the stars and everything in the sky.
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 \v 5 God has not put the angels in charge of the new world he will make, but instead, he is putting Christ in charge of it.
-\v 6 Someone solemnly spoke to God about this somewhere in the Scriptures, saying,
+\v 6 Someone solemnly spoke to God about this somewhere in the scriptures, saying,
 \q "No human being is worthy enough for you to think about him!
 \q No human is worthy enough for you to care for him!
 \q
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-\v 13 And a prophet wrote in another Scripture passage what Christ said about God:
+\v 13 And a prophet wrote in another scripture passage what Christ said about God:
 \q "I will trust him."
-\p And in another Scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children,
+\p And in another scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children,
 \q "I and the children whom God has given me are here."
 
 

59-HEB/03.usfm

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-\v 7 The Holy Spirit caused the Psalmist to write these words in the Scriptures to the Israelites:
+\v 7 The Holy Spirit caused the Psalmist to write these words in the scriptures to the Israelites:
 \q "Now, when you hear God speak to you,
 \v 8 do not stubbornly disobey him, as your ancestors did when they rebelled against him in the wilderness.
 
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 \v 14 We are now joined to Christ if we continue to seriously and confidently trust in him, from the time we first trusted in him to the time when we die.
-\v 15 The Psalmist wrote in the Scripture that God said,
+\v 15 The Psalmist wrote in the scripture that God said,
 \q "Now, when you hear me speaking to you, do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors did when they rebelled against me."
 
 

59-HEB/04.usfm

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 \v 3 We who have believed in Christ are able to enter the place of rest because God said,
 \q "Because I was angry with the people of Israel, I solemnly declared, 'They will not enter the land where I would let them rest.'"
 \p God said this even though his plans had been finished from the time he created the world.
-\v 4 What was written in the Scriptures about the seventh day after he had spent six days creating the world, shows that this is true:
+\v 4 What was written in the scriptures about the seventh day after he had spent six days creating the world, shows that this is true:
 \q "Then, on the seventh day, God rested from his work of creating everything."
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 \v 5 But note again what God said about the Israelites in the passage that I quoted previously:

59-HEB/05.usfm

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 \v 4 But no one can honor himself by deciding to become the high priest. Instead, God chose each man to become a high priest, as he chose Aaron to be the first high priest.
-\v 5 Similarly, Christ also did not honor himself by becoming high priest. Instead, God the Father appointed him by saying to him what the Psalmist wrote in the Scriptures:
+\v 5 Similarly, Christ also did not honor himself by becoming high priest. Instead, God the Father appointed him by saying to him what the Psalmist wrote in the scriptures:
 \q "You are my son! Today I have declared that I am your father!"
 
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-\v 6 And he also said to Christ what the psalmist wrote in another Scripture passage:
-\q "You are a priest eternally just like Melchizedek was a priest."
+\v 6 And he also said to Christ what the psalmist wrote in another scripture passage:
+\q "You are a priest eternally in the way that Melchizedek was a priest."
 
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-\v 11 Although there is much to say to you about how Christ resembles Melchizedek, this is hard for me to explain to you because you understand things so slowly.
+\v 11 I want to tell you much about the many ways in which Christ resembles Melchizedek, this is hard for me to explain to you because you find it so difficult to understand.
 
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-\v 12 You became Christians long ago. So by now you should be teaching God's truths to others. But you still need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of the words of God from the Scriptures, starting from the beginning. You need those basic truths like babies need milk. You are not ready to learn more difficult things, things that are like the solid food that mature people need.
+\v 12 You became Christians long ago. So by now you should be teaching God's truths to others. But you still need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of the words of God from the scriptures, starting from the beginning. You need those basic truths like babies need milk. You are not ready to learn more difficult things, things that are like the solid food that mature people need.
 \v 13 Remember that those who are still learning these elementary truths do not understand what God says about becoming righteous. Neither do they yet know right from wrong. They are just like babies who need milk!
 \v 14 But the more difficult spiritual truth is for people who know God better, just like solid food is for people who are adults. They can tell the difference between what is good and what is evil, because they have trained themselves by learning what is right and what is wrong.
 

59-HEB/06.usfm

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-\v 1-3 So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Christ, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are how to stop sinning and how to start trusting in God. There are also important things we teach about various kinds of baptism, why we often pray while putting our hands on each other; and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it. But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Christ in all times, no matter what happens.
+\v 1-3 So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Christ, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are how to stop doing sinful deeds, those that lead to death, and how to start trusting in God. There are also important things we teach about various kinds of baptism, why we often pray while putting our hands on each other; and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it. But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Christ in all times, no matter what happens.
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 \v 4 I will explain why it is important to do this. Some people have at one time understood the message about Christ. They learned what it was like for God to forgive them and for Christ to love them, and they received gifts from the Holy Spirit.
 \v 5 They found for themselves that God's message is good, and they learned how God will work powerfully in the future. 
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-\v 9 You can see that I am warning you, dear friends, not to reject Christ. At the same time, I am certain that you are doing better than that. You are doing the things that are right for those whom God has saved.
+\v 9 You can see that I am warning you, dear friends, not to reject Christ. At the same time, I am certain that you are doing better than that. You are doing the things that are in conformity with the fact that God is saving you.
 \v 10 Since God always acts justly, he will not overlook all you have done for him; he will not overlook how you have loved and helped your fellow believers, and how you are still helping them.  
 
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 \v 1 Now I will say more about this man Melchizedek. He was the king of the city of  Salem and was also a priest of God, who rules the universe. He met Abraham and his men who were returning home from defeating the armies of the four kings. Melchizedek blessed Abraham.
 \v 2 Then Abraham gave to him one tenth of all the things he took after winning the battle. Now Melchizedek's name means first, "king who rules righteously," and, since Salem means "peace," his name also means "the king who rules peacefully."
-\v 3 The Scriptures provide us with no record of Melchizedek's father, mother, or ancestors; nor do the Scriptures tell us when he was born or when he died. It is as if he continues to be a priest forever. In this way, he is a little like the Son of God.
+\v 3 The scriptures provide us with no record of Melchizedek's father, mother, or ancestors; nor do the scriptures tell us when he was born or when he died. It is as if he continues to be a priest forever. In this way, he is a little like the Son of God.
 
 
 
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-\v 8 In the case of the priests who are descendants of Levi, they are all men who will die one day, but even they received tithes. However, in the case of Melchizedek, who received a tenth of everything from Abraham—it is as if God testified that Melchizedek keeps on living, since Scripture does not speak about him dying.
+\v 8 In the case of the priests who are descendants of Levi, they are all men who will die one day, but even they received tithes. However, in the case of Melchizedek, who received a tenth of everything from Abraham—it is as if God testified that Melchizedek keeps on living, since scripture does not speak about him dying.
 \v 9 And it was as though Levi himself, and all the priests descended from him—those who received tithes from the people—paid tithes to Melchizedek because their ancestor Abraham paid tithes to him. When Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek it was as though Levi and all the priests descended from him acknowledged that Melchizedek was greater Abraham.
 \v 10 This is true because we can say that Levi and his descendants were still in Abraham's body when Melchizedek met Abraham.
 
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 \v 13 Jesus, the one about whom I am saying these things, is not a descendant of Levi. Instead, he came from the tribe of Judah, which never gave any person who served as priest.
-\v 14 The Scriptures clearly state this. And in fact, Moses never said that any of Judah's descendants would become priests.
+\v 14 The scriptures clearly state this. And in fact, Moses never said that any of Judah's descendants would become priests.
 
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 \v 16 This priest is Jesus; he became a priest, but not because he fulfilled what God's law required about being a descendant of Levi. Instead, he has the kind of power that came from a life that nothing can destroy.
-\v 17 We know this since God confirmed it in the Scripture passage in which he said to his Son,
+\v 17 We know this since God confirmed it in the scripture passage in which he said to his Son,
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 \v 20 Furthermore, when God appointed Christ as a priest, he solemnly declared it. When God appointed former priests, he did not do this.
-\v 21 But when he appointed Christ to be a priest, it was by these words that the Psalmist wrote in Scripture:
+\v 21 But when he appointed Christ to be a priest, it was by these words that the Psalmist wrote in scripture:
 \q "The Lord has solemnly declared
 \q —and he will not change his mind:
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 \v 7 Because of this, I said, 'My God, listen!
 \q I have come here in order to do what you want me to do,
-\q just as they have written about me in the Scriptures.'"
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 \v 35 So do not become discouraged when they cause you to suffer, because if you continue to trust in God, he will greatly reward you.
 \v 36 You must patiently continue to trust in him in order that, because of your doing what God wants you to do, he will give you what he has promised.
-\v 37 A prophet wrote in the Scriptures that God said about the Messiah:
+\v 37 A prophet wrote in the scriptures that God said about the Messiah:
 \q "In just a short time the one I promised would come will surely come;
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 \v 7 And they are the ones who speak evil against the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who is worthy of praise, to whom you belong!
 
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-\v 8 Jesus our King has commanded you in the Scriptures that each of you must love other people like you love yourself. If you love others, you do what is right.
+\v 8 Jesus our King has commanded you in the scriptures that each of you must love other people like you love yourself. If you love others, you do what is right.
 \v 9 But if you honor some people more than others, you are doing wrong. And because you do not do what God commanded us to do, he condemns you because you disobey his laws.
 
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 \v 22 In this way, Abraham trusted in God and obeyed him. When he obeyed him, he finished doing what he was trusting God for.
 
-\v 23 And so it happened as it is written in the Scriptures, "Because Abraham truly trusted in God, God viewed him as someone who did the right thing." God also said about Abraham, "He is my friend."
+\v 23 And so it happened as it is written in the scriptures, "Because Abraham truly trusted in God, God viewed him as someone who did the right thing." God also said about Abraham, "He is my friend."
 \v 24 From the example of Abraham you can realize that it is because people do good deeds that God considers them to be righteous, and not only because they trust in him.
 
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 \v 5 Surely you do not think that it is for no reason that God told us in the scriptures that the Spirit he placed in us yearns for us  to live our lives in ways that please him.
 
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-\v 6 But God is powerful and very kind to us, and he wants very much to help us stop sinning. That is why the Scripture says, "God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble."
+\v 6 But God is powerful and very kind to us, and he wants very much to help us stop sinning. That is why the scripture says, "God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble."
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 \v 7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and as a result he will run away from you.
 

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-\v 16 Be holy, because it is written in the Scriptures that God said, "You must be holy because I am holy."
+\v 16 Be holy, because it is written in the scriptures that God said, "You must be holy because I am holy."
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 \v 17 God is the one who judges what each one does, and he does this very fairly. Since you call him 'Father,' behave in a right way while you are living here on earth. You are like people whom others have driven from their homes, because you are living away from heaven, your true home.
 

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 \v 5 And like men build houses with stones, God is joining you together like a building in which his Spirit lives. He is doing this in order that you—like the priests who offer sacrifices at the altar, might do things that please God because Jesus Christ has died for you.
 
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-\v 6 What the Scriptures say show us that this is true: "I am placing in Jerusalem someone who is like a very valuable stone, the most important stone in the building, and those who believe in him will never become ashamed."
+\v 6 What the scriptures say show us that this is true: "I am placing in Jerusalem someone who is like a very valuable stone, the most important stone in the building, and those who believe in him will never become ashamed."
 
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-\v 7 Therefore, God will honor you who believe in Jesus. But those who refuse to believe in him are like the builders that the Scriptures talk about:
+\v 7 Therefore, God will honor you who believe in Jesus. But those who refuse to believe in him are like the builders that the scriptures talk about:
  "The stone that the builders rejected has become the most important stone in the building."
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-\v 8 It is also written in the Scriptures: 
+\v 8 It is also written in the scriptures: 
 \q "He will be like a stone that causes people to stumble,
 \q and like a rock that people trip over.
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 \v 9 But you are people whom God has chosen to belong to him. You are a group that worship God like priests, and you rule with God like kings. You are a people group that belongs to God, so that you might proclaim the wonderful things he has done. He has called you from your former ways, when you were ignorant of his truth, and he has made you understand the marvelous true things about him. 
-\v 10 What the Scriptures say is true about you:
+\v 10 What the scriptures say is true about you:
 \q "Formerly, you were no people group at all,
 \q But now you are God's people group.
 \q At one time God had not acted mercifully toward you,

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-\v 18  That will be as it is written in the Scriptures:
+\v 18  That will be as it is written in the scriptures:
 \q  "Many righteous people will have to suffer many difficult trials before going to heaven. 
 \q So ungodly and sinful people will surely have to suffer much severe punishment from God!"
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-\v 20 It is important that you realize that no prophet could interpret by himself the meaning of what they wrote in the Scriptures without the help of God's Spirit,
+\v 20 It is important that you realize that no prophet could interpret by himself the meaning of what they wrote in the scriptures without the help of God's Spirit,
 \v 21 because no human beings decided to make those prophecies. On the contrary, those who spoke messages from God did so the Holy Spirit helped them do it. Therefore the Spirit must also help us understand what they mean.

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 \v 14 Therefore, dear friends, because you are waiting for these things to happen, do all that you can to conduct your lives in a way that honors God, in order that Christ may see that you do not sin and that you are living peacefully with each other.
 \v 15 And think about this: Our Lord Jesus Christ is patient because he wants to save people. Our dear brother Paul also wrote wise words to you about these same matters, because God enabled him to understand these events.
-\v 16 In the letters that Paul wrote there are certain things that are difficult for people to understand. People who know nothing about God and who speak at random interpret these things wrongly, as they also interpret the other parts of the Scriptures wrongly. The result is that they they will lead God to punish them.
+\v 16 In the letters that Paul wrote there are certain things that are difficult for people to understand. People who know nothing about God and who speak at random interpret these things wrongly, as they also interpret the other parts of the scriptures wrongly. The result is that they they will lead God to punish them.
 
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 \v 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know about these false teachers, guard against them. Do not let these wicked people deceive you by telling you things that are wrong. Do not let them to persuade you to doubt what you now firmly believe.

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 \v 4 I, John, am writing this letter to the seven groups of believers in the province of Asia. May God be kind to you and give you peace, for he is the one who has always existed, who exists now, and who will always exist in the future. May the seven spirits who are sitting in front of his throne do these things for you, too.
 \v 5 May Jesus Christ also—who has faithfully told us the truth about God and—be kind to you and give you peace. For he is the first one whom God raised from the dead, and he is the one who rules the kings of the earth. He is the one who loves us and who has freed us from the guilt of our sins by his blood when he died on the cross.
-\v 6 He is the one who has begun to rule over his kingdom; he has set us apart to be priests who come close to God and worship his Father as he commanded. It is Jesus Christ whom we must honor and praise forever. This is the truth.
+\v 6 He is the one who has begun to rule over his kingdom; he has set us apart to be priests who worship God his Father as he commanded. It is Jesus Christ whom we must honor and praise forever. This is the truth.
 
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