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 \v 31 One day he went down to Capernaum, a city in the district of Galilee. On the next Sabbath, he taught the people in the synagogue.
-\v 32 They were continually amazed at what he was teaching, because he spoke with confidence.
+\v 32 They were continually amazed at what he was teaching because he spoke with confidence.
 
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 \v 33 That day, there was a man in the synagogue who was controlled by an evil spirit. The man shouted very loudly,
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 \v 40 When the sun was setting that day, many people brought to Jesus their friends or relatives who were sick with various diseases. He put his hands on them and healed all of them.
-\v 41 He also was forcing evil spirits to come out of many people. As the evil spirits left those people, they shouted to Jesus, "You are the Son of God!" But he commanded those evil spirits not to tell people about him, because they knew that he was the Christ.
+\v 41 He also was forcing evil spirits to come out of many people. As the evil spirits left those people, they shouted to Jesus, "You are the Son of God!" But he commanded those evil spirits not to tell people about him because they knew that he was the Christ.
 
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 \v 4 After he finished teaching them, he said to Simon, "Take the boat out to deeper water and let your nets down into the water to catch some fish."
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-\v 5 Simon replied, "Master, we worked hard through the whole night, and yet we did not catch any fish. But I will let down the nets again, because you told me to."
+\v 5 Simon replied, "Master, we worked hard through the whole night, and yet we did not catch any fish. But I will let down the nets again because you told me to."
 \v 6 So Simon and his men let down their nets and they caught so many fish that their nets began to break.
 \v 7 They motioned to their fishing partners in the other boat to come and help them. So they came and filled both boats so full with fish that they began to sink.
 
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 \v 17 Jesus came down from the hills with his disciples and stood on a level area. There was a great crowd of his disciples there. There was also a large group of people who had come from Jerusalem and from many other places in the region of Judea, and from the coastal areas near the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
 \v 18 They came to hear Jesus teach them and to be healed from their diseases. He also healed those whom evil spirits had troubled.
-\v 19 Everyone in the crowd tried to touch him, because he was healing everyone by his power.
+\v 19 Everyone in the crowd tried to touch him because he was healing everyone by his power.
 
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-\v 20 Then he looked at his disciples and said, "It is very good for you who are poor, because God is ruling you.
-\v 21 It is very good for you who are hungry now, because God will give you everything you need.
-\p "It is very good for you who are grieving now, because God will someday make you laugh with joy.
+\v 20 Then he looked at his disciples and said, "It is very good for you who are poor because God is ruling you.
+\v 21 It is very good for you who are hungry now because God will give you everything you need.
+\p "It is very good for you who are grieving now because God will someday make you laugh with joy.
 
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 \v 31 In whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way that you should act toward them.
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-\v 32 "If you love only those who love you, do not expect God to praise you for doing that, because even sinners love those who love them.
-\v 33 If you do good things only for those who do good things for you, do not expect God to reward you for doing that, because even sinners do that.
-\v 34 If you lend money or property only to those who will give it back to you, do not expect that God will reward you for doing that! Even sinners lend to other sinners, because they expect them to pay everything back.
+\v 32 "If you love only those who love you, do not expect God to praise you for doing that because even sinners love those who love them.
+\v 33 If you do good things only for those who do good things for you, do not expect God to reward you for doing that because even sinners do that.
+\v 34 If you lend money or property only to those who will give it back to you, do not expect that God will reward you for doing that! Even sinners lend to other sinners because they expect them to pay everything back.
 
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 \v 35 Instead, love your enemies! Do good things for them! Lend to them, and do not expect them to pay anything back! Then God will give you a great reward. And you will be children of God the Most High, since God is kind even to people who are unthankful and wicked.
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 \v 46 Jesus said to the people, "Why do you call me 'Lord' when you do not even obey what I say to do?
 \v 47 Let me tell you what people are like who come to me, hear my teachings, and obey them.
-\v 48 They are like a man who dug deep into the ground to prepare to build his house. He made sure that the foundation for the house was built on solid rock. Then there was a flood and a torrent of water was beating against the house. But the torrent could not even shake the house, because the house was built on a solid foundation.
+\v 48 They are like a man who dug deep into the ground to prepare to build his house. He made sure that the foundation for the house was built on solid rock. Then there was a flood and a torrent of water was beating against the house. But the torrent could not even shake the house because the house was built on a solid foundation.
 
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 \v 49 But some people who hear my teachings do not obey them. They are like a man who built a house on top of the ground without building a foundation. When the river flooded, the house collapsed immediately and was completely ruined."
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-\v 4 One day a very large crowd was gathering, because people were traveling to see Jesus from many different towns. Then he told them this story:
+\v 4 One day a very large crowd was gathering because people were traveling to see Jesus from many different towns. Then he told them this story:
 \v 5 "A man went out to his field to plant some grain seeds. As he was scattering them over the soil, some of the seeds fell on the hard pathway. Then people walked on those seeds, and birds ate them.
 \v 6 Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground that had very little soil. Therefore, as soon as the seeds grew, the plants dried up because there was no moisture.
 
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 As everyone around Jesus was saying they had not touched him, Peter said, "Master, there are many people crowding around you and pressing up against you, so any one of them might have touched you!"
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-\v 46 But Jesus said, "I know that someone deliberately touched me, because power has gone out of me to heal that person."
+\v 46 But Jesus said, "I know that someone deliberately touched me because power has gone out of me to heal that person."
 
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 \v 47 And when the woman realized that she could not hide, she came trembling to him and she lay facedown on the ground before him. As the other people were listening, she told Jesus why she had touched him and that she had been healed immediately.
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 \v 51 When he arrived outside the house, Jesus did not allow anyone to go in the house with him, except for Peter, John and James, and the girl's mother and father.
 \v 52 And all the people there were crying loudly to show that they were very sad because the girl had died. But Jesus said to them, "Stop crying! She is not dead! She is just sleeping!"
-\v 53 And the people laughed at him, because they knew that the girl was dead.
+\v 53 And the people laughed at him because they knew that the girl was dead.
 
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 \v 54 But Jesus took hold of her hand and called to her, saying, "Child, get up!"
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-\v 7 Herod, the ruler over the district of Galilee, heard about everything that was happening. He was perplexed, because some people were saying that John the Baptizer had become alive again.
+\v 7 Herod, the ruler over the district of Galilee, heard about everything that was happening. He was perplexed because some people were saying that John the Baptizer had become alive again.
 \v 8 Other people were saying that the prophet Elijah had appeared again, and still others were saying that one of the other prophets from long ago had become alive again.
 \v 9 But Herod said, "It cannot be John because I had his head cut off. So who is this man that I am hearing these things about?" And he kept looking for a way to see Jesus.
 
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-\v 49 John replied to Jesus, "Master, we saw a man who was using your name to command demons to come out of people. So we told him to stop doing that, because he is not following you as part of our group."
+\v 49 John replied to Jesus, "Master, we saw a man who was using your name to command demons to come out of people. So we told him to stop doing that because he is not following you as part of our group."
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 \v 50 But Jesus said, "Do not stop him from doing that! If someone is not doing something that is harmful to you, then what he is doing is helpful to you!"
 
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 \v 5 Whenever you enter a house, first say to those people, 'May God give peace to you who are in this house!'
 \v 6 If the people who live there are desiring to have God's peace, they will experience the peace that you are offering them. If the people who live there are not desiring to have God's peace, the peace you have offered will return to you.
-\v 7 Stay in that same house until you leave that village. Do not move around from one house to another. Eat and drink whatever they provide for you, because a worker deserves to receive payment for his work.
+\v 7 Stay in that same house until you leave that village. Do not move around from one house to another. Eat and drink whatever they provide for you because a worker deserves to receive payment for his work.
 
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 \v 8 Whenever you enter a town and the people there welcome you, eat whatever food they provide for you.
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-\v 13 "How terrible it will be for you people who live in the cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida, because you refuse to repent! If the miracles that I performed for you had been done in the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon, the wicked people who lived there would long ago have shown that they were sorry for their sins by sitting on the ground wearing coarse cloth and putting ashes on their heads.
+\v 13 "How terrible it will be for you people who live in the cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida because you refuse to repent! If the miracles that I performed for you had been done in the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon, the wicked people who lived there would long ago have shown that they were sorry for their sins by sitting on the ground wearing coarse cloth and putting ashes on their heads.
 \v 14 So on the final day when God judges everyone, he will punish you more severely than the wicked people who lived in Tyre and Sidon because you did not repent and believe in me, even though you saw me do miracles!
 \v 15 I also have something to say to you people who live in the town of Capernaum. Do you think you will be honored up in heaven? On the contrary, you will be brought down to the place of the dead!"
 
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 \v 42 "But how terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You carefully give to God a tenth of all you have, including even the herbs that you grow in your gardens. But then you do not love God or act justly toward others. You should make sure that you love God and act justly toward others in addition to giving to God.
 
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-\v 43 How terrible it will be for you Pharisees, because you like to sit in the most important seats in the synagogues, and you like people to greet you with special honor in the marketplaces.
-\v 44 How terrible it will be for you, because you are like unmarked graves that cannot be seen, which people walk over without realizing it and become ceremonially unclean."
+\v 43 How terrible it will be for you Pharisees because you like to sit in the most important seats in the synagogues, and you like people to greet you with special honor in the marketplaces.
+\v 44 How terrible it will be for you because you are like unmarked graves that cannot be seen, which people walk over without realizing it and become ceremonially unclean."
 
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 \v 46 Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you who are experts in the Jewish laws! You weigh people down with very heavy burdens, yet you will not do even the smallest thing to help people bear those burdens!
 
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-\v 47 How terrible it will be for you, because you construct buildings to mark the graves of the prophets, but your ancestors are the ones who killed them!
+\v 47 How terrible it will be for you because you construct buildings to mark the graves of the prophets, but your ancestors are the ones who killed them!
 \v 48 So when you build these buildings, you are declaring that you approve of what your ancestors did when they killed the prophets.
 
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 \v 39 But you must also remember this: If the owner of a house knew what time the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed the thief to break into his house.
-\v 40 So be ready, because I, the Son of Man, will come again at a time when you do not expect me."
+\v 40 So be ready because I, the Son of Man, will come again at a time when you do not expect me."
 
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 \v 5 When you find it, you will joyfully put it on your shoulders to carry it home.
 
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-\v 6 Then when you arrive home, you will call together your friends and neighbors and say to them: 'Be joyful with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!'
+\v 6 Then when you arrive home, you will call together your friends and neighbors and say to them: 'Be joyful with me because I have found my sheep that was lost!'
 \v 7 I tell you that, in a similar way, there will be more joy in heaven because of one sinner who repents from his sins than many people who were already right with God and do not need to repent.
 
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 \v 8 "Or, suppose that a woman has ten very valuable silver coins and then she loses one of them. Certainly she will light a lamp and sweep the floor and search carefully until she finds it.
-\v 9 When she finds it, she will call together her friends and neighbors and say to them, 'Be very happy with me, because I have found the coin that I lost!'
+\v 9 When she finds it, she will call together her friends and neighbors and say to them, 'Be very happy with me because I have found the coin that I lost!'
 \v 10 I tell you that in a similar way there is much joy among the angels of God because of one sinner who repents from his sins."
 
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 \v 31 "But his father said to him, 'My son, you are always with me, and all that I own is yours.
-\v 32 But it is right for us to rejoice and celebrate, because it is as though your brother was dead and is alive again! It is as though he was lost and has now been found!'"
+\v 32 But it is right for us to rejoice and celebrate because it is as though your brother was dead and is alive again! It is as though he was lost and has now been found!'"
 
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 \v 1 Jesus also said to his disciples, "Once there was a rich man who had a household manager. One day the rich man was told that the manager was managing his property so badly that he was causing the rich man to lose his possessions.
-\v 2 So he called the manager to come to him and said to him, 'What you have been doing is terrible! Give me a final written report of what you have been managing, because you may no longer be my household manager!'
+\v 2 So he called the manager to come to him and said to him, 'What you have been doing is terrible! Give me a final written report of what you have been managing because you may no longer be my household manager!'
 
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 \v 3 There was a widow in that city who kept coming to that judge, saying, 'Please get justice for me from the man who is opposing me in court.
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 \v 4 "For a long time the judge refused to help her. But later, he said to himself, 'I do not revere God and I do not care about people,
-\v 5 but this widow keeps bothering me! So I will judge her case and make sure she is treated fairly, because if I do not do that, she will exhaust me by continually coming to me!'"
+\v 5 but this widow keeps bothering me! So I will judge her case and make sure she is treated fairly because if I do not do that, she will exhaust me by continually coming to me!'"
 
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-\v 13 "But the tax collector stood far away from the other people in the temple courtyard. He would not even look up toward heaven. Instead, he beat on his chest and said, 'O God, please be merciful to me and forgive me, because I am a terrible sinner!'"
+\v 13 "But the tax collector stood far away from the other people in the temple courtyard. He would not even look up toward heaven. Instead, he beat on his chest and said, 'O God, please be merciful to me and forgive me because I am a terrible sinner!'"
 \v 14 Then Jesus said, "I tell you that the tax collector was forgiven as they left to go home, but not the Pharisee. This is because everyone who exalts himself will be made humble, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."
 
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 \v 8 Then Zacchaeus stood up while they were eating and said to Jesus, "Lord, I want you to know that I am going to give half of what I own to poor people. And as for the people whom I have cheated, I will pay them back four times the amount I have gotten from them."
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-\v 9 Jesus said to him, "Today God has saved this household, because this man has shown that he is a true descendant of Abraham.
+\v 9 Jesus said to him, "Today God has saved this household because this man has shown that he is a true descendant of Abraham.
 \v 10 Remember this: I, the Son of Man, came to find and save people like you who have gone astray from God."
 
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 \v 5 They discussed this among themselves. They said, "If we answer, 'God commanded him,' then he will say, 'So why did you not believe him?'
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-\v 6 But if we say, 'It was only humans who told him to baptize,' the people will stone us to death, because they all believe that John was a prophet that God sent."
+\v 6 But if we say, 'It was only humans who told him to baptize,' the people will stone us to death because they all believe that John was a prophet that God sent."
 
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 \v 7 So they replied that they did not know who told John to baptize.
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 \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.
+\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.
 \v 24 Many of them will die because soldiers will attack them with weapons. Others will become prisoners and they will be sent to many places around the world. The Gentiles will keep marching their troops through the streets of Jerusalem until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
 
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 \v 25 "At this time, strange things will happen to the sun, the moon, and the stars. And on earth, the nations will become very frightened, and they will become confused because of the roaring ocean and its huge waves.
-\v 26 People will be so afraid that they will faint, because they are waiting for what will happen next in the world. The stars in the sky will have to leave from their usual places.
+\v 26 People will be so afraid that they will faint because they are waiting for what will happen next in the world. The stars in the sky will have to leave from their usual places.
 
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 \v 27 Then all people will see me, the Son of Man, coming in the clouds with power and brilliant light.
-\v 28 So when those terrible things begin to happen, stand up straight and look upward, because God will soon rescue you."
+\v 28 So when those terrible things begin to happen, stand up straight and look upward because God will soon rescue you."
 
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 \v 21 But look! The person who will hand me over to my enemies is here eating with me.
-\v 22 Indeed, I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what God has planned. But how terrible it will be for the man who hands me over to my enemies!"
+\v 22 Indeed, I, the Son of Man, will die because that is what God has planned. But how terrible it will be for the man who hands me over to my enemies!"
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 \v 23 Then the apostles began to ask one another, "Which one of us is planning to do this thing?"
 
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 \v 6 When Pilate heard their words, he asked, "Does this man come from the district of Galilee?"
-\v 7 Because Pilate learned that Jesus was from Galilee, where Herod Antipas ruled, he sent Jesus to him, because Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.
+\v 7 Because Pilate learned that Jesus was from Galilee, where Herod Antipas ruled, he sent Jesus to him because Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.
 
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-\v 8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad. He had been wanting for a long time to see Jesus, because he was hearing many things about him and wanted to see him perform a miracle.
+\v 8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad. He had been wanting for a long time to see Jesus because he was hearing many things about him and wanted to see him perform a miracle.
 \v 9 So he asked Jesus many questions, but Jesus did not reply to any of them.
 \v 10 And the chief priests and some experts in the Jewish laws stood near him, accusing him very strongly of all kinds of crimes.
 
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 \v 14 He said to them, "You brought this man to me, saying he has been leading the people to revolt. But I want you to know that after having examined him while you were listening, I do not think he is guilty of any of the things you have told me about.
 
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-\v 15 Even Herod does not think he is guilty. I know this, because he sent him back to us without punishing him. So it is clear that this man does not deserve to die.
+\v 15 Even Herod does not think he is guilty. I know this because he sent him back to us without punishing him. So it is clear that this man does not deserve to die.
 \v 16 So I will tell my soldiers to whip him and then set him free."
 \v 17 (Pilate said this because he had to set free one prisoner at the Passover Celebration.)
 
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 \v 33 When they came to the place named "The Skull," there they crucified Jesus by nailing him to a cross. They did the same thing to the two criminals. They put one at the right side of Jesus and one at his left side.
-\v 34 But Jesus said, "Father, forgive these people who are doing this, because they do not really know to whom they are doing this." Then the soldiers divided his clothes by gambling with something like dice to decide which piece of clothing each one would get.
+\v 34 But Jesus said, "Father, forgive these people who are doing this because they do not really know to whom they are doing this." Then the soldiers divided his clothes by gambling with something like dice to decide which piece of clothing each one would get.
 
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 \v 35 Many people stood nearby, watching. Even the Jewish leaders were mocking Jesus, saying, "He saved other people! Now if he really is the Christ, God's Chosen One, then he should save himself!"
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 \v 28 They came near to the village to which the two men were going. He indicated that he would go further,
-\v 29 but they urged him not to do that. They said, "Stay with us tonight, because it is late in the afternoon and it will soon be dark." So he went in the house to stay with them.
+\v 29 but they urged him not to do that. They said, "Stay with us tonight because it is late in the afternoon and it will soon be dark." So he went in the house to stay with them.
 
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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.
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 \v 36 As they were saying that, Jesus himself suddenly appeared among them. He said to them, "May God give you peace!"
-\v 37 They were startled and afraid, because they thought they were seeing a ghost!
+\v 37 They were startled and afraid because they thought they were seeing a ghost!
 
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 \v 38 He said to them, "You should not be alarmed! And you should not doubt that I am alive.