Fixes for UDB from John Hutchins and Tom Warren

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@@ -1194,12 +1194,12 @@ They replied, "It is a picture and the name of Caesar."
 
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-\v 24 "But in those days, following the time of suffering, 
-\q1 'the sun will become dark, 
+\v 24 "But in those days, following the time when they suffer terribly,
+\q1 'the sun will become dark,
 \q2 and the moon will not shine;
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-\v 25 the stars will fall from the sky, 
-\q2 and all powerful things in the sky 
+\v 25 the stars will fall from the sky,
+\q2 and all powerful things in the sky
 \q1 will be shaken out of their place.'
 \v 26 Then people will see me, the Son of Man, coming through the clouds powerfully and gloriously.
 \v 27 Then I will send out my angels so they can gather together the people whom God has chosen from everywhere, from the most remote places on earth.
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 \v 62 Jesus said, 
 \q1 "I am. Furthermore, you will see me, the Son of Man, 
-\q2 ruling beside God, the only God who is completely powerful. 
+\q2 ruling beside the Almighty, the one who has complete power. 
 \q1 You will also see me coming with the clouds of heaven, 
 \q2 as the scriptures predicted that the Christ would return!"
 

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-\v 5 Because God has done all that, do your best not only believe in Christ, but to live good lives. And make sure that you are not only living good lives, but that you also learn more and more about God.
+\v 5 Because God has done all that, do your best not only believe in Christ, but to live good lives. And make sure that you are not only to live good lives, but that you are also to learn more and more about God.
 \v 6 In addition, do your best, not only to know more and more about God, but also to control yourself in what you do and say. And make sure that you not only control what you do and say, but also that you are faithful to him. And make sure that you are not only faithful to him, but that you also honor him.
 \v 7 And make sure that you do not only honor him, but that you also have a concern for your fellow believers, as brothers and sisters ought to have for each other. And make sure that you not only have a concern for your fellow believers, but that you also love others.
 
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 \v 8 If you do all these things, and if you do them more and more, that shows that knowing our Lord Jesus Christ produces very great results in your lives.
-\v 9 But if these things are not true about people, it means they are not aware that these things are important, just like a blind person is not aware of what is around him. They think only about earthly matters, just like a shortsighted person sees clearly only things that are near. It seems that they have forgotten that God has forgiven them for their former sinful lives.
+\v 9 But if these things are not true about people, it means they are not aware that these things are important, just like a blind person is not aware of what is around him. They think only about earthly matters, just like a nearsighted person sees clearly only things that are near. It seems that they have forgotten that God has forgiven them for their former sinful lives.
 
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 \v 10 Instead of acting like those people, try to behave so as to make everyone know that God has chosen you to be his people. If you do that, you will certainly never become separated from God,
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-\v 12 I intend to keep on reminding you very frequently about these matters, even though you already know them and are firmly convinced that they are true.
+\v 12 I intend to keep on reminding you very frequently about these matters even though you already know them and are firmly convinced that they are true.
 \v 13 I consider it right that I should help you to continually think about these matters by reminding you about them as long as I am alive,
 \v 14 because I know that I shall die soon, just like our Lord Jesus Christ clearly has revealed to me.
 \v 15 Moreover, I will make every effort by writing these things down to enable you to remember them at all times after I have died.
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 \v 16 We apostles told you that our Lord Jesus Christ is powerful and that he is coming back. We were not basing what we told you on stories that we had cleverly invented. Instead, we told you what we ourselves saw with our own eyes, that the Lord Jesus is supremely great.
-\v 17 God, our Father, greatly honored him when God's great light surrounded him, and he said, "This is my Son, whom I love very much; I am very pleased with him."
+\v 17 God our Father greatly honored him when God's great light surrounded him and he said, "This is my Son, whom I love very much; I am very pleased with him."
 \v 18 We ourselves heard God say that from heaven when we were with Christ on that holy mountain.
 
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-\v 1 Long ago, various people among the Israelites pretended to give true messages from God, and people will do the same with you. At first you will not know who they are, and they make some stop trusting in Christ; they will start thinking that the Lord is not important—although he is the one who redeemed them. But soon, God will make these false prophets perish.
+\v 1 Long ago, various people among the Israelites pretended to give true messages from God. Today there are some people who do the same with you. At first you will not know who they are, and these teachers will come in to your fellowship and they will teach harmful lies, even to the point of denying the Lord who redeemed them, and they will quickly destroy themselves.
 \v 2 And many believers will imitate how these false prophets live. In this way they will insult what is true about God.
-\v 3 They will tell you lies in such a way that they will make a profit off of you. God will not wait very long before he punishes them; they will soon perish.
+\v 3 In their greed these false teachers will make a profit from you, telling you lies and using smooth talk. But long ago God decided to punish them, and he will not delay to destroy them.
 
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 \v 4 God destroyed the angels who sinned. He threw them into the worst place in hell and imprisoned them there in darkness in order to keep them there until he judges and punishes them.
 \v 5 He also destroyed the people who lived in the world long ago. He saved only eight of them, including Noah, who was a righteous preacher. He did this when he destroyed by a flood all the ungodly people who were living then.
-\v 6 He also condemned Sodom and Gomorrah cities and then burned them completely to ashes. This is a warning to those who afterwards would live so as to dishonor God.
+\v 6 He also condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and then burned them completely to ashes. This is a warning to those who afterwards would live so as to dishonor God.
 
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 \v 7 But he rescued Abraham's nephew, Lot, who was a righteous man. Lot was greatly distressed because the people in Sodom were doing very immoral deeds.
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-\v 17 These people who teach falsely are like springs that give no water; they are like clouds that quickly pass overhead before they can give rain. Therefore, God has reserved the darkness of hell for those teachers.
+\v 17 These people who teach falsely are like springs that give no water; they are like clouds that quickly pass overhead before they can give rain. Therefore, God has reserved the darkness of hell for them.
 \v 18 They boast about themselves, but what they say is worth nothing. They persuade people who have recently become believers and who have just now ceased to do wicked things. They persuade them to sin again by doing whatever sinful people like to do.
 \v 19 They tell them that they are free to do whatever they like. But they themselves are slaves who must obey whatever their evil minds tell them to do. Certainly a person is a slave to whatever controls him.
 
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-\v 20 But suppose that you began to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that you stopped doing the things that kept God from accepting you. Then suppose that you began doing those same wicked things again, then you would be even worse off now than you were at first.
-\v 21 It would have been better for them if they had never learned how to live in the right way. But God will punish them even more, since they have rejected what he instructed them to do, what we apostles passed on to them.
-\v 22 The way in which they are behaving again is just like the proverbs that people say: "They are like dogs that return to eat their own vomit," and, "They are like pigs that have washed themselves and then roll again in the mud."
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+\v 20 When they had been set freed from the filthy things of this world when they came to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but then they were caught up again by these filthy things, so that now they are worse off than they were before. 
+\v 21 It would have been better for them if they had never learned how to live in the right way, than to know what was right for them to do, from what they knew from God's law, than for them to turn their backs on the holy commands that God had given to them. 
+\v 22 The way they are living is like the saying that people may have heard: "They are like dogs that return to eat their own vomit," and, "They are like pigs that have washed themselves and then roll again in the mud."
 
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