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15-EZR.usfm

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 \v 17 By the first day of the first month of the next year they had finished determining which men had married women who were not Israelites.
 
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-\v 18 This is a list of the names of the priests who had married non-Jewish women, and the clans to which they belonged.
+\v 18 This is a list of the names of the priests who had married foreign women, and the clans to which they belonged.
 In the clan of Jeshua and his brothers, who were sons of Jehozadak, there were Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
 \v 19 They solemnly promised to divorce their wives, and they each sacrificed a ram to be an offering to atone for their sins.
 
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 \v 22 In the clan of Pashhur there were Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
 
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-\v 23 The descendants of Levi who had married non-Jewish women were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (whose other name was Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
+\v 23 The descendants of Levi who had married foreign women were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (whose other name was Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
 \v 24 There was Eliashib the musician. Among the temple guards there were Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
 \v 25 This is a list of the names of the other Israelites who had married foreign wives:
 In the clan of Parosh there were Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah.

41-MAT.usfm

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 \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."
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-\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!
+\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 as this 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 feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when God will rule from heaven over everything completely.
+\v 11 I tell you truly that many other 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 feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when God will rule from heaven over everything completely.
 \v 12 But as for the Jews whom God intended to rule—he 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 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.
 

43-LUK.usfm

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 \v 28 Then Jesus continued by saying, "You will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the distance. All the prophets who lived long ago will also be there, where God will rule everything as king. But you will be outside, crying and grinding your teeth in pain!
-\v 29 Furthermore, many non-Jewish people will be inside. There will be ones who have come from lands to the north, east, south, and west. They will be feasting to celebrate that God is ruling everything.
+\v 29 Furthermore, many people will be inside. There will be ones who have come from lands to the north, east, south, and west. They will be feasting to celebrate that God is ruling everything.
 \v 30 Think about this: Some people who seem the least important now will be the most important then, and others who seem important now will be the least important then."
 
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45-ACT.usfm

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 \v 27 While he was talking to Cornelius, Peter and the others entered the house and saw that many people had gathered together there.
-\v 28 Then Peter said to them, "You all know that all of us Jews think we are disobeying our Jewish laws if we associate with those who are descendants of non-Jewish parents or if we even visit in their homes. However, God has shown me in a vision that I must not say any more, that anyone is so defiled and unclean that God would not accept him.
+\v 28 Then Peter said to them, "You all know that all of us Jews think we are disobeying our laws if we associate with those who are Gentiles or if we even visit in their homes. However, God has shown me in a vision that I must not say any more, that anyone is so defiled and unclean that God would not accept him.
 \v 29 So when you sent some men to ask me to come here, I came right away without objection. So, please tell me, why have you asked me to come here?"
 
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 \v 44 While Peter was still speaking those words, suddenly the Holy Spirit came down on all those people from other nations who were listening to the message.
-\v 45 The Jewish believers who had come with Peter from Joppa were amazed that God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the Gentile people, as well.
+\v 45 The believers who had come with Peter from Joppa were amazed that God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the Gentile people, as well.
 
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-\v 46 The Jewish believers knew that God had done that because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
-\v 47 to the other Jewish believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit just like he gave him to us Jewish believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
-\v 48 Then Peter told those non-Jewish people that they should be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay with them several days. So Peter and the other Jewish believers did that.
+\v 46 The believers knew that God had done that because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
+\v 47 to the other believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit just like he gave him to us believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
+\v 48 Then Peter told them that they should be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay with them several days. So Peter and the other believers did that.
 
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 \v 1 The apostles and other believers who lived in various towns in the province of Judea heard people say that the Gentiles had also believed the message of God about Jesus.
-\v 2 But there were some Jewish believers in Jerusalem who wanted all followers of Christ to be circumcised. When Peter returned from Caesarea to Jerusalem, they met with him and criticized him.
+\v 2 But there were some believers in Jerusalem who wanted all followers of Christ to be circumcised. When Peter returned from Caesarea to Jerusalem, they met with him and criticized him.
 \v 3 They said to him, "Not only was it wrong for you to visit in the homes of uncircumcised men, you even ate with them!"
 
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 \v 11 At that exact moment, three men who had been sent from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying.
-\v 12 God's Spirit told me that I should not hesitate to go with them even though they were not Jews. Six Jewish believers also went with me to Caesarea, and then we went into that non-Jewish man's house.
+\v 12 God's Spirit told me that I should not hesitate to go with them. Six brothers also went with me to Caesarea, and then we went into that man's house.
 \v 13 He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his house. The angel told him, 'Tell some men to go to Joppa and bring back Simon whose other name is Peter.
 \v 14 He will tell you how you and everyone else in your house will be saved.'
 
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 \v 19 After Stephen died, many of the believers left Jerusalem and went to other places because they were suffering there in Jerusalem. Some of them went to Phoenicia, some went to the Island of Cyprus, and others went to Antioch, a city in Syria. In those places they were continually telling people the message about Jesus, but they told only other Jewish people.
-\v 20 Some of the believers were men from the Island of Cyprus and Cyrene city in north Africa. They went to Antioch and were also telling non-Jewish people about the Lord Jesus.
-\v 21 The Lord helped those believers to preach effectively and many non-Jewish people believed their message and put their faith in the Lord.
+\v 20 Some of the believers were men from the Island of Cyprus and Cyrene city in north Africa. They went to Antioch and were also telling the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.
+\v 21 The Lord helped those believers to preach effectively and many people believed their message and put their faith in the Lord.
 
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-\v 48 When the Gentiles heard those words, they began to rejoice, and they gave God praise for the message about Jesus. All of the non-Jewish people whom God had chosen for eternal life believed the message about the Lord Jesus.
+\v 48 When the Gentiles heard those words, they began to rejoice, and they gave God praise for the message about Jesus. All of the Gentiles whom God had chosen for eternal life believed the message about the Lord Jesus.
 \v 49 At that time, many of the believers traveled around throughout that region, spreading the message about the Lord Jesus everywhere they went.
 
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-\v 50 However, some leaders of the Jews talked to some important women who worshiped with them, as well as the most important men in the city. They persuaded them to try to stop Paul and Barnabas. So those non-Jewish people led many people against Paul and Barnabas, and they drove them out of their region.
+\v 50 However, some leaders of the Jews talked to some important women who worshiped with them, as well as the most important men in the city. They persuaded them to try to stop Paul and Barnabas. So those men led many people against Paul and Barnabas, and they drove them out of their region.
 \v 51 As the two apostles were leaving, they shook the dust from their feet to show those leaders that God had rejected them and would punish them. Then they left the city of Antioch and went to the city of Iconium.
 \v 52 Meanwhile the believers continued to be filled with joy and with the power of the Holy Spirit.
 
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 \v 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard about that, they were very upset, so they tore their own clothes. They rushed among the people, shouting,
 \v 15 "Men, you must not kill those bulls to worship us! We are not gods! We are just human beings with the same feelings as you! We have come to tell you some good news! We have come to tell you about the God who is all-powerful. He wants you to stop worshiping other gods, because they cannot help you. This true God made the heavens, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them.
-\v 16 In the past, all of you non-Jewish people worshiped whatever gods that you wanted to. God let them live as they wanted to live. 
+\v 16 In the past, all of you people worshiped whatever gods that you wanted to. God let them live as they wanted to live. 
 
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 \v 17 But he has shown us that he acts kindly toward us. He is the one who causes it to rain and causes crops to grow. He is the one who gives you plenty of food, and fills your hearts with joy."
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-\v 1 Then some Jewish believers went down from Judea province to Antioch. They started teaching the non-Jewish believers there, saying, "You must be circumcised to show that you belong to God, as Moses commanded in the laws that he received from God. If you do not do that, you will not be saved."
+\v 1 Then some men went down from Judea province to Antioch. They started teaching the brothers there, saying, "You must be circumcised to show that you belong to God, as Moses commanded in the laws that he received from God. If you do not do that, you will not be saved."
 \v 2 Paul and Barnabas strongly disagreed with those Jews and started arguing with them. So the believers at Antioch appointed Paul and Barnabas and some of the other believers to go to Jerusalem, in order that they might discuss this matter with the apostles and other leaders.
 
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 \v 3 After Paul, Barnabas, and the others were sent on their way by the believers in Antioch, they traveled through the provinces of Phoenicia and Samaria. When they stopped at different places along the way, they reported to the believers that many Gentiles had become believers. As a result, all the believers in those places rejoiced greatly.
-\v 4 When Paul, Barnabas, and the others arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the apostles, other elders, and the other believers in the group there. Then Paul and Barnabas reported the things that God had enabled them to do among non-Jewish people.
+\v 4 When Paul, Barnabas, and the others arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the apostles, other elders, and the other believers in the group there. Then Paul and Barnabas reported the things that God had done through them.
 
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-\v 5 But some of the Jewish believers who belonged to the Pharisee sect stood up among the other believers and said to them, "The Gentiles who have believed in Jesus must be circumcised, and they must be told to obey the laws that God gave to Moses."
+\v 5 But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee sect stood up among the other believers and said to them, "The Gentiles who have believed in Jesus must be circumcised, and they must be told to obey the laws that God gave to Moses."
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 \v 6 Then the apostles and the elders met together in order to talk about this matter.
 
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 \v 22 The apostles and the other elders, along with all the other believers in Jerusalem, accepted what James had said. Then they decided that they should choose men from among themselves and that they should send them, along with Paul and Barnabas, to Antioch, to let the believers there know what the leaders at Jerusalem had decided. So they chose Judas, who was also called Barsabbas, and Silas. These were both leaders among the believers at Jerusalem.
-\v 23 Then they wrote the following letter that they asked Judas and Silas to take to the believers at Antioch: "We apostles and elders who are your fellow believers send our greetings to you as we write this to you non-Jewish believers who live in Antioch and other places in the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.
+\v 23 Then they wrote the following letter that they asked Judas and Silas to take to the believers at Antioch: "We apostles and elders who are your fellow believers send our greetings to you as we write this to you believers who live in Antioch and other places in the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.
 
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 \v 24 People have told us that some men from among us went to you, although we had not sent them to you. We heard that they have troubled you by telling you things that confused your thinking.
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 \v 1 Paul and Silas went to the cities of Derbe and Lystra and visited the believers there. A believer whose name was Timothy lived in Lystra. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek.
 \v 2 The believers in Lystra and Iconium said good things about Timothy,
-\v 3 and Paul wanted to take Timothy with him when he went to other places, so he circumcised Timothy. He did that so that the Jews who lived in those places would accept Timothy, because they knew that his non-Jewish father had not circumcised him.
+\v 3 and Paul wanted to take Timothy with him when he went to other places, so he circumcised Timothy. He did that so that the Jews who lived in those places would accept Timothy, because they knew that his father was a Greek and his father had not circumcised him.
 
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 \v 3 He showed from the scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Christ would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus, the one I proclaim to you, 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.
+\v 4 Some of them there believed what Paul had said and began to meet with Paul and Silas. There were also many Gentiles and some 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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-\v 5 But some leaders of the Jews became angry because many people believed what Paul taught. So they went to the public square and persuaded some evil men to follow them. In this way, the leaders of the Jews gathered a crowd and caused them to make a lot of noise. Those Jews and others ran to the house of a man named Jason where Paul and Silas were staying. They wanted to bring Paul and Silas outside to where the crowd of people were.
+\v 5 But some leaders of the Jews became angry because many people believed what Paul taught. So they went to the public square and persuaded some evil men to follow them. In this way, they gathered a crowd and caused them to make a lot of noise, and they formed a mob and they ran to the house of a man named Jason where Paul and Silas were staying. They wanted to bring Paul and Silas outside to where the crowd of people were.
 \v 6 They discovered that Paul and Silas were not at the house, but they found Jason and grabbed him. They dragged him and some of the other believers who were with him to where the city rulers were. They said, "The men who have caused trouble everywhere in the world have come here also,
 \v 7 and this fellow Jason has asked them to stay at his house. They are acting against the emperor. They say that another person, whose name is Jesus, is the real king!"
 
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 \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 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.
+\v 12 Because of Paul's teaching about how many of the the Jews had believed in Jesus, and also some of the important Greek women and many of them also believed in him.
 
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 \v 4 Every Sabbath, Paul went to the Jewish meeting place, where he spoke to both Jews and Greeks. He taught them about Jesus.
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 \v 5 When Silas and Timothy came from the region of Macedonia, Paul was strongly moved by the Spirit to tell the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
-\v 6 But the Jews began to turn against Paul and to say evil things about him. So he shook the dust from his clothes and he said to them, "If God punishes you, it is your responsibility, not mine! From now on I will talk to those who are not Jewish!"
+\v 6 But the Jews began to turn against Paul and to say evil things about him. So he shook the dust from his clothes and he said to them, "If God punishes you, it is your responsibility, not mine! From now on I will talk to the Gentiles!"
 
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-\v 7 So Paul left the Jewish meeting place and went into a house that was next to it, and preached there. Titius Justus, the owner of the house, was a non-Jewish man who worshiped God.
+\v 7 So Paul left the Jewish meeting place and went into a house that was next to it, and preached there. Titius Justus, the owner of the house, was a man who worshiped God.
 \v 8 After that, the ruler of the Jewish meeting place, whose name was Crispus, and all of his family believed in the Lord. Many other people in Corinth heard about Crispus and his family, they also believed in Jesus and were baptized.
 
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 \v 33 Some of the Jews advised a Jewish man named Alexander, and they pushed him to the front of the crowd. So Alexander waved his hands to make the people stop shouting. He wanted to give a defense before the people there.
-\v 34 But many of the non-Jewish people knew that Alexander was a Jew and knew that the Jews did not worship the goddess Artemis. So the people shouted for two hours, "Great is the goddess Artemis of the Ephesians!"
+\v 34 But many of the people knew that Alexander was a Jew and knew that the Jews did not worship the goddess Artemis. So the people shouted for two hours, "Great is the goddess Artemis of the Ephesians!"
 
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 \v 24 Go with these men to the temple and do the ceremonies there necessary for you and them to be able to worship in the temple. Then, when it is time for them to offer the sacrifices, pay for what they offer. After that, they can shave their heads to show that they have done what they said they would do. When people see you in the courts of the temple with those men, they will know that what they have been told about you is not true. Instead, all of them will know that you obey all our Jewish laws.
 
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-\v 25 As for the non-Jewish believers, we elders here in Jerusalem have talked about which of our laws they should obey, and we wrote them a letter, telling them what we decided. We wrote that they should not eat meat that people have offered as a sacrifice to any idol, that they should not eat blood from animals, and that they should not eat meat from animals that people have killed by strangling them. We also told them that they should not sleep with someone to whom they are not married."
+\v 25 As for the Gentiles who believed, we elders have talked about which of our laws they should obey, and we wrote them a letter, telling them what we decided. We wrote that they should not eat meat that people have offered as a sacrifice to any idol, that they should not eat blood from animals, and that they should not eat meat from animals that people have killed by strangling them. We also told them that they should not sleep with someone to whom they are not married."
 \v 26 So Paul agreed to do what they asked, and the next day he took the four men, and together they purified themselves. After that, Paul went to the temple courts and told the priest what day they would finish purifying themselves and when they would offer the animals as sacrifices for each of them.
 
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 \v 22 However, God has been helping me, so I have continued to proclaim these things to this very day. I have continued to tell both ordinary people and important people exactly what the prophets and Moses said would happen.
-\v 23 They said that the Christ would suffer and die, that he would be the first to rise from the dead. They also said that he would proclaim, both to his own people and to the non-Jewish people, that God is truly able to save them."
+\v 23 They said that the Christ would suffer and die, that he would be the first to rise from the dead. They also said that he would proclaim, both to his own people and to the Gentiles, that God is truly able to save them."
 
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46-ROM.usfm

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-\v 19 Furthermore, it is true that the people of Israel really did hear this message. They understood it, too, but they refused to believe it. Remember that Moses was the first one to warn the people like this. He told them that God said, "You think that the non-Jewish nations are not real nations at all. But some of their people will believe in me, and I will bless them. Then you will envy them and be angry at them, people who you do not think understand me."
+\v 19 Furthermore, it is true that the people of Israel really did hear this message. They understood it, too, but they refused to believe it. Remember that Moses was the first one to warn the people like this. He told them that God said, "There are some people who have no nation at all. But some of their people will believe in me, and I will bless them. Then you will envy them and be angry at them, people who you do not think understand me."
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-\v 25 My non-Jewish fellow believers, I certainly want you to understand this secret truth, so that you do not think you know everything: Many people of Israel will continue to be stubborn until all the Gentiles whom God has chosen have believed in Jesus.
+\v 25 I certainly want you to understand this secret truth, so that you do not think you know everything: Many people of Israel will continue to be stubborn until all the Gentiles whom God has chosen have believed in Jesus.
 
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 \v 26 And then God will save all of Israel. Then these words in the scriptures will become true:
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 \v 26 The believers in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia decided to contribute money to help the believers in Jerusalem, God's own people, who are poor.
-\v 27 They themselves decided to do this, but truly they owe something to God's people in Jerusalem. The non-Jewish believers benefited spiritually from Jewish believers because they heard the message about Christ from them, so the Gentiles should also help the Jewish believers in Jerusalem by giving them material things.
+\v 27 They themselves decided to do this, but truly they owe something to God's people in Jerusalem. The Gentile benefited spiritually from the Gentiles because they heard the message about Christ from them, so the Gentiles should also help the Jewish believers in Jerusalem by giving them material things.
 
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 \v 28 When I finish this task of delivering all this money that the believers in Macedonia and Achaia have given, I will leave Jerusalem and visit you in Rome while I am on my way to Spain.

47-1CO.usfm

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 \v 25 Here is our rule: You may buy and eat whatever meat you want in the market without having to ask whether it was sacrificed to idols or not.
 \v 26 As the psalmist says, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it."
-\v 27 If a non-Jewish unbeliever invites you to a meal, and you desire to go, eat whatever he serves you. God does not require you to ask him about where he purchased the food.
+\v 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to a meal, and you desire to go, eat whatever he serves you. God does not require you to ask him about where he purchased the food.
 
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 \v 28 But if someone says to you, "We bought this food at the idol temple and it was sacrificed to the gods," then do not eat the food, for the good of the person who served it, and so as not to cause conflict in the sense of right and wrong.