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\v 67 Then Isaac took Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother, Sarah, and she became his wife. He loved her. In this way Isaac was comforted about his mother's death.
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\v 34 Then Jacob gave to Esau some bread and some stew made of lentils. Esau ate and drank, and then he got up and left. By doing that, Esau showed that he was not interested in his rights as firstborn.
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\v 35 Esau's two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
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\v 46 Rebekah then said to Isaac, "These foreign women whom Esau has married, who are descendants of Heth, are making my life miserable. If Jacob also marries a woman from the descendants of Heth in this area, my life will be worthless!"
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\v 22 This stone that I have set up will mark the place where you appeared to me. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me."
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\v 35 Later she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, "This time I will praise Yahweh," so she called his name Judah. After that, she did not give birth to any more children.
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\v 43 As a result, Jacob became very rich. He owned many large flocks. He also owned many male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.
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\v 55 The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, and he asked God to bless them. Then Laban and his men left and returned home.
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\v 32 The muscle on his hip joint had been injured. So to this present time, because of what happened to Jacob, the Israelite people do not eat the muscle that is attached to the socket of the hips of animals.
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\v 20 He built a stone altar there and named it El Elohe Israel, which means "God, the God of Israel."
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\v 31 But they replied, "Should we have allowed Shechem to treat our sister like a prostitute?"
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\v 29 He was very old when he died and went to join his ancestors who had died previously. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body.
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\v 40-43 Here is a list of all the people groups that were descendants of Esau: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. They all lived in the land of Edom. The land where each people group lived got the same name as the name of the people group.
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\v 36 In the meantime, the men from Midian took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, who was one of the king's officials. He was the captain of the soldiers who protected the king.
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\v 30 Then his younger brother, the one who had the scarlet thread around his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "redness of dawn."
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\v 23 The warden was not concerned with anything that Joseph was taking care of, because Yahweh helped Joseph to do all his work well.
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\v 23 But the chief drink server did not think about Joseph. Instead, he forgot to do what Joseph asked him to do.
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\v 57 People from many nearby countries came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was very severe everywhere.
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\v 38 But Jacob said, "No, I will not let my son go down there with you. His older brother is dead, and he is the only one of my wife Rachel's sons who is left! If something harms him while you are traveling, you would cause me, a gray-haired old man, to die because of sorrow."
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\v 34 When their portions of food were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's portion! So they ate food and drank wine with Joseph until they became very cheerful.
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\v 34 I cannot return to my father if the boy is not with me! I do not want to see how miserable my father would become!"
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\v 28 He said, "What you have said is enough to convince me! My son Joseph is still alive, and I will go and see him before I die!"
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\v 34 answer by saying, 'From the time when we were young, we have taken care of livestock, just as our ancestors did.' If you tell him that, he will let you live in the region of Goshen." Joseph told them to say that because the people of Egypt despised shepherds.
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\v 31 Jacob said, "Swear to me that you will do it!" So Joseph swore to do it. Then Jacob bowed down as he worshiped God, near the head of his bed.
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\v 22 It is to you, who stands above your brothers that I will give the fertile hill in the area of Shechem. I captured that land from the Amor people group, fighting them with my sword and my bow and arrows."
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\v 33 When Jacob finished giving those instructions to his sons, he lay down on his bed again. Then he stopped breathing and died.
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\v 26 So Joseph died in Egypt when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin there.

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\v 22 Then the king commanded all the Egyptian people, saying, "You must throw into the Nile River every Hebrew baby boy that is born! However, you can allow the baby girls to live."
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\v 25 God saw how the Israelite people were being badly treated, and he wanted to help them.
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\v 23 Ever since I went to the king and told him what you told me to say, he has treated your people very badly, and you have not done anything to help them!"
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\v 30 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. I am not a good speaker. So why should the king listen to what I tell him?"
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\v 25 Then one week passed after Yahweh turned the water in the Nile River into blood.
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\v 32 But the king was stubborn this time also, and he did not allow the Israelite people to go.
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\v 35 So, just as Yahweh had predicted by what he told Moses, the king did not allow the Israelite people to leave.
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\v 29 Moses replied, "You are correct! You will never see me again!"
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\v 10 Aaron and Moses did all these miracles in front of the king, but Yahweh made the king stubborn. The king did not let the Israelite people leave his land.
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\v 51 On that very day, Yahweh brought all the tribes of the Israelite people out of Egypt.
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\v 22 The tall cloud did not leave them. It was always in front of them, as a bright white cloud in the daytime and like a tall column of fire in the night.
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\v 31 The Israelites saw what Yahweh did to the Egyptians by his great power, and they were in awe of Yahweh. They trusted in Yahweh, and they also trusted in Moses.
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\v 27 After they left Marah, they came to a place named Elim. There were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there. So they camped there.
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\v 36 Now two liters is a tenth of an ephah.
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\v 16 He said, "A promise was made in front of the throne of Yahweh: Yahweh will fight against the people of Amalek forever!"
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\v 27 Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro returned home.
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\v 26 Do not make an altar that has steps in front of it because if you do that, God could see your naked body as you go up the steps.'"
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\v 36 However, if people know that the bull often attacked other animals before, and its owner did not keep it inside a fence, then the owner of that bull must give the owner of the bull that died one of his own bulls, but he can take away the animal that died and do whatever he wants to with it."
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\v 31 You are people who are set apart to me. I detest the meat of any animal that has been killed by wild animals. Therefore do not eat such meat. Instead, throw it where the dogs can eat it."
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\v 33 Do not allow those people to live in your land in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me just as someone caught in a trap is unable to escape."
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\v 18 Moses went into the cloud on top of the mountain and was there for forty days and nights.
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\v 43 Aaron and his sons must always wear those undershorts when they enter the sacred tent or when they come near to the altar to offer sacrifices in the holy place. If they do not obey this ritual, I will cause them to die. Aaron and all his male descendants must obey this rule forever."
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\v 46 They will know that I am Yahweh God, the one who brought them out of Egypt in order that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, the God whom they worship."
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\v 18 When Yahweh finished talking with Moses on the top of Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone slabs on which he had engraved his commandments with his own fingers.
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\v 35 Later Yahweh caused the people to become sick because they had told Aaron to make the statue of a young bull.
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\v 23 Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but you will not see my face."
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\v 35 The Israelite people would see that Moses' face was still shining. Then he would put the cloth back on his face again until the next time that he went to talk with Yahweh.
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\v 35 He has given to them the ability to do all kinds of work that is done by craftsmen—those who create artistic things, those who make fine white linen, those who embroider designs using blue, purple, or red woolen yarn, and those who make linen cloth. They are able to plan many kinds of artistic work.
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\v 38 To support this curtain, they also made five posts from acacia wood and fastened gold clasps to them. They covered the posts and their rods with gold and made a bronze base for each of those posts.
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\v 29 They also made the sacred oil for anointing and the pure sweet-smelling incense. A skilled perfumer mixed the incense together.
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\v 31 the bases for the posts that supported the curtains that surrounded the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the sacred tent and for the curtains around the courtyard.
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Truly, they had done everything exactly as Yahweh had commanded that it should be done. Then Moses blessed the workmen.
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\v 17 Then he will grasp the bird's wings and tear the bird open partially, but never all the way. Then he will burn it completely in the fire on the altar. And the good odor will be pleasing to Yahweh.
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\v 16 The priest will take a part of it that will symbolize that all the offering truly belongs to Yahweh. He will burn that part on the altar, to be an offering given to Yahweh by burning it in a fire.
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\v 17 This is a command that must be obeyed by you and your descendants forever, wherever you live. You must not eat the fat or the blood of any animal."
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\v 35 Then he must remove all the lamb's fat, and burn all the fat on the altar, like was done with the fat of the offering to promise friendship with Yahweh. He must burn it on top of the other offerings to Yahweh that are being burned. As a result, the priest will request God to forgive that person for his sin, and he will be forgiven.
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\v 19 It is an offering to cause you to no longer be guilty for sinning against me."
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\v 30 But if the blood of those offerings is brought into the sacred tent to enable the people to be forgiven for having sinned, the meat of those animals must not be eaten. The priest must burn that meat completely."
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\v 38 They are regulations that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the Israelite people to start bringing their offerings to him, in the wilderness around Sinai.
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\v 36 So Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh told Moses to tell them.
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\v 24 A fire from Yahweh appeared and burned up the entire offering, together with the fat that was on the altar. When all the people saw this happen, they shouted joyfully and prostrated themselves on the ground to worship Yahweh.
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\v 20 When Moses heard that, he was satisfied and said nothing more.
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\v 47 You must learn what things I say are acceptable to me and what things are not, and learn what things you are permitted to eat and what things you are not permitted to eat.'"
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\v 8 If a woman who gives birth to a child cannot afford a lamb, she must bring two doves or two pigeons. One will be burned completely on the altar, and one will be an offering to enable her to become acceptable to God again. By doing that, the priest will cause her to be forgiven for any sins she has committed, and she no longer will need to be avoided."
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\v 59 These are the regulations concerning mildew on things made of wool or linen or leather, for deciding whether the owner may continue to use those things or not."
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\v 57 these regulations will determine whether people will still be permitted to touch those things or not."
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\v 33 and for any woman during her menstrual period, and for any man who sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period.'"
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\p Moses obeyed all the instructions that Yahweh had given to him.
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\v 16 If you do not obey this rule, I will certainly punish you.'"
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\v 30 Obey all that I command you to do, and do not defile yourselves by following any of the disgusting habits of the people who were there before you came. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who is commanding these things.'"
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\v 37 Obey carefully all my laws and decrees. It is I, Yahweh, who am commanding you these things.'"
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\v 27 You must execute any man or woman among you who consults the spirits of dead people or other spirits. Kill them by throwing stones at them; they will be responsible for their own deaths.'"
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\v 33 And I am the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that I, Yahweh, will be your God."
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\v 44 So Moses gave to the Israelite people all these instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh wanted them to celebrate each year.
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\v 23 Then Moses told the Israelites what they must do to the man who cursed Yahweh, so they took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. They did what Yahweh commanded Moses to tell them to do.
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\v 55 because it is as though you Israelites are my slaves, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from being slaves in Egypt.'"
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\v 46 Those are the commandments, the decrees, and the laws that Yahweh established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelite people by giving them to Moses to tell to them.
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\v 34 Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to tell to the people.

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\v 54 So the Israelite people did everything just like Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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\v 34 The Israelites did everything that Yahweh had told Moses. They set up their tents close to their tribal flags, and when they traveled to a new location, they walked with their own clans and family groups.
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\v 51 Moses gave these silver pieces to Aaron and his sons, as Yahweh had commanded.
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\v 49 They completed the counting of all the descendants of Levi, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. And they told each man what work he was to do and what things he must carry when they moved to a new location.
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\v 31 Even if the woman has not done what the husband suspected, he will not be punished for doing something wrong by bringing his wife to the priest. But if his wife is guilty, she will suffer as a result.'"
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\v 27 Then Yahweh said, "If Aaron and his sons ask me to bless the Israelite people, truly I will bless them."
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\v 89 Whenever Moses entered the sacred tent to talk with Yahweh, he heard Yahweh's voice speaking between the two images of creatures with wings that were above the lid of the sacred chest.
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\v 26 They may help their fellow descendants of Levi do their work at the sacred tent, but they must not do the work themselves. That is what you must tell them about the work they will do."
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\v 23 When Yahweh commanded them to stop and set up their tents, they did that. When he told them to move, they moved. They did whatever Yahweh told Moses they should do.
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\q1 "Yahweh, stay close to the multiplied thousands of us Israelites!"
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\v 35 From there, the Israelites continued walking east until they arrived at Hazeroth, where they stopped and stayed for a long time.
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\v 16 But after she returned, they left Hazeroth and moved north in the Paran Desert and set up their tents there.
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\v 33 We also saw giants there. They are the descendants of Anak (who come from the Nephilim, those giant people). When we saw these giants we felt as small as grasshoppers and they thought that we looked like grasshoppers too."
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\v 41 Do not forget that I am Yahweh, your God. I am the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you might belong to me. I am Yahweh, your God.'"
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\v 50 Then after the plague had ended, Aaron and Moses returned to the entrance of the sacred tent.
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\v 13 Everyone who comes close to Yahweh's sacred tent dies. Are the rest of us going to die, also?"
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\v 32 If you give to the priests the best portions of what you receive, you will not be punished by me for accepting one tenth of the gifts that the people bring to me. But you must consider those gifts to be sacred. If you sin by eating those things in ways that are contrary to these regulations that I have given to you, you will be executed.'"
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\v 22 Anything and any person that someone who has become unacceptable to me has touched will remain unacceptable to me until that evening."
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\v 29 When the Israelite people realized that Aaron had died, they all mourned for him for thirty days.
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\v 41 They slept there, and the next morning Balak took Balaam part way up the mountain to Bamoth Baal village. From there, they could see some of the Israelite people who were down below.
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\v 30 So Balak did what Balaam told him to do. He burned a young bull and a ram on each altar as sacrifices.
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\v 25 Then Balaam and Balak returned to their homes.
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\v 18 They have become your enemies, because they tricked you Israelite people and induced many of you to worship Baal, and because one of your men slept with Kozbi, who was the daughter of a leader of the Midian people group. She was killed at the time the plague started because of the people who sinned at Mount Peor."
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\v 65 They were told what Yahweh had said. He said, "They will all die in this desert," and that is what happened. The only ones who were still alive were Jephunneh's son Caleb and Nun's son Joshua.
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\v 23 Moses laid his hands on him and commissioned him to do the work that Yahweh told Moses to tell him to do.
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\v 31 Bring these offerings and the offering of wine in addition to the animals and flour that you burn on the altar each day. And remember that the animals that you sacrifice must have no defects.'"
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\v 40 Then Moses told to the Israelite people all the things that Yahweh had commanded him.
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\v 16 Those are the rules that Yahweh gave to Moses for husbands and wives, and for young women who are still living with their parents.
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\v 54 Eleazar and Moses accepted these gold items from these commanders and put them in the sacred tent to remind the Israelite people about how Yahweh had helped them defeat the Midian people group.
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\v 42 A man named Nobah went and captured the city of Kenath and the nearby towns, and then he used his own name to be the new name of that area.
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\v 56 And then I will punish you, as I had planned to punish them.'"
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\v 29 Yahweh commanded that all those were the men who should divide the region of Canaan among the Israelite people.
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\v 34 I am Yahweh, and I live among you Israelites, so do not spoil the land by allowing people to murder others without being punished.'"
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\v 46 So we stayed there at Kadesh Barnea for a long time."
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\v 37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people group live, or the banks of the Jabbok River, or the towns of the hill country, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go."
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\v 29 So we remained in the Jordan River valley close to the town of Beth Peor."
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\v 49 It also included all the area in the plain east of the Jordan River valley, extending to the Sea of Arabah (known as the Dead Sea) and east to the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
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\v 33 Conduct your lives as Yahweh our God has commanded us to do, in order that you may live a long time, and in order that things will go well for you when you are living in the land that you will occupy.'"
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\v 25 Yahweh our God will approve of us if we carefully obey everything that he has commanded us to do.'"
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\v 26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise those idols, because they are things that Yahweh has cursed and he promises to destroy them."
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\v 20 If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people groups that you will fight against.
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\v 29 Do not forget that they are your people. You chose them to belong to you. You brought them out from Egypt by your very great power.'"
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\v 22 When our ancestors, Jacob and his family, went down to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now Yahweh our God has caused us to be as numerous as the stars in the sky."
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\v 32 be sure to obey all the rules and decrees that I am giving to you today."
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\v 32 Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.
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\v 18 Yahweh our God will do all those things if you do what he is telling you to do, and if you obey all the commandments that I am giving to you today and do what Yahweh says is right for you to do.
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\v 29 That food will be for the descendants of Levi, because they will not have their own land, and for the foreigners who live among you, and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.
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\v 23 But you must not eat any of the blood; you must drain all the blood on the ground when you kill those animals.
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\v 22 And do not set up any stone pillar to worship any idol, because Yahweh hates them.
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\v 20 If he does that, he will not think that he is more important than his fellow Israelites, and he will completely obey Yahweh's commands. As a result, he and his descendants will rule as kings in Israel for many years."
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\v 22 The answer is that when someone speaks a message about what will happen in the future, a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, you will know that the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of anything that he says.
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\v 21 You must not pity people who are punished like that. The rule should be that a person who has murdered someone else must be executed; one of a person's eyes must be gouged out if he has gouged out someone else's eye, one tooth of a person who has knocked out the tooth of another person must be knocked out; one hand of a person who has cut off the hand of another person must likewise be cut off; one foot of a person who has cut off the foot of another person must also be cut off.
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\v 20 You are permitted to cut down the other trees and use the wood to make ladders and towers to enable you to go over the walls and capture the city."
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\v 23 you must not allow his corpse to remain there all night. You must bury it on the day that he died, because if you keep the corpse on a post, God will curse the land. You must bury the corpse that day, in order that you do not defile the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
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\v 30 A man must not take what belongs to his father by sleeping with any of his father's wives.
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\v 25 When you walk along a path in someone else's field of grain, you are allowed to pluck some of the grain and eat it, but you must not cut any grain with a sickle and take it with you.
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\v 22 Do not forget that Yahweh acted kindly toward you when you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I am commanding you to be kind to those who are needy."
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\v 19 Therefore, when Yahweh our God has given you the land that he promised to give you, and when he has enabled you to rest from fighting all your enemies around you, kill all the Amalek people group, with the result that no one will remember them anymore. Do not forget to do this!
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\v 19 If you do that, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation that he has established, and he will enable you to praise him and honor him. You are a special people to Yahweh, set apart and holy to him, just as he promised."
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\q2 And all the people must reply, 'Amen.'"
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\v 68 Yahweh will send some of you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never be forced to go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies in order to have food to eat, but no one will buy you."
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\v 29 There are some things that Yahweh our God has kept secret, but he has revealed his law to us, and he expects us and our descendants to obey it forever.
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\v 20 Decide to love Yahweh our God and to obey him. If you do that, you and your descendants will live for a long time in the land that Yahweh solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give to them."
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\v 30 Then, while all the Israelite people listened, Moses sang this entire song to them:
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\v 52 When you are on that mountain where I told you to go, you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israelite people, but you will not enter it."
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\v 18 We will put to death anyone who rebels and refuses to follow your orders. Just remember, Joshua, to be strong and brave!"
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\v 24 They said to Joshua, "Yahweh has indeed given this land to us. The people there will not be able to resist us because they are too afraid."
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\v 17 The priests who were carrying the sacred chest of Yahweh stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan River; they continued to stand there until all the people of Israel crossed the river on dry ground.
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\v 24 Yahweh did that in order that all the peoples of the earth may know that he is powerful, and so you may forever give him the honor he deserves."
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\v 15 The commander of Yahweh's army replied, "Take your sandals off of your feet, for the ground on which you are standing is holy." So Joshua took off his sandals.
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\v 27 Yahweh was with Joshua, and everyone in the land knew who Joshua was.
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\v 26 They piled rocks over the ashes of their corpses, and those rocks are still there. That is why that valley is called the Valley of Trouble to this day.
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\v 35 Joshua carefully read all the commands that Moses had given; he read every word in front of the entire assembly of Israel. All the women and the little children were there as well, and also the foreigners who were living among the people of Israel.
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\v 27 Instead, he forced them to become the Israelites' slaves. They cut wood and carried water for Israel. They also brought the wood and water that was needed for the sacred altar of Yahweh. And the people of Gibeon are still doing that to this present time.
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\v 43 Then Joshua and his army returned to their camp at Gilgal.
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\v 23 Joshua's army took control of all the land, just as Yahweh long ago had told Moses to do. Yahweh gave the land to the Israelites, because he had promised to give it to them. Then Joshua divided the land among the Israelite tribes. And after that, there was peace in the land.
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\m There was a total of thirty-one kings that the Israelite army defeated.
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\v 33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh, who is the God of Israel, promised them that he would be their inheritance.
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\v 15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba (Arba had been the greatest man among the Anakim). And there was peace in the land; they no longer waged war.
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\v 63 The army of the tribe of Judah was not able to drive out the Jebusites and so they stayed in Jerusalem. So today they are still living among the tribe of Judah.
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\v 10 The people of the tribe of Ephraim could not force the Canaanites to leave Gezer. The Canaanites still live there. However, the people of Ephraim forced them to be their slaves.
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\v 18 the hill country will belong to you, too. You will have to cut down the trees in order to make it your own, and to make a place for you to live. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they are strong and have chariots with iron wheels."
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\v 28 Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (the city where the Jebusites lived, which is now called Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath. Altogether there were fourteen cities, not counting their villages. All that area was assigned to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
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\v 51 Those were the areas that were assigned to the various tribes of Israel. Eleazar (the leader of all the priests), Joshua, and the leaders of each tribe divided up the land while they were all at Shiloh, by casting lots to decide which area each tribe would receive. They did that while Yahweh was watching at the entrance of the sacred tent. In that way they completed dividing up the land.
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\v 9 Any Israelite or any foreigner who lived among them, anyone who had killed someone accidentally, was allowed to run to one of those cities. There he would be safe from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until he was put on trial to decide whether he was telling the truth when he said that he did not kill that person on purpose.
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\v 45 Yahweh kept every promise he made to the Israelites. Every promise came true.
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\v 34 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar "Reminder," and they said, "It is a reminder to us all that Yahweh is God."
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\v 16 If you do not obey the covenant between Yahweh and you, and if you leave him and go and worship other gods and bow down to them, Yahweh will become very angry with you, just as a fire starts from a spark. Very quickly he will take away your lives, and he will take away this good land from you, the same land he has now given to you."
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\v 36 The land where the Amorites lived extended from Scorpion Pass toward the west beyond Sela, up into the hill country.
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\v 23 Yahweh allowed these people groups to stay in that land for a long time after the people of Israel had come. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua and his men to defeat them.
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\v 31 After Ehud died, Shamgar became their leader. He rescued the Israelites from the Philistines. In one battle he killed six hundred Philistines with an ox goad.
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\v 24 The Israelites became stronger and stronger, and they destroyed Jabin and his army.
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\p There was peace again in the land for forty years.
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\v 40 So that night, God did what Gideon asked him to do. The next morning the fleece was dry, but the ground was covered with dew.
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\v 25 They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two generals of the Midian army. They killed Oreb at the big rock which is now called the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the place where they crush grapes that is now called the winepress of Zeeb. Afterwards, the Israelites cut off the heads of Oreb and Zeeb and brought them to Gideon, who was on the other side of the Jordan River.
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\v 35 And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelites, they did not act kindly toward Gideon's family.
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\v 57 God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil things that they had done. And when these things happened, it made true the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal.
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\v 18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, "Who will lead our attack against the Ammonite army? The one who will lead us will become the leader of all us who live in Gilead."
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\v 40 Every year the young Israelite women go into the hills for four days to remember and cry about what happened to the daughter of Jephthah.
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\v 15 When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
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\v 25 While he was in Mahanehdan, which is between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol, Yahweh's Spirit began to control him.
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\v 20 So his wife's father gave her instead to the man who had been Samson's special friend when he got married.
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\v 20 Samson was the leader and judge over Israel for twenty years, but during that time the Philistines were in control of the entire land.
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\v 31 Later his brothers and their relatives went down from Zorah to Gaza to get his body. They took it back home and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, at the place where Samson's father Manoah was buried. Now Samson had led Israel for twenty years.
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\v 13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that Yahweh will do good things for me, because I have a man from the tribe of Levi to be my priest."
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\v 31 After the people of the tribe of Dan set up the carved figure that had been made for Micah, and it stayed there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
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\v 30 Everyone who saw a piece of the body and the message said, "Nothing like this has ever happened before. Not since our ancestors left Egypt have we heard of such a terrible thing. We need to think carefully about it. Someone should decide what we should do."
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\v 48 Then the Israelite men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals, and destroyed everything else that they found there. And they burned all the cities that they came to.
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\v 22 So that is how Naomi returned home along with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the woman from Moab. And it happened that when they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley harvest was just beginning.
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\v 23 So Ruth worked alongside of Boaz's servant girls. She gathered stalks of grain until the workers had finished harvesting both the barley and the wheat. During that time she continued to live with Naomi.
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\v 18 Then Naomi said, "My daughter, just wait here until we see what happens. I am sure that Boaz will surely take care of this matter today."
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\v 28 So now I am presenting him to Yahweh. He will belong to Yahweh as long as he lives." Then Elkanah and his family worshiped Yahweh there.
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\v 36 All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, "Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may earn some money to buy some food."'"
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\v 21 Yahweh continued to appear to Samuel in Shiloh and give messages to him.
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\v 22 She said, "God's glory has left Israel, because God's sacred chest has been captured!" And then she died.
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\v 12 Some of the people in Ekron had already died, and the rest of the people were suffering because of tumors on their skins. So they all cried out to their gods to help them.
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\v 21 They sent messengers to the people of the city of Kiriath Jearim to tell them, "The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh's sacred chest to us! Come here and take it to your city!"
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\v 17 After he made decisions in each of those cities, he returned to his home at Ramah, and he would listen to people's disputes there, also, and make decisions about them. He built an altar at Ramah to offer sacrifices to Yahweh.
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\v 22 Yahweh replied, "Do what they are telling you to do. Give them a king!" So Samuel agreed, and then he sent the people home.
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\v 27 When they got to the edge of the town, Samuel told Saul to send his servant ahead. After the servant left, Samuel said to Saul, "Stay here for a few minutes, in order that I can give you a message I received from God."
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\v 27 But some worthless men said, "How can this man save us from our enemies?" They despised him and refused to give him any gifts to show that they would be loyal to him. But Saul did not say anything to rebuke them.
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\v 15 So they went to Gilgal. There, knowing that Yahweh was watching, they proclaimed that Saul was their king. Then they offered sacrifices to enable them to continue to have fellowship with Yahweh. And Saul and all the other Israelite people were very happy.
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\v 25 If you keep doing wicked things, he will get rid of you and your king!"
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\v 23 Before the battle started, some Philistine men went to the mountain pass outside Micmash to guard it.
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\v 52 All the time that Saul was alive, his army fought against the Philistine army. And whenever Saul saw a young man who was brave and strong, he forced him to join his army.
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\v 35 Samuel never saw Saul again, but he was very sad about what Saul had done. And Yahweh was very sorry that he had appointed Saul to be the king of Israel.
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\v 23 Jesse agreed, and after that, whenever the evil spirit whom God sent tormented Saul, David played the harp. Then Saul would become calm, and the evil spirit would leave him.
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\v 58 Saul asked him, "Young man, whose son are you?" David replied, "Sir, I am the son of your servant Jesse, who lives in Bethlehem."
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\v 30 The Philistine armies repeatedly came to fight the Israelites, but every time they fought, David and his soldiers were more successful than any of Saul's other army commanders. As a result, David became very famous.
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\v 24 There he took off his outer clothes, and he spoke messages from God in front of Samuel. He lay on the ground doing that all day and all night. That is the reason that when people see someone doing something that is very unexpected, they say, "Is Saul also a prophet?"
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\v 42 Jonathan said to David, "May things go well for you as you go. Yahweh has heard what we solemnly promised to always do for each other, and what we said that our descendants must do for each other." Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.
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\v 15 Have you brought him because I do not already have enough insane men here in my house?"
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\v 23 You stay with me, and do not be afraid. The man who wants to kill you wants to kill me also, but you will be safe if you stay with me."
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\v 29 David and his men also left that place and went to places to hide safely at Engedi.
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\v 22 David solemnly promised Saul that he would not harm Saul's family. Then Saul went back home, and David and his men went back up into the place where they had been hiding.
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\v 44 King Saul's daughter Michal was also David's wife, but Saul had given her to Laish's son Paltiel, who was in the town of Gallim.
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\p Then David returned to his men, and Saul went back home.
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\v 12 So Achish believed what David told him; he thought, "Because of what David has done, his own people, the Israelites, must now hate him very much. So he will have to stay here and serve me forever."
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\v 25 She placed the food in front of Saul and his servants, and they ate some of it. Then that same night they got up and left.
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\v 11 So David and his men got up early the following morning and returned to the area where the Philistine people lived. But the Philistine army went up to the city of Jezreel.
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\v 31 Hebron, and all the other places where David and his men had often gone.
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\q2 and that their weapons are now no more!
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\v 32 Some of Joab's soldiers took Asahel's body and buried it in the tomb where his father had been buried, in Bethlehem. Then they marched all during the night, and at dawn they arrived back home at Hebron.
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\v 39 Even though Yahweh appointed me to be the king, today I feel weak. These two sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, are very violent. I cannot control them. So I hope that Yahweh will punish them severely in return for this wicked deed that they have done!"
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\v 12 Then David gave a command to his soldiers, and they killed the two men, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung their bodies on a pole near the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it respectfully in the tomb of Abner, there at Hebron.
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\v 25 So David did what Yahweh told him to do, and his army defeated the Philistine army and chased it from the city of Geba all the way west to the city of Gezer.
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\v 23 As a result, Saul's daughter never gave birth to any children.
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\v 29 So now I ask you that if it pleases you, you will bless my descendants, in order that they may continue to rule forever. Yahweh God, you have promised these things, so I know that if you do these things, you will keep blessing my descendants forever."
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\v 18 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the commander of David's bodyguards, and David's sons were his advisors.
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\v 13 So Mephibosheth, who was still crippled in both of his feet, started to live in Jerusalem, and he always ate at the king's table.
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\v 19 When all the kings whom Hadadezer ruled realized that Israel had defeated them, they made peace with the Israelites and agreed to accept David as their king. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites any longer, because they were afraid of Israel.
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\v 27 When her time of mourning was over, David sent messengers to bring her to the palace. In this way she became David's wife. She later gave birth to a son. But Yahweh was very displeased with what David had done.
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\v 31 Then they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for them, using saws, iron picks, and axes. David's troops also forced them to make bricks. David's soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.
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\v 39 but after that, he desired very much to see Absalom, because he was no longer grieving about Amnon being dead.
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\v 33 So Joab went to the king and told him what Absalom had said. Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king and knelt down in front of him with his face touching the ground. Then the king kissed Absalom to show that he was pleased to see him.
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\v 37 So David's friend Hushai returned to the city, at the same time that Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
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\v 23 In those days, people accepted what Ahithophel recommended as though he was speaking the words of God. So just as David had always accepted what Ahithophel said, now Absalom did also.
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\v 29 They brought honey and curds, sheep, and some cream for David and his soldiers to eat. They knew that David and his soldiers would be hungry and tired and thirsty from marching in the wilderness.
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\v 33 The king realized that he meant that Absalom was dead, so he became extremely distressed, and he went up to the room above the gateway and cried. While he was going up, he kept crying out, "O, my son Absalom! My son! O, my son Absalom, I desire that I had died instead of you!"
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\p But the men of Judah spoke more harshly than the men from the other tribes of Israel did.
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\v 26 and Ira from Jair town was also one of David's priests.
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\v 22 Those four men were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath, who were killed by David and his soldiers.
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\q2 You faithfully love me, David, and you will love my descendants forever."
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\li2 Altogether, there were thirty-seven famous soldiers.
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\p
\v 25 Then David built an altar to Yahweh, and he offered the oxen to be completely burned on the altar, and he also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh. Then, Yahweh answered David's prayers, and he caused the plague in Israel to end.

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\v 53 So King Solomon sent some men to Adonijah, and they brought him back from the altar. He came to Solomon and bowed down in front of him. Then Solomon said to him, "Go home."
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\p So Solomon obtained complete control of the kingdom.
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\v 28 All the Israelite people heard about what the king had decided, and they had an awesome respect for him. They realized that God had truly enabled him to be very wise, to judge people's matters fairly.
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\v 34 People came from all over the world to hear the wise things that Solomon said. Many kings sent men to listen to him and then return and tell them what Solomon said.
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\v 18 Solomon's workers and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Gebal shaped the stones and prepared the timber to build the temple.
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\v 38 In the eleventh year that he ruled, in the month of Bul, they finished building the temple and all of its parts, doing exactly what Solomon's told them to do. It required seven years to build it.
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\v 51 So Solomon's workers finished all the work for the temple. Then they placed in the temple storerooms all the things that his father David had dedicated to Yahweh—all the silver and gold, and the other valuable items.
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\v 66 On the final day, Solomon sent the people to their homes. They all praised him and went home happy because of all the things that Yahweh had done to bless David and his Israelite people.
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\v 28 They sailed to the region of Ophir and brought back to Solomon about fourteen metric tons of gold.
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\v 29 In Egypt they bought chariots and horses. They paid six and one-half kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and three-fifths kilograms of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Hittite people group and the kings of Aram.
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\v 43 Then Solomon died and was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Rehoboam became the king.
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\v 33 Jeroboam went up to that altar on that day in the eighth month that he himself had chosen. There on that altar he burned incense to be a sacrifice. And he declared that the people should celebrate that festival on that same day every year.
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\v 34 Because he committed that sin, a few years later God got rid of most of Jeroboam's descendants and did not allow them to become kings of Israel.
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\v 31 Then Rehoboam died, and he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Abijah became the king.
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\v 34 Baasha did many things that Yahweh said were evil, and he lived a sinful life just like Jeroboam lived. Baasha's sinful life set an example for the people of Israel that encouraged them to commit sins that were like his sins.
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\v 34 During the years that Ahab ruled, Hiel, a man from the city of Bethel, rebuilt the city of Jericho. But when he started to rebuild the city, his oldest son Abiram died. And when the city was finished, while Hiel was building the city gates, his youngest son Segub died. They died just as Yahweh had told Joshua would happen to the sons of anyone who would rebuild Jericho.
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\v 24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know for certain that you are a prophet and that the words that you speak are truly from Yahweh!"
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\v 46 Yahweh gave extra strength to Elijah. He tucked his cloak into his belt in order to run fast, and he ran ahead of Ahab's chariot all the way to Jezreel.
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\v 21 So Elisha went back home. He killed his oxen and cut them in pieces and used the wood from the plow to build a fire to roast the meat. He distributed the meat to the other people in his town, and they all ate some. Then he went with Elijah and became his helper.
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\v 43 The king went back home to Samaria, very angry and depressed.
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\v 29 "I have seen that Ahab is now very sorry for all the evil things that he has done. So the things that I promised to do to his family will not happen while he is still alive. I will cause them to happen after his son becomes king. Then those things will happen to his family."
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\v 18 If you want to know about all the other things that Ahaziah did, they are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
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\v 25 Elisha left Bethel and went to Mount Carmel, and after that he returned to the city of Samaria.
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\v 27 Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have become the next king, and killed him and offered him as a sacrifice to their god Chemosh, burning him on top of the city wall. Then God became very angry at the Israelite army, so the army left and went back to their own land.
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\v 44 After his servant gave it to the prophets, they ate all that they wanted, and there was food left over, just as Yahweh had promised.
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\v 27 Because you have done this, you and your children and all your descendants, forever, will have leprosy just like Naaman had!" When Gehazi left the room, he was a leper. His skin was as white as snow.
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\v 33 And while he was still speaking, the king and the officer arrived. The king said, "It is Yahweh who is allowing us to have all this trouble. I will no longer wait for him to help us."
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\v 20 And that is what happened to him. The people who were rushing out of the city gate trampled on him, and he died.
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\v 29 King Joram returned to the city of Jezreel in order to recover from his wounds. King Ahaziah went to visit him there.
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\v 37 Her bones will be scattered there in Jezreel like dung, with the result that no one will be able to recognize them and say, "These are Jezebel's bones."'"
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\v 36 Jehu had ruled in Samaria as the king of Israel for twenty-eight years.
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\v 21 Joash was seven years old when he became the king of Judah.
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\v 20-21 Joash's officials plotted against him, and two of them killed Joash on the road that goes down to the district of Silla. The two men who did that were Jozabad son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shomer. Joash was buried in the place where his ancestors were buried, in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then Joash's son Amaziah became the king of Judah.
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\v 25 The army of King Jehoash of Israel defeated the army of King Ben Hadad three times; they also recaptured the cities that Ben Hadad's army had seized during the time that Jehoash's father Jehoahaz was ruling Israel.
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\v 29 Jeroboam died, and was buried where the other kings of Israel were buried, and his son Zechariah became the king.
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\v 38 Jotham died and was buried where his ancestors had been buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Ahaz became the king of Judah.
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\v 20 Ahaz died, and he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
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\v 41 So, those people worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
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\v 37 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah went back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed, and they told him what the official from Assyria had said.
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\v 37 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat, northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
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\v 21 Later Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh became the king.
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\v 26 Amon was also buried in the tomb in the garden that Uzza had made. Then his son Josiah became the king.
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\p After the men heard that, they returned to King Josiah and gave him that message.
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\v 37 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, as his ancestors had done.
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\p This is what happened when Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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\v 54 and Magdiel. These were the chiefs of Edom.
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\v 55 Salma's descendants also included the families in the city of Jabez who wrote and copied important documents. These were the clan of Tirath, the clan of Shimeath, and the clan of Sucath. They were all from the Kenite people group who came from the city of Hammath, and who had married members of the family of Rekab.
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\v 24 Elioenai's seven sons were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani.
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\v 43 They killed the few descendants of Amalek who were still alive. From that time until now, the descendants of Simeon have lived in the region of Edom.
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\v 26 So the God whom the Israelites worshiped incited Pul, the king of Assyria, to want to conquer those tribes. Pul's other name was Tiglath-Pileser. His army captured the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the eastern half of the tribe of Manasseh, and took them to various places in Assyria: Halah, Habor, Hara and near the Gozan River. They have lived in those places from that time to the present time.
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\v 81 Heshbon, and Jazer.
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\v 40 All those men were descendants of Asher, and they were all leaders of their clans. They were brave warriors and excellent leaders. In the record of the clans that are descended from Asher are the names of twenty-six thousand men who were able to be in the army.
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\m All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
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\v 44 Azel had six sons: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan.
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\v 14 instead of asking Yahweh what he should do. So Yahweh caused him to die, and he appointed David son of Jesse, to be the king of Israel.
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\li2 and Jaasiel from Zobah.
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\v 40 Also, their fellow Israelites came from as far away as the area where the tribes of Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali lived, bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. They brought a lot of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep. And throughout Israel, the people were very joyful.
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\v 14 The sacred chest stayed with Obed Edom's family in his house for three months. During that time Yahweh blessed Obed Edom's family and everything that he owned.
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\v 17 So David became famous in all the nearby countries, and Yahweh caused the leaders of all the nations to be afraid of him.
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\v 29 While they were bringing the sacred chest into Jerusalem, Saul's daughter Michal watched them, looking out of a window. When she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him.
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\v 43 Then all the people left. They all returned to their homes, and David returned home to ask Yahweh to bless his family.
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\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless my descendants, in order that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
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\v 17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada ruled over the Kereth and Peleth groups who were David's bodyguards. And David's sons were his most important officials.
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\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people group anymore.
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\v 8 Those were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath, who were killed by David and his soldiers.
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\v 30 But David did not want to go there to request God to tell him what he wanted David to do, because he was afraid that the angel sent from Yahweh might strike him with his sword; he realized that this was the place that Yahweh now wanted sacrifices to be made.
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\v 19 Now you must obey Yahweh with your entire inner beings. Help Solomon to arrange for building the temple for Yahweh God, in order that you can bring the sacred chest that contains the Ten Commandments and the other sacred items that belong to Yahweh into the temple that you will build to honor him."
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\v 32 So the descendants of Levi did the work that was assigned to them by their fellow Israelites who were descendants of Aaron. They did that work at the sacred tent and in the holy place inside the tent, and later at the temple.
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\v 31 The jobs they would do were decided by casting lots like their fellow Israelites the descendants of Aaron, did. They cast lots while King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the leaders of he families of the priests and the other descendants of Levi watched. The jobs that were given to the families of each oldest brother and each youngest brother were equal.
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\v 31 Next, Romamti-Eze and 12 of his sons and relatives were selected.
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\v 32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were able to do their work well, and who were leaders of their families. King David put them in charge of governing the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the western half of the tribe of Manasseh, to be sure that all the people did what God and the king told them to do.
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\li Joab was the chief commander of the army.
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\v 21 The groups of priests and other descendants of Levi are ready to begin their work at God's temple, and every man who has a special skill will help you in all the work. And my officials and the other people will obey you, whatever you command them to do."
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\v 17 In Egypt his men paid seven kilograms of silver for each chariot and one and seven-tenths kilograms of silver for each horse. They also sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people groups.
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\v 18 Solomon assigned seventy thousand of them to carry materials, and eighty thousand to cut stone from quarries in the hills, and 3,600 of them to supervise the others and be sure that they worked steadily.
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\v 17 They set up the pillars in front of the temple, one the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side. The one of the south side was named Jakin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.
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\li the gold doors leading to the main hall.
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\v 14 The glory of Yahweh filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue doing their work.
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\q2 do not forget how faithfuly were to David, your servant, because of your covenant with him."
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\v 22 And others will reply, 'It happened because they rejected Yahweh, the God to whom their ancestors belonged, the one who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they have chosen to worship other gods and try to please them. And that is why Yahweh has caused them to experience all these disasters.'"
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\v 18 King Hiram sent him from the city of Tyre some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon's men to the region of Ophir and brought back about fifteen metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
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\v 31 Then Solomon died; they buried him in the part of Jerusalem called 'the city of David.' And his son Rehoboam became the next king.
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\v 19 Ever since that time, the people of the northern tribes of Israel have been rebelling against the descendants of King David.
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\v 23 He very wisely sent some of his other sons to other cities in the areas of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and to other cities that had walls around them. He gave them plenty of supplies and many wives.
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@ -694,9 +661,6 @@
\v 16 When Rehoboam died, he was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Abijah became the king.
\s5
\c 13
@ -750,9 +714,6 @@
\v 22 An account of the other things that Abijah did while he was the was king, including what he said and what he did, is in the scroll written by the prophet Iddo.
\s5
\c 14
\p
@ -790,9 +751,6 @@
\v 15 They also attacked the places where the local people who took care of domestic animals had set up their tents, and they took away large flocks and herds of sheep and goats and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
\s5
\c 15
@ -838,9 +796,6 @@
\v 19 There were no more wars in Judah until Asa had been ruling Judah almost thirty-five years.
\s5
\c 16
@ -878,9 +833,6 @@
\v 14 People buried him in the tomb that his workers had made for him in the part of Jerusalem called "the city of David." They laid his corpse on a bed covered with spices and various perfumes that had been mixed together. They also lit a huge fire to honor him.
\s5
\c 17
@ -931,8 +883,6 @@
\v 19 Those were the soldiers who served the king in Jerusalem, in addition to the men whom the king had placed in the other cities in Judah that had walls around them.
\s5
\c 18
\p
@ -1058,9 +1008,6 @@
\v 11 Amariah, the high priest, will supervise you in any matter that Yahweh is concerned about, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the tribe of Judah, will supervise you in any matter that I am concerned about. And the descendants of Levi will assist you. Act courageously, and I pray that Yahweh will help those who do their work well."
\s5
\c 20
@ -1157,9 +1104,6 @@
\v 37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu of the city of Mareshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat. He said, "You have made an alliance with Ahaziah, who is a wicked king. Therefore, Yahweh will destroy the ships that your workers have made." And the ships were wrecked, and were never able to sail to other countries.
\s5
\c 21
\p
@ -1209,9 +1153,6 @@
\v 20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. No one regretted it when he died. His corpse was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, but he was not buried where the other kings of Judah had been buried.
\s5
\c 22
@ -1246,9 +1187,6 @@
\v 12 He remained hidden there for six years while Athaliah ruled Judah.
\s5
\c 23
@ -1301,9 +1239,6 @@
\v 21 Then all the people of Judah rejoiced. And there was quiet throughout the city, because Athaliah had been killed.
\s5
\c 24
@ -1371,9 +1306,6 @@
\v 27 An account of the things that were done by the sons of Joash and the many prophecies about Joash and what he did to repair the temple are written in the commentary on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. Then after Joash died, Amaziah his son became the king.
\s5
\c 25
@ -1450,9 +1382,6 @@
\v 28 They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors had been buried in what is called the city of Judah.
\s5
\c 26
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\v 23 Because Uzziah was a leper, when he died they would not bury him in the royal tombs. Instead, they buried him in a nearby cemetery that the kings owned. Then his son Jotham became the king of Judah.
\s5
\c 27
@ -1538,9 +1464,6 @@
\v 9 He was buried in Jerusalem, and his son Ahaz became the next king of Judah.
\s5
\c 28
@ -1604,8 +1527,6 @@
\v 27 Ahaz died and was buried in Jerusalem, but he was not buried in the tombs where the other kings of Israel had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
\s5
\c 29
@ -1701,9 +1622,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 36 And Hezekiah and all the other people of Judah celebrated, because God had enabled them to do all the repair work very quickly.
\s5
\c 30
@ -1765,9 +1683,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 27 The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood up to bless the people, and God heard them, because their prayers reached up to heaven, the holy place where God lives.
\s5
\c 31
\p
@ -1819,9 +1734,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 21 In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God's laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
\s5
\c 32
@ -1901,8 +1813,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 33 When Hezekiah died, he was buried in the tombs where the most respected kings of Judah were buried. Everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah honored him. Then his son Manasseh became the king.
\s5
\c 33
\p
@ -1957,9 +1867,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 25 But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
\s5
\c 34
@ -2042,9 +1949,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 33 Josiah instructed his workers to remove all the disgusting idols from all the land of the Israelite people, and he commanded that all those from Israel who were there should worship only Yahweh their God. As long as Josiah was alive, the people did what was pleasing to Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.
\s5
\c 35
@ -2115,9 +2019,6 @@ hundred male lambs to be completely burned on the altar.
\v 26-27 A record of the other things that happened while Josiah ruled, from the time he started to rule until he died, including how he faithfully was devoted to honoring God by obeying all that was written in the laws of Yahweh, is written in the book of the kings ofIsrael and Judah.
\s5
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\v 11 All together, there were 5,400 silver and gold items given to Sheshbazzar to take with him when he and the others returned to Jerusalem.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -176,9 +173,6 @@ work that priests did.
people went to the other places in Israel there where their ancestors had lived.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -222,9 +216,6 @@ they knew that the new temple would not be as beautiful as the first temple. But
\v 13 The shouting and the crying were like one very loud sound that even people far away could hear.
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -291,9 +282,6 @@ rebuilding the city wall.
\v 24 The result was that the Jews stopped rebuilding the temple. They did not do any more work to rebuild the temple until the second year after Darius became the king of Persia.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -342,9 +330,6 @@ but it is not finished yet.'
temple should be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then you can tell us what you want us to do about this matter."
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -394,9 +379,6 @@ temple should be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then you can tell us what you want us to
\v 22 They celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days. The Israelite people throughout the land were joyful because Yahweh had changed the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them, and as a result, the king had helped them to rebuild the temple of God, the God of Israel.
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -466,9 +448,6 @@ of the country or have all their property taken away from them."
\v 28 Because God acted kindly and faithfully toward me, the king and all his advisors and all his powerful officials have also acted kindly toward me. Because God has helped me, I have been encouraged, and I have been able to persuade some of the Israelite leaders to go up to Jerusalem with me."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -556,9 +535,6 @@ We also sacrificed twelve goats to atone for the sins that all the people had co
letter, they did all that they were able to do for us Israelite people and for the temple of God."
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -610,9 +586,6 @@ the result that none of us will remain alive.
to be in your presence."'"
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\p I was serving as one of the most trusted servants to the king.
\s5
\c 2
\p
@ -94,9 +92,6 @@
\v 20 But I replied, "The God who is in heaven will give us success. But you have no right to this city, you have no deed, you have no lawful claim to it, and you have no historic connection to the city of Jerusalem."
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -166,9 +161,6 @@
\v 32 Other men who worked with gold, making beautiful things, along with merchants, repaired the last section of the wall as far as the Sheep Gate.
\s5
\c 4
\p
@ -223,9 +215,6 @@
\v 23 During that time, I did not put away my clothing, and I always carried my weapon The same was true of my brothers, my servants, and the men who followed me and served as guards. All of us did the same, even if we just went to get a drink of water.
\s5
\c 5
\p
@ -274,9 +263,6 @@
\v 19 My God, think of me, and reward me for all that I have done for this people.
\s5
\c 6
\p
@ -325,9 +311,6 @@
\v 19 People often talked in my presence about all the good deeds that Tobiah had done, and then they would tell him everything that I said. So Tobiah sent many letters to me to try to cause me to become afraid.
\s5
\c 7
\p
@ -516,9 +499,6 @@
\p By the seventh month the people of Israel had gone to their cities and they were living in them.
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -565,8 +545,6 @@
\v 18 Every day during that week Ezra read to the people from the book of the law of God. Then on the eighth day, they followed the decree and called for all the people to come together, so they could bring the festival to an end.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -661,9 +639,6 @@
\v 38 Because of all this, we, the people of Israel are making a solemn agreement on a scroll. We will write on it the names of our leaders, the names of the Levites, and the names of the priests, and then we will seal it."
\s5
\c 10
\p
@ -767,9 +742,6 @@
\pi We promise that we will not neglect taking care of the temple of our God."
\s5
\c 11
\p
@ -856,9 +828,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari
\v 36 Some of the Levites who had lived in Judea were sent to live with the people of Benjamin.
\s5
\c 12
\p
@ -986,9 +955,6 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 47 During the years of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, all Israel contributed the food that the singers and temple gatekeepers needed every day. They set aside what the Levites needed to live on, and the Levites set aside for the descendants of Aaron, the first leader of all the priests, what they needed.
\s5
\c 13
\p
@ -1060,5 +1026,3 @@ the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph.
\v 31 I made sure that there was wood to be burned on the altar at the set times and days. I also arranged for the people to bring into the storerooms the first portion of the harvest.
\p My God, do not forget that I have done all these things, and bless me for doing them.

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\v 22 Then he sent letters to all the provinces, stating that all men should have complete authority over their wives and their children. He wrote the letters in every language and wrote it in every unique alphabet written in every province.
\s5
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\p
@ -111,8 +108,6 @@
\v 23 The king investigated it and confirmed. So the king ordered those two men be hanged from a gallows. When that was done, an official wrote a report about it in the book called The History of the King.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -154,9 +149,6 @@
\v 15 Then, according to what the king commanded, men riding horses took these letter quickly to every province in the kingdom. And one of the letters was read aloud to the people who lived and worked within the palace in Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink together, but the people in the city of Susa were very perplexed.
\s5
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\p
@ -189,9 +181,6 @@
\v 17 Mordecai went and did what Esther told him to do.
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\v 14 Then Zeresh his wife said to Haman and all his friends, "Why do you not quickly set up a gallows? Make it twenty-three meters high. Then in the morning speak to the king for them to hang Mordecai on it. After that, you can go to the banquet with the king and be happy." This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows set up.
\s5
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@ -251,9 +238,6 @@
\v 14 While they were still talking, some of the king's officials arrived to quickly take Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.
\s5
\c 7
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\v 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king became less angry.
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -318,9 +299,6 @@
\v 17 When the new decree arrived in every city and province, the Jews there celebrated and prepared feasts and were very joyful. And many people throughout the empire became Jews, because they had become very afraid of the Jews.
\s5
\c 9
\p
@ -380,9 +358,6 @@
\v 32 The command of Esther confirmed these regulations that explained how they should celebrate the Purim festival. The instructions about the feast and the account of these events were written down in the book of history.
\s5
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@ -391,5 +366,3 @@
\s5
\v 3 Mordecai the Jew, was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and all the Jews also considered him to be a very great man. He was respected by his Jewish brothers and sisters, for he sought the welfare of his people, and he spoke to gain security for all of them.

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\v 22 So in spite of all the things that happened to Job, he did speak not like a foolish man—he did not sin by saying that what God had done was wrong.
\s5
\c 2
@ -108,9 +105,6 @@
\v 13 Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to him, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, and they did not think that anything that they could say would lessen his pain.
\s5
\c 3
\p
@ -217,10 +211,6 @@
\q2 instead, I have only troubles."
\s5
\c 4
\p
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\q2 they perish suddenly without anyone ever knowing why.'"
\s5
\c 5
@ -413,9 +400,6 @@
\q2 so pay attention to what I have said!"
\s5
\c 6
@ -535,9 +519,6 @@ that I am suffering.
\q2 No, I am not lying, because I know what is right to say, and what is wrong."
\s5
\c 7
@ -629,9 +610,6 @@ examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
\q2 you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone."
\s5
\c 8
@ -721,9 +699,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 and the homes of wicked people will disappear."
\s5
\c 9
@ -862,9 +837,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 because I know within myself that I really have not done what is wrong like God thinks that I have.
\s5
\c 10
@ -954,9 +926,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 [and] where even the small light there is like darkness.'"
\s5
\c 11
@ -1039,9 +1008,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 The only thing that they will want to do is to die. "
\s5
\c 12
@ -1146,9 +1112,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 as if they were drunk, not knowing what they should do."
\s5
\c 13
@ -1263,9 +1226,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 like a piece of cloth that the larvae of moths are eating.
\s5
\c 14
@ -1356,9 +1316,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else."
\s5
\c 15
@ -1497,9 +1454,6 @@ shout joyfully.
\q2 and in their hearts they are always preparing to deceive people."
\s5
\c 16
@ -1597,9 +1551,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 I will walk along the road to a place from which I will never return."
\s5
\c 17
@ -1669,9 +1620,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 I and the things I hope for will go down together into the soil."
\s5
\c 18
@ -1757,9 +1705,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 people who do not know God."
\s5
\c 19
@ -1877,9 +1822,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 and when that happens, you will know that there is someone who judges people."
\s5
\c 20
@ -1999,9 +1941,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 that is what God has decreed for them."
\s5
\c 21
@ -2137,9 +2076,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 Every reply that you give me is full of lies!"
\s5
\c 22
@ -2253,9 +2189,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 they will be rescued because you do what is right."
\s5
\c 23
@ -2321,9 +2254,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 even that terrible darkness that covers my face has not kept me from speaking."
\s5
\c 24
@ -2430,9 +2360,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 and prove me wrong?"
\s5
\c 25
@ -2458,9 +2385,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 God does not think more highly of people than he thinks of worms."
\s5
\c 26
@ -2520,9 +2444,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 When we hear thunder, we say, 'Who can really understand how great his power is?'"
\s5
\c 27
@ -2614,9 +2535,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 howling at them and forcing them to run away."
\s5
\c 28
@ -2729,9 +2647,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 to truly understand everything, you must first turn away from doing what is evil.'"
\s5
\c 29
@ -2830,9 +2745,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 I was like someone who comforts others who are mourning."
\s5
\c 30
@ -2961,9 +2873,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me,
\q2 but now I play only the sad music of those who mourn."
\s5
\c 31
@ -3122,9 +3031,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q1 That is the end of what Job said to his three friends.
\s5
\c 32
@ -3204,9 +3110,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 if I did that, God would soon destroy me."
\s5
\c 33
@ -3340,9 +3243,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 and I will teach you how to become wise."
\s5
\c 34
@ -3494,9 +3394,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 he makes long speeches saying that God has punished him unjustly."
\s5
\c 35
@ -3562,9 +3459,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 that he says many things without knowing what in the world he is talking about."
\s5
\c 36
@ -3701,8 +3595,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 and the cattle know it, too.
\s5
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\q1
@ -3801,9 +3693,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 he does not pay attention to those who proudly, but wrongly, think that they are wise."
\s5
\c 38
@ -3963,8 +3852,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 when they are so weak because of their lack of food that they stagger around in their nests?
\s5
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\q1
@ -4182,9 +4069,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 or by piercing their noses with the teeth of a trap!
\s5
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@ -4314,9 +4198,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
\q2 they are like kings over all the other wild animals."
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\cl Psalm
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\q2 but the path that the wicked walk on leads them to where God will destroy them forever.
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\m
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\q2 But how fortunate are all those who request him to protect them.
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\q2 Yahweh, bless your people!
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\q2 because I know that it is only you, Yahweh, who will keep me safe."
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\q2 you protect them as a soldier protects himself with his shield.
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\q2 because they will be disgraced.
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\q2 and leave me lying dead in the dirt.
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\v 6 Yahweh, because you are very angry with those who pursue me,
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\q2 I sing to praise Yahweh, the one who is much greater than any other god.
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\q2 people all over the world know that you are very great!
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\q2 you allow wicked people to be trapped by the same evil things that they themselves do.
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\v 17 Wicked people will all die and be buried in their graves;
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\q2 Cause them to know that they are only human beings.
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\q2 And so, no one has to worry or be terrified anymore.
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\q2 such people will come into his presence.
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\q2 while people praise them for doing evil deeds.
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\q2 so I will sing to you.
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\q2 On that day all of us Israelite people will rejoice, and we, who are also called the descendants of Jacob, will be happy.
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\q1 Those who do those things will always live in safety.
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\q I will have pleasure forever when I am at your right hand.
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\q2 When I awake after I die, I will see you face to face, and then I will be happy.
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\q He loves me, David, the one he has chosen to be king, and he will faithfully love my descendants forever.
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\q2 I hope that the things that I say and what I think will always please you.
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\q2 Answer us when we call out to you to help us!
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\q2 When you do that, we will sing and praise you because you are very powerful.
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\q2 People will tell them, "Yahweh did it!"
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\q1 You protect me like a shepherd protects his sheep.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 You prepare a great feast for me
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\q1 then, O Yahweh, I will live in your home forever.
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\q2 he is our glorious king!
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\v 22 God, rescue us Israelite people from all of our troubles!
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\q2 and when all your people gather together, I praise you.
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\q2 and wait expectantly for him to help you!
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\q2 take care of them forever.
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\q2 and he blesses them by causing things to go well for them.
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\q1 Yahweh, you are my God, and I will thank you forever.
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\q2 be strong and be courageous!
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\q2 you whose heart are pure, be glad and shout joyfully!
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\q1
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\q2 while we confidently expect you to do great things for us.
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\q2 He will not condemn those who trust in him.
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\q2 and I will praise you all the time.
\s5
\c 36
@ -2487,8 +2411,6 @@
\q2 they were thrown down, and they will never rise again.
\s5
\c 37
\m
@ -2677,8 +2599,6 @@
\q2 because they go to him to be protected.
\s5
\c 38
\m
@ -2779,8 +2699,6 @@
\q2 Quickly come and help me!
\s5
\c 39
\m
@ -2838,7 +2756,6 @@
\q2 Our lives disappear like a puff of air.
\s5
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, listen to me while I pray;
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\q2 so that I may smile and be happy for a while before I die."
\s5
\c 40
\m
@ -2943,8 +2858,6 @@
\q2 so please come quickly and help me!
\s5
\c 41
\m
@ -3006,10 +2919,6 @@
\q2 Amen! I desire that it will be so!
\s5
\ms Book Two
\c 42
@ -3077,9 +2986,6 @@
\q2 my God, the one who saves me."
\s5
\c 43
\q1
@ -3111,9 +3017,6 @@
\q2 my God, the one who saves me.
\c 44
\m
\d A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director.
@ -3155,7 +3058,6 @@
\q2 and we will thank him forever.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced;
@ -3227,8 +3129,6 @@
\q2 Rescue us because you love us as you promised to do.
\s5
\c 45
\m
@ -3316,8 +3216,6 @@
\q2 and people will praise you forever.
\s5
\c 46
\m
@ -3335,7 +3233,6 @@
\q2 we will not be afraid!
\s5
\q1
\v 4 Blessings that come from God are like a river that makes everyone in the city joyful, there where we worship him.
@ -3355,7 +3252,6 @@
\q2 the God whom Jacob worshiped is our refuge.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 Come and see the things that Yahweh does!
@ -3376,9 +3272,6 @@
\q2 the God whom Jacob worshiped is our refuge.
\s5
\c 47
\m
@ -3420,8 +3313,6 @@
\q2 he is great, and all people everywhere will honor him.
\s5
\c 48
\m
@ -3458,7 +3349,6 @@
\q2 It is the city that God will preserve forever.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 God, here in your temple we think about how you love us as you promised to do.
@ -3487,8 +3377,6 @@
\q2 he will guide us during all of our lives."
\s5
\c 49
\m
@ -3561,7 +3449,6 @@
\q2 he will take me to himself.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 So do not be dismayed when someone becomes rich
@ -3582,8 +3469,6 @@
\q2 he will die, the same as the animals do.
\s5
\c 50
\m
@ -3617,7 +3502,6 @@
\q2 and he is the supreme judge."
\s5
\q1
\v 7 God says, "My people, listen!
@ -3690,8 +3574,6 @@
\q2 and I will save those who always do the things that I want them to."
\s5
\c 51
\m
@ -3781,8 +3663,6 @@
\q2 and you will be pleased.
\s5
\c 52
\m
@ -3833,8 +3713,6 @@
\q2 especially when I stand before your faithful people.
\s5
\c 53
\m
@ -3873,8 +3751,6 @@
\q1 all the Israelite people, all the descendants of Jacob, will rejoice.
\s5
\c 54
\m
@ -3891,7 +3767,6 @@
\q2 men who have no respect for you.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 But God is the one who helps me;
@ -3910,8 +3785,6 @@
\q2 and I have seen that you have defeated my enemies.
\s5
\c 55
\m
@ -4005,7 +3878,6 @@
\q2 and because they do not have any respect for God.
\s5
\q1
\v 20 My companion, whom I mentioned previously, betrayed his friends
@ -4027,8 +3899,6 @@
\q2 but as for me, I will trust in you.
\s5
\c 56
\m
@ -4095,8 +3965,6 @@
\q in his light that gives me life.
\s5
\c 57
\m
@ -4137,7 +4005,6 @@
\q2 but they themselves fell into it!
\s5
\q1
\v 7 God, I am very confident in you.
@ -4161,8 +4028,6 @@
\q2 Show your glory to people all over the earth!
\s5
\c 58
\m
@ -4209,8 +4074,6 @@
\q2 and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!"
\s5
\c 59
\m
@ -4297,8 +4160,6 @@
\q2 you faithfully love me, just as you have promised in your covenant.
\s5
\c 60
\m
@ -4360,8 +4221,6 @@
\q2 you will enable us to defeat our enemies.
\s5
\c 61
\m
@ -4406,8 +4265,6 @@
\q2 while I offer to you each day the sacrifices that I promised to give to you.
\s5
\c 62
\m
@ -4432,7 +4289,6 @@
\q2 but in their inner beings they curse those people.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 God is the only one who gives me peace in my inner being;
@ -4452,7 +4308,6 @@
\q2 because we go to him for safety.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 People who are considered to be unimportant are as unreliable as a breath of air;
@ -4472,8 +4327,6 @@
\q2 He rewards every one of us according to the deeds that we do.
\s5
\c 63
\m
@ -4531,8 +4384,6 @@
\q2 but he will not allow liars to say anything.
\s5
\c 64
\m
@ -4584,8 +4435,6 @@
\q1 and all those who honor him will praise him.
\s5
\c 65
\m
@ -4655,8 +4504,6 @@
\q2 it is as though they also sing and shout joyfully.
\s5
\c 66
\m
@ -4680,7 +4527,6 @@
\q2 and honor him.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Come and think about what God has done!
@ -4695,7 +4541,6 @@
\q2 The nations that want to rebel against him should not be proud.
\s5
\q1
\v 8 You people of all nations, praise our God!
@ -4732,7 +4577,6 @@
\q2 when they are burning, you will be pleased as the smoke rises up to you.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 All you people who have a reverential respect for God, come and listen,
@ -4754,8 +4598,6 @@
\q2 he continues to love me as he promised in his covenant to do.
\s5
\c 67
\m
@ -4793,8 +4635,6 @@
\q1 I desire that all people everywhere on the earth may have an awesome respect for him.
\s5
\c 68
\m
@ -4963,8 +4803,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise God!
\s5
\c 69
\m
@ -5141,8 +4979,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and those who love him will live there safely.
\s5
\c 70
\m
@ -5170,9 +5006,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 so please come quickly!
\s5
\c 71
\m
@ -5282,8 +5115,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 because those who wanted to harm me will have been defeated and disgraced.
\s5
\c 72
\m
@ -5377,9 +5208,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\v 20 This is the end of the prayers written by David, son of Jesse.
\s5
\c 73
\ms Book Three
@ -5501,8 +5329,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and to proclaim to others all that he has done for me.
\s5
\c 74
\m
@ -5602,8 +5428,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 the uproar that they make while they oppose you never stops.
\s5
\c 75
\m
@ -5645,7 +5469,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 they will drink every drop of it; yes, he will punish them fully.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 But as for me, I will never stop saying what the God whom Jacob worshiped has done;
@ -5655,8 +5478,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 but I will increase the power of righteous people."
\s5
\c 76
\m
@ -5673,7 +5494,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and he also broke their shields and swords and other weapons that they used in battles.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 God, you are powerful! You are like a great king
@ -5700,7 +5520,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and rescue all those whom they had oppressed.
\s5
\q1
\v 10 When you punish those with whom you are angry, your people will praise you,
@ -5716,8 +5535,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and terrifies all the kings.
\s5
\c 77
\m
@ -5789,7 +5606,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 you saved those who were descendants of Jacob and his son Joseph.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 It was as though the waters saw you and became very afraid,
@ -5813,8 +5629,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 while Moses and Aaron were the leaders of your people.
\s5
\c 78
\m
@ -6122,8 +5936,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and he guided them skillfully.
\s5
\c 79
\m
@ -6191,8 +6003,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 we will continue to praise you from generation to generation forever.
\s5
\c 80
\m
@ -6281,8 +6091,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 act kindly toward us and rescue us from our enemies!
\s5
\c 81
\m
@ -6357,8 +6165,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and I would fill your stomachs with wild honey."
\s5
\c 82
\m
@ -6403,8 +6209,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 because all the people groups belong to you!
\s5
\c 83
\m
@ -6441,7 +6245,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 they are strong allies of the Moab and Ammon people groups, who are descendants of Abraham's nephew Lot.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 God, do to those people things as you did to the Midian people group,
@ -6483,8 +6286,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
\s5
\c 84
\m
@ -6509,7 +6310,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 constantly singing to praise you.
\s5
\q1
\v 5 How fortunate are those whom you make strong,
@ -6545,8 +6345,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 how fortunate are those who trust in you!
\s5
\c 85
\m
@ -6607,8 +6405,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 he acts righteously wherever he goes.
\s5
\c 86
\m
@ -6688,8 +6484,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 as a result, they will be ashamed.
\s5
\c 87
\m
@ -6723,15 +6517,12 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 and he will say that he considers them all to be citizens of Jerusalem.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 They will all dance and sing, saying,
\q2 "Jerusalem is the source of all our blessings."
\s5
\c 88
\m
@ -6821,8 +6612,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and it is as though the only friend that I have is darkness.
\s5
\c 89
\m
@ -6845,7 +6634,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 the line of kings descended from you will never end.'"
\s5
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, I desire that all those beings who are in heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do,
@ -6976,7 +6764,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 that is always watching everything here on earth."
\s5
\q1
\v 38 But Yahweh, now you have rejected him!
@ -7008,7 +6795,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and caused him to be very shamed.
\s5
\q1
\v 46 O Yahweh, how long will this continue?
@ -7022,7 +6808,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 no one can bring himself back from the place of the dead.
\s5
\q1
\v 49 Yahweh, you promised long ago
@ -7043,9 +6828,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Amen! May it be so!
\s5
\c 90
\ms Book Five
@ -7127,9 +6909,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 yes, cause us to be successful in everything that we do!
\s5
\c 91
\m
@ -7202,8 +6981,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and I will save them."
\s5
\c 92
\m
@ -7272,9 +7049,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and he never does anything that is wicked.
\s5
\c 93
\m
@ -7304,9 +7078,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 That will be true forever.
\s5
\c 94
\m
@ -7410,9 +7181,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 yes, Yahweh our God will wipe them out.
\s5
\c 95
\m
@ -7463,9 +7231,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 'They will never enter the land of Canaan where I would have allowed them to rest!'"
\s5
\c 96
\m
@ -7523,9 +7288,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 He will judge all the people fairly according to what he knows is true.
\s5
\c 97
\m
@ -7579,8 +7341,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and thank him, our holy God!
\s5
\c 98
\m
@ -7626,9 +7386,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 He will judge all the people groups in the world justly and fairly.
\s5
\c 99
\m
@ -7678,8 +7435,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 it is right to do that because Yahweh, our God, is holy!
\s5
\c 100
\m
@ -7710,8 +7465,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and he is faithful.
\s5
\c 101
\m
@ -7755,8 +7508,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 I will expel them from this city, which is Yahweh's city.
\s5
\c 102
\m
@ -7885,8 +7636,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 and their descendants will be protected as they live in your presence."
\s5
\c 103
\m
@ -7978,9 +7727,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 I also will praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 104
\m
@ -8140,9 +7886,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise him!
\s5
\c 105
\m
@ -8317,9 +8060,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 106
\m
@ -8528,9 +8268,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 107
\ms Book Five
@ -8595,7 +8332,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and for the wonderful things that he does for people.
\s5
\q1
\v 17 Some of them foolishly rebelled against God,
@ -8704,8 +8440,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 they should consider all the things that Yahweh has done to show that he faithfully loves them.
\s5
\c 108
\m
@ -8765,8 +8499,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 you will enable us to defeat our enemies.
\s5
\c 109
\m
@ -8904,8 +8636,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and because he saves us from those who have said that we must die.
\s5
\c 110
\m
@ -8952,9 +8682,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 he will be refreshed after defeating his enemies.
\s5
\c 111
\m
@ -9002,9 +8729,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 We should praise him forever!
\s5
\c 112
\m
@ -9053,9 +8777,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 The wicked things that they want to do will never happen.
\s5
\c 113
\m
@ -9097,9 +8818,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 114
\m
@ -9140,8 +8858,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and he is the one who caused a spring to flow from a solid rock cliff!
\s5
\c 115
\m
@ -9224,9 +8940,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 116
\m
@ -9308,9 +9021,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 117
\m
@ -9323,9 +9033,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 118
\m
@ -9456,9 +9163,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 He will faithfully love us forever as he has promised.
\s5
\c 119
\m
@ -10193,8 +9897,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 search for me because I have not forgotten your commands.
\s5
\c 120
\m
@ -10229,8 +9931,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 they talk about starting a war.
\s5
\c 121
\m
@ -10271,8 +9971,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 he will protect us now and he will protect us forever.
\s5
\c 122
\m
@ -10318,8 +10016,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 "I pray that things will go well for the people who live in Jerusalem."
\s5
\c 123
\m
@ -10344,8 +10040,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and proud people have oppressed us and have acted as though we were worthless.
\s5
\c 124
\m
@ -10384,8 +10078,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
\s5
\c 125
\m
@ -10413,8 +10105,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 I wish that things may go well for people in Israel!
\s5
\c 126
\m
@ -10448,8 +10138,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 when they bring the crops to their houses at harvest time.
\s5
\c 127
\m
@ -10481,8 +10169,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 because his sons will help to defend him.
\s5
\c 128
\m
@ -10512,8 +10198,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 I wish that things may go well for people in Israel!
\s5
\c 129
\m
@ -10549,8 +10233,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 We, acting as Yahweh's representatives, bless you, our fellow Israelites!
\s5
\c 130
\m
@ -10591,8 +10273,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\v 8 It is he who will save us Israelite people from being punished for all the sins that we have committed.
\s5
\c 131
\m
@ -10613,8 +10293,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 now and forever!
\s5
\c 132
\m
@ -10697,8 +10375,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 but the crown that my king wears will always shine."
\s5
\c 133
\m
@ -10720,8 +10396,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 by making their nation last forever.
\s5
\c 134
\m
@ -10742,9 +10416,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 may bless you from where he lives in the temple on Mount Zion!
\s5
\c 135
\m
@ -10840,9 +10511,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\s5
\c 136
\m
@ -10948,9 +10616,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 because he will love us forever as he has promised.!
\s5
\c 137
\m
@ -11000,8 +10665,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and smash them to pieces on the rocks.
\s5
\c 138
\m
@ -11043,8 +10706,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 Finish what you started to do for us, your Israelite people!
\s5
\c 139
\m
@ -11155,8 +10816,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and lead me along the road that leads to my being with you forever.
\s5
\c 140
\m
@ -11172,7 +10831,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\v 3 By what they say, they injure people as poisonous snakes do.
\s5
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, protect me from the power of wicked people.
@ -11183,7 +10841,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 it is as though they have put these things along the road to catch me.
\s5
\q1
\v 6 I say to you, "Yahweh, you are my God.
@ -11196,7 +10853,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and do not allow them to do the evil things that they plan to do.
\s5
\q1
\v 9 Do not allow my enemies to become proud;
@ -11218,8 +10874,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 and they will live in your presence.
\s5
\c 141
\m
@ -11274,8 +10928,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 while I escape from them.
\s5
\c 142
\m
@ -11317,8 +10969,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 I will praise you for having been very good to me.
\s5
\c 143
\m
@ -11356,7 +11006,6 @@ But some of the people stayed with the sheep and did not go to fight in the batt
\q2 I want very much to be with you as much as I would thirst for water in a vast wilderness.
\s5
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, I am very discouraged,
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\q2 and get rid of all those who oppress me.
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\q2 they tell lies.
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\v 12 I wish that our sons may all grow to full adulthood;
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\q1 How fortunate are those who worship Yahweh as God!
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\q2 I wish that all people everywhere may praise him forever, for he does everything perfectly.
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\q1 Praise Yahweh!
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\q1 Praise Yahweh!
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\q1 So praise Yahweh!
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\q2 and they will rest and not be afraid of any disaster that may come."
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\q1
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\q2 but foolish people will become well known for their dishonor.
\s5
\c 4
@ -482,9 +476,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1 and do not follow the way that leads to evil.
\s5
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\q1
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\q2 he gets lost because his foolishness has no limits.
\s5
\c 6
\q1
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\v 35 And he will not accept any bribe to stop him.
\s5
\c 7
\q1
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\q2 it goes down to the place where the dead are kept.
\s5
\c 8
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\q2 All those who hate me love death."
\s5
\c 9
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\q2 that those who accepted her invitation and went into her house are now in the world of the dead.
\s5
\c 10
@ -1156,9 +1133,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 but wicked people say what Yahweh has forbidden.
\s5
\c 11
\q1
@ -1287,9 +1261,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q1 will surely receive what they deserve.
\s5
\c 12
\q1
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\q2 and on that road there is no death.
\s5
\c 13
\q1
@ -1509,9 +1477,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 but the wicked complain that they are always hungry.
\s5
\c 14
\q1
@ -1645,8 +1610,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 but the king is angry with any servant who brings shame to him.
\s5
\c 15
\q1
@ -1781,8 +1744,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 and then humility comes before honor.
\s5
\c 16
\q1
@ -1923,9 +1884,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 but Yahweh decides on which side of the stones they will stop rolling.
\s5
\c 17
\q1
@ -2041,8 +1999,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow,
\q2 when he keeps his mouth shut, even a fool looks intelligent.
\s5
\c 18
\q1
@ -2139,8 +2095,6 @@ but a rich person is rude when he answers.
\q2 and he is always close at our side, even closer than a brother.
\s5
\c 19
\q1
@ -2255,8 +2209,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 and he is ready to flog the backs of fools.
\s5
\c 20
\q1
@ -2373,9 +2325,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 and beatings make our inmost self clean.
\s5
\c 21
\q1
@ -2500,9 +2449,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 but the outcome of the battle, the winner or the loser, is determined by Yahweh.
\s5
\c 22
\q1
@ -2616,9 +2562,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 Because of his achievements he will not serve mere ordinary people.
\s5
\c 23
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\q2 in order that I can drink some more wine?"
\s5
\c 24
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\q2 and poverty will come like an armed soldier who attacks you.
\s5
\c 25
\p
@ -3010,9 +2948,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 is like a city with no way to keep out enemies; its walls have fallen down.
\s5
\c 26
\q1
@ -3133,8 +3068,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 just as much as the person who uses flattery causes terrible destruction.
\s5
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\q1
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\q2 and it is food to feed your servant girls, as well.
\s5
\c 28
\q1
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\q2 but when the wicked die, there will be more and more of those who do what is right.
\s5
\c 29
\q1
@ -3467,9 +3396,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h
\q2 just as the wicked hate those who live good lives.
\s5
\c 30
\p
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\q2 and, in the same way, when people are angry, they will argue and fight.
\s5
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\v 31 Give her what she has earned,
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\v 18 Anyone who becomes very wise also becomes very frustrated. The more one knows, the sadder he becomes.
\s5
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\v 26 God enables those who please him to be wise, to know many things, and to enjoy many things. But if sinful people work hard and become rich, God can take their money away from them and give it to those who please him. However, the reason for that is also something that is difficult for me to understand. It seems useless that they worked so hard; it is like trying to control the wind.
\s5
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\v 22 So I think that the best thing for us people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say this because no one of us knows what happens to us after we die.
\s5
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\v 16 Large crowds of people crowd around him. But after a few years, they will be tired of him, too. So it is all senseless, like trying to control the wind.
\s5
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\v 20 Those people do not think much about everything that has happened during their lifetime, because God makes sure that they keep working at what they enjoy.
\s5
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\v 12 No human being can know everything that is good for himself in this life. People live for a few seemingly meaningless days. Life passes by quickly, like a shadow, and no one know what is coming after we die. We live for only a short time, and then we disappear like a vapor.
\s5
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\v 29 I have learned only this: That when God created people, they were righteous, but they have found many ways to complicate their own lives.
\s5
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\q1
@ -653,9 +632,6 @@
\v 17 Then I thought about everything that God has done, and I realized that no one can understand everything that happens here on this earth. Truly, people are not able to fully understand everything that God does, even if they try hard to do that. Even if wise people claim that they understand it all, they cannot.
\s5
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\q2 he might ruin many good things that others have done.
\s5
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\q1
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\q2 and tell those people what you said about them.
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\q1 because we will not remain young and strong forever.
\s5
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\q1
@ -959,8 +927,6 @@
\v 11 The words of wise people are like goads. Like nails driven deeply are the words of the masters in collections of their proverbs, which are taught by one shepherd.
\s5
\v 12 So, my son, pay careful attention to what I have written, and choose carefully what you read that others have written. This work of writing many books is endless. Trying to study them all will be an endless task.
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\q2 good things and bad things,
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\q2 the fir branches overhead are like a roof for us.
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\sp The woman speaking to her lover
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\q2 Go away quickly, like a gazelle or like a young deer running on the high hills.
\s5
\c 3
\sp The woman speaking to herself
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\q1 the happiest day of his life.
\s5
\c 4
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\q2 like someone comes into a garden and enjoys eating the fruit that grows there.
\s5
\c 5
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\q2 this is why the man who loves me is better than all other men.
\s5
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\q2 dancing between two rows of dancers?
\s5
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\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
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\q2 pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, the man who loves me.
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\q2 run to me like a gazelle or young deer,
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\q2 and no one will be able to put out the fire."
\s5
\c 2
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\q1 People certainly cannot help you!
\s5
\c 3
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\q2 The city will be like a woman who sits on the ground because all her friends have deserted her.
\s5
\c 4
\q1
@ -462,9 +453,6 @@ it will be like a canopy over God's glorious presence in the city.
and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\s5
\c 5
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\q2 it will be as though even the sunlight is hidden by dark clouds.
\s5
\c 6
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\q2 the people who remain in this land will be a group that is set apart for me."
\s5
\c 7
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\v 25 No one will go to where there previously were gardens on fertile hillsides, because briers and thorns will cover those hillsides. They will be areas where only a few cattle and sheep and goats wander around searching for something to eat.
\s5
\c 8
@ -880,9 +859,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 22 They will look around the land and see only trouble and darkness and things that cause them to despair. And then they will be thrown into very black darkness.
\s5
\c 9
@ -1002,9 +978,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 He will be ready to strike them with his fist again.
\s5
\c 10
@ -1144,7 +1117,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 you will become too strong for them.
\s5
\q1
\v 28 One day in the future this will be the situation: The army of Assyria has entered northern Judah near Aiath;
@ -1179,9 +1151,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 as men use big axes to cut down the tall trees in the forests of Lebanon.
\s5
\c 11
@ -1277,9 +1246,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q2 when they left Egypt.
\s5
\c 12
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\q2 and he lives among us!"
\s5
\c 13
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\q2 Babylon will not exist much longer.
\s5
\c 14
\p
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\q2 and his people who are oppressed will be safe inside the walls of Jerusalem."
\s5
\c 15
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\q2 and will also attack the people who remain in that country.
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1742,9 +1696,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 14 But now he says that exactly three years from now, he will destroy all the things that the people of Moab have been proud of. Even though they have a huge number of people in Moab now, only a few people will remain alive, and they will be weak.
\s5
\c 17
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\q1 That is what will happen to those who invade our land and steal our possessions.
\s5
\c 18
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\q1 will take gifts to Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, lives.
\s5
\c 19
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\v 25 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will bless them; he will say, "You people of Egypt are now my people. You people of Assyria, I have established your country. You people of Israel are the people whom I have chosen to belong to me."
\s5
\c 20
@ -1990,9 +1932,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 6 They will say, 'We thought that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia would help us and defend us, but they have been destroyed, so there is no way that we can escape from being destroyed by the army of the king of Assyria!'"
\s5
\c 21
@ -2089,9 +2028,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 22
@ -2197,9 +2133,6 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
\v 25 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, also says, "Shebna is like a peg that is firmly fastened to the wall. But there will be a time when I will remove him from his position; he will lose his power, and everything that he promoted will fail." That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.
\s5
\c 23
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\q2 in order that they can buy food and nice clothes.
\s5
\c 24
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\q2 in the presence of all the leaders of his people.
\s5
\c 25
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\q2 they will fall into pieces and lie in the dust.
\s5
\c 26
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\q2 everyone will at last know all the crimes of murder that have been committed."
\s5
\c 27
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\v 13 At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on Zion, his holy hill.
\s5
\c 28
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\q1 So what the farmers do is very smart, but what your leaders are doing is very stupid.
\s5
\c 29
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\q2 and those who complain about what I am doing will accept what I am teaching them."
\s5
\c 30
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\q2 which will come out like a stream of burning sulfur.
\s5
\c 31
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\q2 This is what Yahweh says about the Assyrian army!
\s5
\c 32
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\q2 Your donkeys and cattle will easily find grass to eat when you send them out into pasture.
\s5
\c 33
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\q2 because Yahweh will forgive the sins that have been committed by the people who live there.
\s5
\c 34
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\q2 throughout all generations.
\s5
\c 35
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\q2 they will be completely joyful and glad.
\s5
\c 36
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\v 22 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah returned to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed. They told him what the official from Assyria had said.
\s5
\c 37
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\v 38 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
\s5
\c 38
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\v 22 And Hezekiah had previously asked, "What will Yahweh do to prove that I will recover and be able to go to his temple?"
\s5
\c 39
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\v 8 Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, "The message from Yahweh that you have given to me is good." He said that because he was thinking, "Even if that happens, there will be peace and safety here during the time that I am alive."
\s5
\c 40
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\q2 they will walk long distances and not faint.
\s5
\c 41
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\q2 They are as meaningless as the wind."
\s5
\c 42
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\q2 but we did not pay attention.
\s5
\c 43
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\q2 and caused you to be despised."
\s5
\c 44
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\q1 and he will also say, 'We must rebuild the temple!'"
\s5
\c 45
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\q2 and then we will boast about what he has done for us.
\s5
\c 46
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\q2 and show to you Israelite people that I am glorious."
\s5
\c 47
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\q2 and when you cry out for help, there is no one who can help you."
\s5
\c 48
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\v 22 But things will not go well like that for wicked people," says Yahweh.
\s5
\c 49
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\q2 everyone will know that I am the mighty God to whom you descendants of Jacob belong."
\s5
\c 50
@ -5551,9 +5404,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 he will make you die in great torment!
\s5
\c 51
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\q2 in order that your backs will be like streets that we can walk on.'"
\s5
\c 52
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\q2 and they will understand things that they had not heard about before.
\s5
\c 53
\q1
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\q2 and he interceded for those who have done things that are wrong.
\s5
\c 54
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\q2 that is what I, Yahweh, promise."
\s5
\c 55
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\q2 and what Yahweh does will cause everyone to remember what he has promised, and they will honor him."
\s5
\c 56
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\q1 And tomorrow we will enjoy drinking even more!'"
\s5
\c 57
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\v 21 and I, Yahweh, say that things will never go well for those who are evil."
\s5
\c 58
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\q1 Those things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 59
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\v 21 This is what Yahweh says to his people: "This is the covenant that I will make with you: My Spirit will not leave you, and you will always have my message. You will be able to declare it, and your children and grandchildren will be able to declare it forever."
\s5
\c 60
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\q1 All those things will happen because, I, Yahweh, will cause them to happen at the right time."
\s5
\c 61
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\q1 with the result that they will praise him for doing that.
\s5
\c 62
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\q2 and "The city that is no longer abandoned."
\s5
\c 63
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\q2 as though we never belonged to you."
\s5
\c 64
\q1
@ -7013,9 +6824,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w
\q2 It seems that you will cause us to suffer much more."
\s5
\c 65
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\q1 That is surely what it will be like because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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\q for the destroyer will suddenly come upon us.
\s5
\p
\v 27 Then Yahweh said to me,
@ -949,9 +947,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 34 There will be no one singing and laughing anymore in the streets of Jerusalem; there will be no more joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides in Judah, because the land will be completely destroyed."
\s5
\c 8
\p
@ -1033,9 +1028,6 @@ do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\q But my people have been badly wounded in their spirits, and nothing can heal them.
\s5
\c 9
\q
@ -1154,9 +1146,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 25-26 There will be a time when I will punish all those people who have changed their bodies by circumcising them but who have not changed their inner beings: The Egyptian, the Moab, of Edom, and of the Ammon people groups, all those who live close to desert areas far from Judah. I will even punish the people of Israel because they are only circumcised on the outside, and physically, and not on the inside, in their inner self."
\s5
\c 10
\p
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\q2 and they are causing our land to soon be only a desert.
\s5
\c 11
\p
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\v 23 I have set a time when I will bring disasters to the people of Anathoth, and when that happens, none of them will remain alive."
\s5
\c 12
\q1
@ -1449,9 +1432,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 13
\p
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\q2 How long will it be until you are acceptable to me again?"
\s5
\c 14
\p
@ -1673,9 +1650,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 So we will confidently expect you to help us."
\s5
\c 15
\p
@ -1803,9 +1777,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q1 That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 16
\p
@ -1862,9 +1833,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 Then, finally, they will know that I, Yahweh, am the true God."
\s5
\c 17
\q1
@ -1978,9 +1946,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 27 But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you continue to carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire."'"
\s5
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\p
@ -2066,9 +2031,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 punish them because of your being angry with them!"
\s5
\c 19
\p
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\v 15 "This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says: 'I will bring a disaster to this city and to the villages around it like I promised, because you people have stubbornly refused to pay attention to what I said to you.'"
\s5
\c 20
\p
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\q1 why was it necessary for me to me born?
\s5
\c 21
\p
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\q2 that will burn up everything around you.'"
\s5
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\p
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\q2 to rule over the people of Judah."
\s5
\c 23
\p
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\v 40 I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced."
\s5
\c 24
\p
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\v 10 And I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from Israel, this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors."
\s5
\c 25
\p
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\q1 He is very angry with you and will make your enemies angry at you.'"
\s5
\c 26
\p
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\v 24 However, Ahikam son of Shaphan defended me, and persuaded the officials not to allow the mob to murder Jeremiah.
\s5
\c 27
\p
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\v 22 They will all be carried away to Babylon. And they will stay there until I say that they should be brought back to Jerusalem. Then they will be bought back here. That is what I, Yahweh, say.'"
\s5
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@ -2813,9 +2748,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 17 Hananiah died two months later.
\s5
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\p
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\v 32 So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do many good things for you, my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, because they will be dead. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!'"
\s5
\c 30
\p
@ -3018,9 +2947,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\q2 In the future, you will understand all of this clearly.
\s5
\c 31
\p
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\v 40 And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the Kidron Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city of Jerusalem will never again be captured or destroyed."
\s5
\c 32
\p
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\v 44 But some day people will again buy and sell fields here. People will sign documents about buying those fields, and other people will witness them doing that. That will happen in the land where the descendants of Benjamin live and here in the villages near Jerusalem, in other towns in Judah, in the hill country and in the foothills to the west, and in the southern Judean wilderness. Some day I will cause them to prosper again. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
\s5
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\v 26 Similarly, I will never abandon the descendants of David or the other descendants of Jacob, and I will always allow descendants of David to rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bring them back to their land, and I will act mercifully toward them.'"
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\p
@ -3422,9 +3339,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 22 I will summon them back again. This time, they will fight against this city and capture it and burn it down. I will make sure that all the towns in Judah are destroyed, with the result that no one will live there anymore.'"
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\v 19 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: "There will always be descendants of Jonadab who will do work for me."'"
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\v 32 So Jeremiah took another scroll, and again he dictated the messages to Baruch. He wrote everything that had been written on the other scroll, the one that King Jehoiakim had burned in the fire. But this time, Jeremiah added more messages.
\s5
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\v 21 So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be sent back to the prison cell. Instead, he was allowed to be watched by the guards in the courtyard of the palace. The king also commanded that they should bring him a loaf of fresh bread every day, until there was no bread left in the city. So they put Jeremiah in that courtyard and he remained there.
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\v 28 So Jeremiah remained being guarded in the courtyard of the palace, until the day that the army of Babylonia captured Jerusalem.
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\v 18 You trusted me, so I will save you. You will not be killed by our enemies' swords. You will live. That will surely happen, because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
\s5
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\v 16 But Gedaliah said to Johanan, "No, I will not allow you to do that. I think that you are lying about Ishmael."
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\v 18 They were worried about what the soldiers of Babylonia would do to them when they found out that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, who had been appointed by the king of Babylonia to be their governor.
\s5
\c 42
\p
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\v 22 You want to go to Egypt and live there. So now, you can be sure of this: All of you will die there. Some of you will be killed by the swords of your enemies and others will die from famines or from diseases."
\s5
\c 43
\p
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\v 13 But before they leave, they will have torn down the pillars that are in the temple of their sun god and burned all of the temple of the false Egyptian gods."'"
\s5
\c 44
\p
@ -3959,8 +3846,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 30 I will cause Hophra, the king of Egypt, to be captured by his enemies who want to kill him, just like I caused King Zedekiah of Judah to be captured by the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.'"
\s5
\c 45
\p
@ -3974,9 +3859,6 @@ I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed th
\v 5 So, should you desire that people do things to honor you in a special way? Do not desire that. It is true that I will cause all these people to experience a great disaster, but wherever you go, I will protect you, and you will not be killed.'"
\s5
\c 46
\p
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\q2 it would be wrong if I did not punish you at all.'"
\s5
\c 47
\p
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\q1 Yahweh intends to tell them to attack all the people living in Ashkelon and in other cities along the coast.
\s5
\c 48
\p
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\p That is the end of what Jeremiah prophesied about Moab.
\s5
\c 49
\p
@ -4629,9 +4502,6 @@ That was the city that gave me joy.
\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
\s5
\c 50
\p
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\q1 and the wailing of the people will be heard by the people of other nations.'"
\s5
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\p
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\p This is the end of Jeremiah's messages.
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\q2 and I faint within my inner self.
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\q2 the ones whom we took care of and reared up.
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\q2 until none of them remain on the earth."
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\q2 and he will make known to everyone the wicked things you have done.
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\p That was the brilliant light that represented the presence of Yahweh. When I saw it, I threw myself flat onto the ground, and I heard him speak!
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\v 10 He unrolled the scroll. On both sides of it were written words that expressed sorrow and mourning and words about trouble.
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\v 27 But then when I speak to you again, I will enable you to talk and tell them 'This is what the Lord Yahweh is saying to you.' The one who wants to hear me will hear me, but the one who ignores the message will come to an end, since they are a rebellious people!"
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\v 17 because water and food will be very scarce. They will see each other becoming extremely thin, and they will be appalled; but this will happen because they are being punished for the sins that they have committed."
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\v 17 So I will cause you to experience a famine, and I will send wild beasts to attack you and your children, and all your children will be killed. You will experience plagues and wars, and I will cause your enemies to attack you with their swords. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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\v 14 For I will display my power and cause every area in which they live in your country to become an empty wasteland, from the desert in the far south to the town of Diblah in the far north. Then they will realize that I, Yahweh, have done this.'"
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\v 27 Your king will mourn, and his son will no longer expect that good things will happen. The hands of people throughout the country will tremble. And I will do to them what they deserve for their wicked behavior. I will judge and condemn them the same way they have judged and condemned others. Then they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
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\v 18 So I will show them that I am very angry. I will not pity them or act mercifully toward them. And even if they shout loudly to me to help them, I will not pay attention to them."
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\v 11 Then the man wearing the linen robe returned, saying, "I have done what you commanded me to do."
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\v 22 Their faces were the same as the faces that I had seen at the Kebar Canal. Each of them flew straight ahead.
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\v 25 and I told the exiles everything that Yahweh had shown me in the vision.
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\v 28 Therefore say to them, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says: I will no longer delay causing to happen any of the things that I have prophesied. Whatever I have predicted will soon happen.'"
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\v 23 Therefore, you will no longer falsely say that you have seen visions or tell people what will happen in the future in order to please them. I will rescue my people from being deceived by you. And then you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
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\v 23 When you see those things that they do, you will know that there were very good reasons for me to do everything that I caused to happen to them. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare."
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\v 8 I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal to me. That is what I, Yahweh, the Lord, say."
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\v 63 Then when I have forgiven you for all your sins, you will think about all the sins that you committed and you will be ashamed. You will never again boast about them, because you will be humiliated." I, the Lord Yahweh, have said so!' This is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
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\p I, Yahweh have said this, and I will certainly do what I have said that I will do."
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\v 32 I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I am not pleased if you die. So turn away from your sins and stay alive!"
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\m This funeral song must be sung very sadly."
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\v 49 Then I said, "Yahweh, my Lord, when I tell things like this to people, they do not believe me. They say about me, 'He is only telling parables.'"
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\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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\v 31 So because I am very angry with them, I will severely punish them for all the wicked things that they have done. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it."
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\v 49 I will punish you people of Jerusalem for your immoral behavior and for worshiping idols. Then you will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
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\v 27 When that happens, you will be able to speak again without constraint. You two will talk together. You will be a warning to the people; and they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
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\v 17 I will get great revenge on them and show that I am angry with them by the way I punish them. And when I get revenge on them, they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
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\v 21 I will cause them to die in a horrible way, and that will be the end of them. People will search for that city, but it will no longer exist." This is what the Lord Yahweh declares will happen.
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\q2 and it will not exist anymore."
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\v 26 My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby people groups that despised them, my people will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done this."
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\v 21 Yahweh said to me, "Some day I will make Israel become a mighty nation. When that happens, I will make them listen to what you tell them. Then they will know that all this has happened because I, Yahweh, will have done this."
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\v 26 I will scatter the people of Egypt among the nations. And when that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.
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\v 18 This parable is a warning to you people of Egypt. You think that there is no other nation that is as great and glorious as yours is. But your nation will also be destroyed, along with those other nations. Your people will be there among the other people who are not fit to worship me, people who have been killed by their enemies' swords. That is what will happen to the king of Egypt and all his many people." This is what the Lord Yahweh has declared will happen.
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\v 32 While that king was living, I allowed him to terrify others in many countries, but he and his huge army will be there among other godless people whom their enemies have killed." This will certainly surely happen because the Lord Yahweh has said that it would happen.
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\v 33 The terrible things that I have said will happen to them will surely happen. And then they will know that a prophet has been among them, and that you are that prophet."
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\v 31 It is as though you, my people, are my sheep whom I take care of, and I am your God. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.'"
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\v 15 You were happy when the land of the Israelite people was ruined, so I will do the same thing to your land. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
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\v 38 I will make them as numerous as the flocks of sheep that will be needed for offerings in Jerusalem during your regular festivals. The cities that are now ruined will be filled with people, and then you will know that I, Yahweh, have done this.'"
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\v 28 Then, when my temple is there again among them, the people of nations will know that I, Yahweh, set apart Israel for my honor."
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\v 23 In this way, I will cause the people of many nations to know that I am very great, and I will show them my holiness. And they will see who I am and they will know that I am Yahweh.'"
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\v 29 I will no longer turn away from them; I will give my Spirit to the Israelite people. This will certainly happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it."
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\v 49 The portico was eleven meters wide, and its depth was six meters on each side. There were steps leading up to it, and there were columns on each side of the portico.
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\v 26 On the side walls of the portico were narrow windows with figures of palm trees carved on the sides of the windows. The side rooms around the temple also had projecting roofs.
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\v 20 He measured the wall that separated what was sacred from the areas that were not sacred on four sides. The wall was five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide.
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\v 27 At the end of those seven days, starting on the following day, the priests will continue to put on the altar offerings to be completely burned and offerings to promise friendship with me. Then I will accept you. That it what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare."
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\v 31 Priests must not eat the flesh of any bird or animal that is found dead or that has been killed by wild animals.
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\v 25 During the seven days of the festival celebrating when the Israelites lived in tents during the exodus from Egypt, which starts on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of each year, the ruler must provide the same things for offerings to make it possible for God to accept the people, for offerings to be completely burned, for offerings of things made from grain, and for offerings of olive oil.
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\v 24 The man said to me, "These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple will cook the sacrifices that the people bring."
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\v 23 Wherever foreigners are living, you must give them some land to belong to them permanently.' That is what the Lord Yahweh declares."
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\v 21 Daniel remained there serving the king more than sixty years until the first year that Cyrus became king.
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\v 49 Daniel asked the king to appoint Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to serve in important positions as administrators in the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained in the king's palace and served the king there.
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\v 30 Then the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego positions of greater importance within the province of Babylon.
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\v 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and honor God, the king who rules in heaven. All of his actions are just and right. And he is able to make the proud humble.
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\v 31 Darius, king of Media, became the king of Babylonia when he was sixty-two years old.
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\v 28 So Daniel was very successful all during the time that Darius ruled and during the time that Cyrus, the king of Persia, ruled.
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\v 28 That is what I saw in my vision. I, Daniel, was terrified, with the result that my face became pale. But I did not tell anyone about the vision that I had seen."
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\v 27 Then I, Daniel, was overcome and lay in bed weak for several days. Then I arose and returned to doing the work that the king had given to me, but I was perplexed about the vision. No one could understand it.
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\v 27 That ruler will make a covenant with many people. He will do what he promised for seven years. But when that time is half finished, he will prevent priests from giving any more offerings and sacrifices to God. After this ruler does these disgusting things, someone will pollute the temple by putting an idol in the very holy place. It will stay there until God completely destroys the one who put it there."
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\v 20-21 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? It is to reveal to you what is written in the book which reveals God's truth. But now I must return to fight against the evil spirit who rules the kingdom of Persia. After I have defeated him, the evil angel who guards Greece will appear and I must defeat him. Michael, who guards you Israelite people, will certainly help me, but there is no one else to help me."
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\v 45 The king will set up his royal tents in the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hill in Jerusalem, the location of the temple. But someone will kill him there, and there will be no one to help him."
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\v 13 So now I say to you, continue to faithfully trust God until your life on earth ends. You will die, but when everything ends, you will receive your reward from God."

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\v 11 On that day I, Yahweh, will gather all the people of Judah and bring them together with all the people of Israel. They will choose from among themselves a single leader, and they will go out of that land in which they were held as exiles. On that day they will say, 'Great is the day of Jezreel!' (Jezreel means, 'God plants his people in his land.')
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\q2 They will say to me, 'You are our God.'"
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\v 5 After some time, the people of Israel will return to Yahweh; they will hope that he will receive them back. They will hope to have a descendant of David for their king again. In the later time, they will come to Yahweh to honor him and tremble before him because of his goodness to them.
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\q2 Only then will they be ashamed because they gave offerings to the idols."
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\q1 I will wait for them to come and ask me to help them."
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\q1 That will be the day when I bring back the blessings and riches of my people once more."
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\q1 This is why the people in Egypt will insult them."
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\q1 and they will wander from one nation to another.
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\q2 the king of Israel will be destroyed; the enemy will kill him."
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\q2 But the people of Judah they still obey me and are faithful to me, the Holy One."
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\q2 He will pay them back because they have insulted him with their shameful deeds.
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\q2 they will rip open their pregnant women."
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\q2 Those who do what is right live by them.
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\q2 The dryness is like a fire burning up the wilderness pastures.
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\q2 those whom I have chosen will survive."
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\v 21 I, Yahweh, live on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
\q2 and I will get revenge on the people of Egypt and Edom who killed many of my people."

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\v 15 After the battle, the king of Ammon and his officials will go into exile."
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
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\q2 I am Yahweh, commander of the angel armies!"
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, have said it!"
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\q2 to the brook of the Arabah.
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\q1 And the people of Israel will certainly have to leave their country and go into exile.'"
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\q2 they will never get up again."
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\q1 never again will you be forced to leave it.
\q2 That is what will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."

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\v 21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,
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\v 17 While they were doing that, Yahweh sent a huge fish that swallowed Jonah. Then Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
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\v 10 Then Yahweh commanded the huge fish to vomit out Jonah, and the fish vomited out Jonah onto the dry land.
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\v 10 When they all did that, God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil actions. So he pitied them, and he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
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\q2 because the children whom you love will soon go into exile.
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\q2 it is I, Yahweh, who will be their king!"
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\q2 The top of the hill, where the temple is now, will be covered with trees.
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\q2 and I will cause you to dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth."
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\q2 I will also punish the people of all the nations who have not obeyed me."
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\q2 and I will cause the other people groups to despise you, my own people."
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\v 20 You will show that you faithfully do what you promised for us and faithfully love us,
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\q2 because they will be completely destroyed.
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\q2 their armies surrender to them."
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\q2 They will say, "Everyone has suffered because he continually acted very cruelly
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\q2 Will you allow them to destroy people of other nations without any mercy for anyone?"
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\q2 everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence!"
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\q (This message is for the choir director:
\q2 When this prayer is sung, it is to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments.)

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\q1 and he will completely get rid, in a most terrifying way, of all the wicked people who live on the earth.
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\q2 and shake their fists to show that they detest that city very much.
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\q1 You will see when I bring your people home again."
\q2 This is what Yahweh, has declared!

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\v 15 They started that work on the twenty-fourth day of the same month in which Yahweh had spoken to Haggai.
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\v 23 Zerubbabel, you will become my servant on that day. And I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, declare that like kings wear signet rings to show that they have authority to rule people, I will appoint you and cause you to have authority to rule. I will do that because I have chosen you. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, have said it."

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\p He replied, "The nations that those horns represent scattered the people of Judah, so they suffered greatly. But these blacksmiths are coming to frighten and destroy those nations and to throw down their horns, their power—all those nations who had attacked the land of Judah."
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\v 13 Everyone, everywhere, should be silent in the presence of Yahweh, because he is about to come down again from where he lives in heaven to do great things for us.
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\v 10 At that time, each of you will invite his friends to come and sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree. That is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, declares."
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\v 14 So he said, "They represent the two men whom the Lord who rules the whole earth has appointed."
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\v 11 He replied, "They are taking it to Babylonia to build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, they will set the barrel there on a pedestal for people to worship it."
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\v 15 People who are living far away will come and help to build Yahweh's temple. When that happens, you people will know that Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, have sent me to you people. That will happen if all of you faithfully obey Yahweh, your God.
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\v 14 And I will scatter them among many nations, nations that they have never been to before. I will scatter them as a storm scatters leaves. After they are gone, their own land will be empty, with no one living there. No one will travel through it and no one will come back to it, because they have turned it, their most pleasant land, into a wilderness."
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\v 17 They will be delightful and beautiful. The young men will become strong from eating grain, and the young women will become strong from drinking new wine.
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\v 12 I will enable my people to be strong, and they will honor me and obey me. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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May his enemies strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. May he have no more strength in his arm, and may his right eye become completely blind."
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\v 14 All the clans will mourn separately, their males by themselves, and their wives by themselves."
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Then my people will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will say that I, Yahweh, am the God they worship and obey.
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\v 20 At that time, the words "Dedicated to Yahweh" will be written on the bells that are fastened to the horses. The cooking pots in the courtyard of the temple will belong to Yahweh, like the bowls that are in front of the altar.
\v 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and everywhere else in Judah will be dedicated to Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies. So everyone who offers sacrifices there in Jerusalem will be able to take some of the meat that has been brought for sacrifices and cook it in their own pots. And at that time, people will no longer buy or sell things in the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies.

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\m This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says.
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\p The answer is that you have said that Yahweh is pleased with all those who do what is evil, that he actually views them as good. And you have also made him impatient by always saying, "Why does God not act justly toward us?"
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\v 18 When that happens, you will again see that the manner in which I treat righteous people is different from the manner in which I treat wicked people. You will see that the manner in which I act toward those who worship me is different from the manner in which I act toward those who do not."
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\v 5 Listen to this: One day I will send to you the prophet Elijah. He will arrive before the great and dreadful day when I, Yahweh, will judge everyone and punish those who deserve punishment.
\v 6 Because of what Elijah will preach, parents and their children join together in loving each other again. If that does not happen, I will come and destroy your country."

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\v 12 Then God warned them in a dream not to return to King Herod. So they left for their country, but instead of traveling back on the same road, they went on a different road.
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\v 13 After the men who studied the stars left Bethlehem, an angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee into the country of Egypt. Stay there until I tell you that you should leave, because King Herod is about to send soldiers to look for the child so that they can kill him."
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\v 21 So Joseph took the child and his mother, and they went back to Israel.
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\v 22 When Joseph heard that Archaelaus now ruled in the province of Judea instead of his father, King Herod the Great, he was afraid to go there. Then God instructed Joseph in a dream what to do, so Joseph, Mary, and the baby went to the district of Galilee.
\v 23 They went to the town of Nazareth to live there. The result was that what the prophets had said long ago came true: "People will say that he is from Nazareth."
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\v 6 After they heard him, they openly confessed their sins, and then he baptized them in the Jordan River.
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\v 10 God is ready right now to punish you, just like a man who starts to chop away the roots of a fruit tree that does not give good fruit. He will chop down every tree like that and throw it into the fire."
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\v 11 "As for me, I am not very important, because I baptize you only with water. I do it when people are sorry for having sinned. But someone else will come soon who will do very powerful things. He is so much greater than I, that I do not even deserve to carry his sandals.
\p He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
\v 12 He is holding his winnowing fork, ready to separate the good grain from the bad chaff. He is ready to clear out all the bad chaff from where he has threshed the grain. He will take the righteous people home, as a farmer puts his wheat into his storehouse; but he will burn the wicked people, like one burns the chaff, in a fire that never goes out."
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\v 13 During that time, Jesus went from the district of Galilee to the Jordan River, where John was. He did this so John could baptize him.
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\v 17 Then God spoke from heaven and said, "This is my Son. I love him, and I am very pleased with him."
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\v 17 At that time, while Jesus was in the city of Capernaum, he began to preach to the people, "The rule of God from heaven is near, and he will judge you when he rules. So stop sinning!"
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\v 18 One day while Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two men, Simon, who was later called Peter, and Andrew, his younger brother. They were casting their fishing net into the water because they caught and sold fish.
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\v 22 Immediately they also left their boat and their father and went with Jesus.
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\v 23 Jesus led those four men throughout all of the district of Galilee. He was teaching the people in the synagogues. He was preaching the good news about how God is ruling. He was also healing all the people who were sick.
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\v 25 Then large crowds started to go with him. They were people from Galilee, from the Ten Towns, from the city of Jerusalem, from other parts of the province of Judea, and from areas east of the Jordan River.
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and rescue us when Satan tries to harm us.'
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\v 14 Forgive the people who sin against you, because, if you do, God, your Father who is in heaven, will forgive your sins.
\v 15 But if you do not forgive other people, neither will God forgive your sins.
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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. Keep in mind that is the only reward those people will get!
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\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 where moths ruin clothing, rust destroys metals, and thieves steal what belongs to other people.
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\v 21 Remember that whatever is most important to you, that is what you will be thinking about.
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\v 22 "Your eyes are like a lamp for your body, because they enable you to see things. So if you see things as God sees them, it will be as if your whole body were full of light.
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\v 24 "No one is able to serve two different masters at the same time. If he tried to do that, he would hate one of them and love the other one, or he would be loyal to one of them and despise the other one. Similarly, you cannot worship God and money at the same time."
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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.
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\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."
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\v 6 "You do not give things that belong to God to dogs that would attack you. And you do not throw valuable pearls in front of hogs, because they would just walk on them. In the same way, do not tell wonderful things about God to people who you know will do evil things to you in return.
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\v 7 "Keep asking God for what you need, and keep expecting him to give it to you.
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\v 12 So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them, because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago.
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\v 13-14 "Going to live forever with God in heaven is difficult; it is like a difficult road that you should take.
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So I am telling you to take the difficult road and enter the narrow gate to live forever with God in heaven."
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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 are like wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins to appear harmless but will attack you.
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\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 21 Even though many people habitually call me Lord, pretending that they have my authority, God will not agree to rule from heaven over some of them, because they do not do what he desires. My Father will agree to rule over only those who do what he wants.
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\v 23 Then I will publicly say to them, 'I have never admitted that you belonged to me. Go away from me, you who do what is evil!'"
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\v 24 So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command, will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
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\v 27 When the rain fell and the river flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it crashed down and broke completely apart, because it was built on sand. So you should obey what I have told you."
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\v 28 When Jesus finished teaching all those things, the crowds who had heard him were amazed by how he taught.
\v 29 He taught like a teacher who relies on what he himself knows. He did not teach like those who taught the Jewish laws, who repeated the different things that other men had taught.
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\v 13 You need to learn what these words that God said mean: 'I want you to act mercifully to people and not just to offer sacrifices.' Keep in mind that I came to you, not to invite people who think that they are righteous to turn away from their sinful lives and come to me, but to invite people who know they are sinners."
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\v 14 Then the disciples of John the Baptizer came to Jesus and asked him, "We and the Pharisees often abstain from food because we want to please God, but your disciples do not do that. Why do they not?"
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\v 17 Neither does anyone pour fresh grape juice into old skin bags to store it. If anyone did that, those skin bags would tear when the juice became wine. The bags would be ruined, and the wine would be spilled on the ground. Instead, people put new wine into new skin bags, and the bags will stretch when the wine ferments. In this way, both the wine and the bags will be safe."
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\v 18 While Jesus was saying that, a leader in the city came and bowed down before him. Then he said, "My daughter has just now died! But if you come and lay your hand on her, she will live again!"
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\v 26 And the people of that whole region heard about it.
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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!"
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\v 31 But they went out and spread the new in that whole region.
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\v 32 Just when those two men were leaving, some people brought to Jesus a man who was unable to speak because a demon controlled him.
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\v 34 But the Pharisees said, "It is Satan, who rules the demons, who enables this man to drive out demons from people."
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\v 35 Then Jesus and his disciples went through many of the cities and towns in the district of Galilee. He was teaching in the synagogues and preaching the good news about how God will rule from heaven. He also was healing the people who had various diseases and illnesses.
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\v 38 So pray and ask the Lord God to send many more people to gather in his crops."
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\v 42 Note this: Suppose people see that you are thirsty and give you a drink of cold water because they know that you are one of my disciples, even if you are not an important person at all. God will certainly reward people who do that."
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\v 15 If you want to understand this, you must think carefully about what I have just said.
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\v 16 But you and the other people who are alive now, you are like children who are playing games in the marketplace. Some of them call to their friends,
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\v 19 I, the Son of Man, was not like John. I eat the same food and drink wine as other people do. But you also reject me and say, 'Look! This man eats too much food and drinks too much wine, and he is friends with tax collectors and other sinners!' But anyone who is truly wise will show it by doing good deeds."
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\v 20 The people, who lived in the towns in the area where Jesus was, saw him perform many miracles. But they did not turn away from their sinful behavior. So Jesus began to rebuke them by saying to them,
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\v 24 Let me tell you this: God will punish the wicked people who lived in Sodom, but he will punish you even more severely on the final day when he judges all people."
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\v 25 At that time Jesus prayed, "Father, you rule over everything in heaven and on the earth. I thank you that you have prevented people who think that they are wise and well educated from knowing these things. Instead, you have revealed them to people who accept your truth just as little childen believe what an adult tells them.
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\v 30 For the load I will give you is light, and you will carry it easily."
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\v 37 God will either declare that you are righteous based on the words that you have spoken, or else he will condemn you based on what you have said."
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\v 38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Jewish laws responded to Jesus, "Teacher, we want to see you perform a miracle that will convince us that God sent you."
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\v 42 The queen from Sheba, south of Israel, who lived long ago, came from a distant region in order to listen to King Solomon teach many wise things. Now I have come to you, and I am far more important than Solomon was, but you have not stopped sinning. So when God judges everyone, the queen of Sheba will stand in front of him beside you people, and she will condemn you."
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\v 43 "Sometimes when an evil spirit leaves a person, it wanders around in desolate areas, seeking someone in whom he can rest. If he does not find anyone,
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\v 45 Then this evil spirit goes and gets seven other spirits that are even more evil, and they all enter that person and begin living there. So although that person's condition was bad before, it becomes much worse. That is what you wicked people who have heard me teach will experience."
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\v 46 While Jesus was still speaking to the crowd, his mother and his younger brothers arrived. They stood outside the house, and they wanted to speak with him.
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\v 50 Those who do what God my Father who is in heaven wants take the place of my brother, my sister, or my mother."
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\v 36 The sick people kept begging him to allow them to touch him or even only the edge of his robe so that they would be healed. Everyone who touched him or his robe were healed.
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\v 28 Listen carefully! Some of you who are here now will see me, the one who came from heaven, when I return as king. You will see this before you die!"
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\v 27 But go ahead and pay the tax for us so that the temple tax collectors will not become angry with us. In order to get the money to pay it, go to the Sea of Galilee, cast your fish line and hook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a silver coin that is worth enough to pay the tax for you and me. Take that coin and give it to the temple tax collectors."
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\v 16 "Similarly, God will reward well some people who seem to be less important now, and he will not reward some people who seem to be more important now."
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\v 17 When Jesus was walking on the road up to Jerusalem along with the twelve disciples, he took them to a place by themselves in order that he could talk to them privately. Then he said to them,
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\v 19 Then they will put me in the hands of non-Jews so that they can make fun of me, whip me, and kill me by nailing me to a cross. But on the third day after that, God will cause me to live again."
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\v 20 Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, brought her two sons to Jesus. She bowed down before Jesus and asked him to do her a favor.
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\v 34 Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Immediately they were able to see, and they went after Jesus.
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\v 11 The crowd that was already following him answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee!"
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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.
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\v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany, and they stayed there that night.
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\v 18 Early the next morning when they were returning to the city, Jesus was hungry.
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\v 22 In addition to that, whenever you ask God for something when you pray to him, if you believe that he will give it to you, you will receive it from him."
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\v 23 After that, Jesus went into the temple courtyard. While he was teaching the people, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him. They asked, "By what authority are you doing these things? Who authorized you to do what you did here yesterday?"
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\v 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know where John got his authority from." Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who gave me the right to do the things I did here yesterday."
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\v 28 "Tell me what you think about what I am about to tell you. There was a man who had two sons. He went to his older son and said, 'My son, go and work in my vineyard today!'
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\v 32 I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message, and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning, and you did not believe John's message."
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\v 33 "Listen to another parable that I will tell you. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He built a fence around it. He made a place to collect the juice that would come out of the grapes. He also built a tower in which someone could sit to guard that vineyard. He rented the vineyard to some men who would care for it and give him some of the grapes in return. Then he went away to another country.
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\v 46 They wanted to seize him, but they did not do so because they were afraid of what the crowds would do if they did that, because the crowds considered that Jesus was a prophet.
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\v 14 Then Jesus said, "The point of this parable is that God has invited many to come to him, but only a few people are the ones whom he has chosen to be there."
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\v 15 After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
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\v 22 When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him. Then they left Jesus.
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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 asked Jesus,
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\v 33 When the crowds of people heard Jesus teach that, they were amazed.
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\v 34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had answered the Sadducees in such a way that the Sadducees could not think of anything that they might say to respond to him, the Pharisees gathered together to plan what they would say to him. Then they approached him.
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\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."
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\v 41 While the Pharisees were still gathered together near Jesus, he asked them,
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\v 46 No one who heard what Jesus said was able to think of even one word to say to him in response. After that, no one else ever dared to ask him another question to try to trap him.
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\v 2 He said to them, "I tell you the truth about these buildings that you are seeing: an army will completely destroy them. They will throw down every stone in these buildings. Not one stone will remain on top of another stone."
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\v 3 Later, as Jesus was sitting alone on the slope of the Mount of Olives, the disciples went to him and asked him, "When will this happen to the buildings of the temple? And what will happen to show that you are about to come again, and to show that this world is about to end?"
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\v 14 Furthermore, believers will preach the good news about how God is ruling in every part of the world, in order to announce it to all people groups. Then the end of the world will come."
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\v 15 "But before the world ends, the disgusting person who will defile the holy temple and cause people to abandon it will stand in the temple. Daniel the prophet spoke and wrote about that long ago. May everyone who reads this pay attention, because I am warning you.
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\v 22 If God had not decided to shorten that time when people will suffer so much, everyone would die. But he has decided to shorten it because he is concerned about the people whom he has chosen."
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\v 23 "At at that time, if someone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or if someone says, 'There is the Messiah!' do not believe it!
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\v 28 It will be clear to everyone just as when you see vultures gathering you know that an animal carcass is there."
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\v 29 "Immediately after people have suffered during that time, the sun will become dark. The moon will not shine. The stars will fall from the sky. And God will shake all things in the sky loose from their place.
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\v 31 He will send his angels to the earth from everywhere in the heavens. When they hear the trumpet's loud blast, they will gather together God's people—the ones he has chosen—from across the whole earth."
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\v 32 "Now be sure to learn something from how fig trees grow. When the branches of a fig tree become tender and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near.
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\v 35 You can be certain that these things that I have told you about will happen. The earth and sky will disappear one day, but what I say will always be true."
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\v 36 "But no other person, nor even any angel in heaven, nor even the Son, knows the day or the hour when these things will happen. Only God the Father, knows.
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\v 44 So you need to be ready because the Son of Man will return to the earth at a time when you do not expect him to come."
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\v 45 "Think about what every faithful and wise servant is like. The house owner appoints one servant to supervise the other servants. He tells him to give them food at the proper times. Then he leaves on a long trip.
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\v 51 He will punish that servant severely and he will put him where the hypocrites are put. In that place the people cry and grind their teeth because they suffer very much."
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\v 13 Then Jesus continued by saying, "So, in order that this does not happen to you, stay prepared because you do not know when it will be."
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\v 14 "When the Son of Man returns from heaven as king, it will be like a man who was about to go on a long journey. He called his servants together and gave them each some of his wealth to invest and gain more money for him.
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\v 30 Furthermore, throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness, where he will be with those who are wailing and grinding their teeth in pain.'"
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\v 31 "When the Son of Man comes again in his brilliant light and brings all his angels, he will sit as king on his throne to judge everyone.
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\v 46 Then those people on my left will go away to the place where God will punish them forever, but the people good in God's sight will go to where they will live forever with God."
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\v 5 But they said, "We must not do it during the Passover festival, because if we do it then, the people might riot."
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\v 6 While Jesus and his disciples were in the village of Bethany, they ate in the home of Simon, whom Jesus had healed of leprosy.
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\v 13 I will tell you this: Wherever in the entire world people preach the good news about me, they will tell what this woman has done, and as a result people will always remember her."
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\v 14 Then Judas Iscariot, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, went to the chief priests.
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\v 16 From that time Judas watched for an opportunity when they could arrest Jesus.
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\v 17 On the first day of the week-long Festival of Bread with No Yeast, the disciples went to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to prepare the meal for the Passover Celebration so that we can eat it with you?"
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\v 25 Then Judas, the one who was going to betray him, said, "Teacher, surely it is not I!" Jesus replied, "Yes, you are admitting it."
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\v 26 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and thanked God for it. He broke it into pieces, gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take this bread and eat it. It is my body."
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\v 35 Peter said to him, "Even if they kill me while I am defending you, I will never say that I do not know you!" All the rest of the disciples also said the same thing.
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\v 36 Then Jesus went with the disciples to a place that is called Gethsemane. There he said, "Stay here while I go over there and pray."
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\v 46 Get up! Let us go to meet them! Here comes the one who is enabling them to arrest me!"
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\v 47 While Jesus was still speaking, Judas arrived. Even though he was one of the twelve disciples, he came to enable Jesus' enemies to arrest him. A large crowd carrying swords and clubs was coming with him. The chief priests and elders had sent them.
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\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.
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\v 57 The men who had arrested Jesus took him to the house where Caiaphas, the high priest, lived. The men who taught the Jewish laws and the Jewish elders had already gathered there.
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\v 68 and said, "Since you claim that you are the Messiah, tell us who hit you!"
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\v 69 Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl came up to him and looked at him. She said, "You also were with Jesus, that man from the district of Galilee!"
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\v 75 Then Peter remembered the words that Jesus had spoken to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me." And Peter went out of the courtyard, crying hard because he was so sad about what he had done.
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\v 2 Then they tied his hands and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.
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\v 3 Then Judas, the one who had betrayed Jesus, realized that they had decided that Jesus must die. So was overcome with regret about what he had done. He took the thirty coins back to the chief priests and elders.
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\v 10 and with that money they bought the field of the potter. They did that as the Lord had commanded me."
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\v 11 Then Jesus stood in front of the governor. The governor asked him, "Do you say you are the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "Yes, it is as you have just said."
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\v 26 Then he ordered the soldiers to release Barabbas for them. But he ordered that his soldiers whip Jesus. And then he turned Jesus over to the soldiers for them to nail Jesus to a cross.
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\v 27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the soldiers' barracks. The whole cohort gathered around him.
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\v 31 When they had finished ridiculing him, they pulled off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to the place where they would nail him to a cross.
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\v 32 After Jesus carried his cross a short distance, the soldiers saw a man named Simon, who was from the city of Cyrene. They forced him to carry the cross for Jesus.
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\v 44 And the two bandits who on crosses with him also insulted him, saying similar things.
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\v 45 At noon it became dark over the whole land. It stayed dark until three o'clock in the afternoon.
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\v 56 Among these women were Mary from Magdala, another Mary who was the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of James and John.
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\v 57 When it was almost evening, a rich man named Joseph came there. He was from the town of Arimathea. He also was a disciple of Jesus.
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\v 61 Mary from Magdala and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb, watching.
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\v 62 The next day was Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. The chief priests and some of the Pharisees went to Pilate.
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\v 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by fastening a cord from the stone that was in front of the entrance to the rock cliff on each side and sealing it. They also left some soldiers there to guard the tomb.
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\v 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid! Go and tell all my disciples that they should go to Galilee. They will see me there."
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\v 11 While the women were going, some of the soldiers who had been guarding the tomb went into the city. They reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.
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\v 15 So the soldiers took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been told among the Jews to the very day.
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\v 45 The man did not follow Jesus' instruction. He began telling many people about how Jesus had healed him. As a result, Jesus was no longer able to enter towns publicly because the crowds of people would surround him. Instead, he remained outside the towns in places where no one lived. But people kept coming to him from all over that region.
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\v 28 So, to be clear, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath!"
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\v 35 Those who do what God wants are my brother, my sister, or my mother!"
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\v 41 They were terrified. They said to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
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\v 43 Jesus ordered them strictly, "Do not tell anyone about what I have done!" Then he told them to give the girl something to eat.
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\v 56 In whatever village, town or place in the countryside where he went, they would bring to the marketplaces those who were sick. Then the sick people would beg Jesus to let them touch him or even the edge of his clothes in order that Jesus might heal them. All those who touched him or his robe were healed.
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\v 37 People who heard about it were utterly amazed and were saying, "Everything he has done is wonderful! Besides doing other amazing things, he enables deaf people to hear! And he enables those who cannot speak to speak!"
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\v 38 And think about this: Those who refuse to say that they belong to me, and who reject what I say in these days when many people have turned away from God and are very sinful, I, the Son of Man, will also refuse to say that they belong to me when I come back with the holy angels and have the glory that my Father has!"
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\v 50 Salt is useful to put on food, but you cannot make it taste salty again if it becomes flavorless. We are to be like salt that adds flavor to food. And live in peace with one another."
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\v 12 God also considers a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man to be committing adultery."
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\v 31 But I warn you all: Many who now consider themselves to be very important will be unimportant at that future time, and many who now consider themselves to be unimportant will be very important at that future time!"
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\v 32 Some days later as they continued to travel, Jesus and his disciples were walking on the road that leads up to Jerusalem. Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished and the other people who were with them were afraid. Along the way he took the twelve disciples to a place by themselves. Then he began to tell them again about what was going to happen to him; he said,
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\v 34 Their men will ridicule me and spit on me. They will whip me, and then they will kill me. But on the third day after that, I will become alive again!"
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\v 35 Along the way, James and John, who were the two sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do something for us!"
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\v 45 I, the Son of Man, did not come to be served. On the contrary, I came to serve others and to free many people by giving my life for them."
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\v 46 On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus and the disciples came to Jericho. Then, while they were leaving Jericho along with a great crowd, a blind man who habitually begged for money was sitting beside the road. His name was Bartimaeus, and his father's name was Timaeus.
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\v 52 Jesus said to him, "I am healing you because you believed in me. So you may go!" He could see immediately. And he went with Jesus along the road.
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\v 33 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know from whom John received his authority." Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who authorized me to do those things here yesterday."
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\v 12 Then the Jewish leaders realized that Jesus was accusing them when he told this story about what those wicked people did. So they wanted to arrest him. But they were afraid of what the crowds of people would do if they did that. So they left him and went away.
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\v 13 The Jewish leaders sent to Jesus some Pharisees and some members of the party that supported Herod Antipas and the Roman government. They wanted to trick Jesus; they wanted to make him say something wrong, so they could show people that he taught wrong things and get him into trouble with the Roman government.
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\v 17 Jesus said to them, "That is correct, so give to Caesar what belongs to him, and give to God what belongs to him." They were completely amazed by what he said.
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\v 18 Men who belong to the group of Sadducees deny what other Jews believed, that people become alive again after they die. Some Sadducees came to Jesus and asked him,
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\v 27 Now it is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. So when you say that dead people do not become alive again, you are very wrong."
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\v 28 A man who taught the Jewish laws heard their discussion. He knew that Jesus had answered the Sadducees' question very well. So he stepped forward and asked Jesus, "Which commandment is the most important?"
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\v 40 They swindle the houses and property of widows by cheating them. Then they pretend that they are good by praying long prayers in public. God will certainly punish them severely!"
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\v 43-44 Jesus gathered his disciples around him and said to them, "The truth is that those other people have a lot of money, but they gave only a small part of it. But this woman, who is very poor, has put in all the money that she had to pay for the things she needed for today. So this poor widow has put more money into the box than all the others!"
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\v 19 After the Lord Jesus had said this to the disciples, God took him up into heaven. Then he sat down on his throne beside God at the place of highest honor at his right hand, to rule with him.
\v 20 As for the disciples, they went out from Jerusalem, and then they preached everywhere. Wherever they went, the Lord enabled them to perform miracles. By doing that, he showed people that God's message is true.

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\v 80 Over time, Zechariah and Elizabeth's baby boy grew up and became spiritually strong. Then he lived in a desolate region and was still living there when he began to preach publicly to God's people, Israel.
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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 50 But Jesus said to the woman, "Because you have believed in me, God has saved you. May God give you peace as you go!"
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\v 56 And her parents were amazed, but Jesus told them not to tell anyone else yet what had happened.
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\v 62 Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts plowing his field and then looks behind him is not able to serve God when he rules everything as king."
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\v 42 But the only thing that is truly necessary is to listen to what I am teaching. Mary has made the best choice. The blessing that she is receiving from doing that will not be taken away from her."
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\v 54 They kept waiting for him to say something wrong for which they could accuse him.
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\v 59 I tell you that if you go to prison, you will never get out, until you are able to pay every bit of what the judge says you owe."
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\v 35 Now look! God will no longer protect you, people of Jerusalem. I will also tell you this: I will enter your city only once more. After that, you will not see me until the time when I return, when you will say about me, 'May God bless this man who comes with God's authority!'"
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\v 35 If salt does not taste salty anymore, it is no longer any good even for the soil or manure heap. People just throw it away. Every one of you should listen carefully to what I am telling you!"
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\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 31 Abraham said to him, 'No! If they do not listen to what Moses and the prophets wrote, even if someone would rise from among the dead and go warn them, they would still not be convinced that they should turn from their sinful behavior.'"
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\v 43 Immediately he was able to see. And he went with Jesus, praising God. And when all the people there saw this, they also praised God.
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\v 48 But they did not find any way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.
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\v 47 They also steal all the property of widows. Then they pray for a long time in public. God will certainly punish them very severely."
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\v 38 And early every morning all the people came to the temple to listen to him.
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\v 71 Then they said to each other, "We certainly do not need any more people to testify against him! We ourselves have heard him say that he is equal to God!"
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\v 56 Then the women went back to where they were staying in order to get spices and ointments to put on Jesus' body. However, they did no work on the Sabbath, just as the Jewish law required.
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\v 52 After they worshiped him, they returned to Jerusalem very joyfully.
\v 53 Each day they went into the temple courtyard, and spent a lot of time praising God.

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\v 51 Then Jesus said to him, "I am telling you the truth: Just like the vision your ancestor Jacob long ago saw, some day you will see heaven opened up, and you will see God's angels going up and coming down on me, the Son of Man."
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@ -199,7 +197,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 15 so that whoever looks up and trusts in him will have eternal life.
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\v 16 God loved the world in this way: He gave his only Son, so that anyone who trusts in him would not die, but would have everlasting life.
@ -212,7 +209,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 21 But those who do what is good and true come to the light so that what they do may be seen by all and so that all might know that they were obeying God when they did these things.
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\v 22 After those things happened, Jesus and his disciples went to the region of Judea. He stayed there a while with his disciples and he baptized many people.
@ -243,9 +239,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 36 Whoever trusts in God's Son has everlasting life. Whoever does not obey the Son of God can never have everlasting life, and the righteous fury of God for every sin which that person has done will remain upon him forever."
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@ -445,7 +438,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 47 Since you did not even believe in what Moses wrote, how could you possibly trust what I have said to you!"
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@ -586,8 +578,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 71 He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Even though Judas was one of the twelve, he was also the one who would later betray Jesus.
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\c 7
@ -702,7 +692,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 53 [Then they all left and went to their own homes.
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@ -767,7 +756,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 30 As Jesus was saying these things, many more people trusted in him.
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\v 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who now were saying that they trusted in him, "If you listen to all I teach you and live by it in everything you do, you are truly my disciples.
@ -824,9 +812,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 59 So they picked up stones to put him to death. However, Jesus hid himself, left the temple, and went somewhere else.
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\c 9
@ -855,7 +840,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 12 They said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."
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\v 13 Some of the people there took the man to a gathering of the Pharisees.
@ -913,8 +897,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt. However, because you now defend yourself and say, 'We see,' your guilt is staying with you.
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@ -961,7 +943,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 21 Others said, "What he is saying is not something a man oppressed by a demon would ever say. No demon can open the eyes of a blind man!"
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\v 22 The time for the celebration called the Festival of Dedication had now come, the time when the Jewish people remembered when their ancestors purified the temple in Jerusalem and gave it to God again. It was in the winter.
@ -1004,9 +985,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 42 Many people came to trust him; they put their trust in who he was and in what he would do for them.
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@ -1044,8 +1022,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 16 Then Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go with Jesus so that we may die with him."
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\v 17 When Jesus arrived in Bethany, he found that Lazarus had already died and had been in the tomb for four days.
@ -1090,7 +1066,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you the truth when I told you that if you trusted me, you would see who God is and you would know what God can do?"
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\v 41 So they took away the stone. Jesus looked up toward heaven and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
@ -1101,7 +1076,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 44 The man who had died came out! His hands were still wrapped and his feet were still bound with linen strips of cloth, and there was a cloth wrapped around his face as well. Jesus said to them, "Take off the strips of cloth that bind him and untie him. Let him go."
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\v 45 As a result, many of the Jews who had come to see Mary and who had witnessed what Jesus did, put their trust in him.
@ -1133,8 +1107,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 57 The Jewish chief priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, they should report it to them, so that they could arrest him.
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@ -1179,7 +1151,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 19 So the Pharisees said to each other, "See! We are gaining no advantage here. Look! The whole world is following him!"
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\v 20 Among those who went up to Jerusalem during the Passover Festival were some Greeks.
@ -1241,7 +1212,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 43 They preferred that other people praise and respect them rather than that God would praise them.
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\v 44 Jesus shouted out to the crowd that had gathered, "Those who put their trust in me are not only putting their trust in me but also are putting their trust in the Father who sent me.
@ -1257,9 +1227,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 50 I know that the Father's most important instructions are the ones that teach people how to live forever, and I have said exactly what my Father has told me to say."
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@ -1323,7 +1290,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 30 After receiving the bread, immediately Judas went out. It was night.
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\v 31 After Judas left, Jesus said, "Now God will make people know what I, the Son of Man, am doing. I, the Son of Man, will make people know what God is doing as well, and people will praise him for it.
@ -1336,7 +1302,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 35 If you love one another, all people will know that you are my disciples."
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\v 36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot come with me now; but you will come later."
@ -1344,9 +1309,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 38 Jesus answered, "Would you really lay down your life for me, Peter? I am telling you the truth: The rooster will not crow in the morning before you will say three times that you do not know me!"
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@ -1409,9 +1371,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 31 and I will do what the Father has commanded me to do. This is so that the world will know forever that I love the Father. Come, let us go from here."
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@ -1450,7 +1409,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 17 This is what I command you to do: Love one another.
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\v 18 If the world despises you, you should realize that it hated me first.
@ -1472,9 +1430,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 27 You also must tell everyone what you know about me because you have been with me the whole time from the very first days when I began to teach the people and to do miracles."
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@ -1485,7 +1440,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 4 I have told you these things so that at the time when these hardships come, you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you these things at the beginning because I was with you then.
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\v 5 "Now I am going back to the Father. He is the one who sent me. Yet none of you dares to ask me, 'Where are you going?'
@ -1544,9 +1498,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 33 I have told you these things so you may have peace in me. In the world you have trials and sorrows, but be brave! I have conquered the world!"
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@ -1561,7 +1512,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 5 Father, give me honor by bringing me into your own presence, as we were before the time we created the world.
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\v 6 Those whom you chose from everyone in this world to belong to me—I have taught them who you really are and what you are like. They belonged to you and you have given them to me. They have believed in what you said to them, and they have obeyed it.
@ -1604,9 +1554,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 26 I have made them know who you are. I will continue to do this so that you may love them like you love me and so that I may be united with them."
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@ -1634,7 +1581,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 11 Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath! Of course I will suffer in the way that my Father has planned for me to do."
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\v 12 Then the group of soldiers, along with their captain and some of the temple guards, seized Jesus and tied him to prevent him from escaping.
@ -1642,7 +1588,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 14 It was Caiaphas who had advised other leaders that it would be better that one man should die for the people than that all the people should perish.
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\v 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple. The other disciple was known to the high priest, so he had permission to enter the high priest's courtyard when the soldiers took Jesus.
@ -1654,7 +1599,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 18 It was cold, so the high priest's servants and temple guards made a charcoal fire and were standing and warming themselves around it. Peter was also there with them. He was standing and warming himself.
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\v 19 The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and what he had been teaching them.
@ -1667,7 +1611,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 24 Then Annas sent Jesus, who was still tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.
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\v 25 Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. Another person said to him, "You are one of the disciples of the man whom they have arrested, are you not?" He said, "No, I am not."
@ -1675,7 +1618,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 27 Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.
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\v 28 Then the soldiers led Jesus from Caiaphas' house to the headquarters of Pilate, the Roman governor. It was early morning. Pilate was not a Jew, so Jesus' accusers thought that if they entered his headquarters, they would defile themselves and be unable to celebrate the Passover Festival. So they did not go in.
@ -1702,9 +1644,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 40 They shouted again, "No, do not release this man, but release Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.
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@ -1769,7 +1708,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 27 And he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother!" So from that very moment, that disciple took her to live in his home.
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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!"
@ -1791,7 +1729,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 37 And they fulfilled another scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.'
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\v 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, but a secret disciple because he was afraid of the Jews, went to Pilate and asked him if he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave Joseph permission, so he came and took away the body of Jesus.
@ -1803,9 +1740,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 42 The Passover was about to begin that evening, and they chose this tomb because it was close at hand and because they could bury Jesus quickly. So they laid Jesus there.
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@ -1861,7 +1795,6 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 25 The other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." However, he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands and put my fingers in the holes made by the nails, and unless I put my hand into the gaping wound on his side, I will never put my trust in him."
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\v 26 Eight days later, his disciples were again inside the house, and this time Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them, and he said to them all, "May God give you peace."
@ -1871,16 +1804,12 @@ John answered, "No."
\v 29 Jesus said to him, "Now you believe that I have risen because you see me. Yet God gives great happiness to those who have not seen me and still believe."
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\v 30 Now Jesus did many other works of power and miracles that proved who he is. The disciples witnessed them, but they were so numerous that I have not written them all down in this book.
\v 31 Nevertheless, I have written these so that you may have complete confidence that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that by trusting in him, you may have eternal life in his name.
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\v 26 Then they cast lots to choose between the two of them, and the lot fell for Matthias, and he became an apostle along with the other eleven apostles.
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\v 47 As they did so, they kept praising God, and all the other people in Jerusalem respected them. As those things were happening, every day the Lord Jesus increased the number of people who were being saved from the punishment of their sins.
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\v 26 Peter concluded, "So when God sent Jesus to the earth to serve him as Messiah, he sent him first to you Israelites to bless you, in order to stop you doing what is wicked."
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\v 4 However, many people who had heard Peter speak put their faith in Jesus. The number of men who believed in Jesus increased to about five thousand.
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\v 37 He sold a field and brought the money to the apostles for them to give to other believers.
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\v 42 Every day after that, the apostles went to the temple area and to various people's houses, and they continued teaching people and telling them that Jesus is the Christ.
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\v 15 All the people in the council room stared at Stephen and saw that his face resembled the face of an angel.
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\v 60 Then Stephen fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not punish them for this sin!" After he had said this, he died.
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\v 40 Philip then realized that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to the town of Azotus. While he traveled around in that region, he continued proclaiming the message about Jesus in all the towns between the cities of Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming it when he finally arrived in Caesarea.
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\v 9 For the next three days Saul could not see anything, and he did not eat or drink anything.
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\v 10 In Damascus there was a follower of Jesus named Ananias. The Lord Jesus made him see a vision and said to him, "Ananias!" He replied, "Lord, I am listening."
@ -767,10 +742,6 @@
\v 28 So Saul began to meet with the apostles and other believers throughout Jerusalem, and he spoke boldly to people about the Lord Jesus.
\p
\v 29 Saul was also speaking about Jesus with Jews who spoke Greek, and he was debating with them. But they were continually trying to think of a way to kill him.
\v 30 When the other believers heard that they were planning to kill him, some of them took Saul down to the city of Caesarea. There they put him on a ship going to Tarsus, his hometown.
@ -811,9 +782,6 @@
\v 43 Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a man named Simon who made leather from animal skins.
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\v 21 The Lord God was powerfully enabling those believers to preach effectively. As a result, very many non-Jewish people believed their message and trusted in the Lord.
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\v 22 The group of believers in Jerusalem heard people say that many people in Antioch were believing in Jesus. So the leaders of the believers in Jerusalem sent Barnabas to Antioch.
@ -968,7 +935,6 @@
\v 24 Barnabas was a good man whom the Holy Spirit completely controlled, one who trusted God completely. Because of what Barnabas did, many people there believed in the Lord Jesus.
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\v 25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus city in Cilicia to look for Saul.
@ -986,7 +952,6 @@
\v 30 They sent the money with Barnabas and Saul to the leaders of the believers in Jerusalem.
y
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\v 17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet. Then he told them exactly how the Lord God had led him out of the prison. He also said, "Tell James, the leader of our group, and our other fellow believers what has happened." Then Peter left and went away somewhere else.
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\v 18 The next morning the soldiers who had been guarding Peter became terribly upset, because they did not know what had happened to him.
@ -1059,8 +1023,6 @@ y
\v 25 When Barnabas and Saul finished delivering the money to help the Jewish believers in the province of Judea, they left Jerusalem and returned to the city of Antioch, in the province of Syria. They took John, whose other name was Mark, with them.
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\v 52 Meanwhile the believers continued to be filled with joy and with the power of the Holy Spirit.
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\v 20 But some of the believers in Lystra came and stood around Paul, where he was lying on the ground. And Paul became conscious! He stood up and went back into the city with the believers.
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\p The next day, Paul and Barnabas left the city of Lystra and traveled to the city of Derbe.
\v 21 They stayed there several days, and they kept telling the people the good message about Jesus. Many people became believers. After that, Paul and Barnabas started on their way back. They went again to Lystra. Then they went from there to Iconium, and then they went to the city of Antioch in the province of Pisidia.
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\v 28 Then Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch with the other believers for a long time.
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\v 40 After Paul and Silas left the prison, they went to Lydia's house. There they met with her and the other believers. They encouraged the believers to continue trusting in the Lord Jesus, and then the two apostles left the city of Philippi.
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\v 18 Paul met some teachers who liked to talk about what people believe. People called some of them Epicureans, and they called others Stoics. They told Paul what they believed, and they asked him what he believed. Then some of them said to one another, "He is saying something about some strange gods." They said that because Paul was telling them that Jesus had died and then had become alive again.
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\v 19 So they took him to the place where the city leaders met. When they arrived there, they said to Paul, "Please tell us, what is this new message that you are teaching people?
@ -1528,9 +1480,6 @@ y
\v 34 However, some of the people went with Paul and believed the message about Jesus. Among those who believed in Jesus was a man named Dionysius who was a member of the council. Also, there were a woman named Damaris and some other people with them who believed.
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\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.
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\v 40 Then the commander permitted Paul to speak. So Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand for the crowd to be quiet. And after the people in the crowd became quiet, Paul spoke to them in their own Hebrew language.
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\v 30 The commander still wanted to know why the Jews were accusing Paul. So the next day he told the soldiers to take the chains off Paul. He also called the chief priests and the other council members to meet. Then he took Paul to where the council was meeting and told him to stand before them.
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\v 35 Then the governor said, "When the people who have accused you arrive, I will listen to what each of you says and then I will judge your case." Then he commanded that Paul be guarded in the palace that King Herod the Great had built.
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\v 27 When two years had passed, Porcius Festus became governor in place of Felix. Felix let Paul remain in prison because he wanted to please the Jewish leaders.
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\v 27 I think that it would be unreasonable to send a prisoner to the emperor in Rome without telling exactly what were the wrong things people say that he has done."
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@ -2300,9 +2232,6 @@ y
\v 44 Then he told the others to hold onto planks or other pieces from the ship and go toward the shore. We did what he said, and in that way all of us arrived safely on land.
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@ -2381,5 +2310,3 @@ y
\v 30 For two whole years Paul stayed there in a house that he rented. Many people came to see him, and he received them all gladly and talked with them.
\v 31 He preached and taught people about how God would show himself as king, and he taught them about the Lord Jesus Christ. He did that with great boldness, and no one tried to stop him.

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\v 7 I am writing this letter to all of you in Rome whom God loves and whom he has chosen to become his people. I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord may continue to act kindly toward you and will continue to cause you to have peace.
\s5
\p
\v 8 As I begin this letter, I thank my God for all you believers in Rome. It is because of what Jesus Christ has done for us that I am able to do that. I thank him because people all over the Roman Empire are talking about how you are trusting in him.
@ -46,8 +44,6 @@
\v 17 By means of this good news God reveals how he puts people right with himself. This is like what a prophet wrote long ago in the scriptures: "Those whom God puts right with himself will live because they trust him."
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\v 18 God in heaven makes it clear that he is angry with all who show no respect for him and who do wicked things. He shows them that they deserve for him to punish them. Because they do wicked things, they also keep other people from knowing what is true about God.
@ -66,7 +62,6 @@
\v 23 and they refused to admit that God is glorious and will never die. Instead, they made and worshiped idols that resembled people who will some day die, and then they made other idols that resembled birds and four-footed animals, and finally they made idols that resembled reptiles.
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\v 24 So God allowed the non-Jews to do immoral sexual things that they strongly desired, things that they thought they had to do, because they wanted so much to do them. As a result, they began to dishonor each other's bodies by their sexual actions.
@ -77,7 +72,6 @@
\v 27 Similarly, many men abandoned their natural relationships with women. Instead, they developed strong sexual desire for each other. They committed homosexual acts with other men, acts that were shameful. As a result, God has punished them by sicknesses in their bodies, which is the direct consequence of that kind of sin.
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\v 28 Furthermore, because they decided that it was not worthwhile to know God, he allowed their own worthless thoughts to completely control them. As a result, they began doing evil things that no one should do.
@ -91,9 +85,6 @@
\v 32 Although they know that God has declared that those who do such things deserve to be killed, they not only do these kinds of evil things, but they also approve of others who do them.
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\v 16 God will punish them at the time when he will judge people according to what they have thought and done secretly. He will judge people by authorizing Christ Jesus to judge them. This is what I tell people when I preach the good news to them.
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\v 17 Now I have something to say to anyone of you Jews to whom I am writing: You trust that God will save you because you know the laws that he gave to Moses. You boast that you belong to God.
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\v 24 You must not be like our ancestors, about whom were written these words in the scriptures: "The non-Jews speak evil about God because of the evil actions of you Jews."
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\v 25 Any one of you who is circumcised to show that he belongs to God can benefit from that if he obeys the law that he gave to Moses. But if you, a circumcised person, disobey the law, God will consider you to be no better in God's sight than someone who is not circumcised.
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\v 29 On the contrary, we whom God has changed inwardly are the true Jews. God has accepted us and God's Spirit has changed our nature, not because we perform the rituals commanded by the law. Even if other people will not praise us, God will praise us.
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\v 31 If you say that God makes us right with himself because we trust in Christ, does that mean that the law is now useless? Certainly not. Instead, that law is truly valid.
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\v 8 How fortunate are the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of.
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\v 9 Being fortunate like this is not something that only we Jews can experience. No, it is also something that non-Jews can experience. We know this, because it is written in the scriptures that Abraham trusted in God, so God considered him to be right with himself.
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\v 12 Likewise, God considers Abraham to be the ancestor of all us who are true Jews, that is, all Jews who not only have the mark of circumcision on their bodies, but—much more importantly—who live like our ancestor Abraham did before he was circumcised, when he was simply trusting in God.
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\v 13 God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would possess the world. But when he promised that, it was not because Abraham was obeying any law. Instead, it was because Abraham believed that God would do what he promised. So God put Abraham right with himself.
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\v 22 And that is the reason that God considered Abraham to be right with himself.
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\v 23 The words in the scriptures, "God considered him to be right with himself because he trusted in him," are not only about Abraham.
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\v 25 God allowed men to execute Jesus because of our evil deeds. And God caused Jesus to live again because God wanted to put us right with him.
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\v 5 And we are very confident that we will receive the things that we wait for, because God loves us very much. His Holy Spirit, whom he gave to us, causes us to understand how much God loves us.
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\v 6 When we were unable to save ourselves, it was Christ who, at the time that God chose, died for us people, although we were not honoring God at all.
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\v 11 And that is not all! Now we also rejoice because we have been made friends with God, because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.
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\v 12 All people are sinful because Adam, the first man whom God created, sinned long ago. Because he sinned, he eventually died. So all people who have lived since then became sinners, and they all die.
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\v 21 He did that in order that, unlike people die because they sin, his kind gift might put them right with himself. Then they can live forever because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for them.
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\v 23 All who do what their evil minds tells them to do receive payment, too, but that payment is death. They will be apart from God forever. But as for God, he pays no wages to his slaves at all. Instead, he gives us a free gift: He allows us to live forever with him, joined to Christ Jesus our Lord.
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\v 12 So we know that the law that God gave to Moses is perfectly good. Everything that God commands us to do is also without fault, just, and good.
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\v 13 Could we say then that the law that God gave Moses, which is good, drove us away from God! Certainly it did not do that! But instead, the law, which is good, made me want to sin. I knew that as a result, I was far away from God. And also, because I learned what God had commanded, I knew that what I was doing was truly sinful.
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\v 25 I thank God that it is by Jesus Christ our Lord that he sets us free from the control of what our bodies desire. So with our minds, I on the one hand want to obey God's law. But also, I often let our sinful desires control me because of my old sinful attitude.
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\v 17 Because we are God's children, we also will one day receive what God has promised us. And we will receive this together with Christ. But we must suffer for doing good as Christ did, in order that God may honor us.
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\v 18 I think that what we suffer during the present time is not worth paying attention to, because the future splendor that God will reveal to us will be so great.
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\v 25 But because we keep waiting expectantly to receive what we do not yet have, we wait for it eagerly and patiently.
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\v 26 Similarly, God's Spirit helps us when we are weak. We do not know what is proper for us to pray. But God's Spirit knows; as he prays for us, he groans in a way that cannot be expressed in words.
\v 27 God, who examines our inner attitude and mind, understands what his Spirit desires. His Spirit prays for us who belong to God exactly as God wants him to pray.
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\v 28 And we know that for those who love God, he works out all things that happen to them in a way that does us good. He does this for those whom he has chosen, because that was what he planned to do.
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\v 30 And the ones God decided previously who would be like his Son, he also called them to be with him. And the ones he called to be with him, he also made them to be right with himself. And to the ones whom he has put right with himself, he also will give them honor.
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\v 31 So I will tell you what we must learn from all these things that God does for us. Because God is acting on our behalf, no one can win against us!
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\v 39 nor powerful beings in the sky or below it, nor anything else that God has created can cause God to stop loving us. God showed us that he loves us by sending Jesus Christ our Lord to die for us.
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"Listen! I am placing in Israel one who is like a stone on which people will stumble. What he does will make people angry. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be ashamed."
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\v 4 Christ has perfectly obeyed the law in order to put everyone who believes in him right with God. So the law is no longer necessary.
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\v 5 Moses wrote about people who tried to obey all of God's laws: "It is the people who have done perfectly the things that the law requires who will live forever."
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"For a long time I have held out my arms to the people who disobeyed and rebelled against me, in order to invite them to return to me."
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\v 2 Do not let unbelievers guide you in how you behave. Instead, let God change your way of thinking and make it new, in order that you may know what he wants you to do, so you may know how to act in ways that please him, the ways in which he himself acts.
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\v 3 Because God has kindly appointed me to be his apostle, which I did not deserve, I say this to every one of you: Do not think you are better than you really are. Instead, think about yourselves in a sensible way, a way that is the same as the way in which God has allowed you to trust in him.
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\v 18 Live peacefully with other people whenever it is possible, to the extent that you can control the situation.
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\v 19 My fellow believers whom I love, do not do evil in return when people do evil to you! Instead, allow God to punish them. The scriptures say, "'I will pay back those who do evil. It is my right to pay them back,' says the Lord."
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\v 21 Do not let evil deeds that others have done to you overcome you. Instead, do for them better than what they have done to you!
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\v 14 On the contrary, we should be like the Lord Jesus Christ so that others will see what he is like. You should stop wanting to do the things that your old evil nature wants to do.
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\v 23 But some believers fear that God will not be pleased if they eat certain kinds of food. And indeed, he will say that they have done wrong, if they do not do what they believe to be right. If we do anything without being certain that God approves of it, we are sinning.
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\v 33 I pray that God, who causes us to have peace, will be with all of you and will help you. May it be so!
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\v 22 If anyone does not love the Lord, let a curse be on him. O Lord, come!
\v 23 May the kindness we do not deserve that comes from the Lord Jesus be with you.
\v 24 I send you this reminder that I love all of you, as you all are joined together in Christ Jesus.

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\v 24 We are not like masters who give you orders about how you must trust in God. However, we want to work with you, so you can learn to trust God no matter what happens, and have joy in trusting him.
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\v 17 You know that many people go from city to city selling the word of God for money. But we are not like them. We work hard to please God and we do what he wants. And we speak about Christ because we know God sees everything we do, and we announce Christ because we are joined to him.
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\v 18 But for all of us who believe, we look at him with no veil over our faces, and we reflect his brilliant light more and more. This is what the Lord does; and he is the Spirit.
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\v 18 For we are not waiting for things that we can see, but for the things we cannot see. The things that we can now see are temporary, but the things we cannot see, they last forever.
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\v 21 God made Christ the offering for sin—the one who never sinned—so that when we trust in Christ and believe in him, God makes us right with himself.
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\m says the all-powerful Lord.
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\v 16 I am filled with joy because in everything, I have confidence in you.
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\v 13 All of us here, whom God has set apart for himself, greet you.
\v 14 May the Lord Jesus Christ act kindly toward you, may God love you, and may the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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\v 17 I say that people have persecuted me for declaring the truth about Jesus, and as a result I have scars on my body, unlike your new teachers. So let no one trouble me about these matters again!
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\v 23 It is as if all believers together were Christ's own body. He fills all believers everywhere with his power, just as he fills all the universe with his power.
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\v 22 Jesus is building you up together, both Jews and non-Jews, into one family in which God lives by means of his Spirit.
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\v 21 May all believers assembled to worship God, and Christ Jesus himself, honor God more than they honor anything else. May all believers from all generations of history praise him forever and ever! So let it be done.
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\v 23 I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ may cause all of you fellow believers to have inner peace, to love each other, and to have faith in God.
\v 24 May God give his grace to all people who love our Lord Jesus Christ without ceasing.

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\v 22 All of God's people here send their greetings to you. Especially the fellow believers who work in the palace of Caesar, the emperor, send their greetings to you.
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\v 23 My desire is that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly toward you all.

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\v 18 I, Paul, greet you now in my own handwriting. Remember me and pray for me in prison. I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ would continue to act graciously toward you all.

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\v 12 We kept strongly exhorting and encouraging you to live like God's people should, because he has called you to become his people to whom he will show himself as king with the most wonderful power.
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\v 13 This is why we always thank God, because when you heard the message that we told to you, you accepted it as the true message, the good message that God gave to us. We ourselves did not invent it. We also thank God that he is changing your lives because you trust this message.
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\v 16 For example, they try to stop us from telling the good news to non-Jews; they do not want God to save them! They have sinned almost as much as God will allow them to before he punishes them at last!
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\v 17 My fellow believers, when we had to be away from you for a short time, we felt like parents who had lost their children. We strongly desired to be present with you.
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\v 20 Indeed, it is because of you that even now we are pleased and are joyful!
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\v 13 We pray that our Lord Jesus will make you want to please him more and more. We pray that God our Father will enable you to become more like him, and that no one can criticize. We pray this, so that when Jesus comes back to earth and all those who belong to him come with him, he will be pleased with you.
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\v 1-2 Now, my fellow believers, I want to write about some other matters. I urge you--and when I urge you, it is the same as the Lord Jesus himself urging you--to conduct your lives in a way that pleases God. We taught you to do that because of what the Lord Jesus had told us to say. We know that you are conducting your lives that way, but we strongly urge that you do that even more.
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\v 3 God wants you to do no sin, living in a way that will show that you completely belong to him. He wants you to avoid doing any sexually immoral acts.
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\v 8 So I warn you that those who disregard this teaching of mine are not just disregarding me, a human being. On the contrary, they are disregarding God, because God commanded it. Remember that God sent his Spirit, who does not sin, to live in you!
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\v 9 I want to urge you again that you should love your fellow believers. You do not really need that anyone write to you about that, because God has already taught you how to love each other,
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\v 18 Because all this is true, encourage each other by sharing this teaching with each other.
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\v 8 But we believers belong to the day, so let us control ourselves. Let us be like soldiers: As they protect their chests with breastplates, let us protect ourselves by trusting in Christ and loving him. As they protect their heads with helmets, let us protect ourselves by expecting Christ to rescue us completely from evil.
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\v 9 When God chose us, he did not plan for us to be people whom he will punish. On the contrary, he decided to save us because we trust in what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.
\v 10 Jesus died to atone for our sins in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or whether we are dead when he returns to earth.
\v 11 Because you know that this is true, continue to encourage each other, as indeed you now are doing.
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\v 12 My fellow believers, we ask that you recognize as leaders those people who work hard for you. This means that you must respect these leaders as fellow believers—you see how hard they work to help you grow in faith. These leaders guide you and they teach you how to live for the Lord.
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\v 18 and thank God in all circumstances. God wants you to behave like that because of what Christ Jesus has done for you.
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\v 19 Do not keep God's Spirit from working among you.
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\v 22 Do not obey any kind of evil message.
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\v 23 May God give you peace and make you without fault so that you do not sin. May he keep you from sinning in any way until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back to earth.
\v 24 Because God has called you to be his people, you can certainly trust him to keep on helping you in that way.
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\v 2 We pray that God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord, will continue to act kindly toward you and that he will continue to give you peace.
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\v 3 Our fellow believers, we are always thanking God, and we should do this, because you are trusting in the Lord Jesus more and more, and because every one of you is loving each of the others more and more.
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\v 10 The Lord Jesus will do this when he comes back from heaven at the time that God has decided. As a result, all we who are his people will praise him and marvel at him. And you will be there, too, because you believed what we solemnly told you.
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\v 11 In order that you might praise Jesus like this, we are also always praying for you. We pray that God will make you worthy to live in the new way he has called you to live. We pray also that he will make you able to do good in every way that you desire, and that since he is so powerful, he will also make you able to do every kind of good thing because you trust in him.
\v 12 We pray this because we want you to praise our Lord Jesus, and we want him to honor you. This will happen because God, whom we worship, and our Lord Jesus Christ keep acting kindly toward you.
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\v 3 Do not allow anyone to persuade you to believe such a message.
\p The Lord will not come immediately. First, many people will rebel against God. They will accept and obey a certain man who will sin very greatly against God, the one whom God will destroy.
\v 4 He will be the supreme enemy of God. He will proudly work against everything that people consider to be God and everything that people worship. As a result, he will even enter God's temple and sit down there to rule! He will publicly proclaim that he himself is God!
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\v 12 The result will be that God will judge and condemn all those who refused to believe the truth about Christ, people who instead enjoyed doing everything that is wicked.
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\v 13 Our fellow believers, you whom our Lord Jesus loves, we should always thank God for you. We should do this because he chose you to be among the first people to believe in the truth about Jesus, among the first people that God would save, and to set you apart for himself by means of his Spirit.
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\v 17 may God and Jesus Christ together encourage you! And may they cause you to continue doing and saying good things.
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\v 5 We pray that our Lord Jesus would continue to help you know how much God loves you and how much Christ has endured for you.
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\v 6 Our fellow believers, we command you—and it is as if the Lord Jesus Christ himself were saying this—that you stop associating with every fellow believer who is lazy and refuses to work. That is to say, you must stay away from those who are not conducting their lives in the manner that others taught us and that we in turn taught you.
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\v 12 We command those fellow believers who are not working, and urge them, just as if the Lord himself were speaking, that they should mind their own business, earn what they need to live on, and support themselves.
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\v 13 Fellow believers! Do not ever get tired of doing what is right!
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\v 15 Do not think of him as though he were your enemy; instead, warn him as you would warn your other fellow believers.
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\v 20 Hymenaeus and Alexander are two men like this. I have handed them over to Satan for him to attack them, so that they may learn not to insult God.
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\v 15 But God will save women as they bear children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
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\q God took him up to himself and gave him his power."
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\v 16 Control yourself very carefully and do everything that we teach. Keep doing these things. If you do so, you will save yourself and the people who listen to you.
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\v 25 In the same way, some good deeds are clear to everybody, but even the other good deeds will become clear at some time in the future.
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\v 18 May the Lord be kind to Onesiphorus on the final day. You know all the ways that he helped me in Ephesus.
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\v 26 In that way they may think correctly and be like people who have escaped from a trap set by the devil. It is the devil who has deceived them in order to get them to do what he wishes them to do.
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\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.
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\v 21 Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
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\v 16 Even though they claim to know God, what they do shows that they do not know him. Other people find them disgusting. They disobey God and can do nothing good for him.
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\v 15 Titus, speak about these things. Urge those who hear you to live as I have described. And use your full right of command to correct our brothers and sisters when it is necessary. Let no one disregard what you say.
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\v 23 Epaphras, who is suffering with me in prison because he is joined to Christ Jesus, sends his greetings to you.
\v 24 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, who are my other fellow workers, also send their greetings to you.
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\v 3 God's Son is the light of God's powerful brilliance. He shows exactly what God is truly like. All things that exist—he keeps them existing by giving powerful commands. After he had acted so that all sin should be forgiven, he rose into heaven and sat down at the highest place of honor, at the right side of God the Father, where he rules with him.
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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.
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\v 14 The angels are only spirits whom God has sent out to serve and care for believers whom God will soon save completely, as he has promised to do for them.
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\v 9 However, we do know about Jesus, who appeared in this life as a little less important than the angels. Because he suffered and died, God has made him the most important of all. He has made Jesus king over everything, because Jesus died for all mankind. It was because God was so kind to us that this happened.
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\v 10 It was proper that God should make Jesus complete in every way by suffering and dying for us. God is the one who created all things, and he is the one for whom all things exist. And Jesus is the one who enables God to save people.
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\v 18 Jesus is able to help those who are tempted to sin because he himself suffered and was tempted to sin, just as we are tempted to sin.
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\v 11 I was angry with them and solemnly declared, 'They will not enter the land of Canaan where I would let them rest!'"
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\v 12 So, fellow believers, be careful that none of you stops trusting in Christ because of evil in your heart, which would cause you to reject the only God who actually lives.
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\q "Now, when you hear me speaking to you, do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors did when they rebelled against me."
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\v 16 Remember who it was who rebelled against God, even though they heard him speak to them. It was all of God's people who Moses led out of Egypt.
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\v 19 So, from that example we know that it was because they did not keep trusting in God that they were unable to enter the land where God would allow them to rest.
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\q "They will not enter the land where I would let them rest."
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\v 6 Some people still enter God's rest. But the Israelites who first heard God promise that they would rest—they did not enter that place of resting, because they refused to believe God.
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\v 16 So let us come boldly to Christ, who rules from heaven and does for us what we do not deserve, so that he might kindly help us and have mercy on us when we need him to do so.
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\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.
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\v 12 I do not want you to be lazy. Instead, I want you to do what other believers have done, those who are receiving what God promised them, because they trusted in him and were patient.
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\v 13 When God promised to do great things for Abraham, there was no one greater than himself whom he could ask to force himself to do those things. So he asked himself.
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\v 20 Jesus went into God's presence ahead of us to allow us to enter in that same place with God, too. Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the way that Melchizedek was a high priest.
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\v 28 We need a high priest like Jesus, because the priests, who were appointed as commanded in the law, sinned like all humans sin. But God solemnly declared after he had given his laws to Moses that he would appoint his Son to be high priest. Now his Son, who is God the Son, Jesus, is forever the only perfect high priest.
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\v 13 Since God said that he was making a new covenant, we know that he considered that the first covenant was no longer in use, and that it would soon disappear.
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\v 5 On top of the chest were figures of winged creatures that symbolized God's glory. Their wings overshadowed the sacred chest's lid where the high priest sprinkled the blood to atone for the sins of the people. I cannot now write about these things in detail.
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\v 6 After they have arranged all these things in this way, the Jewish priests habitually go into the outer room of the tent to do their tasks.
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\v 10 Those rules about what to eat and drink, and about what to wash—all those rules are no longer any good because God has made a new covenant with us. This new covenant is a much better system.
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\v 11 But when Christ came as our high priest, he brought the good things that we have now. Then he went into God's presence in heaven, which is like the sacred tent, but it is not part of the world that God created. It is better than the tent Moses set up here on earth because it is perfect.
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\v 22 It was by sprinkling blood that they cleansed almost everything. That was what was stated in God's laws. If blood does not flow when they sacrifice an animal, God does not forgive the sins of those people.
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\v 23 So by animal sacrifices it was necessary for the priests to cleanse the things that symbolized what Christ does in heaven. But God has to cleanse the things in heaven by means of much better sacrifices than those.
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\v 28 Likewise, when Christ died, God offered him once to be a sacrifice, to punish him in the place of the many people who had sinned. He will come to earth a second time, not in order to sacrifice himself again for those who have sinned, but in order to save us who wait for him and expect him to come.
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\v 39 But we are not people who are cowards and cause God to destroy us. Instead, we are people who trust in him, so that he will save us forever.
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\v 40 God knew ahead of time that what he would give us and them later would be better than giving them immediately what he promised. What God intends is that only when they and we are together will we have all that God intends us to have.
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\v 29 Remember that the God we worship is like a fire that burns up everything that is impure!
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\q "Since the Lord is the one who helps me, I will not be afraid! People can do nothing to me that will keep God from helping me."
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\v 7 Your spiritual leaders have told you the message about Christ. Remember how they have conducted their lives and imitate how they have trusted in Christ.
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\v 9 So do not let other people persuade you to believe other things about God, strange things that you have not learned from us. For example, do not let anything make you obey various rules about what to eat and not to eat. These rules cannot help us.
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\v 10 Those who serve in the sacred tent have no right to eat at the sacred altar where we worship Christ.
\v 11 After the high priest brings into the very holy place the blood of animals that they have sacrificed to atone for sins, other people burn the bodies of those animals outside the camp.
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\v 14 Here on earth, we believers do not have a city such as Jerusalem. Instead, we are waiting for the heavenly city that will last forever.
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\v 15 Because Jesus has died for us, we must continually praise God no matter what happens. That will be something we can sacrifice to him instead of animals. We must be ready to openly say to others that we trust in Christ.
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\v 17 Obey your leaders and do what they tell you, since they are the ones who are guarding your welfare. Some day they will have to stand before God so that he can say if he approves of what they have done. Obey them in order that they can do the work of guarding you joyfully and not have to do it sadly, because if you cause them to do it sadly, that will certainly not help you at all.
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\v 18 Pray for me and those with me. I am certain that I have not done anything that displeases God. I have tried to act well toward you in every way.
\v 19 I urge you earnestly to pray that God will quickly remove the things that stop my coming to you.
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\v 20 Jesus provides for us, protects us, and guides us as a great shepherd does for his sheep. And God, who gives us inner peace, raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. By doing that God confirmed his eternal covenant with us by the blood that flowed from Christ when he died on the cross.
\v 21 So I pray that God may equip you with everything good that you may do what he desires. May he accomplish in us what pleases him, as he watches us follow Jesus, who offered up himself for us. May all people praise Jesus Christ forever. Amen!
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\v 22 My fellow believers, since this is a short letter that I have written to you, I ask you that you patiently consider what I have just written to encourage you.
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\v 23 I want you to know that our fellow believer Timothy has gone free from prison. If he comes here soon, he will accompany me when I go to see you.
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\v 24 Tell all your spiritual leaders and all your other fellow believers who belong to God in your city that I greet them. The believers in this area who have come from Italy greet you also.
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\v 8 For they are people who cannot decide whether they will follow Jesus or not follow Jesus. These people do not do what they say they will do.
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\v 9 Believers who are poor should be glad because God has honored them.
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\v 11 When the sun rises, the scorching hot wind dries the plants and causes the flowers to fall and no longer be beautiful. Like the flower that dies, rich people will die while they are earning money.
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\v 12 God honors those who endure hard trials, because God will reward them by making them live forever, as he has promised to do for all who love him.
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\v 27 One of the things that God has told us to do is to take care of orphans and widows who suffer hardship. Those who do that, and who do not think or act immorally like those who do not obey God, truly worship God, who is our Father, and God approves of them.
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\v 11 For example, God said, "Do not commit adultery," but he also said, "Do not murder anyone." So if you do not commit adultery but you murder someone, you have become a person who disobeys God's laws.
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\v 12 Always speak and act toward others as people should whom God will judge using the law that frees us from being punished for our sins.
\v 13 Because when God judges us, he will not act mercifully toward those who do not act mercifully toward others. But if we are merciful to others, then we will not fear God when he judges us.
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\v 14 My brothers and sisters, some people say, "I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," but they do not do good things. What they say will do them no good. If they only believe with words, God will certainly not save them.
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\v 17 Similarly, if you do not do good deeds to help others, what you say about believing in Christ is as useless as a dead person! You do not really believe in Christ.
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\v 18 But someone may say to me, "God saves some people only because they trust in him, and he saves others because they do good deeds for people." I would answer that person, "You cannot prove to me that people truly trust in God if they do not do good deeds for others! But by doing good deeds for others I will prove to you that I truly trust in God!
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\v 26 Just as when a person no longer breathing is dead and his body is useless, in the same way, someone who says he trusts in God but does nothing good trusts in God uselessly.
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\v 18 Those who act peacefully toward others cause them to also act peacefully, with the result that they all live together and act in the right way.
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\v 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone of you stops obeying the true message from God, some other person among you should persuade that person to once again do what God has told us to do. If he stops doing what is wrong,
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This message that endures is the message about Christ that we proclaimed to you.
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\v 22 Christ has gone into heaven and is ruling in the place of highest honor next to God, after God caused all the evil and powerful spirit beings to be made obedient to him.
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\v 19 Therefore, those who suffer because God wishes it, should trust God to keep them—God is the one who created them and he is the one who always does what he promises to do. And so they should continue to do what is right.
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\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 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 persuade you to doubt what you now firmly believe.
\v 18 Instead, live in such a manner that you experience more and more our Savior Jesus Christ acting kindly toward you, and that you get to know him better and better.
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\v 20 We also know that the Son of God has come among us and has enabled us to understand the truth; we are joined to him who is true, God's Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is truly God, and he is the one who enables us to have eternal life.
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\v 12 Even though I have much more that I want to tell you, I have decided not to say it in a letter. Instead, I expect to be with you soon and talk directly with you. Then we can be completely joyful together.
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\v 13 When I began to write this letter, I had much more that I intended to tell you. But now I do not want to say it in a letter.
\v 14 Instead, I expect to come and see you soon. Then we will talk directly with one another.
\v 15 May God give his peace to you. The friends here send you greetings. Please give our greetings to all our friends there, personally and by name.

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\v 24 God is able to keep you trusting in him. He will also take you into his presence, where there is brilliant light. You will rejoice very much and be free from sin.
\v 25 He is the only true God. He has saved us as a result of what Jesus Christ our Lord did for us. God was glorious, great, and mighty, and he ruled with great authority before time began. He is still like that, and he will remain like that forever! Amen!

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\v 20 The meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars represent the angels who watch over the seven groups of believers in Asia, and the seven lampstands represent the seven groups that are there."
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\v 29 Everyone who wants to understand must listen carefully to the message that God's Spirit is saying to the groups of believers assembled together.'"
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\v 22 Everyone who wants to understand must listen carefully to the message that God's Spirit is saying to the groups of believers assembled together.'"
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\v 14 The four living creatures said, "May it be so!" Then the elders prostrated themselves on the ground and worshiped God and the lamb.
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\v 17 This is the terrible day on which they will punish us. No one will be able to survive!"
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\v 17 This is because the Lamb who is at the throne will take care of them, just as a shepherd takes care of his sheep. He will guide them to the source of eternal life, just as a shepherd leads his sheep to springs of water. God will cause them to no longer be sad. It will be as if he were wiping away all tears from their eyes."
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\v 13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying high in the sky shouting in a loud voice, "Terrible things will happen to the people who live on the earth when the three remaining angels blow their trumpets! They are about to blow them!"
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\v 21 They did not stop murdering people, or practicing sorcery, or acting in sexually immoral ways, or stealing things.
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\v 11 Then someone said to me, "You must speak God's messages again about many nations, people groups, speakers of many languages, and many kings."
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\v 18 You must think wisely to understand the meaning of the mark. Anyone who thinks wisely should understand that the number represents mankind. It is 666.
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\v 20 God trampled the grapes in the winepress outside the city, and blood came out! The blood flowed in a stream so deep that it reached up to the bridles of the horses and extended for three hundred kilometers.
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\v 18 The prostitute that you saw represents the very evil city whose leaders rule over the kings of the earth."
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\v 24 You are also responsible for killing the prophets and others of God's people. Indeed, you are guilty of every murder committed on the earth!"
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\v 15 God also threw the people whose names were not in the book, the book where God has written the names of the people who have eternal life, into the lake of fire.
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