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12-2KI/11.usfm

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 \v 9 So the commanders of hundreds obeyed everything Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each one took his men, those who were to come in to serve on the Sabbath, and those who were to stop serving on that Sabbath; and they came to Jehoiada, the priest.
-\v 10 Then Jehoiada, the priest, gave over to the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
+\v 10 Then Jehoiada the priest gave the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields that belonged to King David and that were in the house of Yahweh.
 
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-\v 11 So the guard stood, each man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, surrounding the king.
+\v 11 So the guards stood, each man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side, near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king.
 \v 12 Then Jehoiada brought out the king's son Joash, put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant decrees. Then they made him king and anointed him. They clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
 
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44-JHN/01.usfm

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 \v 8 John was not the light, but came that he might testify about the light.
 
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-\v 9 It was the true light, that gives light to all men, that comes into the world.
+\v 9 The true light, which gives light to all men, was coming into the world.
 
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 \v 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.
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 \v 16 For from his fullness we have all received grace after grace.
 \v 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
-\v 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only God, who is against the chest of the Father, he has made him known.
+\v 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only God, who at the side of the Father, he has made him known.
 
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 \v 25 And they asked him and said to him, "Why do you baptize then if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?"
 
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-\v 26 And John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. But among you stands someone whom you do not know;
-\v 27 he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."
+\v 26 And John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. But among you stands someone you do not know.
+\v 27 He is the one who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."
 \v 28 These things were done in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
 
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44-JHN/02.usfm

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 \v 20 Then the Jewish authorities said, "This temple was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?"
 \v 21 However, he was speaking about the temple of his body.
-\v 22 So then when he was raised from the dead ones, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture and this statement that Jesus had spoken.
+\v 22 After he was raised from the dead ones, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture and this statement that Jesus had spoken.
 
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 \v 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he did.
 \v 24 But Jesus did not trust in them because he knew them all,
-\v 25 because he did not need anyone to testify to him about a man, for he knew what was inside him.
+\v 25 because he did not need anyone to testify to him about man, for he knew what was in man.

44-JHN/03.usfm

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 \v 1 Now there was a Pharisee whose name was Nicodemus, a Jewish leader.
-\v 2 This man came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher that came from God for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."
+\v 2 This man came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher that came from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."
 
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 \v 3 Jesus replied to him, "Truly, truly, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
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 \v 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. Yet you do not accept our testimony.
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 \v 12 If I told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
-\v 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
+\v 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
 
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 \v 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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 \v 19 This is the reason for the judgment: the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
 \v 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light so that his deeds will not be exposed.
-\v 21 However, he who practices the truth comes to the light so that his deeds, that are accomplished in God, will be revealed."
+\v 21 However, he who practices the truth comes to the light so that it may be plainly seen that his deeds have been done in God."
 
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 \v 27 John replied, "A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
-\v 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ' but instead, 'I have been sent before him.'
+\v 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but instead, 'I have been sent before him.'
 
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 \v 29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. Now the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. This, then, is my joy made complete.

44-JHN/04.usfm

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 \v 9 Then the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, are asking me, being a Samaritan woman, for something to drink?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
-\v 10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you, living water."
+\v 10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
 
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 \v 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where then do you have the living water?

44-JHN/05.usfm

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 \v 8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk."
 
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-\v 9 Immediately the man was healed and he took up his bed, and walked.
+\v 9 Immediately the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
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 \v 16 Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
 \v 17 Jesus replied to them, "My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working."
-\v 18 Because of this, the Jews sought to kill him even more because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
+\v 18 Because of this, the Jews sought even more to kill him because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
 
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 \v 23 so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
 
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-\v 24 Truly, truly, he who hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but he has passed from death to life.
+\v 24 Truly, truly, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but he has passed from death to life.
 
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 \v 25 Truly, truly, I tell you the time is coming, and is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
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 \v 45 Do not think that I myself will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hopes.
-\v 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me because he wrote about me.
+\v 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
 \v 47 If you do not believe his writings, how are you going to believe my words?"

44-JHN/06.usfm

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 \v 10 Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
-\v 11 Then Jesus took the loaves and after giving thanks, he gave it to those that were sitting, and similarly the fish, as much as they wanted.
+\v 11 Then Jesus took the loaves and after giving thanks, he gave it to those who were sitting. He did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.
 \v 12 When the people were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which remain, so that nothing will be lost."
 
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-\v 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five bread loaves of barley; the pieces left over from those who had eaten.
+\v 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
 \v 14 Then, when the people saw this sign that he did, they said, "This truly is the prophet who is to come into the world."
 \v 15 When Jesus realized that they were about to come and seize him by force to make him king, he withdrew again up the mountain by himself.
 

44-JHN/07.usfm

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 \v 1 And after these things Jesus traveled about in Galilee, for he did not want to go into Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
-\v 2 Now the Jewish festival of Shelters, was near.
+\v 2 Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters was near.
 
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 \v 3 His brothers therefore said to him, "Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works that you do.
-\v 4 No one does anything in private if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
+\v 4 No one does anything in secret if he himself wants to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
 
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 \v 5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
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 \v 49 But this crowd that does not know the law, they are cursed."
 
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-\v 50 Nicodemus (one of the Pharisees, who came to him earlier), said to them,
+\v 50 Nicodemus (one of the Pharisees, who came to him earlier) said to them,
 \v 51 "Does our law judge a man before hearing from him and knowing what he does?"
 \v 52 They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."
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44-JHN/08.usfm

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-\v 12 Again Jesus spoke to them saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of life."
+\v 12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of life."
 \v 13 The Pharisees said to him, "You bear witness about yourself; your witness is not true."
 
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