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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Even today my complaint is bitter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">his hand</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/&#160;the hand on me</span></span></span><span class="content"> is heavy in spite of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heavy on me in</span></span></span><span class="content"> my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If only I knew where to find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">if only I could go to his dwelling!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would state my case before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">and fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would find out what he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">and consider what he would say to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Would he vigorously oppose me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No, he would not press charges against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the upright can establish their innocence before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I go to the east, he is not there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">if I go to the west, I do not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knows the way that I take;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My feet have closely followed his steps;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">I have kept to his way without turning aside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have not departed from the commands of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">He does whatever he pleases.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He carries out his decree against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">and many such plans he still has in store.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is why I am terrified before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">when I think of all this, I fear him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">God has made my heart faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">the Almighty has terrified me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">by the thick darkness that covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There are those who move boundary stones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">they pasture flocks they have stolen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They drive away the orphan&#8217;s donkey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">and take the widow&#8217;s ox in pledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They thrust the needy from the path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">and force all the poor of the land into hiding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like wild donkeys in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the poor go about their labor of foraging food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the wasteland provides food for their children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They gather fodder in the fields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are drenched by mountain rains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they go about naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They crush olives among the terraces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The groans of the dying rise from the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">But God charges no one with wrongdoing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are those who rebel against the light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">who do not know its ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">or stay in its paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">kills the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">and in the night steals forth like a thief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">he thinks, &#8216;No eye will see me,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">and he keeps his face concealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the dark, thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">but by day they shut themselves in;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">they want nothing to do with the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For all of them, midnight is their morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">they make friends with the terrors of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">their portion of the land is cursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">so that no one goes to the vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The womb forgets them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the worm feasts on them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the wicked are no longer remembered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">but are broken like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They prey on the barren and childless woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">and to the widow they show no kindness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God drags away the mighty by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">though they become established, they have no assurance of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He may let them rest in a feeling of security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">but his eyes are on their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are brought low and gathered up like all others;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are cut off like heads of grain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me false</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="content">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Dominion and awe belong to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="content">he establishes order in the heights of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Can his forces be numbered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="content">On whom does his light not rise?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How then can a mortal be righteous before God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="content">How can one born of woman be pure?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If even the moon is not bright</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="content">and the stars are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.25.6"><span class="content">a human being, who is only a worm!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Peter made him get up. &#8220;Stand up,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I am only a man myself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He said to them: &#8220;You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Cornelius answered: &#8220;Three days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and said, &#8216;Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Peter began to speak: &#8220;I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen&#8212;by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.10.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.10.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">For they heard them speaking in tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:46 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">other languages</span></span></span><span class="content"> and praising God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="content">Then Peter said, </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.10.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.10.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.</span></span></div>
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