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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Has Not Returned to God</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">and say to your husbands, &#8220;Bring us some drinks!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his holiness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;The time will surely come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">when you will be taken away with hooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">the last of you with fishhooks.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will each go straight out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">through breaches in the wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">and you will be cast out toward Harmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">out, you mountain of oppression</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go to Bethel and sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">go to Gilgal and sin yet more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">Bring your sacrifices every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">your tithes every three years.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">days</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Burn leavened bread as a thank offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">and brag about your freewill offerings&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">boast about them, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">for this is what you love to do,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I gave you empty stomachs in every city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">and lack of bread in every town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I also withheld rain from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">when the harvest was still three months away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">I sent rain on one town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">but withheld it from another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">One field had rain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">another had none and dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">People staggered from town to town for water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">but did not get enough to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">destroying them with blight and mildew.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I sent plagues among you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">as I did to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I killed your young men with the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">along with your captured horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I overthrew some of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">and because I will do this to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">prepare to meet your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He who forms the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who creates the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who turns dawn to darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and treads on the heights of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty is his name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Lament and Call to Repentance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fallen is Virgin Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">deserted in her own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">with no one to lift her up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Your city that marches out a thousand strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only a hundred left;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">your town that marches out a hundred strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only ten left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Seek me and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">do not seek Bethel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not go to Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not journey to Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">For Gilgal will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">aven, </span><span class="ft">a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">it will devour them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">and Bethel will have no one to quench it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There are those who turn justice into bitterness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">and cast righteousness to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who made the Pleiades and Orion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who turns midnight into dawn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and darkens day into night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">and brings the fortified city to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">and detest the one who tells the truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You levy a straw tax on the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">and impose a tax on their grain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not live in them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">though you have planted lush vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not drink their wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For I know how many are your offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and how great your sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">for the times are evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Seek good, not evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will be with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">just as you say he is.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hate evil, love good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">maintain justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will have mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">on the remnant of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be wailing in all the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and cries of anguish in every public square.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">The farmers will be summoned to weep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and the mourners to wail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There will be wailing in all the vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">for I will pass through your midst,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Woe to you who long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">Why do you long for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">That day will be darkness, not light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It will be as though a man fled from a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to meet a bear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">as though he entered his house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">and rested his hand on the wall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to have a snake bite him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Will not the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be darkness, not light&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I hate, I despise your religious festivals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">your assemblies are a stench to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will not accept them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will have no regard for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Away with the noise of your songs!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">I will not listen to the music of your harps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But let justice roll on like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">righteousness like a never-failing stream!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You have lifted up the shrine of your king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the pedestal of your idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the star of your god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods</span><span class="ft">; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">which you made for yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, whose name is God Almighty.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 7</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When you sit to dine with a ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.23.1"><span class="content">note well what</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who</span></span></span><span class="content"> is before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and put a knife to your throat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.23.2"><span class="content">if you are given to gluttony.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not crave his delicacies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.23.3"><span class="content">for that food is deceptive.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 8</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not wear yourself out to get rich;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.23.4"><span class="content">do not trust your own cleverness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.23.5"><span class="content">for they will surely sprout wings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.23.5"><span class="content">and fly off to the sky like an eagle.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 9</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.23.6"><span class="content">do not crave his delicacies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for he is the kind of person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.23.7"><span class="content">who is always thinking about the cost.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">for as he thinks within himself, / so he is</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">for as he puts on a feast, / so he is</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.23.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Eat and drink,&#8221; he says to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.23.7"><span class="content">but his heart is not with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will vomit up the little you have eaten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.23.8"><span class="content">and will have wasted your compliments.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 10</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not speak to fools,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.23.9"><span class="content">for they will scorn your prudent words.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 11</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not move an ancient boundary stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.23.10"><span class="content">or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">for their Defender is strong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.23.11"><span class="content">he will take up their case against you.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 12</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Apply your heart to instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.23.12"><span class="content">and your ears to words of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 13</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not withhold discipline from a child;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.23.13"><span class="content">if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Punish them with the rod</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.23.14"><span class="content">and save them from death.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 14</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My son, if your heart is wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.23.15"><span class="content">then my heart will be glad indeed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">my inmost being will rejoice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.23.16"><span class="content">when your lips speak what is right.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 15</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not let your heart envy sinners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.23.17"><span class="content">but always be zealous for the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">There is surely a future hope for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.23.18"><span class="content">and your hope will not be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 16</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen, my son, and be wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.23.19"><span class="content">and set your heart on the right path:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do not join those who drink too much wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.23.20"><span class="content">or gorge themselves on meat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">for drunkards and gluttons become poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.23.21"><span class="content">and drowsiness clothes them in rags.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 17</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Listen to your father, who gave you life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.23.22"><span class="content">and do not despise your mother when she is old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Buy the truth and do not sell it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.23.23"><span class="content">wisdom, instruction and insight as well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The father of a righteous child has great joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.23.24"><span class="content">a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">May your father and mother rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.23.25"><span class="content">may she who gave you birth be joyful!</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 18</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">My son, give me your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.23.26"><span class="content">and let your eyes delight in my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.23.27"><span class="content">and a wayward wife is a narrow well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.23.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Like a bandit she lies in wait</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.23.28"><span class="content">and multiplies the unfaithful among men.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 19</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Who has woe? Who has sorrow?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.23.29"><span class="content">Who has strife? Who has complaints?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.23.29"><span class="content">Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.23.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Those who linger over wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.23.30"><span class="content">who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Do not gaze at wine when it is red,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.23.31"><span class="content">when it sparkles in the cup,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.23.31"><span class="content">when it goes down smoothly!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">In the end it bites like a snake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.23.32"><span class="content">and poisons like a viper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.23.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Your eyes will see strange sights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.23.33"><span class="content">and your mind will imagine confusing things.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.23.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.23.34"><span class="content">lying on top of the rigging.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;They hit me,&#8221; you will say, &#8220;but I&#8217;m not hurt!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.23.35"><span class="content">They beat me, but I don&#8217;t feel it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.23.35"><span class="content">When will I wake up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.23.35"><span class="content">so I can find another drink?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Vine and the Branches</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">he prunes </span><span class="ft">also means </span><span class="fqa">he cleans.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that it will be even more fruitful.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is to my Father&#8217;s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father&#8217;s commands and remain in his love.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are my friends if you do what I command.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master&#8217;s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit&#8212;fruit that will last&#8212;and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is my command: Love each other.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The World Hates the Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember what I told you: &#8216;A servant is not greater than his master.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:20 </span><span class="ft">John 13:16</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: &#8216;They hated me without reason.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:25 </span><span class="ft">Psalms 35:19; 69:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father&#8212;the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father&#8212;he will testify about me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.</span></span></span></div>
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