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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bezalel and Oholiab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, the basin with its stand&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and also the woven garments, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites, &#8216;You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes you holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, &#8220;Come, make us gods</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a god</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 23 and 31</span></span></span><span class="content"> who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don&#8217;t know what has happened to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Aaron answered them, &#8220;Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, &#8220;These are your gods,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">This is your god</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 8</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, &#8220;Tomorrow there will be a festival to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, &#8216;These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have seen these people,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;and they are a stiff-necked people. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Moses sought the favor of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God. &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; he said, &#8220;why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why should the Egyptians say, &#8216;It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth&#8217;? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: &#8216;I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, &#8220;There is the sound of war in the camp.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Moses replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the sound of victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">it is not the sound of defeat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">it is the sound of singing that I hear.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.32.20"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Sin and the Servant&#8217;s Obedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your mother&#8217;s certificate of divorce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">with which I sent her away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Or to which of my creditors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">did I sell you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">Because of your sins you were sold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I came, why was there no one?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">When I called, why was there no one to answer?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Was my arm too short to deliver you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">Do I lack the strength to rescue you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">I turn rivers into a desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">their fish rot for lack of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">and die of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I clothe the heavens with darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">and make sackcloth its covering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me a well-instructed tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">to know the word that sustains the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">He wakens me morning by morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has opened my ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not been rebellious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">I have not turned away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I offered my back to those who beat me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">I did not hide my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">from mocking and spitting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helps me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">I will not be disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">Therefore have I set my face like flint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">and I know I will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who vindicates me is near.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who then will bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let us face each other!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Who is my accuser?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">Let him confront me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who helps me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">Who will condemn me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">They will all wear out like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">the moths will eat them up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who among you fears the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and obeys the word of his servant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">Let the one who walks in the dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">who has no light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">and rely on their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now, all you who light fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and provide yourselves with flaming torches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">go, walk in the light of your fires</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">and of the torches you have set ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">This is what you shall receive from my hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.50.11"><span class="content">You will lie down in torment.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch51" data-usfm="ISA.51">
         <div class="label">51</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Everlasting Salvation for Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">Look to the rock from which you were cut</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and to the quarry from which you were hewn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">look to Abraham, your father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and to Sarah, who gave you birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">When I called him he was only one man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and I blessed him and made him many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely comfort Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">and will look with compassion on all her ruins;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">he will make her deserts like Eden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">her wastelands like the garden of 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="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">Joy and gladness will be found in her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">thanksgiving and the sound of singing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">hear me, my nation:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">Instruction will go out from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">my justice will become a light to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My righteousness draws near speedily,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">my salvation is on the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and my arm will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">The islands will look to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and wait in hope for my arm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">look at the earth beneath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the heavens will vanish like smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the earth will wear out like a garment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">and its inhabitants die like flies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">But my salvation will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">my righteousness will never fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear me, you who know what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">you people who have taken my instruction to heart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">or be terrified by their insults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the moth will eat them up like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">the worm will devour them like wool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">But my righteousness will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">my salvation through all generations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Awake, as in days gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">as in generations of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">who pierced that monster through?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Was it not you who dried up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">the waters of the great deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">who made a road in the depths of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">so that the redeemed might cross over?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued will return.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">They will enter Zion with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">everlasting joy will crown their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">Gladness and joy will overtake them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">and sorrow and sighing will flee away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who comforts you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">Who are you that you fear mere mortals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">human beings who are but grass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that you forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">and who lays the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">that you live in constant terror every day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">because of the wrath of the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who is bent on destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">For where is the wrath of the oppressor?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">they will not die in their dungeon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">nor will they lack bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have put my words in your mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and covered you with the shadow of my hand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">I who set the heavens in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">who laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and who say to Zion, &#8216;You are my people.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cup of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Wrath</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Awake, awake!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">Rise up, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drunk from the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the cup of his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drained to its dregs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the goblet that makes people stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Among all the children she bore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to guide her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">among all the children she reared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to take her by the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These double calamities have come upon you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can comfort you?&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">ruin and destruction, famine and sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:19 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ how can I</span></span></span><span class="content"> console you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your children have fainted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">they lie at every street corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">like antelope caught in a net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">They are filled with the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">with the rebuke of your God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">made drunk, but not with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what your Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">your God, who defends his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have taken out of your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">the cup that made you stagger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">you will never drink again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">who said to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">And you made your back like the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">like a street to be walked on.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="MRK.12.28+MRK.12.29+MRK.12.30+MRK.12.31+MRK.12.32+MRK.12.33+MRK.12.34+MRK.12.35+MRK.12.36+MRK.12.37+MRK.12.38+MRK.12.39+MRK.12.40+MRK.12.41+MRK.12.42+MRK.12.43+MRK.12.44">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, &#8220;Of all the commandments, which is the most important?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The most important one,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> answered Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;is this: &#8216;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The Lord our God is one Lord</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:4,5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The second is this: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">There is no commandment greater than these.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Well said, teacher,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are not far from the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">12:36 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 110:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself calls him &#8216;Lord.&#8217; How then can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">The large crowd listened to him with delight.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">As he taught, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They devour widows&#8217; houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Widow&#8217;s Offering</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything&#8212;all she had to live on.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Defense of His Ministry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you&#8212;I, Paul, who am &#8220;timid&#8221; when face to face with you, but &#8220;bold&#8221; toward you when away! </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are judging by appearances.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Look at the obvious facts</span></span></span><span class="content"> If anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For some say, &#8220;His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else&#8217;s territory. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, &#8220;Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 9:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.</span></span></div>
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