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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Bildad's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long </span><span class="add"><span class="content">will it be ere</span></span><span class="content"> ye make an end of words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">Mark, and afterwards we will speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wherefore are we counted as beasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> reputed vile in your sight?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He teareth himself in his anger:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">And shall the rock be removed out of his place?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">And the spark of his fire shall not shine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The light shall be dark in his tabernacle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">And his candle shall be put out with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The steps of his strength shall be straitened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">And his own counsel shall cast him down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For he is cast into a net by his own feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">And he walketh upon a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The gin shall take </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> by the heel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the robber shall prevail against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The snare </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> laid for him in the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">And a trap for him in the way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">And shall drive him to his feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His strength shall be hungerbitten,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">And destruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> ready at his side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It shall devour the strength of his skin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">And it shall bring him to the king of terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> none of his:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His roots shall be dried up beneath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">And above shall his branch be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">His remembrance shall perish from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">And he shall have no name in the street.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He shall be driven from light into darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">And chased out of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">Nor any remaining in his dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They that come after </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> shall be astonied at his day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">As they that went before were affrighted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely such </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the dwellings of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="content">And this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the place </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of him that</span></span><span class="content"> knoweth not God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long will ye vex my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">And break me in pieces with words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">These ten times have ye reproached me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">Ye are not ashamed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> ye make yourselves strange to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And be it indeed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> I have erred,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">Mine error remaineth with myself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If indeed ye will magnify </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yourselves</span></span><span class="content"> against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">And plead against me my reproach:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Know now that God hath overthrown me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">And hath compassed me with his net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">I cry aloud, but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">And he hath set darkness in my paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He hath stripped me of my glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">And taken the crown </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He hath also kindled his wrath against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">And he counteth me unto him as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one of</span></span><span class="content"> his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His troops come together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">And raise up their way against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">And encamp round about my tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He hath put my brethren far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They that dwell in mine house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">And my maids, count me for a stranger:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">I am an alien in their sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I called my servant, and he gave </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> no answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">I intreated him with my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is strange to my wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">Though I intreated for the children's </span><span class="add"><span class="content">sake</span></span><span class="content"> of mine own body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yea, young children despised me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">I arose, and they spake against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my inward friends abhorred me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">And they whom I loved are turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">For the hand of God hath touched me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do ye persecute me as God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">And are not satisfied with my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Oh that my words were now written!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">Oh that they were printed in a book!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That they were graven with an iron pen and lead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">In the rock for ever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For I know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> my redeemer liveth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> he shall stand at the latter </span><span class="add"><span class="content">day</span></span><span class="content"> upon the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">though</span></span><span class="content"> after my skin </span><span class="add"><span class="content">worms</span></span><span class="content"> destroy this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">body</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">Yet in my flesh shall I see God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whom I shall see for myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">And mine eyes shall behold, and not another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> my reins be consumed within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But ye should say, Why persecute we him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Be ye afraid of the sword:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">For wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">bringeth</span></span><span class="content"> the punishments of the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">That ye may know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> a judgment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Likewise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">must</span></span><span class="content"> the deacons </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being </span><span class="add"><span class="content">found</span></span><span class="content"> blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Even so </span><span class="add"><span class="content">must their</span></span><span class="content"> wives </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.</span></span></div>
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