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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God and Idols</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to you, people of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="label">2</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 v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not learn the ways of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">or be terrified by signs in the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">though the nations are terrified by them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the practices of the peoples are worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">they cut a tree out of the forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They adorn it with silver and gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">they fasten it with hammer and nails</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">so it will not totter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">their idols cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they must be carried</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">because they cannot walk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">Do not fear them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they can do no harm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">nor can they do any good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one is like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">you are great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">and your name is mighty in power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Who should not fear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">King of the nations?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">This is your due.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">Among all the wise leaders of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">and in all their kingdoms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">there is no one like you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are all senseless and foolish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="content">they are taught by worthless wooden idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">and gold from Uphaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">What the craftsman and goldsmith have made</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">is then dressed in blue and purple&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">all made by skilled workers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the true God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">he is the living God, the eternal King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">When he is angry, the earth trembles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">the nations cannot endure his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell them this: &#8216;These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:11 </span><span class="ft">The text of this verse is in Aramaic.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God made the earth by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">he founded the world by his wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">He sends lightning with the rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">and brings out the wind from his storehouses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">The images he makes are a fraud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">they have no breath in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They are worthless, the objects of mockery;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="content">when their judgment comes, they will perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">for he is the Maker of all things,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">including Israel, the people of his inheritance&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><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="s1"><span class="heading">Coming Destruction</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Gather up your belongings to leave the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="content">you who live under siege.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">&#8220;At this time I will hurl out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">those who live in this land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">I will bring distress on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">so that they may be captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Woe to me because of my injury!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">My wound is incurable!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">Yet I said to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">&#8220;This is my sickness, and I must endure it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My tent is destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">all its ropes are snapped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">My children are gone from me and are no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">no one is left now to pitch my tent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">or to set up my shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The shepherds are senseless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">and do not inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">so they do not prosper</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">and all their flock is scattered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Listen! The report is coming&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">a great commotion from the land of the north!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">It will make the towns of Judah desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I know that people&#8217;s lives are not their own;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="content">it is not for them to direct their steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Discipline me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but only in due measure&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">not in your anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">or you will reduce me to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">on the peoples who do not call on your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">For they have devoured Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">they have devoured him completely</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">and destroyed his homeland.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Is Broken</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Tell them that this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey&#8217;&#8212;the land you possess today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Amen, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: &#8216;Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, &#8220;Obey me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is my beloved doing in my temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">Can consecrated meat avert your punishment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">When you engage in your wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">then you rejoice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called you a thriving olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">with fruit beautiful in form.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">But with the roar of a mighty storm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">he will set it on fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">and its branches will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Plot Against Jeremiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">let us cut him off from the land of the living,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">that his name be remembered no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who judge righteously</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">and test the heart and mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">let me see your vengeance on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">for to you I have committed my cause.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, &#8220;Do not prophesy in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> or you will die by our hands&#8221;&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: &#8220;I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="COL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="COL.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="COL.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="COL.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="COL.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="COL.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="COL.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Fathers,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Parents</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="COL.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="COL.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="COL.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="COL.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="COL.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="COL.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Further Instructions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="COL.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="COL.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="COL.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="COL.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="COL.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="COL.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="COL.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="COL.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">slave</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="COL.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">that he may know about your</span></span></span><span class="content"> circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="COL.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He is coming with Onesimus, our faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="COL.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="COL.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas. (You have received instructions about him; if he comes to you, welcome him.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="COL.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">only ones of the circumcision group</span></span></span><span class="content"> among my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="COL.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="COL.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="COL.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="COL.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="COL.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="COL.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Tell Archippus: &#8220;See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="COL.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="COL.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch78" data-usfm="PSA.78.56+PSA.78.57+PSA.78.58+PSA.78.59+PSA.78.60+PSA.78.61+PSA.78.62+PSA.78.63+PSA.78.64+PSA.78.65+PSA.78.66+PSA.78.67+PSA.78.68+PSA.78.69+PSA.78.70+PSA.78.71+PSA.78.72">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">But they put God to the test</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">and rebelled against the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">they did not keep his statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">as unreliable as a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">They angered him with their high places;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">they aroused his jealousy with their idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">When God heard them, he was furious;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">he rejected Israel completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">the tent he had set up among humans.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">He sent the ark of his might into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">his splendor into the hands of the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">He gave his people over to the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">he was furious with his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">Fire consumed their young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">and their young women had no wedding songs;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">their priests were put to the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">and their widows could not weep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">He beat back his enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">he put them to everlasting shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">but he chose the tribe of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">Mount Zion, which he loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">He built his sanctuary like the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">like the earth that he established forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">He chose David his servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">and took him from the sheep pens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">from tending the sheep he brought him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">of Israel his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="content">with skillful hands he led them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not testify against your neighbor without cause&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">would you use your lips to mislead?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.24.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll do to them as they have done to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.24.29"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll pay them back for what they did.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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