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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to the God of All Comfort</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.</span></span></span><span class="content"> about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Change of Plans</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">holiness</span></span></span><span class="content"> and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God&#8217;s grace. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Because I was confident of this, I wanted to visit you first so that you might benefit twice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both &#8220;Yes, yes&#8221; and &#8220;No, no&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us&#8212;by me and Silas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Silvanus</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Silas</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Timothy&#8212;was not &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No,&#8221; but in him it has always been &#8220;Yes.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For no matter how many promises God has made, they are &#8220;Yes&#8221; in Christ. And so through him the &#8220;Amen&#8221; is spoken by us to the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I call God as my witness&#8212;and I stake my life on it&#8212;that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Forgiveness for the Offender</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent&#8212;not to put it too severely. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven&#8212;if there was anything to forgive&#8212;I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ministers of the New Covenant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ&#8217;s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">149</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 149</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.149.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">149:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.149.1"><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a new song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.149.1"><span class="content">his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.149.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.149.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.149.2"><span class="content">let the people of Zion be glad in their King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.149.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.149.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let them praise his name with dancing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.149.3"><span class="content">and make music to him with timbrel and harp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.149.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.149.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> takes delight in his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.149.4"><span class="content">he crowns the humble with victory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.149.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.149.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.149.5"><span class="content">and sing for joy on their beds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.149.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.149.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May the praise of God be in their mouths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.149.6"><span class="content">and a double-edged sword in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.149.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.149.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">to inflict vengeance on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.149.7"><span class="content">and punishment on the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.149.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.149.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">to bind their kings with fetters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.149.8"><span class="content">their nobles with shackles of iron,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.149.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.149.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to carry out the sentence written against them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.149.9"><span class="content">this is the glory of all his faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.149.9"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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