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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Offerings for Priests and Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Levitical priests&#8212;indeed, the whole tribe of Levi&#8212;are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for that is their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is their inheritance, as he promised them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s name always.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will choose, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he may minister in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Occult Practices</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When you enter the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Anyone who does these things is detestable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; because of these same detestable practices the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will drive out those nations before you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You must be blameless before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Prophet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has not permitted you to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For this is what you asked of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, &#8220;Let us not hear the voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;What they say is good. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You may say to yourselves, &#8220;How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not take place or come true, that is a message the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cities of Refuge</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you to possess. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety&#8212;anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today&#8212;to love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and to walk always in obedience to him&#8212;then you are to set aside three more cities. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Show no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not move your neighbor&#8217;s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you to possess.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Witnesses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">but accurate weights find favor with him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When pride comes, then comes disgrace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">but with humility comes wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The integrity of the upright guides them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">but righteousness delivers from death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the upright delivers them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hopes placed in mortals die with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">all the promise of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:7 </span><span class="ft">Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum </span><span class="fqa">When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from</span></span></span><span class="content"> their power comes to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The righteous person is rescued from trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">and it falls on the wicked instead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">but through knowledge the righteous escape.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A gossip betrays a confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For lack of guidance a nation falls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">but victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A kindhearted woman gains honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">but ruthless men gain only wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Those who are kind benefit themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A wicked person earns deceptive wages,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Truly the righteous attain life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">but whoever pursues evil finds death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests those whose hearts are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">but those who are righteous will go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Like a gold ring in a pig&#8217;s snout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The desire of the righteous ends only in good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One person gives freely, yet gains even more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A generous person will prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People curse the one who hoards grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">but they pray God&#8217;s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whoever seeks good finds favor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">but evil comes to one who searches for it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Those who trust in their riches will fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">and the fool will be servant to the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">and the one who is wise saves lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">If the righteous receive their due on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="content">how much more the ungodly and the sinner!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All this I have told you so that you will not fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, &#8216;Where are you going?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">about sin, because people do not believe in me;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Disciples&#8217; Grief Will Turn to Joy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus went on to say, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At this, some of his disciples said to one another, &#8220;What does he mean by saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> and </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Because I am going to the Father&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They kept asking, &#8220;What does he mean by </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;a little while&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">? We don&#8217;t understand what he is saying.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, &#8216;In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.16.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Jesus&#8217; disciples said, &#8220;Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you now believe?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.16.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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