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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tattenai&#8217;s Letter to Darius</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZR.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jozadak set to work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, &#8220;Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:4 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Aramaic </span><span class="fqa">We.</span></span></span><span class="content"> also asked, &#8220;What are the names of those who are constructing this building?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The report they sent him read as follows:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.5.7"><span class="content">To King Darius:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.5.7"><span class="content">Cordial greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZR.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We questioned the elders and asked them, &#8220;Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This is the answer they gave us:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.5.11"><span class="content">&#8220;We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, one that a great king of Israel built and finished. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZR.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZR.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He even removed from the temple</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">palace</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">palace</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Babylon. Then King Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZR.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and he told him, &#8216;Take these articles and go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem. And rebuild the house of God on its site.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZR.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZR.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZR.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZR.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Decree of Darius</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZR.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.6.2"><span class="content">Memorandum:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.6.3"><span class="content">Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 90 feet or about 27 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high and sixty cubits wide, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you other officials of that province, stay away from there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.6.8"><span class="content">Their expenses are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZR.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whatever is needed&#8212;young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem&#8212;must be given them daily without fail, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Furthermore, I decree that if anyone defies this edict, a beam is to be pulled from their house and they are to be impaled on it. And for this crime their house is to be made a pile of rubble. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.6.12"><span class="content">I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Completion and Dedication of the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZR.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried it out with diligence. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZR.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZR.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZR.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZR.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the people of Israel&#8212;the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles&#8212;celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZR.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span></span></span><span class="content"> for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZR.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Passover</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZR.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZR.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZR.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZR.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZR.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For seven days they celebrated with joy the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They answered him, &#8220;We are Abraham&#8217;s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.8.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know that you are Abraham&#8217;s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am telling you what I have seen in the Father&#8217;s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">presence. Therefore do what you have heard from the Father.</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.8.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.8.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;Abraham is our father,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.8.39"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you were Abraham&#8217;s children,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;then you would</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:39 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;If you are Abraham&#8217;s children,&#8221; said Jesus, &#8220;then</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">do what Abraham did.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.8.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.8.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are doing the works of your own father.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.8.41"><span class="content">&#8220;We are not illegitimate children,&#8221; they protested. &#8220;The only Father we have is God himself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.8.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.8.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.8.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.8.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father&#8217;s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.8.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.8.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don&#8217;t you believe me?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.8.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Claims About Himself</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.8.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.8.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">The Jews answered him, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.8.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.8.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am not possessed by a demon,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.8.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.8.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.8.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.8.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">At this they exclaimed, &#8220;Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.8.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.8.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JHN.8.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JHN.8.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JHN.8.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JHN.8.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JHN.8.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are not yet fifty years old,&#8221; they said to him, &#8220;and you have seen Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JHN.8.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="JHN.8.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;before Abraham was born, I am!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="JHN.8.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The wise in heart are called discerning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">and gracious words promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">words make a person persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">but folly brings punishment to fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">and their lips promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudent / and make their lips persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gracious words are a honeycomb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="content">sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">There is a way that appears to be right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="content">but in the end it leads to death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The appetite of laborers works for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="content">their hunger drives them on.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A scoundrel plots evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="content">and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A perverse person stirs up conflict,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="content">and a gossip separates close friends.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A violent person entices their neighbor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="content">and leads them down a path that is not good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Whoever winks with their eye is plotting perversity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="content">whoever purses their lips is bent on evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Gray hair is a crown of splendor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="content">it is attained in the way of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Better a patient person than a warrior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="content">one with self-control than one who takes a city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The lot is cast into the lap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.16.33"><span class="content">but its every decision is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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