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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For we wanted to come to you&#8212;certainly I, Paul, did, again and again&#8212;but Satan blocked our way. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TH.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TH.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Indeed, you are our glory and joy.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God&#8217;s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><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></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I remember my affliction and my wandering,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.3.19"><span class="content">the bitterness and the gall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I well remember them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.3.20"><span class="content">and my soul is downcast within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Yet this I call to mind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.3.21"><span class="content">and therefore I have hope:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s great love we are not consumed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.3.22"><span class="content">for his compassions never fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LAM.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They are new every morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LAM.3.23"><span class="content">great is your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LAM.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LAM.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I say to myself, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my portion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LAM.3.24"><span class="content">therefore I will wait for him.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, &#8220;But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.14.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.14.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All this I have spoken while still with you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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