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   <div class="book bkJOS">
      <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="JOS.23">
         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joshua&#8217;s Farewell to the Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After a long time had passed and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">summoned all Israel&#8212;their elders, leaders, judges and officials&#8212;and said to them: &#8220;I am very old. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You yourselves have seen everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God who fought for you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain&#8212;the nations I conquered&#8212;between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God promised you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But you are to hold fast to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as you have until now.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">One of you routs a thousand, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God fights for you, just as he promised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So be very careful to love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then you may be sure that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But just as all the good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you violate the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="ACT.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Heals a Lame Beggar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer&#8212;at three in the afternoon. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, &#8220;Look at us!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Peter said, &#8220;Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man&#8217;s feet and ankles became strong. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When all the people saw him walking and praising God, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Speaks to the Onlookers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon&#8217;s Colonnade. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Peter saw this, he said to them: &#8220;Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus&#8217; name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you&#8212;even Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For Moses said, &#8216;The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:23 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 18:15,18,19</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, &#8216;Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:25 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 22:18; 26:4</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are always righteous, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">when I bring a case before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Yet I would speak with you about your justice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why do all the faithless live at ease?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have planted them, and they have taken root;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">they grow and bear fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">You are always on their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">but far from their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you know me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">you see me and test my thoughts about you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Set them apart for the day of slaughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long will the land lie parched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">and the grass in every field be withered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Because those who live in it are wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">the animals and birds have perished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Moreover, the people are saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not see what happens to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have raced with men on foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">and they have worn you out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how can you compete with horses?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">If you stumble</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you feel secure only</span></span></span><span class="content"> in safe country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how will you manage in the thickets by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the flooding of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jordan?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your relatives, members of your own family&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">even they have betrayed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">they have raised a loud cry against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">Do not trust them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">though they speak well of you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will forsake my house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">abandon my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">I will give the one I love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">into the hands of her enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My inheritance has become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">like a lion in the forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">She roars at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">therefore I hate her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has not my inheritance become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">like a speckled bird of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">that other birds of prey surround and attack?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">Go and gather all the wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">bring them to devour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">and trample down my field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">they will turn my pleasant field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">into a desolate wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It will be made a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">parched and desolate before me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">the whole land will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">because there is no one who cares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Over all the barren heights in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">destroyers will swarm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">for the sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">from one end of the land to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">no one will be safe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will sow wheat but reap thorns;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">They will bear the shame of their harvest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives&#8217;&#8212;even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal&#8212;then they will be established among my people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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