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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At Mount Sinai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt&#8212;on that very day&#8212;they came to the Desert of Sinai. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Moses went up to God, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to him from the mountain and said, &#8220;This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles&#8217; wings and brought you to myself. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:5,6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">possession, for the whole earth is mine. </span><span class="fv">6 </span><span class="fqa">You</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.&#8217; These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded him to speak. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people all responded together, &#8220;We will do everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said.&#8221; So Moses brought their answer back to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.&#8221; Then Moses told the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> what the people had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and be ready by the third day, because on that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, &#8216;Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.&#8217; Only when the ram&#8217;s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he said to the people, &#8220;Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">and all the people</span></span></span><span class="content"> trembled violently. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and God answered him with thunder</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and many of them perish. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even the priests, who approach the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, must consecrate themselves, or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, &#8216;Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, or he will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So Moses went down to the people and told them.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="JOB.37">
         <div class="label">37</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;At this my heart pounds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.37.1"><span class="content">and leaps from its place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.37.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.37.2"><span class="content">to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.37.3"><span class="content">and sends it to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.37.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">After that comes the sound of his roar;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.37.4"><span class="content">he thunders with his majestic voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.37.4"><span class="content">When his voice resounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.37.4"><span class="content">he holds nothing back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.37.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">God&#8217;s voice thunders in marvelous ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.37.5"><span class="content">he does great things beyond our understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.37.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He says to the snow, &#8216;Fall on the earth,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.37.6"><span class="content">and to the rain shower, &#8216;Be a mighty downpour.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.37.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So that everyone he has made may know his work,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.37.7"><span class="content">he stops all people from their labor.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">work, / he fills all people with fear by his power</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.37.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The animals take cover;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.37.8"><span class="content">they remain in their dens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The tempest comes out from its chamber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.37.9"><span class="content">the cold from the driving winds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.37.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The breath of God produces ice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.37.10"><span class="content">and the broad waters become frozen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.37.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He loads the clouds with moisture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.37.11"><span class="content">he scatters his lightning through them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.37.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">At his direction they swirl around</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.37.12"><span class="content">over the face of the whole earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.37.12"><span class="content">to do whatever he commands them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.37.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He brings the clouds to punish people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.37.13"><span class="content">or to water his earth and show his love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.37.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to this, Job;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.37.14"><span class="content">stop and consider God&#8217;s wonders.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.37.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do you know how God controls the clouds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.37.15"><span class="content">and makes his lightning flash?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do you know how the clouds hang poised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.37.16"><span class="content">those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.37.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You who swelter in your clothes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.37.17"><span class="content">when the land lies hushed under the south wind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.37.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">can you join him in spreading out the skies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.37.18"><span class="content">hard as a mirror of cast bronze?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.37.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us what we should say to him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.37.19"><span class="content">we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.37.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Should he be told that I want to speak?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.37.20"><span class="content">Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now no one can look at the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.37.21"><span class="content">bright as it is in the skies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.37.21"><span class="content">after the wind has swept them clean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.37.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.37.22"><span class="content">God comes in awesome majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.37.23"><span class="content">in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.37.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore, people revere him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.37.24"><span class="content">for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">for he does not have regard for any who think they are wise.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Joy Over the Church&#8217;s Repentance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn&#8212;conflicts on the outside, fears within. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it&#8212;I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By all this we are encouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="content">In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I am glad I can have complete confidence in you.</span></span></div>
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