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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="PRO.2">
         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moral Benefits of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you accept my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">turning your ear to wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">and applying your heart to understanding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">indeed, if you call out for insight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">and cry aloud for understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and if you look for it as for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">and search for it as for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">then you will understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">and find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He holds success in store for the upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for he guards the course of the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">and protects the way of his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will understand what is right and just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">and fair&#8212;every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For wisdom will enter your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion will protect you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">and understanding will guard you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">from men whose words are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who have left the straight paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">to walk in dark ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who delight in doing wrong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">whose paths are crooked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">and who are devious in their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who has left the partner of her youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">and ignored the covenant she made before God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">covenant of her God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely her house leads down to death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">and her paths to the spirits of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None who go to her return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">or attain the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thus you will walk in the ways of the good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">and keep to the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright will live in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">and the blameless will remain in it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">but the wicked will be cut off from the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">and the unfaithful will be torn from it.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkEZK">
      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="EZK.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Sure Judgment on Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that faces east. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They say, &#8216;Haven&#8217;t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot, and we are the meat in it.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on me, and he told me to say: &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: That is what you are saying, you leaders in Israel, but I know what is going through your mind. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Promise of Israel&#8217;s Return</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, &#8216;They are far away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; this land was given to us as our possession.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore say: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore say: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldea</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the vision given by the Spirit of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.11.24"><span class="content">Then the vision I had seen went up from me, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and I told the exiles everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had shown me.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="PHM.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="content">To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier&#8212;and to the church that meets in your home:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural; also in verses 22 and 25; elsewhere in this letter &#8220;you&#8221; is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plea for Onesimus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul&#8212;an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">useful.</span></span></span><span class="content"> who became my son while I was in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am sending him&#8212;who is my very heart&#8212;back to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back&#8212;not to mention that you owe me your very self. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PHM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.</span></span></div>
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A Bíblia em Um Ano com o Pastor Mark DriscollSample

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