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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. &#8220;Sovereign Lord,&#8221; they said, &#8220;you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Why do the nations rage</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">against the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and against his anointed one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, Messiah or Christ</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="ACT.7.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, &#8220;Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="ACT.7.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">Then he fell on his knees and cried out, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them.&#8221; When he had said this, he fell asleep.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">adoption to sonship </span><span class="ft">is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> And by him we cry, &#8220;</span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Abba,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Aramaic for </span><span class="fqa">father</span></span></span><span class="content"> Father.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EPH.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God&#8217;s possession&#8212;to the praise of his glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EPH.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EPH.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God&#8217;s people, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EPH.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EPH.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EPH.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EPH.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EPH.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EPH.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.</span></span></div>
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