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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="content">So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the two pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">the stands with their basins;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.4.16"><span class="content">All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> were of polished bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Zeredatha, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Zarethan</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God&#8217;s temple:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">the golden altar;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated&#8212;the silver and gold and all the furnishings&#8212;and he placed them in the treasuries of God&#8217;s temple.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ark Brought to the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s covenant from Zion, the City of David. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The priests then brought the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All the Levites who were musicians&#8212;Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives&#8212;stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and sang:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">&#8220;He is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">his love endures forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">Then the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was filled with the cloud, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> filled the temple of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is more desirable than great riches;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rich and poor have this in common:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the Maker of them all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Humility is the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">its wages are riches and honor and life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Start children off on the way they should go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">and even when they are old they will not turn from it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The rich rule over the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">and the borrower is slave to the lender.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The generous will themselves be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">for they share their food with the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">quarrels and insults are ended.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">will have the king for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch over knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sluggard says, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lion outside!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll be killed in the public square!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">a man who is under the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath falls into it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">and one who gives gifts to the rich&#8212;both come to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Thirty Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 1</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">apply your heart to what I teach,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">and have all of them ready on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So that your trust may be in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">I teach you today, even you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have I not written thirty sayings for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">sayings of counsel and knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">so that you bring back truthful reports</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">to those you serve?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not exploit the poor because they are poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">and do not crush the needy in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take up their case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">and will exact life for life.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 3</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">do not associate with one easily angered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">or you may learn their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">and get yourself ensnared.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 4</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">or puts up security for debts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">if you lack the means to pay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">your very bed will be snatched from under you.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 5</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not move an ancient boundary stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">set up by your ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 6</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do you see someone skilled in their work?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">They will serve before kings;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">they will not serve before officials of low rank.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin, Faith, Duty</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus said to his disciples: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So watch yourselves.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If your brother or sister</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">17:3 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying &#8216;I repent,&#8217; you must forgive them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The apostles said to the Lord, &#8220;Increase our faith!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, &#8216;Be uprooted and planted in the sea,&#8217; and it will obey you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, &#8216;Come along now and sit down to eat&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Won&#8217;t he rather say, &#8216;Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, &#8216;We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:12 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> met him. They stood at a distance </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and called out in a loud voice, &#8220;Jesus, Master, have pity on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he saw them, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, show yourselves to the priests.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And as they went, they were cleansed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He threw himself at Jesus&#8217; feet and thanked him&#8212;and he was a Samaritan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and go; your faith has made you well.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Coming of the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">nor will people say, &#8216;Here it is,&#8217; or &#8216;There it is,&#8217; because the kingdom of God is in your midst.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is within you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will tell you, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; or &#8216;Here he is!&#8217; Do not go running off after them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man in his day</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">in his day.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember Lot&#8217;s wife!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.17.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="label">[36]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:36 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, Lord?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Greater Than Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses was faithful as a servant in all God&#8217;s house,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Num. 12:7</span></span></span><span class="content"> bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Christ is faithful as the Son over God&#8217;s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So, as the Holy Spirit says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">during the time of testing in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">where your ancestors tested and tried me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">though for forty years they saw what I did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why I was angry with that generation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Their hearts are always going astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">and they have not known my ways.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7-11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called &#8220;Today,&#8221; so that none of you may be hardened by sin&#8217;s deceitfulness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As has just been said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.</span></span></div>
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