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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you do not do what</span></span></span><span class="content"> you want. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GAL.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GAL.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GAL.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ezekiel&#8217;s Inaugural Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">On the fifth of the month&#8212;it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> There the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north&#8212;an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">but each of them had four faces and four wings. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.1.28"><span class="content">This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">148</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 148</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.148.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">148:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.148.1"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> from the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.148.1"><span class="content">praise him in the heights above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.148.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.148.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Praise him, all his angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.148.2"><span class="content">praise him, all his heavenly hosts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.148.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.148.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise him, sun and moon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.148.3"><span class="content">praise him, all you shining stars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.148.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.148.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Praise him, you highest heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.148.4"><span class="content">and you waters above the skies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.148.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.148.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let them praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.148.5"><span class="content">for at his command they were created,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.148.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.148.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and he established them for ever and ever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.148.6"><span class="content">he issued a decree that will never pass away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.148.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.148.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.148.7"><span class="content">you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.148.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.148.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">lightning and hail, snow and clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.148.8"><span class="content">stormy winds that do his bidding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.148.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.148.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">you mountains and all hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.148.9"><span class="content">fruit trees and all cedars,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.148.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.148.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">wild animals and all cattle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.148.10"><span class="content">small creatures and flying birds,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.148.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.148.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">kings of the earth and all nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.148.11"><span class="content">you princes and all rulers on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.148.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.148.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">young men and women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.148.12"><span class="content">old men and children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.148.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.148.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let them praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.148.13"><span class="content">for his name alone is exalted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.148.13"><span class="content">his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.148.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.148.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And he has raised up for his people a horn,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">148:14 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.148.14"><span class="content">the praise of all his faithful servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.148.14"><span class="content">of Israel, the people close to his heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.148.14"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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