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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">There was a man all alone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">he had neither son nor brother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">There was no end to his toil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">&#8220;For whom am I toiling,&#8221; he asked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">&#8220;and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">This too is meaningless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">a miserable business!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Two are better than one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"><span class="content">because they have a good return for their labor:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If either of them falls down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">one can help the other up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">But pity anyone who falls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">and has no one to help them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"><span class="content">But how can one keep warm alone?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though one may be overpowered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="content">two can defend themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.4.12"><span class="content">A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="content">but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A friend loves at all times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">and a brother is born for a time of adversity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are my friends if you do what I command.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master&#8217;s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit&#8212;fruit that will last&#8212;and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is my command: Love each other.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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