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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Prays to Be Glorified</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.17.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Prays for His Disciples</span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have revealed you</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">17:6 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">your name</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Father, keep them faithful to</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">kept them faithful to</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.</span></span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Sanctify them by</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them to live in accordance with</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the truth; your word is truth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Prays for All Believers</span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one&#8212;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I in them and you in me&#8212;so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.</span></span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.</span></span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have made you</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:26 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">your name</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">More Proverbs of Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="content">to search out a matter is the glory of kings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="content">so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Remove the dross from the silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="content">and a silversmith can produce a vessel;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">remove wicked officials from the king&#8217;s presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="content">and his throne will be established through righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not exalt yourself in the king&#8217;s presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="content">and do not claim a place among his great men;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">it is better for him to say to you, &#8220;Come up here,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">What you have seen with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not bring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nobles / on whom you had set your eyes. / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">Do not go</span></span></span><span class="content"> hastily to court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">for what will you do in the end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">if your neighbor puts you to shame?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you take your neighbor to court,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="content">do not betray another&#8217;s confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">or the one who hears it may shame you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="content">and the charge against you will stand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like apples</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:11 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">apricots</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold in settings of silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="content">is a ruling rightly given.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="content">is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">he refreshes the spirit of his master.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Like clouds and wind without rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="content">is one who boasts of gifts never given.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="content">and a gentle tongue can break a bone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you find honey, eat just enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="content">too much of it, and you will vomit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Seldom set foot in your neighbor&#8217;s house&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="content">too much of you, and they will hate you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="content">is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Like a broken tooth or a lame foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="content">is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">or like vinegar poured on a wound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="content">if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.25.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will reward you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="content">is a sly tongue&#8212;which provokes a horrified look.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.25.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Better to live on a corner of the roof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="content">than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.25.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Like cold water to a weary soul</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="content">is good news from a distant land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.25.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Like a muddied spring or a polluted well</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="content">are the righteous who give way to the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">It is not good to eat too much honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="content">nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.25.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Like a city whose walls are broken through</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.25.28"><span class="content">is a person who lacks self-control.</span></span></div>
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