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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Water of Cleansing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is a requirement of the law that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">While he watches, the heifer is to be burned&#8212;its hide, flesh, blood and intestines. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water. He may then come into the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean till evening. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he too will be unclean till evening. This will be a lasting ordinance both for the Israelites and for the foreigners residing among them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: Anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it will be unclean for seven days, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and every open container without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The man who is clean is to sprinkle those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them. Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled the sanctuary of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is a lasting ordinance for them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.19.21"><span class="content">&#8220;The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 23</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my shepherd, I lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He makes me lie down in green pastures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">he leads me beside quiet waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he refreshes my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">He guides me along the right paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">for his name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even though I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">through the darkest valley,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the valley of the shadow of death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">I will fear no evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">for you are with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">your rod and your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">they comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You prepare a table before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">in the presence of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">You anoint my head with oil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">my cup overflows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely your goodness and love will follow me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">and I will dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 24</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The earth is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s, and everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.24.1"><span class="content">the world, and all who live in it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for he founded it on the seas</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.24.2"><span class="content">and established it on the waters.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Who may ascend the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.24.3"><span class="content">Who may stand in his holy place?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.24.4"><span class="content">who does not trust in an idol</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.24.4"><span class="content">or swear by a false god.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">swear falsely</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They will receive blessing from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.24.5"><span class="content">and vindication from God their Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such is the generation of those who seek him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.24.6"><span class="content">who seek your face, God of Jacob.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Two Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">face, Jacob</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lift up your heads, you gates;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.24.7"><span class="content">be lifted up, you ancient doors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.24.7"><span class="content">that the King of glory may come in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who is this King of glory?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.24.8"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> strong and mighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.24.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> mighty in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Lift up your heads, you gates;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.24.9"><span class="content">lift them up, you ancient doors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.24.9"><span class="content">that the King of glory may come in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who is he, this King of glory?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.24.10"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.24.10"><span class="content">he is the King of glory.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 25</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="content">I put my trust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I trust in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">nor let my enemies triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">No one who hopes in you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">will ever be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">but shame will come on those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">who are treacherous without cause.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Show me your ways, </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="PSA.25.4"><span class="content">teach me your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Guide me in your truth and teach me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">for you are God my Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">and my hope is in you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your great mercy and love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="content">for they are from of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not remember the sins of my youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">and my rebellious ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">according to your love remember me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Good and upright is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="content">therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He guides the humble in what is right</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="content">and teaches them his way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are loving and faithful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="content">toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the sake of your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="content">forgive my iniquity, though it is great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who, then, are those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="content">He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">ways he chooses</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will spend their days in prosperity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="content">and their descendants will inherit the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> confides in those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="content">he makes his covenant known to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My eyes are ever on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.25.15"><span class="content">for only he will release my feet from the snare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Turn to me and be gracious to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="content">for I am lonely and afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Relieve the troubles of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="content">and free me from my anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Look on my affliction and my distress</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="content">and take away all my sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">See how numerous are my enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="content">and how fiercely they hate me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Guard my life and rescue me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">for I take refuge in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">May integrity and uprightness protect me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="content">because my hope, </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">25:21 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew does not have </span><span class="fq"><span class="nd">Lord</span></span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Deliver Israel, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.25.22"><span class="content">from all their troubles!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Spirit of the Lord is on me,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because he has anointed me</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and recovery of sight for the blind,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim the year of the Lord&#8217;s favor.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:19 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He began by saying to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Joseph&#8217;s son?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you will quote this proverb to me: &#8216;Physician, heal yourself!&#8217; And you will tell me, &#8216;Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he continued, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no prophet is accepted in his hometown.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah&#8217;s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And there were many in Israel with leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:27 </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">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed&#8212;only Naaman the Syrian.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are&#8212;the Holy One of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said sternly. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out of him!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">All the people were amazed and said to each other, &#8220;What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Many</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, &#8220;You are the Son of God!&#8221; But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">But he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, Silas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Silvanus</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Silas</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Timothy,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TH.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TH.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TH.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TH.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore, among God&#8217;s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TH.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TH.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All this is evidence that God&#8217;s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TH.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TH.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TH.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TH.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TH.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TH.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God and Lord, Jesus Christ</span></span></span></span></div>
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