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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="content">To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier&#8212;and to the church that meets in your home:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural; also in verses 22 and 25; elsewhere in this letter &#8220;you&#8221; is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from God our 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 v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plea for Onesimus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul&#8212;an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">useful.</span></span></span><span class="content"> who became my son while I was in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am sending him&#8212;who is my very heart&#8212;back to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back&#8212;not to mention that you owe me your very self. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PHM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Final Word: His Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Son is the radiance of God&#8217;s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Son Superior to Angels</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For to which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;You are my Son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">today I have become your Father&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">Or again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be his Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">and he will be my Son&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chron. 17:13</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Let all God&#8217;s angels worship him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:43 (see Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In speaking of the angels he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">&#8220;He makes his angels spirits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">and his servants flames of fire.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 104:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But about the Son he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">by anointing you with the oil of joy.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 45:6,7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">&#8220;In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will perish, but you remain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">they will all wear out like a garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will roll them up like a robe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">like a garment they will be changed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">But you remain the same,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">and your years will never end.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 102:25-27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning to Pay Attention</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Made Fully Human</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But there is a place where someone has testified:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you are mindful of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">a son of man that you care for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You made them a little</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them for a little while</span></span></span><span class="content"> lower than the angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">you crowned them with glory and honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and put everything under their feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6-8 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 8:4-6</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">7 </span><span class="fqa">You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">and put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="content">In putting everything under them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> God left nothing that is not subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </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 verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">in the assembly I will sing your praises.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my trust in him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:17</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">And again he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Here am I, and the children God has given me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death&#8212;that is, the devil&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham&#8217;s descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like his brothers</span></span></span><span class="content"> fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</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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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">because those who heard did not combine it with faith</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8220;So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><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">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: &#8220;On the seventh day God rested from all his works.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:2</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And again in the passage above he says, &#8220;They shall never enter my rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God again set a certain day, calling it &#8220;Today.&#8221; This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for anyone who enters God&#8217;s rest also rests from their works,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">labor</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as God did from his. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Nothing in all creation is hidden from God&#8217;s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus the Great High Priest</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">has gone through the heavens</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are&#8212;yet he did not sin. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let us then approach God&#8217;s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">but accurate weights find favor with him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When pride comes, then comes disgrace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">but with humility comes wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The integrity of the upright guides them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">but righteousness delivers from death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the upright delivers them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hopes placed in mortals die with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">all the promise of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:7 </span><span class="ft">Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum </span><span class="fqa">When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from</span></span></span><span class="content"> their power comes to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The righteous person is rescued from trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">and it falls on the wicked instead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">but through knowledge the righteous escape.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A gossip betrays a confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For lack of guidance a nation falls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">but victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A kindhearted woman gains honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">but ruthless men gain only wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Those who are kind benefit themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A wicked person earns deceptive wages,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Truly the righteous attain life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">but whoever pursues evil finds death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests those whose hearts are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">but those who are righteous will go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Like a gold ring in a pig&#8217;s snout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The desire of the righteous ends only in good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One person gives freely, yet gains even more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A generous person will prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People curse the one who hoards grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">but they pray God&#8217;s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whoever seeks good finds favor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">but evil comes to one who searches for it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Those who trust in their riches will fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">and the fool will be servant to the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">and the one who is wise saves lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">If the righteous receive their due on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="content">how much more the ungodly and the sinner!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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