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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"> 1In that day seven women</div><div class="q2">will take hold of one man</div><div class="q1">and say, &#8220;We will eat our own food</div><div class="q2">and provide our own clothes;</div><div class="q1">only let us be called by your name.</div><div class="q2">Take away our disgrace!&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Branch of the Lord</div><div class="p"> 2In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. 3Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit#4:4 Or the Spirit of judgment and a spirit#4:4 Or the Spirit of fire. 5Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory#4:5 Or over all the glory there will be a canopy. 6It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1">Isaiah&#8217;s Commission</div><div class="p"> 1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3And they were calling to one another:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;</div><div class="q2">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</div><div class="m"> 4At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</div><div class="p"> 5&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 6Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</div><div class="p">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</div><div class="q2">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</div><div class="q1"> 10Make the heart of this people calloused;</div><div class="q2">make their ears dull</div><div class="q2">and close their eyes.#6:9,10 Hebrew; Septuagint &#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / 10 This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</div><div class="q1">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</div><div class="q2">hear with their ears,</div><div class="q2">understand with their hearts,</div><div class="q1">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 11Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</div><div class="p">And he answered:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</div><div class="q2">and without inhabitant,</div><div class="q1">until the houses are left deserted</div><div class="q2">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</div><div class="q1"> 12until the Lord has sent everyone far away</div><div class="q2">and the land is utterly forsaken.</div><div class="q1"> 13And though a tenth remains in the land,</div><div class="q2">it will again be laid waste.</div><div class="q1">But as the terebinth and oak</div><div class="q2">leave stumps when they are cut down,</div><div class="q2">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1">Faith or Works of the Law</div><div class="p"> 1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?#3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit. 4Have you experienced#3:4 Or suffered so much in vain&#8212;if it really was in vain? 5So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6So also Abraham &#8220;believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.&#8221;#3:6 Gen. 15:6</div><div class="p"> 7Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: &#8220;All nations will be blessed through you.&#8221;#3:8 Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18 9So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</div><div class="p"> 10For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: &#8220;Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.&#8221;#3:10 Deut. 27:26 11Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because &#8220;the righteous will live by faith.&#8221;#3:11 Hab. 2:4 12The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, &#8220;The person who does these things will live by them.&#8221;#3:12 Lev. 18:5 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: &#8220;Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.&#8221;#3:13 Deut. 21:23 14He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.</div><div class="s1">The Law and the Promise</div><div class="p"> 15Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say &#8220;and to seeds,&#8221; meaning many people, but &#8220;and to your seed,&#8221;#3:16 Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 24:7 meaning one person, who is Christ. 17What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.</div><div class="p"> 19Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. 20A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.</div><div class="p"> 21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. 22But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.</div><div class="s1">Children of God</div><div class="p"> 23Before the coming of this faith,#3:22,23 Or through the faithfulness of Jesus&#8230; 23 Before faith came we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.</div><div class="p"> 26So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham&#8217;s seed, and heirs according to the promise.</div>
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