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Jesus was about to leave, but the teachers and the Pharisees wanted to get even with him. They tried to make him say what he thought about other things,


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As thousands of people crowded around Jesus and were stepping on each other, he told his disciples: Be sure to guard against the dishonest teaching of the Pharisees! It is their way of fooling people.


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Whatever you say in the dark will be heard when it is day. Whatever you whisper in a closed room will be shouted from the housetops.


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My friends, don't be afraid of people. They can kill you, but after that, there is nothing else they can do.


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God is the one you must fear. Not only can he take your life, but he can throw you into hell. God is certainly the one you should fear!


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Even the hairs on your head are counted. So don't be afraid! You are worth much more than many sparrows.


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If you tell others that you belong to me, the Son of Man will tell God's angels that you are my followers.


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If you speak against the Son of Man, you can be forgiven, but if you speak against the Holy Spirit, you cannot be forgiven.


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When you are brought to trial in the synagogues or before rulers or officials, don't worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say.


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A man in a crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of what our father left us when he died.”


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Later, he said, “Now I know what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I can store all my grain and other goods.


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Then I'll say to myself, ‘You have stored up enough good things to last for years to come. Live it up! Eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.’ ”


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“This is what happens to people who store up everything for themselves, but are poor in the sight of God.”


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Jesus said to his disciples: I tell you not to worry about your life! Don't worry about having something to eat or wear.


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Look at the crows! They don't plant or harvest, and they don't have storehouses or barns. But God takes care of them. You are much more important than any birds.


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Look how the wild flowers grow! They don't work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you Solomon with all his wealth wasn't as well clothed as one of these flowers.


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God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. Won't he do even more for you? You have such little faith!


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Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father knows what you need.


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Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it.


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just like those servants who wait up for their master to return from a wedding feast. As soon as he comes and knocks, they open the door for him.


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Servants are fortunate if their master finds them awake and ready when he comes! I promise you he will get ready and let his servants sit down so he can serve them.


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Those servants are really fortunate if their master finds them ready, even though he comes late at night or early in the morning.


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The Lord answered: Who are faithful and wise servants? Who are the ones the master will put in charge of giving the other servants their food supplies at the proper time?


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But suppose one of the servants thinks that the master won't return until late. Suppose that servant starts beating all the other servants and eats and drinks and gets drunk.


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If that happens, the master will come on a day and at a time when the servant least expects him. That servant will then be punished and thrown out with the servants who cannot be trusted.


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If servants are not ready or willing to do what their master wants them to do, they will be beaten hard.


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But servants who don't know what their master wants them to do will not be beaten so hard for doing wrong. If God has been generous with you, he will expect you to serve him well. But if he has been more than generous, he will expect you to serve him even better.


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Fathers and sons will turn against one another, and mothers and daughters will do the same. Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law will also turn against each other.


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Jesus said to all the people: As soon as you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say, “It's going to rain,” and it does.


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Are you trying to fool someone? You can predict the weather by looking at the earth and sky, but you don't really know what's going on right now.


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When someone accuses you of something, try to settle things before you are taken to court. If you don't, you will be dragged before the judge. Then the judge will hand you over to the jailer, and you will be locked up.


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About this same time Jesus was told that Pilate had given orders for some people from Galilee to be killed while they were offering sacrifices.


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Jesus replied: Do you think that these people were worse sinners than everyone else in Galilee just because of what happened to them?


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Not at all! But you can be sure that if you don't turn back to God, every one of you will also be killed.


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What about those 18 people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse than everyone else in Jerusalem?


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Jesus then told them this story: A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. One day he went out to pick some figs, but he didn't find any.


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So he said to the gardener, “For three years I have come looking for figs on this tree, and I haven't found any yet. Chop it down! Why should it take up space?”


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The gardener answered, “Master, leave it for another year. I'll dig around it and put some manure on it to make it grow.


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and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for 18 years. She was completely bent over and could not straighten up.


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The man in charge of the synagogue was angry because Jesus had healed someone on the Sabbath. So he said to the people, “Each week has six days when we can work. Come and be healed on one of those days, but not on the Sabbath.”


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The Lord replied, “Are you trying to fool someone? Won't any one of you untie your ox or donkey and lead it out to drink on a Sabbath?


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This woman belongs to the family of Abraham, but Satan has kept her bound for 18 years. Isn't it right to set her free on the Sabbath?”


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Jesus' words made his enemies ashamed. But everyone else in the crowd was happy about the wonderful things he was doing.


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It is like what happens when someone plants a mustard seed in a garden. The seed grows as big as a tree, and birds nest in its branches.”


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It is like what happens when a woman mixes yeast into three batches of flour. Finally, all the dough rises.”


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Do all you can to go in by the narrow door! A lot of people will try to get in, but will not be able to.


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Once the owner of the house gets up and locks the door, you will be left standing outside. You will knock on the door and say, “Sir, open the door for us!” But the owner will answer, “I don't know a thing about you!”


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Then when you have been thrown outside, you will weep and grit your teeth because you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God's kingdom.


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There the ones who are now least important will be the most important, and those who are now most important will be least important.


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At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “You had better get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!”


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Jesus said to them: Go tell that fox, “I am going to force out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and three days later I'll be through.”


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But I am going on my way today and tomorrow and the next day. After all, Jerusalem is the place where prophets are killed.


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Now your temple will be deserted. You won't see me again until the time when you say, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.”


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One Sabbath, Jesus was having dinner in the home of an important Pharisee, and everyone was carefully watching Jesus.


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Jesus turned and asked the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?”


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Afterwards, Jesus asked the people, “If your son or ox falls into a well, wouldn't you pull him out at once, even on the Sabbath?”


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When you are invited to a wedding feast, don't sit in the best place. Someone more important may have been invited.


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Then the one who invited you will come and say, “Give your place to this other guest!” You will be embarrassed and will have to sit in the worst place.


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When you are invited to be a guest, go and sit in the worst place. Then the one who invited you may come and say, “My friend, take a better seat!” You will then be honored in front of all the other guests.


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Then Jesus said to the man who had invited him: When you give a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends and family and relatives and rich neighbors. If you do, they will invite you in return, and you will be paid back.


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After Jesus had finished speaking, one of the guests said, “The greatest blessing of all is to be at the banquet in God's kingdom!”


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When the banquet was ready, he sent a servant to tell the guests, “Everything is ready! Please come.”


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One guest after another started making excuses. The first one said, “I bought some land, and I've got to look it over. Please excuse me.”


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The servant told his master what happened, and the master became so angry he said, “Go as fast as you can to every street and alley in town! Bring in everyone who is poor or paralyzed or blind or lame.”


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When the servant returned, he said, “Master, I've done what you told me, and there is still plenty of room for more people.”


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His master then told him, “Go out along the back roads and make people come in, so my house will be full.


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You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot follow me unless you love me more than you love your own life.


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Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. What is the first thing you will do? Won't you sit down and figure out how much it will cost and if you have enough money to pay for it?


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Otherwise, you will start building the tower, but not be able to finish. Then everyone who sees what is happening will laugh at you.


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What will a king do if he has only 10,000 soldiers to defend himself against a king who is about to attack him with 20,000 soldiers? Before he goes out to battle, won't he first sit down and decide if he can win?


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If he thinks he won't be able to defend himself, he will send messengers and ask for peace while the other king is still a long way off.


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It is no longer good for the soil or even for the manure pile. People simply throw it out. If you have ears, pay attention!


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So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses started grumbling, “This man is friendly with sinners. He even eats with them.”


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If any of you has 100 sheep, and one of them gets lost, what will you do? Won't you leave the 99 in the field and go look for the lost sheep until you find it?


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and carry it home. Then you will call in your friends and neighbors and say, “Let's celebrate! I've found my lost sheep.”


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Jesus said, “In the same way there is more happiness in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over 99 good people who don't need to.”


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Jesus told the people another story: What will a woman do if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them? Won't she light a lamp, sweep the floor, and look carefully until she finds it?


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Then she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, “Let's celebrate! I've found the coin I lost.”


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The younger son said to his father, “Give me my share of the property.” So the father divided his property between his two sons.


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Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.


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He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat.


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Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!


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I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you.


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The younger son got up and started back to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him.


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The son said, “Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you. I am no longer good enough to be called your son.”


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But his father said to the servants, “Hurry and bring the best clothes and put them on him. Give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.


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This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found.” And they began to celebrate.


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The older son had been out in the field. But when he came near the house, he heard the music and dancing.


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The servant answered, “Your brother has come home safe and sound, and your father ordered us to kill the best calf.”


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The older brother got so angry that he would not even go into the house. His father came out and begged him to go in.


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But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.


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This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”


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But we should be glad and celebrate! Your brother was dead, but he is now alive. He was lost and has now been found.”


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Jesus said to his disciples: A rich man once had a manager to take care of his business. But he was told that his manager was wasting money.


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So the rich man called him in and said, “What is this I hear about you? Tell me what you have done! You are no longer going to work for me.”


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The manager said to himself, “What shall I do now that my master is going to fire me? I can't dig ditches, and I'm ashamed to beg.


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Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?”


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“A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered. So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘50.’ ”


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The manager asked someone else who was in debt to his master, “How much do you owe?” “A thousand sacks of wheat,” the man replied. The manager said, “Take your bill and write ‘800.’ ”


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The master praised his dishonest manager for looking out for himself so well. That's how it is! The people of this world look out for themselves better than the people who belong to the light.


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My disciples, I tell you to use wicked wealth to make friends for yourselves. Then when it is gone, you will be welcomed into an eternal home.


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Anyone who can be trusted in little matters can also be trusted in important matters. But anyone who is dishonest in little matters will be dishonest in important matters.


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And if you cannot be trusted with what belongs to someone else, who will give you something that will be your own?


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You cannot be the slave of two masters. You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than to the other. You cannot serve God and money.


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But Jesus told them: You are always making yourselves look good, but God sees what is in your heart. The things that most people think are important are worthless as far as God is concerned.


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Until the time of John the Baptist, people had to obey the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets. But since God's kingdom has been preached, everyone is trying hard to get in.


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It is a terrible sin for a man to divorce his wife and marry another woman. It is also a terrible sin for a man to marry a divorced woman.


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He was happy just to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. His body was covered with sores, and dogs kept coming up to lick them.


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The poor man died, and angels took him to the place of honor next to Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.


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He went to hell and was suffering terribly. When he looked up and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side,


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he said to Abraham, “Have pity on me! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water and touch my tongue. I'm suffering terribly in this fire.”


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Abraham answered, “My friend, remember that while you lived, you had everything good, and Lazarus had everything bad. Now he is happy, and you are in pain.


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Abraham answered, “Your brothers can read what Moses and the prophets wrote. They should pay attention to that.”


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Then the rich man said, “No, that's not enough! If only someone from the dead would go to them, they would listen and turn to God.”


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So Abraham said, “If they won't pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even to someone who comes back from the dead.”


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Jesus said to his disciples: There will always be something that causes people to sin. But anyone who causes them to sin is in for trouble. A person who causes even one of my little followers to sin


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So be careful what you do. Correct any followers of mine who sin, and forgive the ones who say they are sorry.


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Even if one of them mistreats you seven times in one day and says, “I am sorry,” you should still forgive that person.


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Jesus replied: If you had faith no bigger than a tiny mustard seed, you could tell this mulberry tree to pull itself up, roots and all, and to plant itself in the ocean. And it would!


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If your servant comes in from plowing or from taking care of the sheep, would you say, “Welcome! Come on in and have something to eat”?


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No, you wouldn't say that. You would say, “Prepare me something to eat. Get ready to serve me, so I can have my meal. Then later on you can eat and drink.”


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And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, “We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty.”


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Some Pharisees asked Jesus when God's kingdom would come. He answered, “God's kingdom isn't something you can see.


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Jesus said to his disciples: The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not.


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People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day when Noah went into the big boat. Then the flood came and drowned everyone on earth.


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When Lot lived, people were also eating and drinking. They were buying, selling, planting, and building.


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At that time no one on a rooftop should go down into the house to get anything. No one in a field should go back to the house for anything.


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On that night two people will be sleeping in the same bed, but only one will be taken. The other will be left.


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Then Jesus' disciples spoke up, “But where will this happen, Lord?” Jesus said, “Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures.”


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In that same town there was a widow who kept going to the judge and saying, “Make sure that I get fair treatment in court.”


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For a while the judge refused to do anything. Finally, he said to himself, “Even though I don't fear God or care about people,


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I will help this widow because she keeps on bothering me. If I don't help her, she will wear me out.”


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He will surely hurry and help them. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find on this earth anyone with faith?


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Jesus told a story to some people who thought they were better than others and who looked down on everyone else:


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The Pharisee stood over by himself and prayed, “God, I thank you that I am not greedy, dishonest, and unfaithful in marriage like other people. And I am really glad that I am not like that tax collector over there.


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The tax collector stood off at a distance and did not think he was good enough even to look up toward heaven. He was so sorry for what he had done that he pounded his chest and prayed, “God, have pity on me! I am such a sinner.”


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Then Jesus said, “When the two men went home, it was the tax collector and not the Pharisee who was pleasing to God. If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored.”


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Some people brought their little children for Jesus to bless. But when his disciples saw them doing this, they told the people to stop bothering him.


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So Jesus called the children over to him and said, “Let the children come to me! Don't try to stop them. People who are like these children belong to God's kingdom.


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You know the commandments: ‘Be faithful in marriage. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not tell lies about others. Respect your father and mother.’ ”


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When Jesus heard this, he said, “There is one thing you still need to do. Go and sell everything you own! Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come and be my follower.”


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Jesus saw how sad the man was. So he said, “It's terribly hard for rich people to get into God's kingdom!


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Jesus answered, “You can be sure that anyone who gives up home or wife or brothers or family or children because of God's kingdom


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Jesus took the twelve apostles aside and said: We are now on our way to Jerusalem. Everything that the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will happen there.


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The apostles did not understand what Jesus was talking about. They could not understand, because the meaning of what he said was hidden from them.


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The people who were going along with Jesus told the man to be quiet. But he shouted even louder, “Son of David, have pity on me!”


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Jesus stopped and told some people to bring the blind man over to him. When the blind man was getting near, Jesus asked,


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At once the man could see, and he went with Jesus and started thanking God. When the crowds saw what happened, they praised God.


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Jesus was heading his way, and Zacchaeus wanted to see what he was like. But Zacchaeus was a short man and could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree.


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When Jesus got there, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down! I want to stay with you today.”


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Everyone who saw this started grumbling, “This man Zacchaeus is a sinner! And Jesus is going home to eat with him.”


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Later that day Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “I will give half of my property to the poor. And I will now pay back four times as much to everyone I have ever cheated.”


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Jesus said to Zacchaeus, “Today you and your family have been saved, because you are a true son of Abraham.


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The crowd was still listening to Jesus as he was getting close to Jerusalem. Many of them thought that God's kingdom would soon appear,


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and Jesus told them this story: A prince once went to a foreign country to be crowned king and then to return.


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But before leaving, he called in ten servants and gave each of them some money. He told them, “Use this to earn more money until I get back.”


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But the people of his country hated him, and they sent messengers to the foreign country to say, “We don't want this man to be our king.”


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After the prince had been made king, he returned and called in his servants. He asked them how much they had earned with the money they had been given.


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“That's fine, my good servant!” the king said. “Since you have shown that you can be trusted with a small amount, you will be given ten cities to rule.”


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You are a hard man, and I was afraid of you. You take what isn't yours, and you harvest crops you didn't plant.”


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“You worthless servant!” the king told him. “You have condemned yourself by what you have just said. You knew I am a hard man, taking what isn't mine and harvesting what I've not planted.


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Why didn't you put my money in the bank? On my return, I could have had the money together with interest.”


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Then he said to some other servants standing there, “Take the money away from him and give it to the servant who earned ten times as much.”


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The king replied, “Those who have something will be given more. But everything will be taken away from those who don't have anything.


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As he was getting near Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead.


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He told them, “Go into the next village, where you will find a young donkey that has never been ridden. Untie the donkey and bring it here.


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Then they led the donkey to Jesus. They put some of their clothes on its back and helped Jesus get on.


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When Jesus started down the Mount of Olives, his large crowd of disciples were happy and praised God because of all the miracles they had seen.


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They shouted, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory to God.”


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and said: It is too bad that today your people don't know what will bring them peace! Now it is hidden from them.


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Jerusalem, the time will come when your enemies will build walls around you to attack you. Armies will surround you and close in on you from every side.


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They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.


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He told them, “The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be a place of worship.’ But you have made it a place where robbers hide!”


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Each day, Jesus kept on teaching in the temple. So the chief priests, the teachers of the Law of Moses, and some other important people tried to have him killed.


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One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation's leaders


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They talked this over and said to each other, “We can't say God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn't believe John.


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And we can't say it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.”


book: Luke
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Jesus told the people this story: A man once planted a vineyard and rented it out. Then he left the country for a long time.


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When it was time to harvest the crop, he sent a servant to ask the renters for his share of the grapes. But they beat up the servant and sent him away without anything.


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So the owner sent another servant. The renters also beat him up. They insulted him terribly and sent him away without a thing.


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The owner then said to himself, “What am I going to do? I know what. I'll send my son, the one I love so much. They will surely respect him!”


book: Luke
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When the renters saw the owner's son, they said to one another, “Someday he will own the vineyard. Let's kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.”


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So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?


book: Luke
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I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.” When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”


book: Luke
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But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all’?


book: Luke
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Anyone who stumbles over this stone will get hurt, and anyone it falls on will be smashed to pieces.”


book: Luke
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The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses knew that Jesus was talking about them when he was telling this story. They wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the people.


book: Luke
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Jesus' enemies kept watching him closely, because they wanted to hand him over to the Roman governor. So they sent some men who pretended to be good. But they were really spies trying to catch Jesus saying something wrong.


book: Luke
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The spies said to him, “Teacher, we know you teach the truth about what God wants people to do. And you treat everyone with the same respect, no matter who they are.


book: Luke
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“Show me a coin.” Then he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?” “The Emperor's,” they answered.


book: Luke
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Jesus' enemies could not catch him saying anything wrong there in front of the people. They were amazed at his answer and kept quiet.


book: Luke
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The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus


book: Luke
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and said: Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be thought of as the son of the dead brother.


book: Luke
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The same thing happened to the third one. Finally, all seven brothers married this woman and died without having any children.


book: Luke
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When God raises people from death, whose wife will this woman be? All seven brothers had married her.


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or die. They will be like the angels and will be God's children, because they have been raised to life.


book: Luke
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In the story about the burning bush, Moses clearly shows that people will live again. He said, “The Lord is the God worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”


book: Luke
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So the Lord isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. This means that everyone is alive as far as God is concerned.


book: Luke
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Guard against the teachers of the Law of Moses! They love to walk around in long robes, and they like to be greeted in the market. They want the front seats in the synagogues and the best seats at banquets.


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But they cheat widows out of their homes and then pray long prayers just to show off. These teachers will be punished most of all.


book: Luke
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Some people were talking about the beautiful stones used to build the temple and about the gifts that had been placed in it. Jesus said,


book: Luke
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“Do you see these stones? The time is coming when not one of them will be left in place. They will all be knocked down.”


book: Luke
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Some people asked, “Teacher, when will all this happen? How can we know when these things are about to take place?”


book: Luke
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Jesus replied: Don't be fooled by those who will come and claim to be me. They will say, “I am Christ!” and “Now is the time!” But don't follow them.


book: Luke
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When you hear about wars and riots, don't be afraid. These things will have to happen first, but this isn't the end.


book: Luke
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There will be great earthquakes, and in many places people will starve to death and suffer terrible diseases. All sorts of frightening things will be seen in the sky.


book: Luke
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Before all this happens, you will be arrested and punished. You will be tried in your synagogues and put in jail. Because of me you will be placed on trial before kings and governors.


book: Luke
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I will give you the wisdom to know what to say. None of your enemies will be able to oppose you or to say that you are wrong.


book: Luke
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You will be betrayed by your own parents, brothers, family, and friends. Some of you will even be killed.


book: Luke
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If you are living in Judea at this time, run to the mountains. If you are in the city, leave it. And if you are out in the country, don't go back into the city.


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It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished.


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Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end.


book: Luke
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Strange things will happen to the sun, moon, and stars. The nations on earth will be afraid of the roaring sea and tides, and they won't know what to do.


book: Luke
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People will be so frightened that they will faint because of what is happening to the world. Every power in the sky will be shaken.


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You can be sure that some of the people of this generation will still be alive when all of this takes place.


book: Luke
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Don't spend all of your time thinking about eating or drinking or worrying about life. If you do, the final day will suddenly catch you


book: Luke
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Watch out and keep praying that you can escape all that is going to happen and that the Son of Man will be pleased with you.


book: Luke
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The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses were looking for a way to get rid of Jesus, because they were afraid of what the people might do.


book: Luke
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Judas went to talk with the chief priests and the officers of the temple police about how he could help them arrest Jesus.


book: Luke
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Jesus told them, “As you go into the city, you will meet a man carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house


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and say to the owner, ‘Our teacher wants to know where he can eat the Passover meal with his disciples.’


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The owner will take you upstairs and show you a large room ready for you to use. Prepare the meal there.”


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Peter and John left. They found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.


book: Luke
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Jesus took a cup of wine in his hands and gave thanks to God. Then he told the apostles, “Take this wine and share it with each other.


book: Luke
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Jesus took some bread in his hands and gave thanks for it. He broke the bread and handed it to his apostles. Then he said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Eat this as a way of remembering me!”


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After the meal he took another cup of wine in his hands. Then he said, “This is my blood. It is poured out for you, and with it God makes his new agreement.


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The Son of Man will die in the way that has been decided for him, but it will be terrible for the one who betrays him!”


book: Luke
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So Jesus told them: Foreign kings order their people around, and powerful rulers call themselves everyone's friends.


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But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant.


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Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn't it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant.


book: Luke
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So I will give you the right to rule as kings, just as my Father has given me the right to rule as a king.


book: Luke
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You will eat and drink with me in my kingdom, and you will each sit on a throne to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.


book: Luke
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Jesus said, “Simon, listen to me! Satan has demanded the right to test each one of you, as a farmer does when he separates wheat from the husks.


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But Simon, I have prayed that your faith will be strong. And when you have come back to me, help the others.”


book: Luke
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Jesus replied, “Peter, I tell you that before a rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will say three times that you don't know me.”


book: Luke
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Jesus asked his disciples, “When I sent you out without a moneybag or a traveling bag or sandals, did you need anything?” “No!” they answered.


book: Luke
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Jesus told them, “But now, if you have a moneybag, take it with you. Also take a traveling bag, and if you don't have a sword, sell some of your clothes and buy one.


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Do this because the Scriptures say, ‘He was considered a criminal.’ This was written about me, and it will soon come true.”


book: Luke
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“Father, if you will, please don't make me suffer by drinking from this cup. But do what you want, and not what I want.”


book: Luke
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Jesus was in great pain and prayed so sincerely that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood.


book: Luke
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Jesus got up from praying and went over to his disciples. They were asleep and worn out from being so sad.


book: Luke
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While Jesus was still speaking, a crowd came up. It was led by Judas, one of the twelve apostles. He went over to Jesus and greeted him with a kiss.


book: Luke
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When Jesus' disciples saw what was about to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we attack them with a sword?”


book: Luke
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One of the disciples even struck at the high priest's servant with his sword and cut off the servant's right ear.


book: Luke
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Jesus spoke to the chief priests, the temple police, and the leaders who had come to arrest him. He said, “Why do you come out with swords and clubs and treat me like a criminal?


book: Luke
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I was with you every day in the temple, and you didn't arrest me. But this is your time, and darkness is in control.”


book: Luke
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Jesus was arrested and led away to the house of the high priest, while Peter followed at a distance.


book: Luke
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Some people built a fire in the middle of the courtyard and were sitting around it. Peter sat there with them,


book: Luke
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and a servant girl saw him. Then after she had looked at him carefully, she said, “This man was with Jesus!”


book: Luke
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A little later someone else saw Peter and said, “You are one of them!” “No, I'm not!” Peter replied.


book: Luke
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About an hour later another man insisted, “This man must have been with Jesus. They both come from Galilee.”


book: Luke
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Peter replied, “I don't know what you are talking about!” Right then, while Peter was still speaking, a rooster crowed.


book: Luke
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The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered that the Lord had said, “Before a rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will say three times that you don't know me.”


book: Luke
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At daybreak the nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of Moses got together and brought Jesus before their council.


book: Luke
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They started accusing him and said, “We caught this man trying to get our people to riot and to stop paying taxes to the Emperor. He also claims that he is the Messiah, our king.”


book: Luke
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But they all kept on saying, “He has been teaching and causing trouble all over Judea. He started in Galilee and has now come all the way here.”


book: Luke
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After Pilate learned that Jesus came from the region ruled by Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.


book: Luke
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For a long time Herod had wanted to see Jesus and was very happy because he finally had this chance. He had heard many things about Jesus and hoped to see him work a miracle.


book: Luke
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Then the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses stood up and accused him of all kinds of bad things.


book: Luke
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Herod and his soldiers made fun of Jesus and insulted him. They put a fine robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.


book: Luke
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He told them, “You brought Jesus to me and said he was a troublemaker. But I have questioned him here in front of you, and I have not found him guilty of anything that you say he has done.


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Pilate spoke to them a third time, “But what crime has he done? I have not found him guilty of anything for which he should be put to death. I will have him beaten with a whip and set free.”


book: Luke
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He freed the man who was in jail for rioting and murder, because he was the one the crowd wanted to be set free. Then Pilate handed Jesus over for them to do what they wanted with him.


book: Luke
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As Jesus was being led away, some soldiers grabbed hold of a man named Simon who was from Cyrene. He was coming in from the fields, but they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.


book: Luke
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Jesus turned to the women and said: Women of Jerusalem, don't cry for me! Cry for yourselves and for your children.


book: Luke
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At that time everyone will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” They will say to the hills, “Hide us!”


book: Luke
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When the soldiers came to the place called “The Skull,” they nailed Jesus to a cross. They also nailed the two criminals to crosses, one on each side of Jesus.


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Jesus said, “Father, forgive these people! They don't know what they're doing.” While the crowd stood there watching Jesus, the soldiers gambled for his clothes. The leaders insulted him by saying, “He saved others. Now he should save himself, if he really is God's chosen Messiah!”


book: Luke
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One of the criminals hanging there also insulted Jesus by saying, “Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and save us!”


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But the other criminal told the first one off, “Don't you fear God? Aren't you getting the same punishment as this man?


book: Luke
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When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Jesus must really have been a good man!”


book: Luke
contenido:
A crowd had gathered to see the terrible sight. Then after they had seen it, they felt brokenhearted and went home.


book: Luke
contenido:
All of Jesus' close friends and the women who had come with him from Galilee stood at a distance and watched.


book: Luke
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There was a man named Joseph, who was from Arimathea in Judea. Joseph was a good and honest man, and he was eager for God's kingdom to come. He was also a member of the council, but he did not agree with what they had decided.


book: Luke
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He took the body down from the cross and wrapped it in fine cloth. Then he put it in a tomb that had been cut out of solid rock and had never been used.


book: Luke
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The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and watched how Jesus' body was placed in the tomb.


book: Luke
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Then they went to prepare some sweet-smelling spices for his burial. But on the Sabbath they rested, as the Law of Moses commands.


book: Luke
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The women were afraid and bowed to the ground. But the men said, “Why are you looking in the place of the dead for someone who is alive?


book: Luke
contenido:
Jesus isn't here! He has been raised from death. Remember that while he was still in Galilee, he told you,


book: Luke
contenido:
‘The Son of Man will be handed over to sinners who will nail him to a cross. But three days later he will rise to life.’ ”


book: Luke
contenido:
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some other women were the ones who had gone to the tomb. When they returned, they told the eleven apostles and the others what had happened.


book: Luke
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But Peter ran to the tomb. And when he stooped down and looked in, he saw only the burial clothes. Then he returned, wondering what had happened.


book: Luke
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That same day two of Jesus' disciples were going to the village of Emmaus, which was about eleven kilometers from Jerusalem.


book: Luke
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Jesus asked them, “What were you talking about as you walked along?” The two of them stood there looking sad and gloomy.


book: Luke
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Then the one named Cleopas asked Jesus, “Are you the only person from Jerusalem who didn't know what was happening there these last few days?”


book: Luke
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“What do you mean?” Jesus asked. They answered: Those things that happened to Jesus from Nazareth. By what he did and said he showed that he was a powerful prophet, who pleased God and all the people.


book: Luke
contenido:
We had hoped that he would be the one to set Israel free! But it has already been three days since all this happened.


book: Luke
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but did not find the body of Jesus. They came back, saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive.


book: Luke
contenido:
Some men from our group went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. But they didn't see Jesus either.


book: Luke
contenido:
Then Jesus asked the two disciples, “Why can't you understand? How can you be so slow to believe all that the prophets said?


book: Luke
contenido:
Jesus then explained everything written about himself in the Scriptures, beginning with the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets.


book: Luke
contenido:
They begged him, “Stay with us! It's already late, and the sun is going down.” So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.


book: Luke
contenido:
After Jesus sat down to eat, he took some bread. He blessed it and broke it. Then he gave it to them.


book: Luke
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They said to each other, “When he talked with us along the road and explained the Scriptures to us, didn't it warm our hearts?”


book: Luke
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So they got up and returned to Jerusalem. The two disciples found the eleven apostles and the others gathered together.


book: Luke
contenido:
Then the disciples from Emmaus told what happened on the road and how they knew he was the Lord when he broke the bread.


book: Luke
contenido:
Look at my hands and my feet and see who I am! Touch me and find out for yourselves. Ghosts don't have flesh and bones as you see I have.”


book: Luke
contenido:
The disciples were so glad and amazed that they could not believe it. Jesus then asked them, “Do you have something to eat?”


book: Luke
contenido:
Jesus said to them, “While I was still with you, I told you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Books of the Prophets, and in the Psalms had to happen.”


book: Luke
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He told them: The Scriptures say that the Messiah must suffer, then three days later he will rise from death.


book: Luke
contenido:
They also say that all people of every nation must be told in my name to turn to God, in order to be forgiven. So beginning in Jerusalem,


book: Luke
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I will send you the one my Father has promised, but you must stay in the city until you are given power from heaven.


book: John
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And with this Word, God created all things. Nothing was made without the Word. Everything that was created


book: John
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Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.


book: John
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They were not God's children by nature or because of any human desires. God himself was the one who made them his children.


book: John
contenido:
The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From him the complete gifts of undeserved grace and truth have come down to us.


book: John
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John spoke about him and shouted, “This is the one I told you would come! He is greater than I am, because he was alive before I was born.”


book: John
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No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is truly God and is closest to the Father, has shown us what God is like.


book: John
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The religious authorities in Jerusalem sent priests and temple helpers to ask John who he was. He told them plainly, “I am not the Messiah.”


book: John
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Then when they asked him if he were Elijah, he said, “No, I am not!” And when they asked if he were the Prophet, he also said “No!”


book: John
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Finally, they said, “Who are you then? We have to give an answer to the ones who sent us. Tell us who you are!”


book: John
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John answered in the words of the prophet Isaiah, “I am only someone shouting in the desert, ‘Get the road ready for the Lord!’ ”


book: John
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They asked him, “Why are you baptizing people, if you are not the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet?”


book: John
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The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said: Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!


book: John
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He is the one I told you about when I said, “Someone else will come, who is greater than I am, because he was alive before I was born.”


book: John
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I didn't know who he was. But I came to baptize you with water, so that everyone in Israel would see him.


book: John
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I was there and saw the Spirit come down on him like a dove from heaven. And the Spirit stayed on him.


book: John
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Before this I didn't know who he was. But the one who sent me to baptize with water had told me, “You will see the Spirit come down and stay on someone. Then you will know that he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.”


book: John
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When Jesus turned and saw them, he asked, “What do you want?” They answered, “Rabbi, where do you live?” The Hebrew word “Rabbi” means “Teacher.”


book: John
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Jesus replied, “Come and see!” It was already about four o'clock in the afternoon when they went with him and saw where he lived. So they stayed on for the rest of the day.


book: John
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One of the two men who had heard John and had gone with Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.


book: John
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The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother and tell him, “We have found the Messiah!” The Hebrew word “Messiah” means the same as the Greek word “Christ.”


book: John
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Andrew brought his brother to Jesus. And when Jesus saw him, he said, “Simon son of John, you will be called Cephas.” This name can be translated as “Peter.”


book: John
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The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. There he met Philip, who was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. Jesus said to Philip, “Follow me.”


book: John
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Philip then found Nathanael and said, “We have found the one that Moses and the Prophets wrote about. He is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth.”


book: John
contenido:
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said, “Here is a true descendant of our ancestor Israel. And he isn't deceitful.”


book: John
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“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”


book: John
contenido:
Jesus answered, “Did you believe me just because I said that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see something even greater.


book: John
contenido:
I tell you for certain you will see heaven open and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of Man.”


book: John
contenido:
Three days later Mary, the mother of Jesus, was at a wedding feast in the village of Cana in Galilee.


book: John
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At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about 100 liters.


book: John
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he said, “Now take some water and give it to the man in charge of the feast.” The servants did as Jesus told them,


book: John
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and the man in charge drank some of the water that had now turned into wine. He did not know where the wine had come from, but the servants did. He called the bridegroom over


book: John
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and said, “The best wine is always served first. Then after the guests have had plenty, the other wine is served. But you have kept the best until last!”


book: John
contenido:
This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.


book: John
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After this, he went with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples to the town of Capernaum, where they stayed for a few days.


book: John
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There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables.


book: John
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So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins.


book: John
contenido:
Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, “Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace.”


book: John
contenido:
The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, “My love for your house burns in me like a fire.”


book: John
contenido:
The leaders replied, “It took 46 years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?”


book: John
contenido:
And when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered what he had told them. Then they believed the Scriptures and the words of Jesus.


book: John
contenido:
In Jerusalem during Passover many people put their faith in Jesus, because they saw him work miracles.


book: John
contenido:
One night he went to Jesus and said, “Rabbi, we know that God has sent you to teach us. You could not work these miracles, unless God were with you.”


book: John
contenido:
Jesus replied, “I tell you for certain that you must be born from above before you can see God's kingdom!”


book: John
contenido:
Jesus answered: I tell you for certain that before you can get into God's kingdom, you must be born not only by water, but by the Spirit.


book: John
contenido:
Only God's Spirit gives new life. The Spirit is like the wind that blows wherever it wants to. You can hear the wind, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going.


book: John
contenido:
I tell you for certain we know what we are talking about because we have seen it ourselves. But none of you will accept what we say.


book: John
contenido:
If you don't believe when I talk to you about things on earth, how can you possibly believe if I talk to you about things in heaven?


book: John
contenido:
God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.


book: John
contenido:
No one who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn't have faith in him has already been condemned for not having faith in God's only Son.


book: John
contenido:
The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light.


book: John
contenido:
People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.


book: John
contenido:
But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.


book: John
contenido:
Later, Jesus and his disciples went to Judea, where he stayed with them for a while and was baptizing people.


book: John
contenido:
John had not yet been put in jail. He was at Aenon near Salim, where there was a lot of water, and people were coming there for John to baptize them.


book: John
contenido:
They went to John and said, “Rabbi, you spoke about a man when you were with him east of the Jordan. He is now baptizing people, and everyone is going to him.”


book: John
contenido:
At a wedding the groom is the one who gets married. The best man is glad just to be there and to hear the groom's voice. That's why I am so glad.


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God's Son comes from heaven and is above all others. Everyone who comes from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all others.


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Everyone who has faith in the Son has eternal life. But no one who rejects him will ever share in that life, and God will be angry with them forever.


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Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was.


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and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.


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The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from traveling. It was noon, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well. Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”


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“You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”


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Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”


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“Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water?


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Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”


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But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give will become in that person a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”


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The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.”


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The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.” “That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”


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Jesus said to her: Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem.


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You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world.


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But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshipers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him.


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God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.


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The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”


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The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.


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Jesus said: My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.


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You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.


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Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together.


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A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.”


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They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Savior of the world!”


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Jesus had said, “Prophets are honored everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left


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and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.


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While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick.


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And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.


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Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and started back home.


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He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”


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The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.


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When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be healed?”


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The man answered, “Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I try to get in, but someone else always gets there first.”


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Right then the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking around. The day on which this happened was a Sabbath.


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When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, “This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath.”


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Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and told him, “You are now well. But don't sin anymore or something worse might happen to you.”


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Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his Father, which made him equal with God.


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Jesus told the people: I tell you for certain the Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing, and he does exactly what he sees the Father do.


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The Father loves the Son and has shown him everything he does. The Father will show him even greater things, and you will be amazed.


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The Father wants all people to honor the Son as much as they honor him. When anyone refuses to honor the Son, this is the same as refusing to honor the Father who sent him.


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I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.


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I tell you for certain the time will come, and it is already here, when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen to it will live!


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and they will come out of their graves. Everyone who has done good things will rise to life, but everyone who has done evil things will rise and be condemned.


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I cannot do anything on my own. The Father sent me, and he is the one who told me how to judge. I judge with fairness, because I obey him, and I don't just try to please myself.


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But something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me.


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The Father who sent me also speaks for me, but you have never heard his voice or seen him face to face.


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You search the Scriptures, because you think you will find eternal life in them. The Scriptures tell about me,


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I have come with my Father's authority, and you have not welcomed me. But you will welcome people who come on their own.


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How could you possibly believe? You like to have your friends praise you, and you don't care about praise that the only God can give!


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Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you.


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It was almost time for the Jewish festival of Passover, and Jesus went up on a mountain with his disciples and sat down.


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When Jesus saw the large crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we get enough food to feed all these people?”


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Philip answered, “Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?”


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“There is a boy here who has five small loaves of barley bread and two fish. But what good is that with all these people?”


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The ground was covered with grass, and Jesus told his disciples to tell everyone to sit down. About 5,000 men were in the crowd.


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Jesus took the bread in his hands and gave thanks to God. Then he passed the bread to the people, and he did the same with the fish, until everyone had plenty to eat.


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The people ate all they wanted, and Jesus told his disciples to gather up the leftovers, so that nothing would be wasted.


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The disciples gathered them up and filled twelve large baskets with what was left over from the five barley loaves.


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After the people had seen Jesus work this miracle, they began saying, “This must be the Prophet who is to come into the world!”


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Jesus realized that they would try to force him to be their king. So he went up on a mountain, where he could be alone.


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They got into a boat and started across for Capernaum. Later that evening Jesus had still not come to them,


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When the disciples had rowed for five or six kilometers, they saw Jesus walking on the water. He kept coming closer to the boat, and they were terrified.


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The disciples wanted to take him into the boat, but suddenly the boat reached the shore where they were headed.


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The people who had stayed on the east side of the lake knew that only one boat had been there. They also knew that Jesus had not left in it with his disciples. But the next day


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some boats from Tiberias sailed near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread for which the Lord had given thanks.


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They saw that Jesus and his disciples had left. Then they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.


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Jesus answered, “I tell you for certain that you are not looking for me because you saw the miracles, but because you ate all the food you wanted.


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Don't work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”


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For example, when our ancestors were in the desert, they were given manna to eat. It happened just as the Scriptures say, ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”


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Jesus then told them, “I tell you for certain that Moses wasn't the one who gave you bread from heaven. My Father is the one who gives you the true bread from heaven.


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Jesus replied: I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty.


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Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away.


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I didn't come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me,


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and he wants to make certain that none of the ones he has given me will be lost. Instead, he wants me to raise them to life on the last day.


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My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day.


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The people started grumbling because Jesus had said he was the bread that had come down from heaven.


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They were asking each other, “Isn't he Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father and mother? How can he say that he has come down from heaven?”


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No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me makes them want to come. But if they do come, I will raise them to life on the last day.


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One of the prophets wrote, “God will teach all of them.” And so everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.


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The only one who has seen the Father is the one who has come from him. No one else has ever seen the Father.


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I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live forever. My flesh is the life-giving bread I give to the people of this world.


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Jesus answered: I tell you for certain that you won't live unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man.


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But if you do eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have eternal life, and I will raise you to life on the last day.


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The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me.


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The bread that comes down from heaven isn't like what your ancestors ate. They died, but whoever eats this bread will live forever.


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The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit.


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But some of you refuse to have faith in me.” Jesus said this, because from the beginning he knew who would have faith in him. He also knew which one would betray him.


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Then Jesus said, “You cannot come to me, unless the Father makes you want to come. That is why I have told these things to all of you.”


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Because of what Jesus said, many of his disciples turned their backs on him and stopped following him.


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Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. He would later betray Jesus, even though he was one of the twelve disciples.


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Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the leaders of the people wanted to kill him.


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and Jesus' brothers said to him, “Why don't you go to Judea? Then your disciples can see what you are doing.


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No one does anything in secret, if they want others to know about them. So let the world know what you are doing!”


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The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things.


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The crowds even got into an argument about him. Some were saying, “Jesus is a good man,” while others were saying, “He is lying to everyone.”


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Jesus replied: I am not teaching something I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.


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If I wanted to bring honor to myself, I would speak for myself. But I want to honor the one who sent me. This is why I tell the truth and not a lie.


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Moses commanded you to circumcise your sons. But it wasn't really Moses who gave you this command. It was your ancestors, and even on the Sabbath you circumcise your sons


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in order to obey the Law of Moses. Why are you angry with me for making someone completely well on the Sabbath?


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Yet here he is, speaking for everyone to hear. And no one is arguing with him. Do you suppose the authorities know he is the Messiah?


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But how could that be? No one knows where the Messiah will come from, but we know where this man comes from.”


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As Jesus was teaching in the temple, he shouted, “Do you really think you know me and where I came from? I didn't come on my own! The one who sent me is truthful, and you don't know him.


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Some of the people wanted to arrest Jesus right then. But no one even laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.


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A lot of people in the crowd put their faith in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he surely won't perform more miracles than this man has done!”


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When the Pharisees heard the crowd arguing about Jesus, they got together with the chief priests and sent some temple police to arrest him.


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But Jesus told them, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I will return to the one who sent me.


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The people asked each other, “Where can he go to keep us from finding him? Is he going to some foreign country where our people live? Is he going there to teach the Greeks?


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What did he mean by saying that we will look for him, but won't find him? Why can't we go where he is going?”


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On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If you are thirsty, come to me and drink!


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Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say.”


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Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit, who would be given to everyone that had faith in him. The Spirit had not yet been given to anyone, since Jesus had not yet been given his full glory.


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The Scriptures say that the Messiah will come from the family of King David. Doesn't this mean that he will be born in David's hometown of Bethlehem?”


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When the temple police returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, “Why didn't you bring Jesus here?”


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Nicodemus was there at the time. He was a member of the council, and was the same one who had earlier come to see Jesus. He said,


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“Our Law doesn't let us condemn people before we hear what they have to say. We cannot judge them before we know what they have done.”


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Then they said, “Nicodemus, you must be from Galilee! Read the Scriptures, and you will find that no prophet is to come from Galilee.”


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Then early the next morning he went to the temple. The people came to him, and he sat down and started teaching them.


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The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses brought in a woman who had been caught in bed with a man who wasn't her husband. They made her stand in the middle of the crowd.


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They asked Jesus this question, because they wanted to test him and bring some charge against him. But Jesus simply bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger.


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They kept on asking Jesus about the woman. Finally, he stood up and said, “If any of you have never sinned, then go ahead and throw the first stone at her!”


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The people left one by one, beginning with the oldest. Finally, Jesus and the woman were there alone.


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“No sir,” the woman answered. Then Jesus told her, “I am not going to accuse you either. You may go now, but don't sin anymore.”


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Once again Jesus spoke to the people. This time he said, “I am the light for the world! Follow me, and you won't be walking in the dark. You will have the light that gives life.”


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Jesus replied: Even if I do speak for myself, what I say is true! I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don't know where I am from or where I am going.


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If I did judge, I would judge fairly, because I would not be doing it alone. The Father who sent me is here with me.


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“Where is your Father?” they asked. “You don't know me or my Father!” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would know my Father.”


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Jesus said this while he was still teaching in the place where the temple treasures were stored. But no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.


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Jesus also told them, “I am going away, and you will look for me. But you cannot go where I am going, and you will die with your sins unforgiven.”


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The people asked, “Does he intend to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying we cannot go where he is going?”


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This is why I said you will die with your sins unforgiven. If you don't have faith in me for who I am, you will die, and your sins will not be forgiven.”


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There is a lot more I could say to condemn you. But the one who sent me is truthful, and I tell the people of this world only what I have heard from him.”


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Jesus went on to say, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, you will know who I am. You will also know that I don't do anything on my own. I say only what my Father taught me.


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Jesus told the people who had faith in him, “If you keep on obeying what I have said, you truly are my disciples.


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They answered, “We are Abraham's children! We have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say we will be set free?”


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I know that you are from Abraham's family. Yet you want to kill me, because my message isn't really in your hearts.


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I am telling you what my Father has shown me, just as you are doing what your father has taught you.


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The people said to Jesus, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did.


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Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that.


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But you are doing exactly what your father does.” “Don't accuse us of having someone else as our father!” they said. “We just have one father, and he is God.”


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Jesus answered: If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. He sent me. I did not come on my own.


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Your father is the devil, and you do exactly what he wants. He has always been a murderer and a liar. There is nothing truthful about him. He speaks on his own, and everything he says is a lie. Not only is he a liar himself, but he is also the father of all lies.


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Can any of you accuse me of sin? If you cannot, why won't you have faith in me? After all, I am telling you the truth.


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Anyone who belongs to God will listen to his message. But you refuse to listen, because you don't belong to God.


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The people told Jesus, “We were right to say that you are a Samaritan and that you have a demon in you!”


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I don't want honor for myself. But there is one who wants me to be honored, and he is also the one who judges.


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Then the people said, “Now we are sure that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets. How can you say that no one who obeys your words will ever die?


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Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”


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Jesus replied, “If I honored myself, it would mean nothing. My Father is the one who honors me. You claim that he is your God,


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even though you don't really know him. If I said I didn't know him, I would be a liar, just like all of you. But I know him, and I do what he says.


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Jesus' disciples asked, “Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he or his parents sinned?”


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“No, it wasn't!” Jesus answered. “But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle for him.


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As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.


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Then he said, “Go wash off the mud in Siloam Pool.” The man went and washed in Siloam, which means “One Who Is Sent.” When he had washed off the mud, he could see.


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The man's neighbors and the people who had seen him begging wondered if he really could be the same man.


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Some of them said he was the same beggar, while others said he only looked like him. But he told them, “I am that man.”


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He answered, “Someone named Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. He told me to go and wash it off in Siloam Pool. When I did, I could see.”


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The day when Jesus made the mud and healed the man was a Sabbath. So the people took the man to the Pharisees.


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They asked him how he was able to see, and he answered, “Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then after I washed it off, I could see.”


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Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus doesn't come from God. If he did, he would not break the law of the Sabbath.” Others asked, “How could someone who is a sinner work such a miracle?” Since the Pharisees could not agree among themselves,


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they asked the man, “What do you say about this one who healed your eyes?” “He is a prophet!” the man told them.


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But the Jewish leaders would not believe that the man had once been blind. They sent for his parents


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But we don't know how he got his sight or who gave it to him. Ask him! He is old enough to speak for himself.”


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The man's parents said this because they were afraid of their leaders. The leaders had already agreed that no one was to have anything to do with anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah.


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The leaders called the man back and said, “Swear by God to tell the truth! We know that Jesus is a sinner.”


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The man replied, “I don't know if he is a sinner or not. All I know is that I used to be blind, but now I can see!”


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The man answered, “I have already told you once, and you refused to listen. Why do you want me to tell you again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”


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The leaders told the man, “You have been a sinner since the day you were born! Do you think you can teach us anything?” Then they said, “You can never come back into any of our synagogues!”


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When Jesus heard what had happened, he went and found the man. Then Jesus asked, “Do you have faith in the Son of Man?”


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Jesus told him, “I came to judge the people of this world. I am here to give sight to the blind and to make blind everyone who can see.”


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Jesus answered, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty. But now that you claim to see, you will keep on being guilty.”


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Jesus said: I tell you for certain only thieves and robbers climb over the fence instead of going in through the gate to the sheep pen.


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But the gatekeeper opens the gate for the shepherd, and he goes in through it. The sheep know their shepherd's voice. He calls each of them by name and leads them out.


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When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice.


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I am the gate. All who come in through me will be saved. Through me they will come and go and find pasture.


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A thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. I came so everyone would have life, and have it fully.


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Hired workers are not like the shepherd. They don't own the sheep, and when they see a wolf coming, they run off and leave the sheep. Then the wolf attacks and scatters the flock.


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I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must also bring them together, when they hear my voice. Then there will be one flock of sheep and one shepherd.


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No one takes my life from me. I give it up willingly! I have the power to give it up and the power to receive it back again, just as my Father commanded me to do.


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But others said, “How could anyone with a demon in him say these things? No one like this could give sight to a blind person!”


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and the people gathered all around him. They said, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!”


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Jesus answered: I have told you, and you refused to believe me. The things I do by my Father's authority show who I am.


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and I give them eternal life, so that they will never be lost. No one can snatch them out of my hand.


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My Father gave them to me, and he is greater than all others. No one can snatch them from his hands,


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But he said, “I have shown you many good things my Father sent me to do. Which one are you going to stone me for?”


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They answered, “We are not stoning you because of any good thing you did. We are stoning you because you did a terrible thing. You are just a man, and here you are claiming to be God!”


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So why do you accuse me of a terrible sin for saying that I am the Son of God? After all, it is the Father who prepared me for this work. He is also the one who sent me into the world.


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But if I do what my Father does, you should believe because of that, even if you don't have faith in me. Then you will know for certain that the Father is one with me, and I am one with the Father.


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many people came to him. They were saying, “John didn't work any miracles, but everything he said about Jesus is true.”


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A man by the name of Lazarus was sick in the village of Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. This was the same Mary who later poured perfume on the Lord's head and wiped his feet with her hair.


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When Jesus heard this, he said, “His sickness won't end in death. It will bring glory to God and his Son.”


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Jesus answered, “Aren't there twelve hours in each day? If you walk during the day, you will have light from the sun, and you won't stumble.


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I am glad I wasn't there, because now you will have a chance to put your faith in me. Let's go to him.”


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Thomas, whose nickname was “Twin,” said to the other disciples, “Come on. Let's go, so we can die with him.”


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Jesus then said, “I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even if they die.


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“Yes, Lord!” she replied. “I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God. You are the one we hoped would come into the world.”


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After Martha said this, she went and privately said to her sister Mary, “The Teacher is here, and he wants to see you.”


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Many people had come to comfort Mary, and when they saw her quickly leave the house, they thought she was going out to the tomb to cry. So they followed her.


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Mary went to where Jesus was. Then as soon as she saw him, she knelt at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”


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Jesus was still terribly upset. So he went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone rolled against the entrance.


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Then he told the people to roll the stone away. But Martha said, “Lord, you know that Lazarus has been dead four days, and there will be a bad smell.”


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After the stone had been rolled aside, Jesus looked up toward heaven and prayed, “Father, I thank you for answering my prayer.


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I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so the people here would believe you sent me.”


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The man who had been dead came out. His hands and feet were wrapped with strips of burial cloth, and a cloth covered his face. Jesus then told the people, “Untie him and let him go.”


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Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw the things Jesus did, and they put their faith in him.


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Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What should we do? This man is working a lot of miracles.


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If we don't stop him now, everyone will put their faith in him. Then the Romans will come and destroy our temple and our nation.”


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One of the council members was Caiaphas, who was also high priest that year. He spoke up and said, “You people don't have any sense at all!


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Don't you know it is better for one person to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed?”


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Caiaphas did not say this on his own. As high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation.


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Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all of God's scattered people.


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Because of this plot against him, Jesus stopped going around in public. He went to the town of Ephraim, which was near the desert, and he stayed there with his disciples.


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It was almost time for Passover. Many of the Jewish people who lived out in the country had come to Jerusalem to get themselves ready for the festival.


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They looked around for Jesus. Then when they were in the temple, they asked each other, “You don't think he will come here for Passover, do you?”


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The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus. This is how they hoped to arrest him.


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Mary took a very expensive bottle of perfume and poured it on Jesus' feet. She wiped them with her hair, and the sweet smell of the perfume filled the house.


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A disciple named Judas Iscariot was there. He was the one who was going to betray Jesus, and he asked,


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Judas did not really care about the poor. He asked this because he carried the moneybag and sometimes would steal from it.


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A lot of people came when they heard that Jesus was there. They also wanted to see Lazarus, because Jesus had raised him from death.


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The next day a large crowd was in Jerusalem for Passover. When they heard that Jesus was coming for the festival,


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they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted, “Hooray! God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the King of Israel!”


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At first, Jesus' disciples did not understand. But after he had been given his glory, they remembered all this. Everything had happened exactly as the Scriptures said it would.


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A crowd had come to meet Jesus because they had seen him call Lazarus out of the tomb. They kept talking about him and this miracle.


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But the Pharisees said to each other, “There is nothing we can do! Everyone in the world is following Jesus.”


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Philip from Bethsaida in Galilee was there too. So they went to him and said, “Sir, we would like to meet Jesus.”


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I tell you for certain that a grain of wheat that falls on the ground will never be more than one grain unless it dies. But if it dies, it will produce lots of wheat.


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If you love your life, you will lose it. If you give it up in this world, you will be given eternal life.


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If you serve me, you must go with me. My servants will be with me wherever I am. If you serve me, my Father will honor you.


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Now I am deeply troubled, and I don't know what to say. But I must not ask my Father to keep me from this time of suffering. In fact, I came into the world to suffer.


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So Father, bring glory to yourself. A voice from heaven then said, “I have already brought glory to myself, and I will do it again!”


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When the crowd heard the voice, some of them thought it was thunder. Others thought an angel had spoken to Jesus.


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The crowd said to Jesus, “The Scriptures teach that the Messiah will live forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”


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Jesus answered, “The light will be with you for only a little longer. Walk in the light while you can. Then you won't be caught walking blindly in the dark.


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Have faith in the light while it is with you, and you will be children of the light.” After Jesus had said these things, he left and went into hiding.


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He had worked a lot of miracles among the people, but they were still not willing to have faith in him.


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This happened so that what the prophet Isaiah had said would come true, “Lord, who has believed our message? And who has seen your mighty strength?”


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“The Lord has blinded the eyes of the people, and he has made the people stubborn. He did this so that they could not see or understand, and so that they would not turn to the Lord and be healed.”


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Even then, many of the leaders put their faith in Jesus, but they did not tell anyone about it. The Pharisees had already given orders for the people not to have anything to do with anyone who had faith in Jesus.


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I am not the one who will judge those who refuse to obey my teachings. I came to save the people of this world, not to be their judge.


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I know that his commands will bring eternal life. This is why I tell you exactly what the Father has told me.


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It was before Passover, and Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and to return to the Father. He had always loved his followers in this world, and he loved them to the very end.


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Even before the evening meal started, the devil had made Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, decide to betray Jesus.


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Jesus knew he had come from God and would go back to God. He also knew that the Father had given him complete power.


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He put some water into a large bowl. Then he began washing his disciples' feet and drying them with the towel he was wearing.


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“You will never wash my feet!” Peter replied. “If I don't wash you,” Jesus told him, “you don't really belong to me.”


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Jesus answered, “People who have bathed and are clean all over need to wash just their feet. And you, my disciples, are clean, except for one of you.”


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After Jesus had washed his disciples' feet and had put his outer garment back on, he sat down again. Then he said: Do you understand what I have done?


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I tell you for certain that servants are not greater than their master, and messengers are not greater than the one who sent them.


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I am not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But what the Scriptures say must come true. And they say, “The man who ate with me has turned against me!”


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I tell you for certain that anyone who welcomes my messengers also welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.


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After Jesus had said these things, he was deeply troubled and told his disciples, “I tell you for certain that one of you will betray me.”


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Jesus answered, “I will dip this piece of bread in the sauce and give it to the one I was talking about.” Then Jesus dipped the bread and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.


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But because Judas was in charge of the money, some of them thought that Jesus had told him to buy something they needed for the festival. Others thought that Jesus had told him to give some money to the poor.


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After Judas had gone, Jesus said: Now the Son of Man will be given glory, and he will bring glory to God.


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Then, after God is given glory because of him, God will bring glory to him, and God will do it very soon.


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My children, I will be with you for only a little while longer. Then you will look for me, but you won't find me. I tell you just as I told the people, “You cannot go where I am going.”


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Simon Peter asked, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “You can't go with me now, but later on you will.”


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“Would you really die for me?” Jesus asked. “I tell you for certain before a rooster crows, you will say three times that you don't even know me.”


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There are many rooms in my Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you.


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If you had really known me, you would have known the Father. But from now on, you do know him, and you have seen him.”


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Jesus replied: Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don't you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father?


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Don't you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn't said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.


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Have faith in me when I say that the Father is one with me and that I am one with the Father. Or else have faith in me simply because of the things I do.


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I tell you for certain that if you have faith in me, you will do the same things I am doing. You will do even greater things, now that I am going back to the Father.


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The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you.


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In a little while the people of this world won't be able to see me, but you will see me. And because I live, you will live.


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Then you will know I am one with the Father. You will know you are one with me, and I am one with you.


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If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.


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The other Judas, not Judas Iscariot, then spoke up and asked, “Lord, what do you mean by saying that you will show us what you are like, but you will not show the people of this world?”


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Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.


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But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.


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But the Holy Spirit will come and help you, because the Father will send the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you.


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I give you peace, the kind of peace only I can give. It isn't like the peace this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.


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You have already heard me say I am going and I will also come back to you. If you really love me, you should be glad I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.


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I cannot speak with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. But he has no power over me.


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He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.


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Stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me.


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I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me.


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If you don't stay joined to me, you will be thrown away. You will be like dry branches that are gathered up and burned in a fire.


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Stay joined to me and let my teachings become part of you. Then you can pray for whatever you want, and your prayer will be answered.


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If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him.


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Servants don't know what their master is doing, and so I don't speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything my Father has told me.


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You did not choose me. I chose you and sent you out to produce fruit, the kind of fruit that will last. Then my Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name.


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If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and this is why its people hate you.


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Remember how I told you that servants are not greater than their master. So if people mistreat me, they will mistreat you. If they do what I say, they will do what you say.


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People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.


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I have done things no one else has ever done. If they had not seen me do these things, they would not be guilty. But they did see me do these things, and they still hate me and my Father too.


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I will send you the Spirit who comes from the Father and shows what is true. The Spirit will help you and will tell you about me.


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You will be chased out of the synagogues. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor.


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I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said. I was with you at the first, and so I didn't tell you these things.


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But I tell you I am going to do what is best for you. This is why I am going away. The Holy Spirit cannot come to help you until I leave. But after I am gone, I will send the Spirit to you.


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The Spirit will come and show the people of this world the truth about sin and God's justice and the judgment.


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The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know what is going to happen.


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Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.


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They said to each other, “What does Jesus mean by saying that for a little while we won't see him, but after a while we will see him? What does he mean by saying he is going to the Father?


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Jesus knew they had some questions, so he said: You are wondering what I meant when I said that for a little while you won't see me, but after a while you will see me.


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I tell you for certain that you will cry and be sad, but the world will be happy. You will be sad, but later you will be happy.


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When a woman is about to give birth, she is in great pain. But after it is all over, she forgets the pain and is happy, because she has brought a child into the world.


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You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel.


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When that time comes, you won't have to ask me about anything. I tell you for certain the Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name.


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You have not asked for anything in this way before, but now you must ask in my name. Then it will be given to you, so you will be completely happy.


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I have used examples to explain to you what I have been talking about. But the time will come when I will speak to you plainly about the Father and will no longer use examples like these.


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At last we know that you understand everything, and we don't have any more questions. Now we believe you truly have come from God.”


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The time will come and is already here when all of you will be scattered. Each of you will go back home and leave me by myself. But the Father will be with me, and I won't be alone.


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I have told you this, so that you might have peace in your hearts because of me. While you are in the world, you will have to suffer. But cheer up! I have defeated the world.


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After Jesus had finished speaking to his disciples, he looked up toward heaven and prayed: Father, the time has come for you to bring glory to your Son, in order that he may bring glory to you.


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You have given me some followers from this world, and I have shown them what you are like. They were yours, but you gave them to me, and they have obeyed you.


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I told my followers what you told me, and they accepted it. They know I came from you, and they believe you are the one who sent me.


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I am praying for them, but not for those who belong to this world. My followers belong to you, and I am praying for them.


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Holy Father, I am no longer in the world. I am coming to you, but my followers are still in the world. So keep them safe by the power of the name you have given me. Then they will be one with each other, just as you and I are one.


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While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who had to be lost. This happened so that what the Scriptures say would come true.


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I am on my way to you. But I say these things while I am still in the world, so my followers will have the same complete joy that I do.


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I have told them your message. But the people of this world hate them, because they don't belong to this world, just as I don't.


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Father, I don't ask you to take my followers out of the world, but keep them safe from the evil one.


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I am not praying just for these followers. I am also praying for everyone else who will have faith because of what my followers will say about me.


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I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.


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I have honored my followers in the same way you honored me, in order that they may be one with each other, just as we are one.


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I am one with them, and you are one with me, so they may become completely one. Then this world's people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.


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Father, I want everyone you have given me to be with me, wherever I am. Then they will see the glory you have given me, because you loved me before the world was created.


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Good Father, the people of this world don't know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me.


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I told them what you are like, and I will tell them even more. Then the love you have for me will become part of them, and I will be one with them.


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When Jesus had finished praying, he and his disciples crossed the Kidron Valley and went into a garden.


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Judas had promised to betray Jesus. So he went to the garden with some Roman soldiers and temple police, who had been sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees. They carried torches, lanterns, and weapons. Jesus already knew everything that was going to happen, but he asked, “Who are you looking for?” They answered, “We are looking for Jesus from Nazareth!” Jesus told them, “I am Jesus!”


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Jesus again asked, “Who are you looking for?” “We are looking for Jesus from Nazareth,” they answered.


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This time Jesus replied, “I have already told you that I am Jesus. If I am the one you are looking for, let these others go.


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Simon Peter had brought along a sword. He pulled it out and struck at Malchus, the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.


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This was the same Caiaphas who had told the Jewish leaders, “It is better if one person dies for the people.”


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Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That disciple knew the high priest, and he followed Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest's house.


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Peter stayed outside near the gate. But the other disciple came back out and spoke to the girl at the gate. She let Peter go in,


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It was cold, and the servants and temple police had made a charcoal fire. They were warming themselves around it, when Peter went over and stood near the fire to warm himself.


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But Jesus told him, “I have spoken freely in front of everyone. And I have always taught in our synagogues and in the temple, where all of our people come together. I have not said anything in secret.


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As soon as Jesus said this, one of the temple police hit him and said, “That's no way to talk to the high priest!”


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While Simon Peter was standing there warming himself, someone asked him, “Aren't you one of Jesus' followers?” Again Peter denied it and said, “No, I am not!”


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One of the high priest's servants was there. He was a relative of the servant whose ear Peter had cut off, and he asked, “Didn't I see you in the garden with that man?”


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It was early in the morning when Jesus was taken from Caiaphas to the building where the Roman governor stayed. But the crowd waited outside. Any of them who had gone inside would have become unclean and would not be allowed to eat the Passover meal.


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Pilate told them, “Take him and judge him by your own laws.” The crowd replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.”


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“You know I'm not a Jew!” Pilate said. “Your own people and the chief priests brought you to me. What have you done?”


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Jesus answered, “My kingdom doesn't belong to this world. If it did, my followers would have fought to keep me from being handed over to our leaders. No, my kingdom doesn't belong to this world.”


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“So you are a king,” Pilate replied. “You are saying that I am a king,” Jesus told him. “I was born into this world to tell about the truth. And everyone who belongs to the truth knows my voice.”


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Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” Pilate went back out and said, “I don't find this man guilty of anything!


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And since I usually set a prisoner free for you at Passover, would you like for me to set free the king of the Jews?”


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The soldiers made a crown out of thorn branches and put it on Jesus. Then they put a purple robe on him.


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Once again Pilate went out. This time he said, “I will have Jesus brought out to you again. Then you can see for yourselves that I have not found him guilty.”


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When the chief priests and the temple police saw him, they yelled, “Nail him to a cross! Nail him to a cross!” Pilate told them, “You take him and nail him to a cross! I don't find him guilty of anything.”


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“Why won't you answer my question?” Pilate asked. “Don't you know I have the power to let you go free or to nail you to a cross?”


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Jesus replied, “If God had not given you the power, you couldn't do anything at all to me. But the one who handed me over to you did something even worse.”


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Then Pilate wanted to set Jesus free. But the crowd again yelled, “If you set this man free, you are no friend of the Emperor! Anyone who claims to be a king is an enemy of the Emperor.”


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When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out. Then he sat down on the judge's bench at the place known as “The Stone Pavement.” In Aramaic this pavement is called “Gabbatha.”


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“Kill him! Kill him!” they yelled. “Nail him to a cross!” “So you want me to nail your king to a cross?” Pilate asked. The chief priests replied, “The Emperor is our king!”


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and he carried his cross to a place known as “The Skull.” In Aramaic this place is called “Golgotha.”


book: John
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Pilate ordered the charge against Jesus to be written on a board and put above the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”


book: John
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The words were written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. The place where Jesus was taken wasn't far from the city, and many of the people read the charge against him.


book: John
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So the chief priests went to Pilate and said, “Why did you write that he is King of the Jews? You should have written, ‘He claimed to be King of the Jews.’ ”


book: John
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After the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the cross, they divided up his clothes into four parts, one for each of them. But his outer garment was made from a single piece of cloth, and it did not have any seams.


book: John
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The soldiers said to each other, “Let's not rip it apart. We will gamble to see who gets it.” This happened so the Scriptures would come true, which say, “They divided up my clothes and gambled for my garments.” The soldiers then did what they had decided.


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Jesus' mother stood beside his cross with her sister and Mary the wife of Clopas. Mary Magdalene was standing there too.


book: John
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When Jesus saw his mother and his favorite disciple with her, he said to his mother, “This man is now your son.”


book: John
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Then he said to the disciple, “She is now your mother.” From then on, that disciple took her into his own home.


book: John
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Jesus knew that he had now finished his work. And in order to make the Scriptures come true, he said, “I am thirsty!”


book: John
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A jar of cheap wine was there. Someone then soaked a sponge with the wine and held it up to Jesus' mouth on the stem of a hyssop plant.


book: John
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The next day would be both a Sabbath and the Passover. It was a special day for the Jewish people, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses during this day. So they asked Pilate to break the men's legs and take their bodies down.


book: John
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All this happened so that the Scriptures would come true, which say, “No bone of his body will be broken”


book: John
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Joseph from Arimathea was one of Jesus' disciples. He had kept it secret though, because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders. But now he asked Pilate to let him have Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission, and Joseph took it down from the cross.


book: John
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Nicodemus also came with about 30 kilograms of spices made from myrrh and aloes. This was the same Nicodemus who had visited Jesus one night.


book: John
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The two men wrapped the body in a linen cloth, together with the spices, which was how the Jewish people buried their dead.


book: John
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In the place where Jesus had been nailed to a cross, there was a garden with a tomb that had never been used.


book: John
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The tomb was nearby, and since it was the time to prepare for the Sabbath, they were in a hurry to put Jesus' body there.


book: John
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On Sunday morning while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.


book: John
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She ran to Simon Peter and to Jesus' favorite disciple and said, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb! We don't know where they have put him.”


book: John
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He also saw the piece of cloth that had been used to cover Jesus' face. It was rolled up and in a place by itself.


book: John
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At that time Peter and the other disciple did not know that the Scriptures said Jesus would rise to life.


book: John
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and saw two angels inside. They were dressed in white and were sitting where Jesus' body had been. One was at the head and the other was at the foot.


book: John
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The angels asked Mary, “Why are you crying?” She answered, “They have taken away my Lord's body! I don't know where they have put him.”


book: John
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As soon as Mary said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. But she did not know who he was.


book: John
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Jesus asked her, “Why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” She thought he was the gardener and said, “Sir, if you have taken his body away, please tell me, so I can go and get him.”


book: John
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Then Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni.” The Aramaic word “Rabboni” means “Teacher.”


book: John
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Jesus told her, “Don't hold on to me! I have not yet gone to the Father. But tell my disciples I am going to the one who is my Father and my God, as well as your Father and your God.”


book: John
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Mary Magdalene then went and told the disciples she had seen the Lord. She also told them what he had said to her.


book: John
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The disciples were afraid of the Jewish leaders, and on the evening of that same Sunday they locked themselves in a room. Suddenly, Jesus appeared in the middle of the group. He greeted them


book: John
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If you forgive anyone's sins, they will be forgiven. But if you don't forgive their sins, they will not be forgiven.”


book: John
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Although Thomas the Twin was one of the twelve disciples, he wasn't with the others when Jesus appeared to them.


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So they told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But Thomas said, “First, I must see the nail scars in his hands and touch them with my finger. I must put my hand where the spear went into his side. I won't believe unless I do this!”


book: John
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A week later the disciples were together again. This time, Thomas was with them. Jesus came in while the doors were still locked and stood in the middle of the group. He greeted his disciples


book: John
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and said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands! Put your hand into my side. Stop doubting and have faith!”


book: John
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Jesus said, “Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!”


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But these are written so that you will put your faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God. If you have faith in him, you will have true life.


book: John
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Simon Peter, Thomas the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the brothers James and John, were there, together with two other disciples.


book: John
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Simon Peter said, “I'm going fishing!” The others said, “We will go with you.” They went out in their boat. But they didn't catch a thing that night.


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So he told them, “Let your net down on the right side of your boat, and you will catch some fish.” They did, and the net was so full of fish that they could not drag it up into the boat.


book: John
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Jesus' favorite disciple told Peter, “It's the Lord!” When Simon heard it was the Lord, he put on the clothes he had taken off while he was working. Then he jumped into the water.


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The boat was only about 100 meters from shore. So the other disciples stayed in the boat and dragged in the net full of fish.


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Simon Peter got back into the boat and dragged the net to shore. In it were 153 large fish, but still the net did not rip.


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Jesus said, “Come and eat!” But none of the disciples dared ask who he was. They knew he was the Lord.


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Jesus took the bread in his hands and gave some of it to his disciples. He did the same with the fish.


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When Jesus and his disciples had finished eating, he asked, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than the others do?” Simon Peter answered, “Yes, Lord, you know I do!” “Then feed my lambs,” Jesus said.


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Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter answered, “Yes, Lord, you know I love you!” “Then take care of my sheep,” Jesus told him.


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Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus had asked him three times if he loved him. So he told Jesus, “Lord, you know everything. You know I love you.” Jesus replied, “Feed my sheep.


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I tell you for certain that when you were a young man, you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will hold out your hands. Then others will wrap your belt around you and lead you where you don't want to go.”


book: John
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Jesus said this to tell how Peter would die and bring honor to God. Then he said to Peter, “Follow me!”


book: John
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Peter turned and saw Jesus' favorite disciple following them. He was the same one who had sat next to Jesus at the meal and had asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”


book: John
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So the rumor spread among the other disciples that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say he would not die. He simply said, “What is it to you, if I want him to live until I return?”


book: John
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Jesus did many other things. If they were all written in books, I don't suppose there would be room enough in the whole world for all the books.


book: Acts
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until he was taken up to heaven. But before he was taken up, he gave orders to the apostles he had chosen with the help of the Holy Spirit.


book: Acts
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For 40 days after Jesus had suffered and died, he proved in many ways that he had been raised from death. He appeared to his apostles and spoke to them about God's kingdom.


book: Acts
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While he was still with them, he said: Don't leave Jerusalem yet. Wait here for the Father to give you the Holy Spirit, just as I told you he has promised to do.


book: Acts
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While the apostles were still with Jesus, they asked him, “Lord, are you now going to give Israel its own king again?”


book: Acts
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But the Holy Spirit will come upon you and give you power. Then you will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world.”


book: Acts
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After Jesus had said this and while they were watching, he was taken up into a cloud. They could not see him,


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but as he went up, they kept looking up into the sky. Suddenly two men dressed in white clothes were standing there beside them.


book: Acts
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They said, “Why are you men from Galilee standing here and looking up into the sky? Jesus has been taken to heaven. But he will come back in the same way you have seen him go.”


book: Acts
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The Mount of Olives was about a kilometer from Jerusalem. The apostles who had gone there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon, known as the Eager One, and Judas the son of James. After the apostles returned to the city, they went upstairs to the room where they had been staying.


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The apostles often met together and prayed with a single purpose in mind. The women and Mary the mother of Jesus would meet with them, and so would his brothers.


book: Acts
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One day there were about 120 of the Lord's followers meeting together, and Peter stood up to speak to them.


book: Acts
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He said: My friends, long ago by the power of the Holy Spirit, David said something about Judas, and what he said has now happened. Judas was one of us and had worked with us, but he brought the mob to arrest Jesus.


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Then Judas bought some land with the money he was given for doing that evil thing. He fell headfirst into the field. His body burst open, and all his insides came out.


book: Acts
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When the people of Jerusalem found out about this, they called the place Akeldama, which in the local language means “Field of Blood.”


book: Acts
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In the book of Psalms it says, “Leave his house empty, and don't let anyone live there.” It also says, “Let someone else have his job.”


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So we need someone else to help us tell others that Jesus has been raised from death. He must also be one of the men who was with us from the very beginning. He must have been with us from the time the Lord Jesus was baptized by John until the day he was taken to heaven.


book: Acts
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Two men were suggested: One of them was Joseph Barsabbas, known as Justus, and the other was Matthias.


book: Acts
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Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting.


book: Acts
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Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there.


book: Acts
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The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.


book: Acts
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And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.


book: Acts
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Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,


book: Acts
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Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.


book: Acts
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Everyone was excited and confused. Some of them even kept asking each other, “What does all this mean?”


book: Acts
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Peter stood with the eleven apostles and spoke in a loud and clear voice to the crowd: Friends and everyone else living in Jerusalem, listen carefully to what I have to say!


book: Acts
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You are wrong to think that these people are drunk. After all, it is only nine o'clock in the morning.


book: Acts
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“When the last days come, I will give my Spirit to everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.


book: Acts
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I will work miracles in the sky above and wonders on the earth below. There will be blood and fire and clouds of smoke.


book: Acts
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The sun will turn dark, and the moon will be as red as blood before the great and wonderful day of the Lord appears.


book: Acts
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Now, listen to what I have to say about Jesus from Nazareth. God proved he sent Jesus to you by having him work miracles, wonders, and signs. All of you know this.


book: Acts
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God had already planned and decided that Jesus would be handed over to you. So you took him and had evil men put him to death on a cross.


book: Acts
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What David said are really the words of Jesus, “I always see the Lord near me, and I will not be afraid with him at my right side.


book: Acts
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My friends, it is right for me to speak to you about our ancestor David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is still here.


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But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David someone from his own family would someday be king.


book: Acts
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David knew this would happen, and so he told us Christ would be raised to life. He said God would not leave him in the grave or let his body decay.


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Jesus was taken up to sit at the right side of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and this is what you are now seeing and hearing.


book: Acts
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David didn't go up to heaven. So he wasn't talking about himself when he said, “The Lord told my Lord to sit at his right side,


book: Acts
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Everyone in Israel should then know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, even though you put him to death on a cross.


book: Acts
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When the people heard this, they were very upset. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Friends, what should we do?”


book: Acts
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Peter said to them, “Turn to God and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


book: Acts
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This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live.”


book: Acts
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Peter told them many other things as well. Then he said, “I beg you to save yourselves from what will happen to all these evil people.”


book: Acts
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They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke bread and prayed together.


book: Acts
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Day after day they met together in the temple. They broke bread together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely,


book: Acts
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while praising God. Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their group others who were being saved.


book: Acts
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The time of prayer was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and Peter and John were going into the temple.


book: Acts
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A man who had been born lame was being carried to the temple door. Each day he was placed beside this door, known as the Beautiful Gate. He sat there and begged from the people who were going in.


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But Peter said, “I don't have any silver or gold! But I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, get up and start walking.”


book: Acts
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Peter then took him by the right hand and helped him up. At once the man's feet and ankles became strong,


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and he jumped up and started walking. He went with Peter and John into the temple, walking and jumping and praising God.


book: Acts
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They knew he was the beggar who had been lying beside the Beautiful Gate, and they were completely surprised. They could not imagine what had happened to the man.


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While the man kept holding on to Peter and John, the whole crowd ran to them in amazement at the place known as Solomon's Porch.


book: Acts
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Peter saw that a crowd had gathered, and he said: Friends, why are you surprised at what has happened? Why are you staring at us? Do you think we have some power of our own? Do you think we were able to make this man walk because we are so religious?


book: Acts
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The God that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and our other ancestors worshiped has brought honor to his Servant Jesus. He is the one you betrayed. You turned against him when he was being tried by Pilate, even though Pilate wanted to set him free.


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and you killed the one who leads people to life. But God raised him from death, and all of us can tell you what he has done.


book: Acts
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You see this man, and you know him. He put his faith in the name of Jesus and was made strong. Faith in Jesus made this man completely well while everyone was watching.


book: Acts
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Then the time will come when the Lord will give you fresh strength. He will send you Jesus, his chosen Messiah.


book: Acts
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But Jesus must stay in heaven until God makes all things new, just as his holy prophets promised long ago.


book: Acts
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Moses said, “The Lord your God will choose one of your own people to be a prophet, just as he chose me. Listen to everything he tells you.


book: Acts
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You are really the ones God told his prophets to speak to. And you were given the promise God made to your ancestors. He said to Abraham, “All nations on earth will be blessed because of someone from your family.”


book: Acts
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God sent his chosen Son to you first, because God wanted to bless you and make each one of you turn away from your sins.


book: Acts
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The apostles were still talking to the people, when some priests, the captain of the temple guard, and some Sadducees arrived.


book: Acts
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These men were angry because the apostles were teaching the people that the dead would be raised from death, just as Jesus had been raised from death.


book: Acts
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It was already late in the afternoon, and they arrested Peter and John and put them in jail for the night.


book: Acts
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But a lot of people who had heard the message believed it. So by now there were about 5,000 followers of the Lord.


book: Acts
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The high priest Annas was there, as well as Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other members of the high priest's family.


book: Acts
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They brought in Peter and John and made them stand in the middle while they questioned them. They asked, “By what power and in whose name have you done this?”


book: Acts
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But there is something we must tell you and everyone else in Israel. This man is standing here completely well because of the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth. You put Jesus to death on a cross, but God raised him to life.


book: Acts
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The officials were amazed to see how brave Peter and John were, and they knew that these two apostles were only ordinary men and not well educated. The officials were certain these men had been with Jesus.


book: Acts
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But they could not deny what had happened. The man who had been healed was standing there with the apostles.


book: Acts
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“What can we do with these men? Everyone in Jerusalem knows about this miracle, and we cannot say it didn't happen.


book: Acts
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But to keep this thing from spreading, we will warn them never again to speak to anyone about the name of Jesus.”


book: Acts
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So they called the two apostles back in and told them they must never, for any reason, teach anything about the name of Jesus.


book: Acts
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The officials could not find any reason to punish Peter and John. So they threatened them and let them go. The man who was healed by this miracle was more than 40 years old, and everyone was praising God for what had happened.


book: Acts
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As soon as Peter and John had been set free, they went back and told the others everything the chief priests and the leaders had said to them.


book: Acts
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When the rest of the Lord's followers heard this, they prayed together and said: Master, you created heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.


book: Acts
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And by the Holy Spirit you spoke to our ancestor David. He was your servant, and you told him to say: “Why are all the Gentiles so furious? Why do people make foolish plans?


book: Acts
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Here in Jerusalem, Herod and Pontius Pilate got together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel. Then they turned against your holy Servant Jesus, your chosen Messiah.


book: Acts
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Show your mighty power, as we heal people and work miracles and wonders in the name of your holy Servant Jesus.


book: Acts
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After they had prayed, the meeting place shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and bravely spoke God's message.


book: Acts
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The group of followers all felt the same way about everything. None of them claimed that their possessions were their own, and they shared everything they had with each other.


book: Acts
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In a powerful way the apostles told everyone that the Lord Jesus was now alive. God greatly blessed his followers,


book: Acts
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and no one went in need of anything. Everyone who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the money


book: Acts
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Joseph was one of the followers who had sold a piece of property and brought the money to the apostles. He was a Levite from Cyprus, and the apostles called him Barnabas, which means “one who encourages others.”


book: Acts
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But they agreed to cheat and keep some of the money for themselves. So when Ananias took the rest of the money to the apostles,


book: Acts
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Peter said, “Why has Satan made you keep back some of the money from the sale of the property? Why have you lied to the Holy Spirit?


book: Acts
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The property was yours before you sold it, and even after you sold it, the money was still yours. What made you do such a thing? You didn't lie to people. You lied to God!”


book: Acts
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Peter asked her, “Tell me, did you sell the property for this amount?” “Yes,” she answered, “that's the amount.”


book: Acts
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Then Peter said, “Why did the two of you agree to test the Lord's Spirit? The men who buried Ananias are by the door, and they will carry you out!”


book: Acts
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At once she fell at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came back in, they found Sapphira lying there dead. So they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.


book: Acts
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The apostles worked many miracles and wonders among the people. All of the Lord's followers often met in the part of the temple known as Solomon's Porch.


book: Acts
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Then sick people were brought out to the road and placed on mats. It was hoped that Peter would walk by, and his shadow would fall on them and heal them.


book: Acts
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A lot of people living in the towns near Jerusalem brought those who were sick or troubled by evil spirits, and they were all healed.


book: Acts
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But that night an angel from the Lord opened the doors of the jail and led the apostles out. The angel said,


book: Acts
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So they went into the temple before sunrise and started teaching. The high priest and his men called together their council, which included all of Israel's leaders. Then they ordered the apostles to be brought to them from the jail.


book: Acts
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“We found the jail locked tight and the guards standing at the doors. But when we opened the doors and went in, we didn't find anyone there.”


book: Acts
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The captain of the temple police and the chief priests listened to their report, but they did not know what to think about it.


book: Acts
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Just then someone came in and said, “Now those men you put in jail are in the temple, teaching the people!”


book: Acts
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The captain went with some of the temple police and brought the apostles back. But they did not use force. They were afraid that the people might start throwing stones at them.


book: Acts
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“We told you plainly not to teach in the name of Jesus. But look what you have done! You have been teaching all over Jerusalem, and you are trying to blame us for his death.”


book: Acts
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and made him our Leader and Savior. Then God gave him a place at his right side, so that the people of Israel would turn back to him and be forgiven.


book: Acts
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We are here to tell you about all this, and so is the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to everyone who obeys God.


book: Acts
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But one of the members was the Pharisee Gamaliel, a highly respected teacher. He ordered the apostles to be taken out of the room for a little while.


book: Acts
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Not long ago Theudas claimed to be someone important, and about 400 men joined him. But he was killed, and all his followers were scattered. That was the end of that.


book: Acts
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Later, when the people of our nation were being counted, Judas from Galilee showed up. A lot of people followed him, but he was killed, and all his followers were scattered.


book: Acts
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So I advise you to stay away from these men. Leave them alone. If what they are planning is something of their own doing, it will fail.


book: Acts
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But if God is behind it, you cannot stop it anyway, unless you want to fight against God. The council members agreed with what he said,


book: Acts
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and they called the apostles back in. They had them beaten with a whip and warned them not to speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.


book: Acts
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The apostles left the council and were happy, because God had considered them worthy to suffer for the sake of Jesus.


book: Acts
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Every day they spent time in the temple and in one home after another. They never stopped teaching and telling the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.


book: Acts
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A lot of people were now becoming followers of the Lord. But some of the ones who spoke Greek started complaining about the ones who spoke Aramaic. They complained that the Greek-speaking widows were not given their share when the food supplies were handed out each day.


book: Acts
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The twelve apostles called the whole group of followers together and said, “We should not give up preaching God's message in order to serve at tables.


book: Acts
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My friends, choose seven men who are respected and wise and filled with God's Spirit. We will put them in charge of these things.


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This suggestion pleased everyone, and they began by choosing Stephen. He had great faith and was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they chose Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and also Nicolaus, who worshiped with the Jewish people in Antioch.


book: Acts
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These men were brought to the apostles. Then the apostles prayed and placed their hands on the men to show they had been chosen to do this work.


book: Acts
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God's message spread, and many more people in Jerusalem became followers. Even a large number of priests put their faith in the Lord.


book: Acts
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But some men from Cyrene and Alexandria were members of a group who called themselves “Free Men.” They started arguing with Stephen. Some others from Cilicia and Asia also argued with him.


book: Acts
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They turned the people and their leaders and the teachers of the Law of Moses against Stephen. Then they all grabbed him and dragged him in front of the council.


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Some men agreed to tell lies about Stephen, and they said, “This man keeps on saying terrible things about this holy temple and the Law of Moses.


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We have heard him claim that Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses gave us.”


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Then all the council members stared at Stephen. They saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.


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Stephen answered: Friends, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he had moved to Haran.


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Then Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, Abraham came and settled in this land where you now live.


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God didn't give him any part of it, not even a square meter. But God did promise to give it to him and his family forever, even though Abraham didn't have any children.


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God said Abraham's descendants would live for a while in a foreign land. There they would be slaves and would be mistreated 400 years.


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But he also said, “I will punish the nation that makes them slaves. Then later they will come and worship me in this place.”


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God said to Abraham, “Every son in each family must be circumcised to show you have kept your agreement with me.” So when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. Later, Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons.


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These men were our ancestors. Joseph was also one of our famous ancestors. His brothers were jealous of him and sold him as a slave to be taken to Egypt. But God was with him


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and rescued him from all his troubles. God made him so wise that the Egyptian king Pharaoh thought highly of him. The king even made Joseph governor over Egypt and put him in charge of everything he owned.


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Everywhere in Egypt and Canaan the grain crops failed. There was terrible suffering, and our ancestors could not find enough to eat.


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It was on their second trip that Joseph told his brothers who he was, and the king learned about Joseph's family.


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Later their bodies were taken back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor.


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Finally, the time came for God to do what he had promised Abraham. By then the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.


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He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them. He even made them leave their babies outside, so they would die.


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During this time Moses was born. He was a very beautiful child, and for three months his parents took care of him in their home.


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Then when they were forced to leave him outside, the king's daughter found him and raised him as her own son.


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Moses thought the rest of his people would realize God was going to use him to set them free. But they didn't understand.


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The next day Moses saw two of his own people fighting, and he tried to make them stop. He said, “Men, you are both Israelites. Why are you so cruel to each other?”


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But the man who had started the fight pushed Moses aside and asked, “Who made you our ruler and judge?


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“I am the God who was worshiped by your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Moses started shaking all over and didn't dare to look at the bush.


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With my own eyes I have seen the suffering of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans and have come down to rescue them. Now I am sending you back to Egypt.”


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This was the same Moses that the people rejected by saying, “Who made you our leader and judge?” God's angel had spoken to Moses from the bush. And God had even sent the angel to help Moses rescue the people and be their leader.


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In Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the desert, Moses rescued the people by working miracles and wonders for 40 years.


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Moses is the one who told the people of Israel, “God will choose one of your people to be a prophet, just as he chose me.”


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Moses brought our people together in the desert, and the angel spoke to him on Mount Sinai. There he was given these life-giving words to pass on to us.


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The people said to Aaron, “Make some gods to lead us! Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don't know what's happened to him now.”


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Then they made an idol in the shape of a calf. They offered sacrifices to the idol and were pleased with what they had done.


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God turned his back on his people and left them. Then they worshiped the stars in the sky, just as it says in the Book of the Prophets, “People of Israel, you didn't offer sacrifices and offerings to me during those 40 years in the desert.


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Instead, you carried the tent where the god Molech is worshiped, and you took along the star of your god Rephan. You made those idols and worshiped them. So now I will have you carried off beyond Babylonia.”


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The tent where our ancestors worshiped God was with them in the desert. This was the same tent that God had commanded Moses to make. And it was made like the model that Moses had seen.


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Later it was given to our ancestors, and they took it with them when they went with Joshua. They carried the tent along as they took over the land from those people that God had chased out for them. Our ancestors used this tent until the time of King David.


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But the Most High God doesn't live in houses made by humans. It is just as the prophet said, when he spoke for the Lord,


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“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? In what place will I rest?


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You stubborn and hardheaded people! You are always fighting against the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.


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Is there one prophet that your ancestors didn't mistreat? They killed the prophets who told about the coming of the One Who Obeys God. And now you have turned against him and killed him.


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But Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit. He looked toward heaven, where he saw our glorious God and Jesus standing at his right side.


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and dragged him out of the city. Then they started throwing stones at him. The men who had brought charges against him put their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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Saul approved the stoning of Stephen. Some faithful followers of the Lord buried Stephen and mourned very much for him. At that time the church in Jerusalem suffered terribly. All of the Lord's followers, except the apostles, were scattered everywhere in Judea and Samaria.


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Saul started making a lot of trouble for the church. He went from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail.


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They crowded around Philip because they were eager to hear what he was saying and to see him work miracles.


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Many people with evil spirits were healed, and the spirits went out of them with a shout. A lot of paralyzed and lame people were also healed.


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For some time a man named Simon had lived there and had amazed the people of Samaria. He practiced witchcraft and claimed to be somebody great.


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Everyone, rich and poor, crowded around him. They said, “This man is the power of God called ‘The Great Power.’ ”


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But when they believed what Philip was saying about God's kingdom and about the name of Jesus Christ, they were all baptized.


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Even Simon believed and was baptized. He stayed close to Philip, because he marveled at all the miracles and wonders.


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The apostles in Jerusalem heard that some people in Samaria had accepted God's message, and they sent Peter and John.


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Before this, the Holy Spirit had not been given to any of them, though some of them had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.


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Peter and John then placed their hands on everyone who had faith in the Lord, and they were given the Holy Spirit.


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Simon noticed that the Spirit was given only when the apostles placed their hands on the people. So he brought money


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and said to Peter and John, “Let me have this power too! Then anyone I place my hands on will also be given the Holy Spirit.”


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Peter said to him, “You and your money will both end up in hell if you think you can buy God's gift!


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After Peter and John had preached about the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem. On their way they told the good news in many villages of Samaria.


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The Lord's angel said to Philip, “Go south along the desert road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza.”


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So Philip left. An important Ethiopian official happened to be going along that road in his chariot. He was the chief treasurer for Candace, the Queen of Ethiopia. The official had gone to Jerusalem to worship


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Philip ran up close and heard the man reading aloud from the book of Isaiah. Philip asked him, “Do you understand what you are reading?”


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The official answered, “How can I understand unless someone helps me?” He then invited Philip to come up and sit beside him.


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The man was reading the passage that said, “He was led like a sheep on its way to be killed. He was silent as a lamb whose wool is being cut off, and he did not say a word.


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He was treated like a nobody and did not receive a fair trial. How can he have children, if his life is snatched away?”


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The official said to Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or about someone else?”


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As they were going along the road, they came to a place where there was some water. The official said, “Look! Here is some water. Why can't I be baptized?”


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After they had come out of the water, the Lord's Spirit took Philip away. The official never saw him again, but he was very happy as he went on his way.


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Philip later appeared in Azotus. He went from town to town, all the way to Caesarea, telling people about Jesus.


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and asked for letters to the leaders of the synagogues in Damascus. He did this because he wanted to arrest and take to Jerusalem any man or woman who had accepted the Lord's Way.


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Saul got up from the ground, and when he opened his eyes, he could not see a thing. Someone then led him by the hand to Damascus,


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A follower named Ananias lived in Damascus, and the Lord spoke to him in a vision. Ananias answered, “Lord, here I am.”


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The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the house of Judas on Straight Street. When you get there, you will find a man named Saul from the city of Tarsus. Saul is praying,


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and he has seen a vision. He saw a man named Ananias coming to him and putting his hands on him, so he could see again.”


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Ananias replied, “Lord, a lot of people have told me about the terrible things this man has done to your followers in Jerusalem.


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Now the chief priests have given him the power to come here and arrest anyone who worships in your name.”


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The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I have chosen him to tell foreigners, kings, and the people of Israel about me.


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Ananias left and went into the house where Saul was staying. Ananias placed his hands on him and said, “Saul, the Lord Jesus has sent me. He is the same one who appeared to you along the road. He wants you to be able to see and to be filled with the Holy Spirit.”


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Suddenly something like fish scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see. He got up and was baptized.


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Then he ate and felt much better. For several days Saul stayed with the Lord's followers in Damascus.


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Everyone who heard Saul was amazed and said, “Isn't this the man who caused so much trouble for those people in Jerusalem who worship in the name of Jesus? Didn't he come here to arrest them and take them to the chief priests?”


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Saul preached with such power that he completely confused the Jewish people in Damascus, as he tried to show them that Jesus is the Messiah.


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but he found out about it. He learned that they were guarding the gates of the city day and night in order to kill him.


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When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the followers. But they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe he was a true follower.


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Then Barnabas helped him by taking him to the apostles. He explained how Saul had seen the Lord and how the Lord had spoken to him. Barnabas also said when Saul was in Damascus, he had spoken bravely in the name of Jesus.


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But the followers found out about this and took Saul to Caesarea. From there they sent him to the city of Tarsus.


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The church in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria now had a time of peace and kept on worshiping the Lord. The church became stronger, as the Holy Spirit encouraged it and helped it grow.


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While Peter was traveling from place to place, he visited the Lord's followers who lived in the town of Lydda.


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Peter said to Aeneas, “Jesus Christ has healed you! Get up and make up your bed.” At once he stood up.


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In Joppa there was a follower named Tabitha. Her Greek name was Dorcas, which means “deer.” She was always doing good things for people and had given much to the poor.


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Joppa wasn't far from Lydda, and the followers heard that Peter was there. They sent two men to say to him, “Please come with us as quickly as you can!”


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At once, Peter went with them. The men took Peter upstairs into the room. Many widows were there crying. They showed him the coats and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was still alive.


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After Peter had sent everyone out of the room, he knelt down and prayed. Then he turned to the body of Dorcas and said, “Tabitha, get up!” The woman opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.


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He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Peter called in the widows and the other followers and showed them that Dorcas had been raised from death.


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In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, who was the captain of a group of soldiers called “The Italian Unit.”


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Cornelius was a very religious man. He worshiped God, and so did everyone else who lived in his house. He had given a lot of money to the poor and was always praying to God.


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One afternoon at about three o'clock, Cornelius had a vision. He saw an angel from God coming to him and calling him by name.


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Cornelius was surprised and stared at the angel. Then he asked, “What is this all about?” The angel answered, “God has heard your prayers and knows about your gifts to the poor.


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After saying this, the angel left. Cornelius called in two of his servants and one of his soldiers who worshiped God.


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The next day about noon these men were coming near Joppa. Peter went up on the roof of the house to pray


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But Peter said, “Lord, I can't do that! I've never eaten anything that is unclean and not fit to eat.”


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The voice spoke to him again, “When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat.”


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Peter was still wondering what all this meant, when the men sent by Cornelius came and stood at the gate. They had found their way to Simon's house


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While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Holy Spirit said to him, “Three men are here looking for you.


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They answered, “Captain Cornelius sent us. He is a good man who worships God and is liked by the Jewish people. One of God's holy angels told Cornelius to send for you, so he could hear what you have to say.”


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Peter invited them to spend the night. The next morning, Peter and some of the Lord's followers in Joppa left with the men who had come from Cornelius.


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The next day they arrived in Caesarea where Cornelius was waiting for them. He had also invited his relatives and close friends.


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When Peter arrived, Cornelius greeted him. Then he knelt at Peter's feet and started worshiping him.


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and Peter said to them, “You know that we Jews are not allowed to have anything to do with other people. But God has shown me that he doesn't think anyone is unclean or unfit.


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Cornelius answered: Four days ago at about three o'clock in the afternoon I was praying at home. Suddenly a man in bright clothes stood in front of me.


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Now send to Joppa for Simon Peter. He is visiting in the home of Simon the leather maker, who lives near the sea.”


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I sent for you at once, and you have been good enough to come. All of us are here in the presence of the Lord God, so that we can hear what he has to say.


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This is the same message that God gave to the people of Israel, when he sent Jesus Christ, the Lord of all, to offer peace to them.


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You surely know what happened everywhere in Judea. It all began in Galilee after John had told everyone to be baptized.


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God gave the Holy Spirit and power to Jesus from Nazareth. He was with Jesus, as he went around doing good and healing everyone who was under the power of the devil.


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We all saw what Jesus did both in Israel and in the city of Jerusalem. Jesus was put to death on a cross.


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Not everyone saw him. He was seen only by us, who ate and drank with him after he was raised from death. We were the ones God chose to tell others about him.


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God told us to announce clearly to the people that Jesus is the one he has chosen to judge the living and the dead.


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Every one of the prophets has said that all who have faith in Jesus will have their sins forgiven in his name.


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Some Jewish followers of the Lord had come with Peter, and they were surprised that the Holy Spirit had been given to Gentiles.


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“These Gentiles have been given the Holy Spirit, just as we have! I am certain that no one would dare stop us from baptizing them.”


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Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and they asked him to stay on for a few days.


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So when Peter came to Jerusalem, some of the Jewish followers started arguing with him. They wanted Gentile followers to be circumcised, and


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I was in the town of Joppa and was praying when I fell sound asleep and had a vision. I saw heaven open, and something like a huge sheet held by its four corners came down to me.


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But I said, “Lord, I can't do that! I've never taken a bite of anything that is unclean and not fit to eat.”


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The voice from heaven spoke to me again, “When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat.”


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The Holy Spirit told me to go with them and not to worry. Then six of the Lord's followers went with me to the home of a man


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who told us that an angel had appeared to him. The angel had ordered him to send to Joppa for someone named Simon Peter.


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After I started speaking, the Holy Spirit was given to them, just as the Spirit had been given to us at the beginning.


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I remembered that the Lord had said, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”


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God gave those Gentiles the same gift that he gave us when we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So how could I have gone against God?


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When they heard Peter say this, they stopped arguing and started praising God. They said, “God has now let Gentiles turn to him, and he has given life to them!”


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Some of the Lord's followers had been scattered because of the terrible trouble that started when Stephen was killed. They went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message only to the Jews.


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Some of the followers from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and started telling Gentiles the good news about the Lord Jesus.


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When Barnabas got there and saw how God had blessed them with undeserved grace, he was very glad. So he begged them to remain faithful to the Lord with all their hearts.


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Barnabas was a good man of great faith, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Many more people turned to the Lord.


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He found Saul and brought him to Antioch, where they met with the church for a whole year and taught many of its people. There in Antioch the Lord's followers were first called Christians.


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One of them was Agabus. Then with the help of the Spirit, he told that there would be a terrible famine everywhere in the world. And it happened when Claudius was Emperor.


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When Herod saw that this pleased the Jewish people, he had Peter arrested during the Festival of Thin Bread.


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He put Peter in jail and ordered four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to put him on trial in public after the festival.


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The night before Peter was to be put on trial, he was asleep and bound by two chains. A soldier was guarding him on each side, and two other soldiers were guarding the entrance to the jail.


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Suddenly an angel from the Lord appeared, and light flashed around in the cell. The angel poked Peter in the side and woke him up. Then he said, “Quick! Get up!” The chains fell off his hands,


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and the angel said, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” Peter did what he was told. Then the angel said, “Now put on your coat and follow me.”


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They went past the two groups of soldiers, and when they came to the iron gate to the city, it opened by itself. They went out and were going along the street, when all at once the angel disappeared.


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Peter now realized what had happened, and he said, “I am certain that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod and from everything the Jewish leaders planned to do to me.”


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Then Peter went to the house of Mary the mother of John whose other name was Mark. Many of the Lord's followers had come together there and were praying.


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When she heard Peter's voice, she was too excited to open the gate. She ran back into the house and said Peter was standing there.


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“You are crazy!” everyone told her. But she kept saying it was Peter. Then they said, “It must be his angel.”


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But Peter kept on knocking, until finally they opened the gate. They saw him and were completely amazed.


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Peter motioned for them to keep quiet. Then he told how the Lord had led him out of jail. He also said, “Tell James and the others what has happened.” After that, he left and went somewhere else.


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The next morning the soldiers who had been on guard were terribly worried and wondered what had happened to Peter.


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Herod ordered his own soldiers to search for him, but they could not find him. Then he questioned the guards and had them put to death. After this, Herod left Judea to stay in Caesarea for a while.


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Herod and the people of Tyre and Sidon were very angry with each other. But their country got its food supply from the region that he ruled. So a group of them went to see Blastus, who was one of Herod's high officials. They convinced Blastus that they wanted to make peace between their cities and Herod,


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and a day was set for them to meet with him. Herod came dressed in his royal robes. He sat down on his throne and made a speech.


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At once an angel from the Lord struck him down because he took the honor that belonged to God. Later, Herod was eaten by worms and died.


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And after Barnabas and Saul had done the work they were sent to do, they went back to Jerusalem with John, whose other name was Mark.


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The church at Antioch had several prophets and teachers. They were Barnabas, Simeon, also called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen, who was Herod's close friend, and Saul.


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While they were worshiping the Lord and going without eating, the Holy Spirit told them, “Appoint Barnabas and Saul to do the work for which I have chosen them.”


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Everyone prayed and went without eating for a while longer. Next, they placed their hands on Barnabas and Saul to show that they had been appointed to do this work. Then everyone sent them on their way.


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After Barnabas and Saul had been sent by the Holy Spirit, they went to Seleucia. From there they sailed to the island of Cyprus.


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They arrived at Salamis and began to preach God's message in the synagogues. They also had John as a helper.


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Barnabas and Saul went all the way to the city of Paphos on the other end of the island, where they met a Jewish man named Bar-Jesus. He practiced witchcraft and was a false prophet.


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He also worked for Sergius Paulus, who was very smart and was the governor of the island. Sergius Paulus wanted to hear God's message, and he sent for Barnabas and Saul.


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But Bar-Jesus, whose other name was Elymas, was against them. He even tried to keep the governor from having faith in the Lord.


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and said, “You son of the devil! You are a liar, a crook, and an enemy of everything that is right. When will you stop speaking against the true ways of the Lord?


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The Lord is going to punish you by making you completely blind for a while.” Suddenly the man's eyes were covered by a dark mist, and he went around trying to get someone to lead him by the hand.


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When the governor saw what had happened, he was amazed at this teaching about the Lord. So he put his faith in the Lord.


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Paul and the others left Paphos and sailed to Perga in Pamphylia. But John left them and went back to Jerusalem.


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The rest of them went on from Perga to Antioch in Pisidia. Then on the Sabbath they went to the synagogue and sat down.


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After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders sent someone over to tell Paul and Barnabas, “Friends, if you have anything to say that will help the people, please say it.”


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Paul got up. He motioned with his hand and said: People of Israel, and everyone else who worships God, listen!


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The God of Israel chose our ancestors, and he let our people prosper while they were living in Egypt. Then with his mighty power he led them out,


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All this happened in about 450 years. Then God gave our people judges until the time of the prophet Samuel,


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but the people demanded a king. So for 40 years God gave them King Saul, the son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin.


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Later, God removed Saul and let David rule in his place. God said about him, “David the son of Jesse is the kind of person who pleases me most! He does everything I want him to do.”


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God promised that someone from David's family would come to save the people of Israel, and this one is Jesus.


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Then, when John's work was almost done, he said, “Who do you people think I am? Do you think I am the Promised One? He will come later, and I am not good enough to untie his sandals.”


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Now listen, you descendants of Abraham! Pay attention, all of you Gentiles who are here to worship God! Listen to this message about how to be saved, because it is for everyone.


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The people of Jerusalem and their leaders didn't realize who Jesus was. And they didn't understand the words of the prophets they read each Sabbath. So they condemned Jesus just as the prophets had said.


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They did exactly what the Scriptures said they would. Even though they couldn't find any reason to put Jesus to death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. After Jesus had been put to death, he was taken down from the cross and placed in a tomb.


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Then for many days Jesus appeared to his followers who had gone with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. Now they are telling our people about him.


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that he has kept this promise to us. It is just as the second Psalm says about Jesus, “You are my son because today I have become your Father.”


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God raised Jesus from death and will never let his body decay. It is just as God said, “I will make to you the same holy promises that I made to David.”


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When David was alive, he obeyed God. Then after he died, he was buried in the family grave, and his body decayed.


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My friends, the message is that Jesus can forgive your sins! The Law of Moses could not set you free from all your sins.


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“Look, you people who make fun of God! Be amazed and disappear. I will do something today that you won't believe, even if someone tells you about it!”


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As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people begged them to say more about these same things on the next Sabbath.


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After the service, many Jews and a lot of Gentiles who worshiped God went with them. Paul and Barnabas begged them all to remain faithful to God, who had treated them with undeserved grace.


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When the Jewish people saw the crowds, they were very jealous. They insulted Paul and spoke against everything he said.


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But Paul and Barnabas bravely said: We had to tell God's message to you before we told it to anyone else. But you rejected the message! This proves that you don't deserve eternal life. Now we are going to the Gentiles.


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The Lord has given us this command, “I have placed you here as a light for the Gentiles. You are to take the saving power of God to people everywhere on earth.”


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This message made the Gentiles glad, and they praised what they had heard about the Lord. Everyone who had been chosen for eternal life then put their faith in the Lord.


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But the Jewish leaders went to some of the important men in the town and to some respected women who were religious. They turned them against Paul and Barnabas and started making trouble for them. They even chased them out of this part of the country.


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Paul and Barnabas spoke in the synagogue in Iconium, just as they had done at Antioch, and many Jews and Gentiles put their faith in the Lord.


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But the Jews who did not have faith in him made the other Gentiles angry and turned them against the Lord's followers.


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Paul and Barnabas stayed there for a while, having faith in the Lord and bravely speaking his message. The Lord gave them the power to work miracles and wonders, and he showed that their message about his gift of undeserved grace was true.


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The people of Iconium did not know what to think. Some of them believed the Jewish group, and others believed the apostles.


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Finally, some Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to make trouble for Paul and Barnabas and to stone them to death.


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But when the two apostles found out what was happening, they escaped to the region of Lycaonia. They preached the good news there in the towns of Lystra and Derbe and in the nearby countryside.


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The man was listening to Paul speak, when Paul saw that he had faith in Jesus and could be healed. So he looked straight at the man


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When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they yelled out in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have turned into humans and have come down to us!”


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The people then gave Barnabas the name Zeus, and they gave Paul the name Hermes, because he did the talking.


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The temple of Zeus was near the entrance to the city. Its priest and the crowds wanted to offer a sacrifice to Barnabas and Paul. So the priest brought some bulls and flowers to the city gates.


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When the two apostles found out about this, they tore their clothes in horror and ran to the crowd, shouting:


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Why are you doing this? We are humans just like you. Please give up all this foolishness. Turn to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.


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But he showed he was there by the good things he did. God sends rain from heaven and makes your crops grow. He gives food to you and makes your hearts glad.


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Even after Paul and Barnabas had said all this, they could hardly keep the people from offering a sacrifice to them.


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Some Jewish leaders from Antioch and Iconium came and turned the crowds against Paul. They hit him with stones and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.


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But when the Lord's followers gathered around Paul, he stood up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas went to Derbe.


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Paul and Barnabas preached the good news in Derbe and won some people to the Lord. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch in Pisidia.


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They encouraged the followers and begged them to remain faithful. They told them, “We have to suffer a lot before we can get into God's kingdom.”


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Paul and Barnabas chose some leaders for each of the churches. Then they went without eating and prayed that the Lord would take good care of these leaders who had trusted in the Lord.


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and sailed to Antioch in Syria. It was there that they had been placed in God's care for the work they had now completed.


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After arriving in Antioch, they called the church together. They told the people what God had helped them do and how he had made it possible for the Gentiles to believe.


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Some people came from Judea and started teaching the Lord's followers that they could not be saved, unless they were circumcised as Moses had taught.


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This caused trouble, and Paul and Barnabas argued with them about this teaching. So it was decided to send Paul and Barnabas and a few others to Jerusalem to discuss this problem with the apostles and the church leaders.


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The men who were sent by the church went through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling how the Gentiles had turned to God. This news made the Lord's followers very happy.


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When the men arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, including the apostles and the leaders. They told them everything God had helped them do.


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But some Pharisees had become followers of the Lord. They stood up and said, “Gentiles who have faith in the Lord must be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.”


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They had talked it over for a long time, when Peter got up and said: My friends, you know that God decided long ago to let me be the one from your group to preach the good news to the Gentiles. God did this so they would hear and obey him.


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He knows what is in everyone's heart. And he showed he had chosen the Gentiles, when he gave them the Holy Spirit, just as he had given his Spirit to us.


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God treated them in the same way that he treated us. They put their faith in him, and he made their hearts pure.


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Now why are you trying to make God angry by placing a heavy burden on these followers? This burden was too heavy for us or our ancestors.


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But we believe that we will be saved by the gift of undeserved grace from our Lord Jesus Christ, just as the Gentiles are.


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Everyone kept quiet and listened as Barnabas and Paul told how God had given them the power to work a lot of miracles and wonders for the Gentiles.


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“I, the Lord, will return and rebuild David's fallen house. I will build it from its ruins and set it up again.


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We should simply write and tell them not to eat anything that has been offered to idols. They should be told not to eat the meat of any animal that has been strangled or that still has blood in it. They must also not commit any terrible sexual sins.


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We must remember that the Law of Moses has been preached in city after city for many years, and every Sabbath it is read in our synagogues.


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The apostles, the leaders, and all the church members decided to send some men to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Silas and Judas Barsabbas, who were two leaders of the Lord's followers.


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They wrote a letter that said: We apostles and leaders send friendly greetings to all of you Gentiles who are followers of the Lord in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.


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We have heard that some people from here have terribly upset you by what they said. But we did not send them!


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So we met together and decided to choose some men and to send them to you along with our good friends Barnabas and Paul.


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We are also sending Judas and Silas, who will tell you in person the same things that we are writing.


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But you should not eat anything offered to idols. You should not eat any meat that still has the blood in it or any meat of any animal that has been strangled. You must also not commit any terrible sexual sins. If you follow these instructions, you will do well. We send our best wishes.


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The four men left Jerusalem and went to Antioch. Then they called the church members together and gave them the letter.


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Judas and Silas were prophets, and they spoke a long time, encouraging and helping the Lord's followers.


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The men from Jerusalem stayed on in Antioch for a while. And when they left to return to the ones who had sent them, the followers wished them well.


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But Paul and Barnabas stayed on in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached about the Lord.


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Sometime later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let's go back and visit the Lord's followers in the cities where we preached his message. Then we will know how they are doing.”


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But Paul did not want to, because Mark had left them in Pamphylia and had stopped working with them.


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Paul and Barnabas argued, then each of them went his own way. Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus,


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Paul and Silas went back to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a follower named Timothy. His mother was also a follower. She was Jewish, and his father was Greek.


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and Paul wanted him to go with them. But Paul first had him circumcised, because all the Jewish people around there knew that Timothy's father was Greek.


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As Paul and the others went from city to city, they told the followers what the apostles and leaders in Jerusalem had decided, and they urged them to follow these instructions.


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Paul and his friends went through Phrygia and Galatia, but the Holy Spirit would not let them preach in Asia.


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After they arrived in Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not let them.


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During the night, Paul had a vision of someone from Macedonia who was standing there and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”


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After Paul had seen the vision, we began looking for a way to go to Macedonia. We were sure that God had called us to preach the good news there.


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From there we went to Philippi, which is a Roman colony in the first district of Macedonia. We spent several days in Philippi.


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Then on the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to a place by the river, where we thought there would be a Jewish meeting place for prayer. We sat down and talked with the women who came.


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One of them was Lydia, who was from the city of Thyatira and sold expensive purple cloth. She was a worshiper of the Lord God, and he made her willing to accept what Paul was saying.


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Then after she and her family were baptized, she kept on begging us, “If you think I really do have faith in the Lord, come stay in my home.” Finally, we accepted her invitation.


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One day on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl. She had a spirit in her that gave her the power to tell the future. By doing this she made a lot of money for her owners.


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The girl followed Paul and the rest of us, and she kept yelling, “These men are servants of the Most High God! They are telling you how to be saved.”


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This went on for several days. Finally, Paul got so upset that he turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I order you to leave this girl alone!” At once the evil spirit left her.


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When the girl's owners realized they had lost all chances for making more money, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them into court.


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The crowd joined in the attack on Paul and Silas. Then the officials tore the clothes off the two men and ordered them to be beaten with a whip.


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After they had been badly beaten, they were put in jail, and the jailer was told to guard them carefully.


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The jailer did as he was told. He put them deep inside the jail and chained their feet to heavy blocks of wood.


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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises to God, while the other prisoners listened.


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Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the jail to its foundations. The doors opened, and the chains fell from all the prisoners.


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When the jailer woke up and saw that the doors were open, he thought that the prisoners had escaped. He pulled out his sword and was about to kill himself.


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The jailer asked for a torch and went into the jail. He was shaking all over as he knelt down in front of Paul and Silas.


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They replied, “Have faith in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved! This is also true for everyone who lives in your home.”


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While it was still night, the jailer took them to a place where he could wash their cuts and bruises. Then he and everyone in his home were baptized.


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They were very glad they had put their faith in God. After this, the jailer took Paul and Silas to his home and gave them something to eat.


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The next morning the officials sent some police with orders for the jailer to let Paul and Silas go.


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But Paul told the police, “We are Roman citizens, and the Roman officials had us beaten in public without giving us a trial. They threw us into jail. Now do they think they can secretly send us away? No, they cannot! They will have to come here themselves and let us out.”


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When the police told the officials that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, the officials were afraid.


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But Paul and Silas went straight to the home of Lydia, where they saw the Lord's followers and encouraged them. Then they left.


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After Paul and his friends had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they went on to Thessalonica. A synagogue was in that city.


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So as usual, Paul went there to worship, and on three Sabbaths he spoke to the people. He used the Scriptures


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to show them that the Messiah had to suffer, but that he would rise from death. Paul also told them that Jesus is the Messiah he was preaching about.


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Some of them believed what Paul had said, and they became followers with Paul and Silas. Some Gentiles and many important women also believed the message.


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The Jewish leaders were jealous and got some troublemakers who hung around the marketplace to start a riot in the city. They wanted to drag Paul and Silas out to the mob, and so they went straight to Jason's home.


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But when they did not find them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the Lord's followers. They took them to the city authorities and shouted, “Paul and Silas have been upsetting things everywhere. Now they have come here,


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and Jason has welcomed them into his home. All of them break the laws of the Roman Emperor by claiming that someone named Jesus is king.”


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That same night the Lord's followers sent Paul and Silas on to Berea, and after they arrived, they went to the synagogue.


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The people in Berea were much nicer than those in Thessalonica, and they gladly accepted the message. Day after day they studied the Scriptures to see if these things were true.


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When the Jewish leaders in Thessalonica heard that Paul had been preaching God's message in Berea, they went there and caused trouble by turning the crowds against Paul.


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Some men went with Paul as far as Athens, and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.


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He went to the synagogue to speak to the Jews and to anyone who worshiped with them. Day after day he also spoke to everyone he met in the market.


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Some of them were Epicureans and some were Stoics, and they started arguing with him. People were asking, “What is this know-it-all trying to say?” Some even said, “Paul must be preaching about foreign gods! That's what he means when he talks about Jesus and about people rising from death.”


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They brought Paul before a council called the Areopagus, and said, “Tell us what your new teaching is all about.


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More than anything else the people of Athens and the foreigners living there loved to hear and to talk about anything new.


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So Paul stood up in front of the council and said: People of Athens, I see that you are very religious.


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As I was going through your city and looking at the things you worship, I found an altar with the words, “To an Unknown God.” You worship this God, but you don't really know him. So I want to tell you about him.


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This God made the world and everything in it. He is Lord of heaven and earth, and he doesn't live in temples built by human hands.


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From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.


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God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us,


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and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. “We are his children,” just as some of your poets have said.


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Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made.


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In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him.


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He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death.


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As soon as the people heard Paul say a man had been raised from death, some of them started laughing. Others said, “We will hear you talk about this some other time.”


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some of the men put their faith in the Lord and went with Paul. One of them was a council member named Dionysius. A woman named Damaris and several others also put their faith in the Lord.


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where he met Aquila, a Jewish man from Pontus. Not long before this, Aquila had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Emperor Claudius had ordered the Jewish people to leave Rome. Paul went to see Aquila and Priscilla


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and found out they were tent makers. Paul was also a tent maker, so he stayed with them, and they worked together.


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Every Sabbath, Paul went to the synagogue. He spoke to Jews and Gentiles and tried to win them over.


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But after Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, he spent all his time preaching to the Jews about Jesus the Messiah.


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Finally, they turned against him and insulted him. So he shook the dust from his clothes and told them, “Whatever happens to you will be your own fault! I am not to blame. From now on I am going to preach to the Gentiles.”


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Paul then moved into the house of a man named Titius Justus, who worshiped God and lived next door to the synagogue.


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Crispus was the leader of the synagogue. He and everyone in his family put their faith in the Lord. Many others in Corinth also heard the message, and all the people who had faith in the Lord were baptized.


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One night, Paul had a vision, and in it the Lord said, “Don't be afraid to keep on preaching. Don't stop!


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While Gallio was governor of Achaia, some of the Jewish leaders got together and grabbed Paul. They brought him into court


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Even before Paul could speak, Gallio said, “If you were charging this man with a crime or some other wrong, I would have to listen to you.


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But since this concerns only words, names, and your own law, you will have to take care of it yourselves. I refuse to judge such matters.”


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The crowd grabbed Sosthenes, the Jewish leader, and beat him up in front of the court. But none of this mattered to Gallio.


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After Paul had stayed for a while with the Lord's followers in Corinth, he told them goodbye and sailed on to Syria with Aquila and Priscilla. But before he left, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae because he had made a promise to God.


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The three of them arrived in Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He then went into the synagogue to talk with the people there.


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After staying there for a while, he left and visited several places in Galatia and Phrygia. He helped the followers there to become stronger in their faith.


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A Jewish man named Apollos came to Ephesus. Apollos had been born in the city of Alexandria. He was a very good speaker and knew a lot about the Scriptures.


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He also knew much about the Lord's Way, and he spoke about it with great excitement. What he taught about Jesus was right, but all he knew was John's message about baptism.


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Apollos started speaking bravely in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to their home and helped him understand God's Way even better.


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Apollos decided to travel through Achaia. So the Lord's followers wrote letters, encouraging the followers there to welcome him. After Apollos arrived in Achaia, he was a great help to everyone who had put their faith in the Lord Jesus because of God's gift of undeserved grace.


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He got into fierce arguments with the Jewish people, and in public he used the Scriptures to prove that Jesus is the Messiah.


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While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled across the hill country to Ephesus, where he met some of the Lord's followers.


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He asked them, “When you put your faith in Jesus, were you given the Holy Spirit?” “No!” they answered. “We have never even heard of the Holy Spirit.”


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Paul replied, “John baptized people so they would turn to God. But he also told them someone else was coming, and they should put their faith in him. Jesus is the one that John was talking about.”


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Then Paul placed his hands on them. The Holy Spirit was given to them, and they spoke unknown languages and prophesied.


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For three months Paul went to the synagogue and talked bravely with the people about God's kingdom. He tried to win them over,


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but some of them were stubborn and refused to believe. In front of everyone they said terrible things about God's Way. Paul left and took the followers with him to the lecture hall of Tyrannus. He spoke there every day


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People even took handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched Paul's body, and they carried them to everyone who was sick. All of the sick people were healed, and the evil spirits went out.


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Some Jewish men started going around trying to force out evil spirits by using the name of the Lord Jesus. They said to the spirits, “Come out in the name of that same Jesus that Paul preaches about!”


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Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them up. They ran out of the house, naked and bruised.


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When the Jews and Gentiles in Ephesus heard about this, they were so frightened that they praised the name of the Lord Jesus.


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Some who had been practicing witchcraft even brought their books and burned them in public. These books were worth about 50,000 silver coins.


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After all this had happened, Paul decided to visit Macedonia and Achaia on his way to Jerusalem. Paul had said, “From there I will go on to Rome.”


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So he sent his two helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia. But he stayed on in Asia for a while.


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A silversmith named Demetrius had a business that made silver models of the temple of the goddess Artemis. Those who worked for him earned a lot of money.


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Demetrius brought together everyone who was in the same business and said: Friends, you know we make a good living at this.


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But you have surely seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.


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Everyone will start saying terrible things about our business. They will stop respecting the temple of the goddess Artemis, who is worshiped in Asia and all over the world. Our great goddess will be forgotten!


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When the workers heard this, they got angry and started shouting, “Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!”


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Soon the whole city was in a riot, and some men grabbed Gaius and Aristarchus, who had come from Macedonia with Paul. Then everyone in the crowd rushed to the place where the town meetings were held.


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Some of the people in the meeting were shouting one thing, and others were shouting something else. Everyone was completely confused, and most of them did not even know why they were there.


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Several of the Jewish leaders pushed a man named Alexander to the front of the crowd and started telling him what to say. He motioned with his hand and tried to explain what was going on.


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But when the crowd saw that he was Jewish, they all shouted for two hours, “Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!”


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Finally, a town official made the crowd be quiet. Then he said: People of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that our city is the center for worshiping the great goddess Artemis? Who doesn't know that her image which fell from heaven is right here?


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If Demetrius and his workers have a case against these men, we have courts and judges. Let them take their complaints there.


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We could easily be accused of starting a riot today. There is no excuse for it! We cannot even give a reason for this uproar.


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When the riot was over, Paul sent for the followers and encouraged them. He then told them goodbye and left for Macedonia.


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As he traveled from place to place, he encouraged the followers with many messages. Finally, he went to Greece


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and stayed there for three months. Paul was about to sail to Syria. But some of the Jewish leaders plotted against him, so he decided to return by way of Macedonia.


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With him were Sopater, son of Pyrrhus from Berea, and Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica. Gaius from Derbe was also with him, and so were Timothy and the two Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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After the Festival of Thin Bread, we sailed from Philippi. Five days later we met them in Troas and stayed there for a week.


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On the first day of the week we met to break bread together. Paul spoke to the people until midnight because he was leaving the next morning.


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A young man by the name of Eutychus was sitting on a window sill. While Paul was speaking, the young man got very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell three floors all the way down to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.


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After Paul had gone back upstairs, he broke bread, and ate with us. He then spoke until dawn and left.


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Paul decided to travel by land to Assos. The rest of us went on ahead by ship, and we were to take him aboard there.


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The next day we came to a place near Chios, and the following day we reached Samos. The day after that we sailed to Miletus.


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Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend too much time in Asia. He was in a hurry and wanted to be in Jerusalem in time for Pentecost.


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When they got there, he said: You know everything I did during the time I was with you when I first came to Asia.


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Some of the Jews plotted against me and caused me a lot of sorrow and trouble. But I served the Lord and was humble.


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When I preached in public or taught in your homes, I didn't hold back from telling anything that would help you.


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In every city I visit, I am told by the Holy Spirit that I will be put in jail and will be in trouble in Jerusalem.


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But I don't care what happens to me, as long as I finish the work the Lord Jesus gave me to do. And this work is to tell the good news about God's gift of undeserved grace.


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I have gone from place to place, preaching to you about God's kingdom, but now I know that none of you will ever see me again.


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Look after yourselves and everyone the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be like shepherds to God's church. It is the flock he bought with the blood of his own Son.


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Be on your guard! Remember how day and night for three years I kept warning you with tears in my eyes.


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I now place you in God's care. Remember the message about his gift of undeserved grace! This message can help you and give you what belongs to you as God's people.


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By everything I did, I showed how you should work to help everyone who is weak. Remember that our Lord Jesus said, “More blessings come from giving than from receiving.”


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They were especially sad because Paul had told them, “You will never see me again.” Then they went with him to the ship.


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After saying goodbye, we sailed straight to Cos. The next day we reached Rhodes and from there sailed on to Patara.


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We came within sight of Cyprus and then sailed south of it on to the port of Tyre in Syria, where the ship was going to unload its cargo.


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We found the Lord's followers and stayed with them for a week. The Holy Spirit had told them to warn Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.


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But when the week was over, we started on our way again. All the men, together with their wives and children, walked with us from the town to the seashore. We knelt on the beach and prayed.


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The next day we went to Caesarea and stayed with Philip, the preacher. He was one of the seven men who helped the apostles,


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He took Paul's belt, and with it he tied up his own hands and feet. Then he told us, “The Holy Spirit says that some of the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. They will also hand him over to the Gentiles.”


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But Paul answered, “Why are you crying and breaking my heart? I am not only willing to be put in jail for the Lord Jesus, but I am even willing to die for him in Jerusalem!”


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Since we could not get Paul to change his mind, we gave up and prayed, “Lord, please make us willing to do what you want.”


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Some of the followers from Caesarea went with us and took us to stay in the home of Mnason. He was from Cyprus and had been a follower from the beginning.


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Everyone who heard this praised God and said to Paul: My friend, you can see how many tens of thousands of our people have become followers! And all of them are eager to obey the Law of Moses.


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But they have been told that you are teaching those who live among the Gentiles to disobey this Law. They claim that you are telling them not to circumcise their sons or to follow our customs.


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Join with them and prepare yourself for the ceremony that goes with the promises. Pay the cost for their heads to be shaved. Then everyone will learn that the reports about you are not true. They will know you do obey the Law of Moses.


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Some while ago we told the Gentile followers what we think they should do. We instructed them not to eat anything offered to idols. They were told not to eat any meat with blood still in it or the meat of an animal that has been strangled. They were also told not to commit any terrible sexual sins.


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The next day Paul took the four men with him and got himself ready at the same time they did. Then he went into the temple and told when the final ceremony would take place and when an offering would be made for each of them.


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When the period of seven days for the ceremony was almost over, some of the Jewish people from Asia saw Paul in the temple. They got a large crowd together and started attacking him.


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They were shouting, “Friends, help us! This man goes around everywhere, saying bad things about our nation and about the Law of Moses and about this temple. He has even brought shame to this holy temple by bringing in Gentiles.”


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Some of them thought that Paul had brought Trophimus from Ephesus into the temple, because they had seen them together in the city.


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The whole city was in an uproar, and the people turned into a mob. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Then suddenly the doors were shut.


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The people were about to kill Paul when the Roman army commander heard that all Jerusalem was starting to riot.


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So he quickly took some soldiers and officers and ran to where the crowd had gathered. As soon as the mob saw the commander and soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


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The army commander went over and arrested him and had him bound with two chains. Then he tried to find out who Paul was and what he had done.


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Part of the crowd shouted one thing, and part of them shouted something else. But they were making so much noise that the commander could not find out a thing. Then he ordered Paul to be taken into the fortress.


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As they reached the steps, the crowd became so wild that the soldiers had to lift Paul up and carry him.


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When Paul was about to be taken into the fortress, he asked the commander, “Can I say something to you?” “How do you know Greek?” the commander asked.


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“Aren't you that Egyptian who started a riot not long ago and led 4,000 terrorists into the desert?”


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“No!” Paul replied. “I am a Jew from Tarsus, an important city in Cilicia. Please let me speak to the crowd.”


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The commander told him he could speak, so Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. When they were quiet, he spoke to them in Aramaic:


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I am a Jew, born in the city of Tarsus in Cilicia. But I grew up here in Jerusalem where I was a student of Gamaliel and was taught to follow every single law of our ancestors. In fact, I was just as eager to obey God as any of you are today.


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I made trouble for everyone who followed the Lord's Way, and I even had some of them killed. I had others arrested and put in jail. I didn't care if they were men or women.


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The high priest and all the council members can tell you this is true. They even gave me letters to the Jewish leaders in Damascus, so that I could arrest people there and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.


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One day about noon I was getting close to Damascus, when a bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.


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“Who are you?” I answered. The Lord replied, “I am Jesus from Nazareth! I am the one you are so cruel to.”


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I asked, “Lord, what do you want me to do?” Then he told me, “Get up and go to Damascus. When you get there, you will be told what to do.”


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The light had been so bright that I couldn't see. And the others had to lead me by the hand to Damascus.


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In that city there was a man named Ananias, who faithfully obeyed the Law of Moses and was well liked by all the Jewish people living there.


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Then Ananias told me, “The God that our ancestors worshiped has chosen you to know what he wants done. He has chosen you to see the One Who Obeys God and to hear his voice.


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of the Lord who said to me, “Hurry and leave Jerusalem! The people won't listen to what you say about me.”


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I replied, “Lord, they know that in many of our synagogues I arrested and beat people who had faith in you.


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Stephen was killed because he spoke for you, and I stood there and cheered them on. I even guarded the clothes of the men who murdered him.”


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The crowd listened until Paul said this. Then they started shouting, “Get rid of this man! He doesn't deserve to live.”


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The Roman commander ordered Paul to be taken into the fortress and beaten with a whip. He did this to find out why the people were screaming at Paul.


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While the soldiers were tying Paul up to be beaten, he asked the officer standing there, “Is it legal to beat a Roman citizen before he has been tried in court?”


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When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and said, “What are you doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”


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The commander then said, “I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen.” But Paul replied, “I was born a Roman citizen.”


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The men who were about to beat and question Paul quickly backed off. And the commander himself was frightened when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.


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The next day the commander wanted to know the real reason why the Jewish leaders had brought charges against Paul. So he had Paul's chains removed, and he ordered the chief priests and the whole council to meet. Then he had Paul led in and made him stand in front of them.


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Paul looked straight at the council members and said, “My friends, to this day I have served God with a clear conscience!”


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Paul turned to the high priest and said, “You whitewashed wall! God will hit you. You sit there to judge me by the Law of Moses. But at the same time you order men to break the Law by hitting me.”


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Paul replied, “Oh! I didn't know he was the high priest. The Scriptures do tell us not to speak evil about a leader of our people.”


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When Paul saw that some of the council members were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted, “My friends, I am a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee. I am on trial simply because I believe that the dead will be raised to life.”


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As soon as Paul said this, the Pharisees and the Sadducees got into a big argument, and the council members started taking sides.


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The Sadducees do not believe in angels or spirits or that the dead will rise to life. But the Pharisees believe in all of these,


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and so there was a lot of shouting. Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses were Pharisees. Finally, they became angry and said, “We don't find anything wrong with this man. Maybe a spirit or an angel really did speak to him.”


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The argument became fierce, and the commander was afraid that Paul would be pulled apart. So he ordered the soldiers to go in and rescue Paul. Then they took him back into the fortress.


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That night the Lord stood beside Paul and said, “Don't worry! Just as you have told others about me in Jerusalem, you must also tell about me in Rome.”


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The next morning more than 40 Jewish men got together and vowed that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.


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Then some of them went to the chief priests and the nation's leaders and said, “We have promised God that we would not eat a thing until we have killed Paul.


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You and everyone in the council must go to the commander and pretend that you want to find out more about the charges against Paul. Ask for him to be brought before your court. Meanwhile, we will be waiting to kill him before he gets there.”


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So Paul said to one of the army officers, “Take this young man to the commander. He has something to tell him.”


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The officer took him to the commander and said, “The prisoner named Paul asked me to bring this young man to you, because he has something to tell you.”


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He answered, “Some men are planning to ask you to bring Paul down to the Jewish council tomorrow. They will claim they want to find out more about him.


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But please don't do what they say. More than 40 men are going to attack Paul. They have made a vow not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him. Even now they are waiting to hear what you decide.”


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The commander sent the young man away after saying to him, “Don't let anyone know you told me this.”


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The commander called in two of his officers and told them, “By nine o'clock tonight have 200 soldiers ready to go to Caesarea. Take along 70 men on horseback and 200 foot soldiers with spears.


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Some Jews grabbed this man and were about to kill him. But when I found out that he was a Roman citizen, I took some soldiers and rescued him.


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and learned that the charges concern only their religious laws. This man isn't guilty of anything for which he should die or even be put in jail.


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As soon as I learned that there was a plot against him, I sent him to you and told their leaders to bring charges against him in your court.


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The soldiers obeyed the commander's orders, and that same night they took Paul to the city of Antipatris.


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The next day the foot soldiers returned to the fortress and let the soldiers on horseback take him the rest of the way.


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The governor said, “I will listen to your case as soon as the people come to bring their charges against you.” After saying this, he gave orders for Paul to be kept as a prisoner in Herod's palace.


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Five days later Ananias the high priest, together with some of their leaders and a lawyer named Tertullus, went to the governor to present their case against Paul.


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So Paul was called in, and Tertullus stated the case against him: Honorable Felix, you have brought our people a long period of peace, and because of your concern our nation is much better off.


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This man has been found to be a real pest and troublemaker for our people all over the world. He is also a leader of a group called Nazarenes.


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When he tried to disgrace the temple, we arrested him. If you question him, you will find out for yourself that our charges are true.


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The governor motioned for Paul to speak, and he began: I know that you have judged the people of our nation for many years, and I am glad to defend myself in your court.


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It was no more than twelve days ago that I went to worship in Jerusalem. You can find this out easily enough.


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Never once did the Jews find me arguing with anyone in the temple. I didn't cause trouble in the synagogues or in the city itself.


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I admit that their leaders think the Lord's Way which I follow is based on wrong beliefs. But I still worship the same God that my ancestors worshiped. And I believe everything written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets.


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And because I am sure, I try my best to have a clear conscience in whatever I do for God or for people.


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After being away for several years, I returned here to bring gifts for the poor people of my nation and to offer sacrifices.


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This is what I was doing when I was found going through a ceremony in the temple. I wasn't with a crowd, and there was no uproar.


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Some Jews from Asia were there at that time, and if they have anything to say against me, they should be here now.


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Or ask the ones who are here. They can tell you that they didn't find me guilty of anything when I was tried by their own council.


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The only charge they can bring against me is what I shouted out in court, when I said, “I am on trial today because I believe that the dead will be raised to life!”


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Felix knew a lot about the Lord's Way. But he brought the trial to an end and said, “I will make my decision after Lysias the commander arrives.”


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He then ordered the army officer to keep Paul under guard, but not to lock him up or to stop his friends from helping him.


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Several days later Felix and his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, went to the place where Paul was kept under guard. They sent for Paul and listened while he spoke to them about having faith in Christ Jesus.


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But Felix was frightened when Paul started talking to them about doing right, about self-control, and about the coming judgment. So he said to Paul, “That's enough for now. You may go. But when I have time I will send for you.”


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After this, Felix often sent for Paul and talked with him, because he hoped that Paul would offer him a bribe.


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Two years later Porcius Festus became governor in place of Felix. But since Felix wanted to do the Jewish leaders a favor, he kept Paul in jail.


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There the chief priests and some Jewish leaders told him about their charges against Paul. They also asked Festus


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if he would be willing to bring Paul to Jerusalem. They begged him to do this because they were planning to attack and kill Paul on the way.


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Festus stayed in Jerusalem for eight or ten more days before going to Caesarea. Then the next day he took his place as judge and had Paul brought into court.


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As soon as Paul came in, the leaders from Jerusalem crowded around him and said he was guilty of many serious crimes. But they could not prove anything.


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Then Paul spoke in his own defense, “I have not broken the Law of my people. And I have not done anything against either the temple or the Emperor.”


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Festus wanted to please the leaders. So he asked Paul, “Are you willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried by me on these charges?”


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Paul replied, “I am on trial in the Emperor's court, and that's where I should be tried. You know very well I have not done anything to harm the Jewish nation.


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If I had done something deserving death, I would not ask to escape the death penalty. But I am not guilty of any of these crimes, and no one has the right to hand me over to these people. I now ask to be tried by the Emperor himself.”


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After Festus had talked this over with members of his council, he told Paul, “You have asked to be tried by the Emperor, and to the Emperor you will go!”


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They had been there for several days, when Festus told the king about the charges against Paul. He said: Felix left a man here in jail,


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and when I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the Jewish leaders came and asked me to find him guilty.


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I told them it isn't the Roman custom to hand a man over to people who are bringing charges against him. He must first have the chance to meet them face to face and to defend himself against their charges.


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So when they came here with me, I wasted no time. On the very next day I took my place on the judge's bench and ordered him to be brought in.


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But when the men stood up to make their charges against him, they did not accuse him of any of the crimes that I thought they would.


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Instead, they argued with him about some of their beliefs and about a dead man named Jesus, who Paul said was alive.


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Since I did not know how to find out the truth about all this, I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be put on trial there.


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But Paul asked to be kept in jail until the Emperor could decide his case. So I ordered him to be kept here until I could send him to the Emperor.


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Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear what this man has to say.” Festus answered, “You can hear him tomorrow.”


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The next day Agrippa and Bernice made a big show as they came into the meeting room. High ranking army officers and leading citizens of the town were also there. Festus then ordered Paul to be brought in


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and said: King Agrippa and other guests, look at this man! Every Jew from Jerusalem and Caesarea has come to me, demanding for him to be put to death.


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I have not found him guilty of any crime deserving death. But because he has asked to be judged by the Emperor, I have decided to send him to Rome.


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I have to write some facts about this man to the Emperor. So I have brought him before all of you, but especially before you, King Agrippa. After we have talked about his case, I will then have something to write.


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King Agrippa, I am glad for this chance to defend myself before you today on all these charges my own people have brought against me.


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You know a lot about our religious customs and the beliefs that divide us. So I ask you to listen patiently to me.


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All the Jews have known me since I was a child. They know what kind of life I have lived in my own country and in Jerusalem. And if they were willing, they could tell you I was a Pharisee, a member of a group that is stricter than any other.


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Day and night our twelve tribes have earnestly served God, waiting for his promised blessings. King Agrippa, because of this hope, some of our leaders have brought charges against me.


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I did this first in Jerusalem, and with the authority of the chief priests I put many of God's people in jail. I even voted for them to be killed.


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I often had them punished in our synagogues, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.


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King Agrippa, one day I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and permission of the chief priests.


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About noon I saw a light brighter than the sun. It flashed from heaven on me and on everyone traveling with me.


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We all fell to the ground. Then I heard a voice say to me in Aramaic, “Saul, Saul, why are you so cruel to me? It's foolish to fight against me!”


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Now stand up. I have appeared to you, because I have chosen you to be my servant. You are to tell others what you have learned about me and what I will show you later.”


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The Lord also said, “I will protect you from the Jews and from the Gentiles that I am sending you to.


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I want you to open their eyes, so they will turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then their sins will be forgiven, and by faith in me they will become part of God's holy people.”


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First I preached to the people in Damascus, and then I went to Jerusalem and all over Judea. Finally, I went to the Gentiles and said, “Stop sinning and turn to God! Then prove what you have done by the way you live.”


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But all this time God has helped me, and I have preached both to the rich and to the poor. I have told them only what the prophets and Moses said would happen.


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I told them how the Messiah would suffer and be the first to be raised from death, so he could bring light to his own people and to the Gentiles.


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Before Paul finished defending himself, Festus shouted, “Paul, you're crazy! Too much learning has driven you out of your mind.”


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None of these things happened off in a corner somewhere. I am sure that King Agrippa knows what I am talking about. That's why I can speak so plainly to him.”


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Paul answered, “Whether it takes a short time or a long time, I wish you and everyone else who hears me today would become just like me! Except, of course, for these chains.”


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But before they left, they said, “This man isn't guilty of anything. He doesn't deserve to die or to be put in jail.”


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Agrippa told Festus, “Paul could have been set free, if he had not asked to be tried by the Roman Emperor.”


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When it was time for us to sail to Rome, Captain Julius from the Emperor's special troops was put in charge of Paul and the other prisoners.


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We went aboard a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to some ports along the coast of Asia. Aristarchus from Thessalonica in Macedonia sailed on the ship with us.


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The next day we came to shore at Sidon. Captain Julius was very kind to Paul. He even let him visit his friends, so they could give him whatever he needed.


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When we left Sidon, the winds were blowing against us, and we sailed close to the island of Cyprus to be safe from the wind.


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There the army captain found a ship from Alexandria that was going to Italy. So he ordered us to board that ship.


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We sailed along slowly for several days and had a hard time reaching Cnidus. The wind would not let us go any farther in that direction, so we sailed past Cape Salmone, where the island of Crete would protect us from the wind.


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We went slowly along the coast and finally reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.


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By now we had already lost a lot of time, and sailing was no longer safe. In fact, even the Great Day of Forgiveness was past.


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Then Paul spoke to the crew of the ship, “Men, listen to me! If we sail now, our ship and its cargo will be badly damaged, and many lives will be lost.”


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The harbor at Fair Havens wasn't a good place to spend the winter. Because of this, almost everyone agreed that we should at least try to sail along the coast of Crete as far as Phoenix. It had a harbor that opened toward the southwest and northwest, and we could spend the winter there.


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When a gentle wind from the south started blowing, the men thought it was a good time to do what they had planned. So they pulled up the anchor, and we sailed along the coast of Crete.


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We went along the island of Cauda on the side that was protected from the wind. We had a hard time holding the lifeboat in place,


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but finally we got it where it belonged. Then the sailors wrapped ropes around the ship to hold it together. They lowered the sail and let the ship drift along, because they were afraid it might hit the sandbanks in the gulf of Syrtis.


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For several days we could not see either the sun or the stars. A strong wind kept blowing, and we finally gave up all hope of being saved.


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Since none of us had eaten anything for a long time, Paul stood up and told the men: You should have listened to me! If you had stayed on in Crete, you would not have had this damage and loss.


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to tell me, “Paul, don't be afraid! You will stand trial before the Emperor. And because of you, God will save the lives of everyone on the ship.”


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For 14 days and nights we had been blown around over the Mediterranean Sea. But about midnight the sailors realized we were getting near land.


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They measured and found that the water was about 40 meters deep. A little later they measured again and found it was only about 30 meters.


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The sailors were afraid that we might hit some rocks, and they let down four anchors from the back of the ship. Then they prayed for daylight.


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The sailors wanted to escape from the ship. So they lowered the lifeboat into the water, pretending that they were letting down some anchors from the front of the ship.


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But Paul said to Captain Julius and the soldiers, “If the sailors don't stay on the ship, you won't have any chance to save your lives.”


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Just before daylight Paul begged the people to eat something. He told them, “For 14 days you have been so worried that you haven't eaten a thing.


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After Paul had said this, he took a piece of bread and gave thanks to God. Then in front of everyone, he broke the bread and ate some.


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Morning came, and the ship's crew saw a coast they did not recognize. But they did see a cove with a beach. So they decided to try to run the ship aground on the beach.


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They cut the anchors loose and let them sink into the sea. At the same time they untied the ropes that were holding the rudders. Next, they raised the sail at the front of the ship and let the wind carry the ship toward the beach.


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But it ran aground on a sandbank. The front of the ship stuck firmly in the sand, and the rear was being smashed by the force of the waves.


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But Captain Julius wanted to save Paul's life, and he did not let the soldiers do what they had planned. Instead, he ordered everyone who could swim to jump into the water and head for shore.


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Then he told the others to hold on to planks of wood or parts of the ship. At last, everyone safely reached shore.


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The local people were very friendly, and they welcomed us by building a fire, because it was rainy and cold.


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After Paul had gathered some wood and had put it on the fire, the heat caused a snake to crawl out, and it bit him on the hand.


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When the local people saw the snake hanging from Paul's hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer! He didn't drown in the sea, but the goddess of justice will kill him anyway.”


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The people kept thinking that Paul would either swell up or suddenly drop dead. They watched him for a long time, and when nothing happened to him, they changed their minds and said, “This man is a god.”


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The governor of the island was named Publius, and he owned some of the land around there. Publius was very friendly and welcomed us into his home for three days.


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His father was in bed, sick with fever and stomach trouble, and Paul went to visit him. Paul healed the man by praying and placing his hands on him.


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After this happened, everyone on the island brought their sick people to Paul, and they were all healed.


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Three months later we sailed in a ship that had been docked at Malta for the winter. The ship was from Alexandria in Egypt and was known as “The Twin Gods.”


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From there we sailed to Rhegium. The next day a south wind began to blow, and two days later we arrived in Puteoli.


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There we found some of the Lord's followers, who begged us to stay with them. A week later we left for the city of Rome.


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Some of the followers in Rome heard about us and came to meet us at the Market of Appius and at the Three Inns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and was encouraged.


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Three days after we got there, Paul called together some of the Jewish leaders and said: My friends, I have never done anything to hurt our people, and I have never gone against the customs of our ancestors. But in Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.


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They looked into the charges against me and wanted to release me. They found that I had not done anything deserving death.


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The Jewish leaders disagreed, so I asked to be tried by the Emperor. But I don't have anything to say against my own nation.


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I am bound by these chains because of what we people of Israel hope for. This is why I have called you here to talk about this hope of ours.


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The leaders replied, “No one from Judea has written us a letter about you. And not one of them has come here to report on you or to say anything against you.


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But we would like to hear what you have to say. We understand that people everywhere are against this new group.”


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They agreed on a time to meet with Paul, and many of them came to his house. From early morning until late in the afternoon, Paul talked to them about God's kingdom. He used the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets to try to win them over to Jesus.


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Since they could not agree among themselves, they started leaving. But Paul said, “The Holy Spirit said the right thing when he sent Isaiah the prophet


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to tell our ancestors, ‘Go to these people and tell them: You will listen and listen, but never understand. You will look and look, but never see.


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All of you have stubborn hearts. Your ears are stopped up, and your eyes are covered. You cannot see or hear or understand. If you could, you would turn to me, and I would heal you.’ ”


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He bravely preached about God's kingdom and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ, and no one tried to stop him.


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From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus. God chose me to be an apostle, and he appointed me to preach the good news


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This good news is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ! As a human, he was from the family of David. But the Holy Spirit proved that Jesus is the powerful Son of God, because he was raised from death.


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Jesus was kind to me and chose me to be an apostle, so that people of all nations would obey and have faith.


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This letter is to all of you in Rome. God loves you and has chosen you to be his very own people. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


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First, I thank God in the name of Jesus Christ for all of you. I do this because people everywhere in the world are talking about your faith.


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God has seen how I never stop praying for you, while I serve him with all my heart and tell the good news about his Son.


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I want to see you and share with you the same blessings that God's Spirit has given me. Then you will grow stronger in your faith.


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My friends, I want you to know that I have often planned to come for a visit. But something has always kept me from doing it. I want to win followers to Christ in Rome, as I have done in many other places.


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It doesn't matter if people are civilized and educated, or if they are uncivilized and uneducated. I must tell the good news to everyone. That's why I am eager to visit all of you in Rome.


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I am proud of the good news! It is God's powerful way of saving all people who have faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.


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The good news tells how God accepts everyone who has faith, but only those who have faith. It is just as the Scriptures say, “The people God accepts because of their faith will live.”


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From heaven God shows how angry he is with all the wicked and evil things that sinful people do to crush the truth.


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God's eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made. That's why those people don't have any excuse.


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They know about God, but they don't honor him or even thank him. Their thoughts are useless, and their stupid minds are in the dark.


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They don't worship the glorious and eternal God. Instead, they worship idols that are made to look like humans who cannot live forever, and like birds, animals, and reptiles.


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So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.


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They gave up the truth about God for a lie, and they worshiped God's creation instead of God, who will be praised forever. Amen.


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God let them follow their own evil desires. Women no longer wanted to have sex in a natural way, and they did things with each other that were not natural.


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Men behaved in the same way. They stopped wanting to have sex with women and had strong desires for sex with other men. They did shameful things with each other, and what has happened to them is punishment for their foolish deeds.


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Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things.


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They are evil, wicked, and greedy, as well as mean in every possible way. They want what others have, and they murder, argue, cheat, and are hard to get along with. They gossip,


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say cruel things about others, and hate God. They are proud, conceited, and boastful, always thinking up new ways to do evil. These people don't respect their parents.


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They know God has said that anyone who acts this way deserves to die. But they keep on doing evil things, and they even encourage others to do them.


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Some of you accuse others of doing wrong. But there is no excuse for what you do. When you judge others, you condemn yourselves, because you are guilty of doing the very same things.


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You surely don't think much of God's wonderful goodness or of his patience and willingness to put up with you. Don't you know that the reason God is good to you is because he wants you to turn to him?


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But you are stubborn and refuse to turn to God. So you are making things even worse for yourselves on that day when he will show how angry he is and will judge the world with fairness.


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He will give eternal life to everyone who has patiently done what is good in the hope of receiving glory, honor, and life that lasts forever.


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But he will show how angry and furious he can be with every selfish person who rejects the truth and wants to do evil.


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All who are wicked will be punished with trouble and suffering. It doesn't matter if they are Jews or Gentiles.


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But all who do right will be rewarded with glory, honor, and peace, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.


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Those people who don't know about God's Law will still be punished for what they do wrong. And the Law will be used to judge everyone who knows what it says.


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This proves that the conscience is like a law written in the human heart. And it will show whether we are forgiven or condemned,


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And since there is knowledge and truth in God's Law, you think you can instruct fools and teach young people.


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But how can you teach others when you refuse to learn? You preach it is wrong to steal. But do you steal?


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You say people should be faithful in marriage. But are you faithful? You hate idols, yet you rob their temples.


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Being circumcised is worthwhile, if you obey the Law. But if you don't obey the Law, you are no better off than people who are not circumcised.


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So everyone who obeys the Law, but has never been circumcised, will condemn you. Even though you are circumcised and have the Law, you still don't obey its teachings.


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To be a real Jew you must obey the Law. True circumcision is something that happens deep in your heart, not something done to your body. And besides, you should want praise from God and not from humans.


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It is true that some of them did not believe the message. But does this mean that God cannot be trusted, just because they did not have faith?


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No, indeed! God tells the truth, even if everyone else is a liar. The Scriptures say about God, “Your words will be proven true, and in court you will win your case.”


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If our evil deeds show how right God is, then what can we say? Is it wrong for God to become angry and punish us? What a foolish thing to ask.


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Since your lies bring great honor to God by showing how truthful he is, you may ask why God still says you are a sinner.


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You might as well say, “Let's do something evil, so that something good will come of it!” Some people even claim that we are saying this. But God is fair and will judge them as well.


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What does all this mean? Does it mean that we Jews are better off than the Gentiles? No, it doesn't! Jews, as well as Gentiles, are ruled by sin, just as I have said.


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Their words are like an open pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies. Each word is as deadly as the fangs of a snake,


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We know that everything in the Law was written for those who are under its power. The Law says these things to stop anyone from making excuses and to let God show that the whole world is guilty.


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God doesn't accept people simply because they obey the Law. No, indeed! All the Law does is to point out our sin.


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Now we see how God does make us acceptable to him. The Law and the Prophets tell how we become acceptable, and it isn't by obeying the Law of Moses.


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But God treats us much better than we deserve, and because of Christ Jesus, he freely accepts us and sets us free from our sins.


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God sent Christ to be our sacrifice. Christ offered his life's blood, so by faith in him we could come to God. And God did this to show that in the past he was right to be patient and forgive sinners. This also shows that God is right when he accepts people who have faith in Jesus.


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What is left for us to brag about? Not a thing! Is it because we obeyed some law? No! It is because of faith.


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We see that people are acceptable to God because they have faith, and not because they obey the Law.


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If he became acceptable to God because of what he did, then he would have something to brag about. But he would never be able to brag about it to God.


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But you cannot make God accept you because of something you do. God accepts sinners only because they have faith in him.


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In the Scriptures David talks about the blessings that come to people who are acceptable to God, even though they don't do anything to deserve these blessings. David says,


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“What a blessing when God forgives our sins and our evil deeds. What a blessing when the Lord erases our sins from his book.”


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Are these blessings meant for circumcised people or for those who are not circumcised? Well, the Scriptures say that God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith in him.


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Abraham let himself be circumcised to show he had been accepted because of his faith even before he was circumcised. This makes Abraham the father of all who are acceptable to God because of their faith, even though they are not circumcised.


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This also makes Abraham the father of everyone who is circumcised and has faith in God, as Abraham did before he was circumcised.


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God promised Abraham and his descendants that he would give them the world. This promise wasn't made because Abraham had obeyed a law, but because his faith in God made him acceptable.


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If Abraham and his descendants were given this promise because they had obeyed a law, then faith would mean nothing, and the promise would be worthless.


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Everything depends on having faith in God, so that God's promise is assured by his gift of undeserved grace. This promise isn't only for Abraham's descendants who have the Law. It is for all who are Abraham's descendants because they have faith, just as he did. Abraham is the ancestor of us all.


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The Scriptures say that Abraham would become the ancestor of many nations. This promise was made to Abraham because he had faith in God, who raises the dead to life and creates new things.


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God promised Abraham a lot of descendants. And when it all seemed hopeless, Abraham still had faith in God and became the ancestor of many nations.


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Abraham's faith never became weak, not even when he was nearly 100 years old. He knew he was almost dead and that his wife Sarah could not have children.


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But Abraham never doubted or questioned God's promise. His faith made him strong, and he gave all the credit to God.


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They were written for us, since we will also be accepted because of our faith in God, who raised our Lord Jesus to life.


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God gave Jesus to die for our sins, and he raised him to life, so that we would be made acceptable to God.


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By faith we have been made acceptable to God. And now, thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ, we have peace with God.


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Christ has also introduced us to God's gift of undeserved grace on which we now take our stand. So we are happy, as we look forward to sharing in the glory of God.


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that will never disappoint us. All of this happens because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with his love.


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No one is really willing to die for an honest person, though someone might be willing to die for a truly good person.


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But there is more! Now that God has accepted us because Christ sacrificed his life's blood, we will also be kept safe from God's anger.


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Even when we were God's enemies, he made peace with us, because his Son died for us. Yet something even greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, we will be saved by the life of his Son.


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And in addition to everything else, we are happy because God sent our Lord Jesus Christ to make peace with us.


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Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die.


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Yet death still had power over all who lived from the time of Adam to the time of Moses. This happened, though not everyone disobeyed a direct command from God, as Adam did. In some ways Adam is like Christ who came later.


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But the gift of God's undeserved grace was very different from Adam's sin. That one sin brought death to many others. Yet in an even greater way, Jesus Christ alone brought God's gift of undeserved grace to many people.


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There is a lot of difference between Adam's sin and God's gift. That one sin led to punishment. But God's gift made it possible for us to be acceptable to him, even though we have sinned many times.


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Death ruled like a king because Adam had sinned. But that cannot compare with what Jesus Christ has done. God has treated us with undeserved grace, and he has accepted us because of Jesus. And so we will live and rule like kings.


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Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life.


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Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God.


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The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen. Yet where sin was powerful, God's gift of undeserved grace was even more powerful.


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Sin ruled by means of death. But God's gift of grace now rules, and God has accepted us because of Jesus Christ our Lord. This means that we will have eternal life.


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What should we say? Should we keep on sinning, so that God's gift of undeserved grace will show up even better?


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When we were baptized, we died and were buried with Christ. We were baptized, so we would live a new life, as Christ was raised to life by the glory of God the Father.


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We know that the persons we used to be were nailed to the cross with Jesus. This was done, so our sinful bodies would no longer be the slaves of sin.


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We know that death no longer has any power over Christ. He died and was raised to life, never again to die.


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In the same way, you must think of yourselves as dead to the power of sin. But Christ Jesus has given life to you, and you live for God.


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or let any part of it become a slave of evil. Give yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life. Make every part of your body a slave that pleases God.


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What does all this mean? Does it mean we are free to sin, because we are ruled by God's gift of undeserved grace and not by the Law? Certainly not!


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Don't you know that you are slaves of anyone you obey? You can be slaves of sin and die, or you can be obedient slaves of God and be acceptable to him.


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You used to be slaves of sin. But I thank God that with all your heart you followed the example set forth in the teaching you received.


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I am using these everyday examples, because in some ways you are still weak. You used to let the different parts of your body be slaves of your evil thoughts. But now you must make every part of your body serve God, so that you will belong completely to him.


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But what good did you receive from the things you did? All you have to show for them is your shame, and they lead to death.


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Now you have been set free from sin, and you are God's slaves. This will make you holy and will lead you to eternal life.


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My friends, you surely understand enough about law to know that laws only have power over people who are alive.


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For example, the Law says that a man's wife must remain his wife as long as he lives. But once her husband is dead, she is free


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to marry someone else. However, if she goes off with another man while her husband is still alive, she is said to be unfaithful.


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That is how it is with you, my friends. You are now part of the body of Christ and are dead to the power of the Law. You are free to belong to Christ, who was raised to life so we could serve God.


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When we thought only of ourselves, the Law made us have sinful desires. It made every part of our bodies into slaves who are doomed to die.


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But the Law no longer rules over us. We are like dead people, and it cannot have any power over us. Now we can serve God in a new way by obeying his Spirit, and not in the old way by obeying the written Law.


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Does this mean that the Law is sinful? Certainly not! But if it had not been for the Law, I would not have known what sin is really like. For example, I would not have known what it means to want something that belongs to someone else, unless the Law had told me not to do this.


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It was sin that used this command as a way of making me have all kinds of desires. But without the Law, sin is dead.


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Am I saying something good caused my death? Certainly not! It was sin that killed me by using something good. Now we can see how terrible and evil sin really is.


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In fact, I don't understand why I act the way I do. I don't do what I know is right. I do the things I hate.


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I know that my selfish desires won't let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot.


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And so, if I don't do what I know is right, I am no longer the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them.


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But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do.


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Thank God! Jesus Christ will rescue me. So with my mind I serve the Law of God, although my selfish desires make me serve the law of sin.


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The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death.


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The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin.


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He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.


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People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things.


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If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace.


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You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.


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But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins.


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Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.


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If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say “No” to your desires.


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God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father.


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His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with him.


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Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope


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The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free.


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And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping.


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In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words.


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All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as the Spirit prays for God's people.


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We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose,


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and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children.


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God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.


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God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else?


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Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side, speaking to him for us.


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Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death?


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It is exactly as the Scriptures say, “For you we face death all day long. We are like sheep on their way to be butchered.”


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I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future,


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and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!


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I am a follower of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is a witness to my conscience. So I tell the truth and I am not lying when I say


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I would gladly be placed under God's curse and be separated from Christ for the good of my own people.


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They are the descendants of Israel, and they are also God's chosen people. God showed them his glory. He made agreements with them and gave them his Law. The temple is theirs and so are the promises that God made to them.


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They have those famous ancestors, who were also the ancestors of the Christ. I pray that God, who rules over all, will be praised forever! Amen.


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It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.


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In fact, when God made the promise to Abraham, he meant only Abraham's descendants by his son Isaac. God was talking only about Isaac when he promised


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Even before they were born or had done anything good or bad, the Lord told Rebekah that her older son would serve the younger one. The Lord said this to show he makes his own choices and it wasn't because of anything either of them had done.


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In the Scriptures the Lord says to the king of Egypt, “I let you become king, so that I could show you my power and be praised by all people on earth.”


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Everything depends on what God decides to do, and he can either have pity on people or make them stubborn.


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But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?


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Doesn't a potter have the right to make a fancy bowl and a plain bowl out of the same lump of clay?”


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God wanted to show his anger and reveal his power against everyone who deserved to be destroyed. But instead, he patiently put up with them.


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He did this by showing how glorious he is when he has pity on the people he has chosen to share in his glory.


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just as the Lord says in the book of Hosea, “Although they are not my people, I will make them my people. I will treat with love those nations that have never been loved.


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“Once they were told, ‘You are not my people.’ But in that very place they will be called children of the living God.”


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And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.


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Isaiah also said, “If the Lord All-Powerful had not spared some of our descendants, we would have been destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.”


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What does all of this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith.


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It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,


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just as God says in the Scriptures, “Look! I am placing in Zion a stone to make people stumble and fall. But those who have faith in that one will never be disappointed.”


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what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law.


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Moses said a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, “If you want to live, you must do all the Law commands.”


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But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, “Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?”


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All who are acceptable because of their faith simply say, “The message is as near as your mouth or your heart.” And this is the same message we preach about faith.


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So you will be saved, if you honestly say, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe with all your heart that God raised him from death.


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no matter if that person is a Jew or a Gentile. There is only one Lord, and he is generous to everyone who asks for his help.


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How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?


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And how can anyone tell them without being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news.


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Yet not everyone has believed the message. For example, the prophet Isaiah asked, “Lord, has anyone believed what we said?”


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But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say, “The message was told everywhere on earth. It was announced all over the world.”


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Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered this question when he told that the Lord had said, “I will make Israel jealous of people who are a nation of nobodies. I will make them angry with people who don't understand a thing.”


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Isaiah was fearless enough to tell that the Lord had said, “I was found by people who were not looking for me. I appeared to the ones who were not asking about me.”


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And Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “All day long the Lord has reached out to people who are stubborn and refuse to obey.”


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Am I saying that God has turned his back on his people? Certainly not! I am one of the people of Israel, and I myself am a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.


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God did not turn his back on his chosen people. Don't you remember reading in the Scriptures how Elijah complained to God about the people of Israel?


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He said, “Lord, they killed your prophets and destroyed your altars. I am the only one left, and now they want to kill me.”


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It is the same way now. God treated the people of Israel with undeserved grace, and so a few of them are still his followers.


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This happened because of God's undeserved kindness and not because of anything they have done. It could not have happened except for God's gift of undeserved grace.


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This means that only a chosen few of the people of Israel found what all of them were searching for. And the rest of them were stubborn,


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just as the Scriptures say, “God made them so stupid that their eyes are blind, and their ears are still deaf.”


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Then David said, “Turn their meals into bait for a trap, so that they will stumble and be given what they deserve.


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Blindfold their eyes! Don't let them see. Bend their backs beneath a burden that will never be lifted.”


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Do I mean that the people of Israel fell, never to get up again? Certainly not! Their failure made it possible for the Gentiles to be saved, and this will make the people of Israel jealous.


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But if the rest of the world's people were helped so much by their sin and loss, they will be helped even more by their full return.


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I am now speaking to you Gentiles, and as long as I am an apostle to you, I will take pride in my work.


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When Israel rejected God, the rest of the people in the world were able to turn to him. So when God makes friends with Israel, it will be like bringing the dead back to life.


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If part of a batch of dough is made holy by being offered to God, then all of the dough is holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, the rest of the tree is holy too.


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You Gentiles are like branches of a wild olive tree made to be part of a cultivated olive tree. You have taken the place of some branches that were cut away from it. And because of this, you enjoy the blessings that come from being part of that cultivated tree.


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But don't think you are better than the branches that were cut away. Just remember you are not supporting the roots of this tree. Its roots are supporting you.


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That's true enough. But they were cut away because they did not have faith, and you are where you are because you do have faith. So don't be proud, but be afraid.


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Now you see both how kind and how hard God can be. He was hard on those who fell, but he was kind to you. And he will keep on being kind to you, if you keep on trusting in his kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut away too.


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If those other branches will start having faith, they will be made a part of that tree again. God has the power to put them back.


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After all, it wasn't natural for branches to be cut from a wild olive tree and to be made part of a cultivated olive tree. So it is much more likely that God will join the natural branches back to the cultivated olive tree.


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My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.


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In this way all of Israel will be saved, as the Scriptures say, “From Zion someone will come to rescue us. Then Jacob's descendants will stop being evil.


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The people of Israel are treated as God's enemies, so the good news can come to you Gentiles. But they are still the chosen ones, and God loves them because of their famous ancestors.


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At one time you Gentiles rejected God. But now Israel has rejected God, and you have been shown mercy.


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All people have disobeyed God, and that's why he treats them as prisoners. But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them.


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Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does?


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Everything comes from the Lord. All things were made because of him and will return to him. Praise the Lord forever! Amen.


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Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.


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Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him.


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I realize God has treated me with undeserved grace, and so I tell each of you not to think you are better than you really are. Use good sense and measure yourself by the amount of faith that God has given you.


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That's how it is with us. There are many of us, but we each are part of the body of Christ, as well as part of one another.


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God has also given each of us different gifts to use. If we can prophesy, we should do it according to the amount of faith we have.


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If we can encourage others, we should encourage them. If we can give, we should be generous. If we are leaders, we should do our best. If we are good to others, we should do it cheerfully.


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Be sincere in your love for others. Hate everything that is evil and hold tight to everything that is good.


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Be friendly with everyone. Don't be proud and feel that you know more than others. Make friends with ordinary people.


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Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.”


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The Scriptures also say, “If your enemies are hungry, give them something to eat. And if they are thirsty, give them something to drink. This will be the same as piling burning coals on their heads.”


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Obey the rulers who have authority over you. Only God can give authority to anyone, and he puts these rulers in their places of power.


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Rulers are a threat to evil people, not to good people. There is no need to be afraid of the authorities. Just do right, and they will praise you for it.


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After all, they are God's servants, and it is their duty to help you. If you do something wrong, you ought to be afraid, because these rulers have the right to punish you. They are God's servants who punish criminals to show how angry God is.


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But you should obey the rulers because you know it is the right thing to do, and not just because of God's anger.


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You must also pay your taxes. The authorities are God's servants, and it is their duty to take care of these matters.


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In the Law there are many commands, such as, “Be faithful in marriage. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not want what belongs to others.” But all of these are summed up in the command that says, “Love others as much as you love yourself.”


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You know what sort of times we live in, and so you should live properly. It is time to wake up. You know that the day when we will be saved is nearer now than when we first put our faith in the Lord.


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Night is almost over, and day will soon appear. We must stop behaving as people do in the dark and be ready to live in the light.


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So behave properly, as people do in the day. Don't go to wild parties or get drunk or be vulgar or indecent. Don't quarrel or be jealous.


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Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear. Then you won't try to satisfy your selfish desires.


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Welcome all the Lord's followers, even those whose faith is weak. Don't criticize them for having beliefs that are different from yours.


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Some think it is all right to eat anything, while those whose faith is weak will eat only vegetables.


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What right do you have to criticize someone else's servants? Only their Lord can decide if they are doing right, and the Lord will make sure that they do right.


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Some of the Lord's followers think one day is more important than another. Others think all days are the same. But each of you should make up your own mind.


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Any followers who count one day more important than another day do it to honor their Lord. And any followers who eat meat give thanks to God, just like the ones who don't eat meat.


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This is because Christ died and rose to life, so that he would be the Lord of the dead and of the living.


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Why do you criticize other followers of the Lord? Why do you look down on them? The day is coming when God will judge all of us.


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In the Scriptures God says, “I swear by my very life that everyone will kneel down and praise my name!”


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The Lord Jesus has made it clear to me that God considers all foods fit to eat. But if you think some foods are unfit to eat, then for you they are not fit.


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If you are hurting others by the foods you eat, you are not guided by love. Don't let your appetite destroy someone Christ died for.


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God's kingdom isn't about eating and drinking. It is about pleasing God, about living in peace, and about true happiness. All this comes from the Holy Spirit.


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Don't let your appetite destroy what God has done. All foods are fit to eat, but it is wrong to cause problems for others by what you eat.


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It is best not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that causes problems for other followers of the Lord.


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What you believe about these things should be kept between you and God. You are fortunate, if your actions don't make you have doubts.


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But if you do have doubts about what you eat, you are going against your beliefs. And you know that is wrong, because anything you do against your beliefs is sin.


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If our faith is strong, we should be patient with the Lord's followers whose faith is weak. We should try to please them instead of ourselves.


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Even Christ did not try to please himself. But as the Scriptures say, “The people who insulted you also insulted me.”


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God is the one who makes us patient and cheerful. I pray that he will help you live at peace with each other, as you follow Christ.


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I tell you that Christ came as a servant of the Jews to show that God has kept the promises he made to their famous ancestors. Christ also came,


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so that the Gentiles would praise God for being kind to them. It is just as the Scriptures say, “I will tell the nations about you, and I will sing praises to your name.”


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Again the Scriptures say, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles. All you nations, come and worship him.”


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Isaiah says, “Someone from David's family will come to power. He will rule the nations, and they will put their hope in him.”


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I pray that God, who gives hope, will bless you with complete happiness and peace because of your faith. And may the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope.


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My friends, I am sure that you are very good and that you have all the knowledge you need to teach each other.


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But I have spoken to you plainly and have tried to remind you of some things. God treated me with undeserved grace!


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He chose me to be a servant of Christ Jesus for the Gentiles and to do the work of a priest in the service of his good news. God did this so that the Holy Spirit could make the Gentiles into a holy offering, pleasing to him.


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In fact, all I will talk about is how Christ let me speak and work, so that the Gentiles would obey him.


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Indeed, I will tell how Christ worked miracles and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. I have preached the good news about him all the way from Jerusalem to Illyricum.


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But I have always tried to preach where people have never heard about Christ. I am like a builder who doesn't build on someone else's foundation.


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It is just as the Scriptures say, “All who haven't been told about him will see him, and those who haven't heard about him will understand.”


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Now there is nothing left for me to do in this part of the world, and for years I have wanted to visit you.


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So I plan to stop off on my way to Spain. Then after a short, but refreshing, visit with you, I hope you will quickly send me on.


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I am now on my way to Jerusalem to deliver the money that the Lord's followers in Macedonia and Achaia collected for God's needy people.


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This is something they really wanted to do. But sharing their money with the Jews was also like paying back a debt, because the Jews had already shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles.


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My friends, by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that comes from the Holy Spirit, I beg you to pray sincerely with me and for me.


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Pray that God will protect me from the unbelievers in Judea, and that his people in Jerusalem will be pleased with what I am doing.


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Welcome her in a way that is proper for someone who has faith in the Lord and is one of God's own people. Help her in any way you can. After all, she has proved to be a respected leader for many others, including me.


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but they have even risked their lives for me. I am grateful for them and so are all the Gentile churches.


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Greet the church that meets in their home. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first person in Asia to have faith in Christ.


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Greet my relatives Andronicus and Junia, who were in jail with me. They are highly respected by the apostles and were followers of Christ before I was.


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Greet Herodion, who is a relative of mine. Greet Narcissus and the others in his family, who have faith in the Lord.


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Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who work hard for the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis. She also works hard for the Lord.


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Greet Rufus, that special servant of the Lord, and greet his mother, who has been like a mother to me.


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Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all of God's people who are with them.


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My friends, I beg you to watch out for anyone who causes trouble and divides the church by refusing to do what all of you were taught. Stay away from them!


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They want to serve themselves and not Christ the Lord. Their flattery and fancy talk fool people who don't know any better.


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I am glad that everyone knows how well you obey the Lord. But still, I want you to understand what is good and not have anything to do with evil.


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Then God, who gives peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. I pray that our Lord Jesus will be kind to you.


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Timothy, who works with me, sends his greetings, and so do my relatives, Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater.


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Gaius welcomes me and the whole church into his home, and he sends his greetings. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our dear friend Quartus send their greetings too.


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Praise God! He can make you strong by means of my good news, which is the message about Jesus Christ. For ages and ages this message was kept secret,


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but now at last it has been told. The eternal God commanded his prophets to write about the good news, so that all nations would obey and have faith.


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From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from Sosthenes, who is also a follower.


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To God's church in Corinth. Christ Jesus chose you to be his very own people, and you worship in his name, as we and all others do who call him Lord.


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My prayer is that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


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My dear friends, as a follower of our Lord Jesus Christ, I beg you to get along with each other. Don't take sides. Always try to agree in what you think.


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Several people from Chloe's family have already reported to me that you keep arguing with each other.


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They have said that some of you claim to follow me, while others claim to follow Apollos or Peter or Christ.


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Christ did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the good news without using words that sound wise and would make the cross of Christ lose its power.


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The message about the cross doesn't make any sense to lost people. But for those of us who are being saved, it is God's power at work.


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As God says in the Scriptures, “I will destroy the wisdom of all who claim to be wise. I will confuse those who think they know so much.”


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What happened to those wise people? What happened to those experts in the Scriptures? What happened to the ones who think they have all the answers? Didn't God show that the wisdom of this world is foolish?


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God was wise and decided not to let the people of this world use their wisdom to learn about him. Instead, God chose to save only those who believe the foolish message we preach.


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But we preach that Christ was nailed to a cross. Most Jews have problems with this, and most Gentiles think it is foolish.


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Even when God is foolish, he is wiser than everyone else, and even when God is weak, he is stronger than everyone else.


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My dear friends, remember what you were when God chose you. The people of this world didn't think that many of you were wise. Only a few of you were in places of power, and not many of you came from important families.


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But God chose the foolish things of this world to put the wise to shame. He chose the weak things of this world to put the powerful to shame.


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What the world thinks is worthless, useless, and nothing at all is what God has used to destroy what the world considers important.


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Friends, when I came and told you the mystery that God had shared with us, I didn't use big words or try to sound wise.


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In fact, while I was with you, I made up my mind to speak only about Jesus Christ, who had been nailed to a cross.


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When I talked with you or preached, I didn't try to prove anything by sounding wise. I simply let God's Spirit show his power.


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We do use wisdom when speaking to people who are mature in their faith. But it isn't the wisdom of this world or of its rulers, who will soon disappear.


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We speak of God's hidden and mysterious wisdom that God decided to use for our glory long before the world began.


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The rulers of this world didn't know anything about this wisdom. If they had known about it, they would not have nailed the glorious Lord to a cross.


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But it is just as the Scriptures say, “What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds!”


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God's Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything, even what is deep in the mind of God.


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You are the only one who knows what is in your own mind, and God's Spirit is the only one who knows what is in God's mind.


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But God has given us his Spirit. This is why we don't think the same way that the people of this world think. This is also why we can recognize the blessings God has given us.


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Every word we speak was taught to us by God's Spirit, not by human wisdom. And this same Spirit helps us teach spiritual things to spiritual people.


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This is why only someone who has God's Spirit can understand spiritual blessings. Anyone who doesn't have God's Spirit thinks these blessings are foolish.


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People who are guided by the Spirit can make all kinds of judgments, but they cannot be judged by others.


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The Scriptures ask, “Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?” But we understand what Christ is thinking.


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My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned.


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So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot,


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because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves you are not spiritual and you are acting like the people of this world.


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Some of you say you follow me, and others claim to follow Apollos. Isn't this how ordinary people behave?


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Apollos and I are merely servants who helped you to have faith. It was the Lord who made it all happen.


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The one who plants is just as important as the one who waters. And each one will be paid for what they do.


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God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build,


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Whatever we build on this foundation will be tested by fire on the day of judgment. Then everyone will find out if we have used gold, silver, and precious stones, or wood, hay, and straw.


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But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames.


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Don't fool yourselves! If any of you think you are wise in the things of this world, you will have to become foolish before you can be truly wise.


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This is because God considers the wisdom of this world to be foolish. It is just as the Scriptures say, “God catches the wise when they try to outsmart him.”


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So stop bragging about what anyone has done. Paul and Apollos and Peter all belong to you. In fact, everything is yours, including the world, life, death, the present, and the future. Everything belongs to you,


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it doesn't matter to me if I am judged by you or even by a court of law. In fact, I don't judge myself.


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So don't judge anyone until the Lord returns. He will show what is hidden in the dark and what is in everyone's heart. Then God will be the one who praises each of us.


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Friends, I have used Apollos and myself as examples to teach you the meaning of the saying, “Follow the rules.” I want you to stop saying one of us is better than the other.


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What is so special about you? What do you have that you were not given? And if it was given to you, how can you brag?


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Are you already satisfied? Are you now rich? Have you become kings while we are still nobodies? I wish you were kings. Then we could have a share in your kingdom.


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It seems to me that God has put us apostles in the worst possible place. We are like prisoners on their way to death. Angels and the people of this world just laugh at us.


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Because of Christ we are thought of as fools, but Christ has made you wise. We are weak and hated, but you are powerful and respected.


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Even today we go hungry and thirsty and don't have anything to wear except rags. We are mistreated and don't have a place to live.


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We work hard with our own hands, and when people abuse us, we wish them well. When we suffer, we are patient.


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When someone curses us, we answer with kind words. Until now we are thought of as nothing more than the trash and garbage of this world.


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I am not writing to embarrass you. I want to help you, just as parents help their own dear children.


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Ten thousand people may teach you about Christ, but I am your only father. You became my children when I told you about Christ Jesus,


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This is why I sent Timothy to you. I love him like a son, and he is a faithful servant of the Lord. Timothy will tell you what I do to follow Christ and how it agrees with what I always teach about Christ in every church.


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But if the Lord lets me come, I will soon be there. Then I will find out if the ones who are doing all this bragging really have any power.


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I have heard terrible things about some of you. In fact, you are behaving worse than Gentiles. A man is even sleeping with his own stepmother.


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I am with you only in my thoughts. But in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already judged this man, as though I were with you in person. So when you meet together and the power of the Lord Jesus is with you, I will be there too.


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You must then hand that man over to Satan. His body will be destroyed, but his spirit will be saved when the Lord Jesus returns.


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Get rid of the old yeast! Then you will be like fresh bread made without yeast, and this is what you are. Our Passover lamb is Christ, who has already been sacrificed.


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So don't celebrate the festival by being evil and sinful, which is like serving bread made with yeast. Be pure and truthful and celebrate by using bread made without yeast.


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But I wasn't talking about the people of this world. You would have to leave this world to get away from everyone who is immoral or greedy or who cheats or worships idols.


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I was talking about your own people who are immoral or greedy or worship idols or curse others or get drunk or cheat. Don't even eat with them!


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When one of you has a complaint against another, do you take your complaint to a court of sinners? Or do you take it to God's people?


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Don't you know that God's people will judge the world? And if you are going to judge the world, can't you settle small problems?


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I say this to your shame. Aren't any of you wise enough to act as a judge between one follower and another?


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When one of you takes another to court, all of you lose. It would be better to let yourselves be cheated and robbed.


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Don't you know that evil people won't have a share in the blessings of God's kingdom? Don't fool yourselves! No one who is immoral or worships idols or is unfaithful in marriage or is a pervert or behaves like a homosexual


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will share in God's kingdom. Neither will any thief or greedy person or drunkard or anyone who curses and cheats others.


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Some of you used to be like that. But now the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of God's Spirit have washed you and made you holy and acceptable to God.


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Some of you say, “We can do anything we want to.” But I tell you not everything is good for us. So I refuse to let anything have power over me.


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You also say, “Food is meant for our bodies, and our bodies are meant for food.” But I tell you that God will destroy them both. We are not supposed to do indecent things with our bodies. We are to use them for the Lord who is in charge of our bodies.


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Don't you know that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? Is it right for me to join part of the body of Christ to a prostitute? No, it isn't!


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Don't you know that a man who does that becomes part of her body? The Scriptures say, “The two of them will be like one person.”


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You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own.


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Now I will answer the questions you asked in your letter. You asked, “Is it best for people not to marry?”


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A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself.


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So don't refuse sex to each other, unless you agree not to have sex for a little while, in order to spend time in prayer. Then Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.


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In my opinion that is what should be done, though I don't know of anything the Lord said about this matter.


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My advice for the unmarried and for widows is that it is acceptable for them to remain single, just as I am.


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But if you don't have enough self-control, then go ahead and get married. After all, it is better to marry than to burn with desire.


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I instruct married couples to stay together, and this is exactly what the Lord himself taught. A wife who leaves her husband


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I don't know of anything else the Lord said about marriage. All I can do is to give you my own advice. If your wife isn't a follower of the Lord, but is willing to stay with you, don't divorce her.


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Your husband or wife who isn't a follower is made holy by having you as a partner. This also makes your children holy and keeps them from being unclean in God's sight.


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If your husband or wife isn't a follower of the Lord and decides to divorce you, then you should agree to it. You are no longer bound to that person. After all, God chose you and wants you to live at peace.


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In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you.


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If you are already circumcised, don't try to change it. If you are not circumcised, don't get circumcised.


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Being circumcised or uncircumcised isn't really what matters. The important thing is to obey God's commands.


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When the Lord chooses slaves, they become his free people. And when he chooses free people, they become slaves of Christ.


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I don't know of anything the Lord said about people who have never been married. But I will tell you what I think. And you can trust me, because the Lord has treated me with kindness.


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It isn't wrong to marry, even if you have never been married before. But those who marry will have a lot of trouble, and I want to protect you from this.


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My friends, what I mean is that the Lord will soon come, and it won't matter if you are married or not.


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It will be all the same if you are crying or laughing, or if you are buying or are completely broke.


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It won't make any difference how much good you are getting from this world or how much you like it. This world as we know it is now passing away.


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But a married man has more worries. He must worry about the things of this world, because he wants to please his wife.


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So he is pulled in two directions. Unmarried women and women who have never been married worry only about pleasing the Lord, and they keep their bodies and minds pure. But a married woman worries about the things of this world, because she wants to please her husband.


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What I am saying is for your own good—it isn't to limit your freedom. I want to help you to live right and to love the Lord above all else.


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But suppose you are engaged to someone old enough to be married, and you want her so much that all you can think about is getting married. Then go ahead and marry. There is nothing wrong with that.


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A wife should stay married to her husband until he dies. Then she is free to marry again, but only to a man who is a follower of the Lord.


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In your letter you asked me about food offered to idols. All of us know something about this subject. But knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others.


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Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.


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Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords.


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We have only one God, and he is the Father. He created everything, and we live for him. Jesus Christ is our only Lord. Everything was made by him, and by him life was given to us.


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Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience.


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But food doesn't bring us any closer to God. We are no worse off if we don't eat, and we are no better off if we do.


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Don't cause problems for someone with a weak conscience, just because you have the right to eat anything.


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You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols.


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We each have the right to marry one of the Lord's followers and to take her along with us, just as the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do.


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Do soldiers pay their own salaries? Don't people who raise grapes eat some of what they grow? Don't shepherds get milk from their own goats?


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I am not saying this on my own authority. The Law of Moses tells us not to muzzle an ox when it is grinding grain. But was God concerned only about an ox?


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No, he wasn't! He was talking about us. This was written in the Scriptures so that all who plow and all who grind the grain will look forward to sharing in the harvest.


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When we told the message to you, it was like planting spiritual seed. So we have the right to accept material things as our harvest from you.


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If others have the right to do this, we have an even greater right. But we haven't used this right of ours. We are willing to put up with anything to keep from causing trouble for the message about Christ.


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Don't you know that people who work in the temple make their living from what is brought to the temple? Don't you know that a person who serves at the altar is given part of what is offered?


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In the same way, the Lord wants everyone who preaches the good news to make a living from preaching this message.


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But I have never used these privileges of mine, and I am not writing this because I want to start now. I would rather die than have someone rob me of the right to take pride in this.


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I don't have any reason to brag about preaching the good news. Preaching is something God told me to do, and if I don't do it, I am doomed.


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If I preach because I want to, I will be paid. But even if I don't want to, it is still something God has sent me to do.


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What pay am I given? It is the chance to preach the good news free of charge and not to use the privileges that are mine because I am a preacher.


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I am not anyone's slave. But I have become a slave to everyone, so I can win as many people as possible.


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When I am with the Jews, I live like a Jew to win Jews. They are ruled by the Law of Moses, and I am not. But I live by the Law to win them.


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And when I am with people who are not ruled by the Law, I forget about the Law to win them. Of course, I never really forget about the law of God. In fact, I am ruled by the law of Christ.


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When I am with people whose faith is weak, I live as they do to win them. I do everything I can to win everyone I possibly can.


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Athletes work hard to win a crown that cannot last, but we do it for a crown that will last forever.


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I keep my body under control and make it my slave, so I won't lose out after telling the good news to others.


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Friends, I want to remind you that all our ancestors walked under the cloud and went through the sea.


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and drank the same spiritual drink, which flowed from the spiritual rock that followed them. That rock was Christ.


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But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.


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They worshiped idols, just as the Scriptures say, “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance around.” So don't worship idols.


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Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about 23,000 died. Don't do shameful things as they did.


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These things happened to them as a warning to us. All this was written in the Scriptures to teach us who live in these last days.


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You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations.


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When we drink from the cup we ask God to bless, isn't that sharing in the blood of Christ? When we eat the bread we break, isn't that sharing in the body of Christ?


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Aren't the people of Israel sharing in the worship when they gather around the altar and eat the sacrifices offered there?


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No, I am not! This food is really sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don't want you to have anything to do with demons.


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You cannot drink from the cup of demons and still drink from the Lord's cup. You cannot eat at the table of demons and still eat at the Lord's table.


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Some of you say, “We can do whatever we want to!” But I tell you not everything may be good or helpful.


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However, when you buy meat in the market, go ahead and eat it. Keep your conscience clear by not asking where the meat came from.


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If an unbeliever invites you to dinner, and you want to go, then go. Eat whatever you are served. Don't cause a problem for someone's conscience by asking where the food came from.


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But if you are told it has been sacrificed to idols, don't cause a problem by eating it. I don't mean a problem for yourself, but for the one who told you. Why should my freedom be limited by someone else's conscience?


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Now I want you to know that Christ is the head of all men, and a man is the head of a woman. But God is the head of Christ.


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This means that any man who prays or prophesies with something on his head brings shame to his head.


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But any woman who prays or prophesies without something on her head brings shame to her head. In fact, she may as well shave her head.


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A woman should wear something on her head. It is a disgrace for a woman to shave her head or cut her hair. But if she refuses to wear something on her head, let her cut off her hair.


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Men were created to be like God and to bring honor to God. This means a man should not wear anything on his head. Women were created to bring honor to men.


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And so, because of this, and also because of the angels, a woman ought to wear something on her head, as a sign of her authority.


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It is true that the first woman came from a man, but all other men have been given birth by women. Yet God is the one who created everything.


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This is how things are done in all of God's churches, and this is why none of you should argue about what I have said.


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I am told you can't get along with each other when you worship, and I am sure that some of what I have heard is true.


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You even start eating before everyone gets to the meeting, and some of you go hungry, while others get drunk.


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Don't you have homes where you can eat and drink? Do you hate God's church? Do you want to embarrass people who don't have anything? What can I say to you? I certainly cannot praise you.


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I have already told you what the Lord Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. And it came from the Lord himself. He took some bread in his hands.


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Then after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Eat this and remember me.”


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After the meal, Jesus took a cup of wine in his hands and said, “This is my blood, and with it God makes his new agreement with you. Drink this and remember me.”


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The Lord meant that when you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you tell about his death until he comes.


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But if you eat the bread and drink the wine in a way that isn't worthy of the Lord, you sin against his body and blood.


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If you fail to understand that you are the body of the Lord, you will condemn yourselves by the way you eat and drink.


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But when the Lord judges and punishes us, he does it to keep us from being condemned with the rest of the world.


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If you really are hungry, you can eat at home. Then you won't condemn yourselves when you meet together. After I arrive, I will instruct you about the other matters.


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I want you to remember that before you became followers of the Lord, you were led in all the wrong ways by idols that cannot even talk.


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Now I want you to know that if you are led by God's Spirit, you will say that Jesus is Lord, and you will never curse Jesus.


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and we can each do different things. Yet the same God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do.


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Some of us can speak with wisdom, while others can speak with knowledge, but these gifts come from the same Spirit.


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or the power to work mighty miracles. Some of us are prophets, and some of us recognize when God's Spirit is present. Others can speak different kinds of languages, and still others can tell what these languages mean.


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Some of us are Jews, and others are Gentiles. Some of us are slaves, and others are free. But God's Spirit baptized each of us and made us part of the body of Christ. Now we each drink from that same Spirit.


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Suppose a foot says, “I'm not a hand, and so I'm not part of the body.” Wouldn't the foot still belong to the body?


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Or suppose an ear says, “I'm not an eye, and so I'm not part of the body.” Wouldn't the ear still belong to the body?


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If our bodies were only an eye, we couldn't hear a thing. And if they were only an ear, we couldn't smell a thing.


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That's why the eyes cannot say they don't need the hands. That's also why the head cannot say it doesn't need the feet.


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but we don't have to be modest about other parts. God put our bodies together in such a way that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable.


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He did this to make all parts of the body work together smoothly, with each part caring about the others.


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If one part of our body hurts, we hurt all over. If one part of our body is honored, the whole body will be happy.


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First, God chose some people to be apostles and prophets and teachers for the church. But he also chose some to work miracles or heal the sick or help others or be leaders or speak different kinds of languages.


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Not everyone is an apostle. Not everyone is a prophet. Not everyone is a teacher. Not everyone can work miracles.


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Not everyone can heal the sick. Not everyone can speak different kinds of languages. Not everyone can tell what these languages mean.


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What if I could speak all languages of humans and even of angels? If I did not love others, I would be nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.


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What if I could prophesy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge? And what if I had faith that moved mountains? I would be nothing, unless I loved others.


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What if I gave away all that I owned and let myself be burned alive? I would gain nothing, unless I loved others.


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Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten.


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When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways.


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Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don't know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us.


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Love should be your guide. Be eager to have the gifts that come from the Holy Spirit, especially the gift of prophecy.


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If you speak languages that others don't know, God will understand what you are saying, though no one else will know what you mean. You will be talking about mysteries that only the Spirit understands.


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But when you prophesy, you will be understood, and others will be helped. They will be encouraged and made to feel better.


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By speaking languages that others don't know, you help only yourself. But by prophesying you help everyone in the church.


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I am glad for you to speak unknown languages, although I prefer that you would prophesy. In fact, prophesying does much more good than speaking unknown languages, unless someone can help the church by explaining what you mean.


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My friends, what good would it do, if I came and spoke unknown languages to you and didn't explain what I meant? How would I help you, unless I told you what God had shown me or gave you some knowledge or prophecy or teaching?


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If all musical instruments sounded alike, how would you know the difference between a flute and a harp?


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This is how it is when you speak unknown languages. If no one can understand what you are talking about, you will only be talking to the wind.


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But if I don't understand the language that someone is using, we will be like foreigners to each other.


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When we speak languages that others don't know, we should pray for the power to explain what we mean.


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Then what should I do? There are times when I should pray with my spirit, and times when I should pray with my mind. Sometimes I should sing with my spirit, and at other times I should sing with my mind.


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Suppose some strangers are in your worship service, when you are praising God with your spirit. If they don't understand you, how will they know to say, “Amen”?


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But words that make sense can help the church. This is why in church I would rather speak five words that make sense than to speak 10,000 words in a language that others don't know.


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My friends, stop thinking like children. Think like mature people and be as innocent as tiny babies.


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In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I will use strangers who speak unknown languages to talk to my people. They will speak to them in foreign languages, but still my people won't listen to me.”


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Languages others don't know may mean something to unbelievers, but not to the Lord's followers. Prophecy, on the other hand, is for followers, not for unbelievers.


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Suppose everyone in your worship service started speaking unknown languages, and some outsiders or some unbelievers come in. Won't they think you are crazy?


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But suppose all of you are prophesying when those unbelievers and outsiders come in. They will realize that they are sinners, and they will want to change their ways because of what you are saying.


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They will tell what is hidden in their hearts. Then they will kneel down and say to God, “We are certain that you are with these people.”


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My friends, when you meet to worship, you must do everything for the good of everyone there. That's how it should be when someone sings or teaches or tells what God has said or speaks an unknown language or explains what the language means.


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No more than two or three of you should speak unknown languages during the meeting. You must take turns, and someone should always be there to explain what you mean.


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If someone sitting there receives a message from God, the speaker must stop and let the other person speak.


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the women must not be allowed to speak. They must keep quiet and listen, as the Law of Moses teaches.


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If there is something they want to know, they can ask their husbands when they get home. It is disgraceful for women to speak in church.


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If you think of yourself as a prophet or a spiritual person, you will know I am writing only what the Lord has commanded.


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My friends, be eager to prophesy and don't stop anyone from speaking languages that others don't know.


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You will be saved by this message, if you hold firmly to it. But if you don't, your faith was all for nothing.


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I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. This part is: Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say.


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After this, he appeared to more than five hundred other followers. Most of them are still alive, but some have died.


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I am the least important of all the apostles. In fact, I caused so much trouble for God's church that I don't even deserve to be called an apostle.


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But God treated me with undeserved grace! He made me what I am, and his grace wasn't wasted. I worked much harder than any of the other apostles, although it was really God's grace at work and not me.


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But it doesn't matter if I preached or if they preached. All of you believed the message just the same.


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If we preach that Christ was raised from death, how can some of you say the dead will not be raised to life?


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If the dead won't be raised to life, we have told lies about God by saying he raised Christ to life, when he really did not.


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But Christ has been raised to life! And he makes us certain that others will also be raised to life.


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But we must each wait our turn. Christ was the first to be raised to life, and his people will be raised to life when he returns.


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Then after Christ has destroyed all powers and forces, the end will come, and he will give the kingdom to God the Father.


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When the Scriptures say he will put everything under his power, they don't include God. It was God who put everything under the power of Christ.


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After everything is under the power of God's Son, he will put himself under the power of God, who put everything under his Son's power. Then God will mean everything to everyone.


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If the dead are not going to be raised to life, what will people do who are being baptized for them? Why are they being baptized for those dead people?


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and face death every day? The pride that I have in you because of Christ Jesus our Lord is what makes me say this.


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What do you think I gained by fighting wild animals in Ephesus? If the dead are not raised to life, “Let's eat and drink. Tomorrow we die.”


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Be sensible and stop sinning. You should be embarrassed that some people still don't know about God.


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Everything in the heavens has a body, and so does everything on earth. But each one is very different from all the others.


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That's how it will be when our bodies are raised to life. These bodies will die, but the bodies that are raised will live forever.


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As surely as there are physical bodies, there are spiritual bodies. And our physical bodies will be changed into spiritual bodies.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
The first man was named Adam, and the Scriptures tell us that he was a living person. But Jesus, who may be called the last Adam, is a life-giving spirit.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
We see that the one with a spiritual body did not come first. He came after the one who had a physical body.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Everyone on earth has a body like the body of the one who was made from the dust of the earth. And everyone in heaven has a body like the body of the one who came from heaven.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Just as we are like the one who was made out of earth, we will be like the one who came from heaven.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
My friends, I want you to know that our bodies of flesh and blood will decay. This means they cannot share in God's kingdom, which lasts forever.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
It will happen suddenly, quicker than the blink of an eye. At the sound of the last trumpet the dead will be raised. We will all be changed, so we will never die again.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
The bodies we now have are weak and can die. But they will be changed into bodies that are eternal. Then the Scriptures will come true, “Death has lost the battle!


book: 1Cor
contenido:
My dear friends, stand firm and don't be shaken. Always keep busy working for the Lord. You know that everything you do for him is worthwhile.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
When you collect money for God's people, I want you to do exactly what I told the churches in Galatia to do.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
That is, each Sunday each of you must put aside part of what you have earned. If you do this, you won't have to take up a collection when I come.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Choose some followers to take the money to Jerusalem. I will send them on with the money and with letters which show that you approve of them.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
and visit with you for a while. I may even stay all winter, so that you can help me on my way to wherever I will be going next.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
If the Lord lets me, I would rather come later for a longer visit than to stop off now for only a short visit.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
because there is a wonderful opportunity for me to do some work here. But there are also many people who are against me.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Don't let anyone mistreat him. I am looking for him to return to me together with the other followers. So when he leaves, send him off with your blessings.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
I have tried hard to get our friend Apollos to visit you with the other followers. He doesn't want to come just now, but he will come when he can.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
You know that Stephanas and his family were the first in Achaia to have faith in the Lord. They have done all they can for God's people. My friends, I ask you


book: 1Cor
contenido:
They made me feel much better, just as they made you feel better. You should appreciate people like them.


book: 1Cor
contenido:
Greetings from the churches in Asia. Aquila and Priscilla, together with the church that meets in their house, send greetings in the name of the Lord.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and from Timothy, who is also a follower. To God's church in Corinth and to all of God's people in Achaia.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Father is a merciful God, who always gives us comfort.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
He comforts us when we are in trouble, so that we can share this same comfort with others in trouble.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We suffer in the hope that you will be comforted and saved. And because we are comforted, you will also be comforted, as you patiently endure suffering like ours.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You never disappoint us. You suffered as much as we did, and we know that you will be comforted as we were.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
My friends, I want you to know what a hard time we had in Asia. Our sufferings were so horrible and so unbearable that death seemed certain.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In fact, we felt sure we were going to die. But this made us stop trusting in ourselves and start trusting God, who raises the dead to life.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Please help us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks for the blessings we receive in answer to all these prayers.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We can be proud of our clear conscience. We have always lived honestly and sincerely, especially when we were with you. And we were guided by God's gift of undeserved grace instead of by the wisdom of this world.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
just as you already partly understand us. Then when our Lord Jesus returns, you can be as proud of us as we are of you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I was so sure of your pride in us that I had planned to visit you first of all. In this way you would have the blessing of two visits from me—


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Do you think I couldn't make up my mind about what to do? Or do I seem like someone who says “Yes” or “No” simply to please others?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God can be trusted, and so can I, when I say our answer to you has always been “Yes” and never “No.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
This is because Jesus Christ the Son of God is always “Yes” and never “No.” And he is the one Silas, Timothy, and I told you about.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Christ says “Yes” to all God's promises. This is why we have Christ to say “Amen” for us to the glory of God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And so God makes it possible for you and us to stand firmly together with Christ. God is also the one who chose us


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not bosses who tell you what to believe. We are working with you to make you glad, because your faith is strong.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and this is punishment enough for what was done.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I will forgive anyone you forgive. Yes, for your sake and with Christ as my witness, I have forgiven whatever needed to be forgiven.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
When I went to Troas to preach the good news about Christ, I found that the Lord had already prepared the way.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But I was worried when I didn't find my friend Titus there. So I left the other followers and went on to Macedonia.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death. No one really has what it takes to do this work.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
A lot of people try to get rich from preaching God's message. But we are God's sincere messengers, and by the power of Christ we speak our message with God as our witness.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are we once again bragging about ourselves? Do we need letters to you or from you to tell others about us? Some people do need letters telling about them.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You are like a letter written by Christ and delivered by us. But you are not written with pen and ink or on tablets made of stone. You are written in our hearts by the Spirit of the living God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We don't have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all we do.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
He makes us worthy to be the servants of his new agreement that comes from the Holy Spirit and not from a written Law. After all, the Law brings death, but the Spirit brings life.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The Law of Moses brought only the promise of death, even though it was carved on stones and given in a wonderful way. Still the Law made Moses' face shine so brightly the people of Israel could not look at it, even though it was a fading glory.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
If something that brings the death sentence is glorious, won't something that makes us acceptable to God be even more glorious?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The Law was given with a glory that faded away. But the glory of the new agreement is much greater, because it will never fade away.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not like Moses. His face was shining, but he covered it to keep the people of Israel from seeing the brightness fade away.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The people were stubborn, and something still keeps them from seeing the truth when the Law is read. Only Christ can take away the covering that keeps them from seeing.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord's Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We don't do shameful things that must be kept secret. And we don't try to fool anyone or twist God's message around. God is our witness that we speak only the truth, so others will be sure we can be trusted.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The god who rules this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers. They cannot see the light, which is the good news about our glorious Christ, who shows what God is like.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not preaching about ourselves. Our message is that Jesus Christ is Lord. He also sent us to be your servants.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The Scriptures say, “God commanded light to shine in the dark.” Now God is shining in our hearts to let you know that his glory is seen in Jesus Christ.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are like clay jars in which this treasure is stored. The real power comes from God and not from us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We face death every day because of Jesus. Our bodies show what his death was like, so his life can also be seen in us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In the Scriptures it says, “I spoke because I had faith.” We have this same kind of faith. So we speak


book: 2Cor
contenido:
because we know that God raised the Lord Jesus to life. And just as God raised Jesus, he will also raise us to life. Then he will bring us into his presence together with you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
All of this has been done for you, so more and more people will know how kind God is and will praise and honor him.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We never give up. Our bodies are gradually dying, but we ourselves are being made stronger each day.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
These little troubles are getting us ready for an eternal glory that will make all our troubles seem like nothing.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Things that are seen don't last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal. This is why we keep our minds on the things that cannot be seen.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Our bodies are like tents that we live in here on earth. But when these tents are destroyed, we know that God will give each of us a place to live. These homes will not be buildings someone has made, but they are in heaven and will last forever.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
These tents we now live in are like a heavy burden, and we groan. But we don't do this just because we want to leave these bodies that will die. It is because we want to change them for bodies that will never die.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God is the one who makes all this possible. He has given us his Spirit to make us certain he will do it.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
After all, Christ will judge each of us for the good or the bad that we do while living in these bodies.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We know what it means to respect the Lord, and we encourage everyone to turn to him. God himself knows what we are like, and I hope you also know what kind of people we are.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are not trying once more to brag about ourselves. But we want you to be proud of us, when you are with those who are not sincere and brag about what others think of them.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
If we seem out of our minds, it is between God and us. But if we are in our right minds, it is for your good.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are ruled by Christ's love for us. We are certain that if one person died for everyone else, then all of us have died.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And Christ did die for all of us. He died so we would no longer live for ourselves, but for the one who died and was raised to life for us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in this way.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In the Scriptures God says, “When the time came, I listened to you, and when you needed help, I came to save you.” That time has come. This is the day for you to be saved.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But in everything and in every way we show we truly are God's servants. We have always been patient, though we have had a lot of trouble, suffering, and hard times.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We have been beaten, put in jail, and hurt in riots. We have worked hard and have gone without sleep or food.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But we have kept ourselves pure and have been understanding, patient, and kind. The Holy Spirit has been with us, and our love has been real.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We have spoken the truth, and God's power has worked in us. In all our struggles we have said and done only what is right.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Whether we were honored or dishonored or praised or cursed, we always told the truth about ourselves. But some people said we did not.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are unknown to others, but well known to you. We seem to be dying, and yet we are still alive. We have been punished, but never killed,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and we are always happy, even in times of suffering. Although we are poor, we have made many people rich. And though we own nothing, everything is ours.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Is Christ a friend of Satan? Can people who follow the Lord have anything in common with those who don't?


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, “I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The Lord also says, “Leave them and stay away! Don't touch anything that isn't clean. Then I will welcome you


book: 2Cor
contenido:
My friends, God has made us these promises. So we should stay away from everything that keeps our bodies and spirits from being clean. We should honor God and try to be completely like him.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Make a place for us in your hearts! We haven't mistreated or hurt anyone. We haven't cheated anyone.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am not saying this to be hard on you. But, as I have said before, you will always be in our thoughts, whether we live or die.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I trust you completely. I am always proud of you, and I am greatly encouraged. In all my trouble I am still very happy.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
After we came to Macedonia, we didn't have any chance to rest. We were faced with all kinds of problems. We were troubled by enemies and troubled by fears.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Of course, we were glad to see Titus, but what really made us glad is the way you cheered him up. He told how sorry you were and how concerned you were about me. And this made me even happier.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I don't feel bad anymore, even though my letter hurt your feelings. I did feel bad at first, but I don't now. I know that the letter hurt you for a while.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Now I am happy, but not because I hurt your feelings. It is because God used your hurt feelings to make you turn back to him, and none of you were harmed by us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
When God makes you feel sorry enough to turn to him and be saved, you don't have anything to feel bad about. But when this world makes you feel sorry, it can cause your death.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Just look what God has done by making you feel sorry! You sincerely want to prove you are innocent. You are angry. You are shocked. You are eager to see that justice is done. You have proved that you were completely right in this matter.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
When I wrote you, it wasn't to accuse the one who was wrong or to take up for the one who was hurt. I wrote, so God would show you how much you do care for us.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And we were greatly encouraged. Although we were encouraged, we felt even better when we saw how happy Titus was, because you had shown he had nothing to worry about.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We had told him how much we thought of you, and you did not disappoint us. Just as we have always told you the truth, so everything we told him about you has also proved to be true.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Titus loves all of you very much, especially when he remembers how you obeyed him and how you trembled with fear when you welcomed him.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
My friends, we want you to know that the churches in Macedonia have shown others God's gift of undeserved grace.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
And they did more than we had hoped. They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, just as God wanted them to do.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Titus was the one who got you started doing this good thing, so we begged him to help you finish what you had begun.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You do everything better than anyone else. You have stronger faith. You speak better and know more. You are eager to give, and you love us better. Now you must give more generously than anyone else.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am not ordering you to do this. I am simply testing how real your love is by comparing it with the concern that others have shown.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You know our Lord Jesus Christ treated us with undeserved grace by giving up all his riches, so you could become rich.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
A year ago you were the first ones to give, and you gave because you wanted to. So listen to my advice.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I think you should finish what you started. If you give according to what you have, you will prove you are as eager to give as you were to think about giving.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
It doesn't matter how much you have. What matters is how much you are willing to give from what you have.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
for you to share with them when you have so much, and they have so little. Later, when they have more than enough, and you are in need, they can share with you. Then everyone will have a fair share,


book: 2Cor
contenido:
just as the Scriptures say, “Those who gathered too much had nothing left. Those who gathered only a little had all they needed.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
With Titus we are also sending one of the Lord's followers who is well known in every church for spreading the good news.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The churches chose this follower to travel with us while we carry this gift that will bring praise to the Lord and show how much we hope to help.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We are also sending someone else with Titus and the other follower. We approve of this man. In fact, he has already shown us many times that he wants to help. And now he wants to help even more than ever, because he trusts you so much.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Titus is my partner, who works with me to serve you. The other two followers are sent by the churches, and they bring honor to Christ.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Treat them in such a way that the churches will see your love and will know why we bragged about you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I know how eager you are to give. And I have proudly told the Lord's followers in Macedonia that you people in Achaia have been ready for a whole year. Now your desire to give has made them want to give.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
This is why I am sending Titus and the two others to you. I want you to be ready, just as I promised. This will prove we were not wrong to brag about you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Some followers from Macedonia may come with me, and I want them to find that you have the money ready. If you don't, I would be embarrassed for trusting you to do this. But you would be embarrassed even more.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So I have decided to ask Titus and the others to spend some time with you before I arrive. This way they can arrange to collect the money you have promised. Then you will have the chance to give because you want to, and not because you feel forced to.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Each of you must make up your own mind about how much to give. But don't feel sorry that you must give and don't feel you are forced to give. God loves people who love to give.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God can bless you with everything you need, and you will always have more than enough to do all kinds of good things for others.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
God gives seed to farmers and provides everyone with food. He will increase what you have, so you can give even more to those in need.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You will be blessed in every way, and you will be able to keep on being generous. Then many people will thank God when we deliver your gift.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
What you are doing is much more than a service that supplies God's people with what they need. It is something that will make many others thank God.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The way in which you have proved yourselves by this service will bring honor and praise to God. You believed the message about Christ, and you obeyed it by sharing generously with God's people and with everyone else.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Do you think I am a coward when I am with you and brave when I am far away? Well, I ask you to listen, because Christ himself was humble and gentle.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Some people have said we act like the people of this world. So when I arrive, I expect I will have to be firm and forceful in what I say to them. Please don't make me treat you that way.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
or fight our battles with the weapons of this world. Instead, we use God's power that can destroy fortresses. We destroy arguments


book: 2Cor
contenido:
and every bit of pride that keeps anyone from knowing God. We capture people's thoughts and make them obey Christ.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
You judge by appearances. If any of you think you are the only ones who belong to Christ, then think again. We belong to Christ as much as you do.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Maybe I brag a little too much about the authority that the Lord gave me to help you and not to hurt you. Yet I am not embarrassed to brag.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Some of you are saying, “Paul's letters are harsh and powerful. But in person, he is a weakling and has nothing worth saying.”


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Those people had better understand that when I am with you, I will do exactly what I say in my letters.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We won't dare compare ourselves with those who think so much of themselves. But they are foolish to compare themselves with themselves.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We won't brag about something we don't have a right to brag about. We will only brag about the work God has sent us to do, and you are part of that work.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We don't brag about what others have done, as if we had done those things ourselves. But I hope as you become stronger in your faith, we will be able to reach many more of the people around you. That has always been our goal.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Then we will be able to preach the good news in other lands where we cannot take credit for work someone else has already done.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But now I fear that you will be tricked, just as Eve was tricked by that lying snake. I am afraid that you might stop thinking about Christ in an honest and sincere way.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
We told you about Jesus, and you received the Holy Spirit and accepted our message. But you let some people tell you about another Jesus. Now you are ready to receive another spirit and accept a different message.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I may not speak as well as they do, but I know as much. And this has already been made perfectly clear to you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Even when I was in need, I still didn't bother you. In fact, some of the Lord's followers from Macedonia brought me what I needed. I have not been a burden to you in the past, and I will never be a burden.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I plan to go on doing just what I have always done. Then those people won't be able to brag about doing the same things we are doing.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Anyway, they are no more than false apostles and dishonest workers. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
So why does it seem strange for Satan's servants to pretend to do what is right? Someday they will get exactly what they deserve.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I don't want any of you to think I am a fool. But if you do, then let me be a fool and brag a little.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
In fact, you let people make slaves of you and cheat you and steal from you. Why, you even let them strut around and slap you in the face.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I am ashamed to say we are too weak to behave in such a way. If they can brag, so can I, but it is a foolish thing to do.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So am I. Are they from the family of Abraham? Well, so am I.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Are they servants of Christ? I am a fool to talk this way, but I serve him better than they do. I have worked harder and have been put in jail more times. I have been beaten with whips more and have been in danger of death more often.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Three times the Romans beat me with a big stick, and once my enemies stoned me. I have been shipwrecked three times, and I even had to spend a night and a day in the sea.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
During my many travels, I have been in danger from rivers, robbers, my own people, and foreigners. My life has been in danger in cities, in deserts, at sea, and with people who only pretended to be the Lord's followers.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have worked and struggled and spent many sleepless nights. I have gone hungry and thirsty and often had nothing to eat. I have been cold from not having enough clothes to keep me warm.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
The governor of Damascus at the time of King Aretas had the city gates guarded, so he could capture me.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have to brag. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I must brag about the visions and other things that the Lord has shown me.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I know about one of Christ's followers who was taken up into the third heaven 14 years ago. I don't know if the man was still in his body when it happened, but God certainly knows.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Yet even if I did brag, I would not be foolish. I would simply be speaking the truth. But I will try not to say too much. That way, none of you will think more highly of me than you should because of what you have seen me do and say.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Of course, I am now referring to the wonderful things I saw. One of Satan's angels was sent to make me suffer terribly, so that I would not feel too proud.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
But he replied, “My gift of undeserved grace is all you need. My power is strongest when you are weak.” So if Christ keeps giving me his power, I will gladly brag about how weak I am.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Yes, I am glad to be weak or insulted or mistreated or to have troubles and sufferings, if it is for Christ. Because when I am weak, I am strong.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I have been making a fool of myself. But you forced me to do it, when you should have been speaking up for me. I may be nothing at all, but I am as good as those super apostles.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
When I was with you, I was patient and worked all the powerful miracles and signs and wonders of a true apostle.


book: 2Cor
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You missed out on only one blessing the other churches received. That is, you didn't have to support me. Forgive me for doing you wrong.


book: 2Cor
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I am planning to visit you for the third time. But I still won't make a burden of myself. What I really want is you, and not what you have. Children are not supposed to save up for their parents, but parents are supposed to take care of their children.


book: 2Cor
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You agree that I wasn't a burden to you. Maybe that's because I was trying to catch you off guard and trick you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I urged Titus to visit you, and I sent another follower with him. But Titus didn't cheat you, and we felt and behaved the same way he did.


book: 2Cor
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Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? Actually, we have been speaking to God as followers of Christ. But, my friends, we did it all for your good.


book: 2Cor
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I am afraid when I come, we won't be pleased with each other. I fear that some of you may be arguing or jealous or angry or selfish or gossiping or insulting each other. I even fear that you may be proud and acting like a mob.


book: 2Cor
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I am afraid God will make me ashamed when I visit you again. I will feel like crying because many of you have never given up your old sins. You are still doing things that are immoral, indecent, and shameful.


book: 2Cor
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I am on my way to visit you for the third time. And as the Scriptures say, “Any charges must be proved true by at least two or three witnesses.”


book: 2Cor
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During my second visit I warned you that I would punish you and anyone else who doesn't stop sinning. I am far away from you now, but I give you the same warning.


book: 2Cor
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This should prove to you that I am speaking for Christ. When he corrects you, he won't be weak. He will be powerful!


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Although he was weak when he was nailed to the cross, he now lives by the power of God. We are weak, just as Christ was. But you will see that we will live by the power of God, just as Christ does.


book: 2Cor
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Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith. If you pass the test, you will discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you have failed.


book: 2Cor
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We pray you will stop doing evil things. We don't pray like this to make ourselves look good, but to get you to do right, even if we are failures.


book: 2Cor
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I am writing these things to you before I arrive. This way I won't have to be hard on you when I use the authority the Lord has given me. I was given this authority, so I could help you and not destroy you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
Goodbye, my friends. Do better and pay attention to what I have said. Try to get along and live peacefully with each other. Now I pray that God, who gives love and peace, will be with you.


book: 2Cor
contenido:
I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will bless you and be kind to you! May God bless you with his love, and may the Holy Spirit join all your hearts together.


book: Gal
contenido:
From the apostle Paul and from all the Lord's followers with me. I was chosen to be an apostle by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised him from death. No mere human chose or appointed me to this work. To the churches in Galatia:


book: Gal
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I pray that God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


book: Gal
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Christ obeyed God our Father and gave himself as a sacrifice for our sins to rescue us from this evil world.


book: Gal
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I am shocked that you have so quickly turned from God, who chose you with his gift of undeserved grace. You have believed another message,


book: Gal
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when there is really only one true message. But some people are causing you trouble and want to make you turn away from the good news about Christ.


book: Gal
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I pray that God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from our message to you! It doesn't matter if that person is one of us or an angel from heaven.


book: Gal
contenido:
I have said it before, and I will say it again. I hope God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from what you have already believed.


book: Gal
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I am not trying to please people. I want to please God. Do you think I am trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.


book: Gal
contenido:
It wasn't given or taught to me by some mere human. My message came directly from Jesus Christ when he appeared to me.


book: Gal
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I was a much better Jew than anyone else my own age, and I obeyed every law our ancestors had given us.


book: Gal
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to show me his Son, so I would announce his message to the Gentiles. I didn't talk this over with anyone.


book: Gal
contenido:
I didn't say a word, not even to the men in Jerusalem who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went at once to Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus.


book: Gal
contenido:
They had only heard that the one who had been cruel to them was now preaching the message that he had once tried to destroy.


book: Gal
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But I went there because God had told me to go, and I explained the good news I had been preaching to the Gentiles. Then I met privately with the ones who seemed to be the most important leaders. I wanted to make sure my work in the past and my future work would not be for nothing.


book: Gal
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We went there because of those who pretended to be followers and had sneaked in among us as spies. They had come to take away the freedom Christ Jesus had given us, and they were trying to make us their slaves.


book: Gal
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But we wanted you to have the true message. This is why we didn't give in to them, not even for a second.


book: Gal
contenido:
Some of them were supposed to be important leaders, but I didn't care who they were. God doesn't have any favorites! None of these so-called special leaders added anything to my message.


book: Gal
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They realized God had sent me with the good news for Gentiles, and he had sent Peter with the same message for Jews.


book: Gal
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James, Peter, and John realized that God had given me the message about his gift of undeserved grace. And these men are supposed to be the backbone of the church. They even gave Barnabas and me a friendly handshake. This was to show that we would work with Gentiles and that they would work with Jews.


book: Gal
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He used to eat with Gentile followers of the Lord, until James sent some Jewish followers. Peter was afraid of the Jews and soon stopped eating with Gentiles.


book: Gal
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But when I saw they were not really obeying the truth that is in the good news, I corrected Peter in front of everyone and said: Peter, you are a Jew, but you live like a Gentile. So how can you force Gentiles to live like Jews?


book: Gal
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But we know that God accepts only those who have faith in Jesus Christ. No one can please God by simply obeying the Law. So we put our faith in Christ Jesus, and God accepted us because of our faith.


book: Gal
contenido:
When we Jews started looking for a way to please God, we discovered that we are sinners too. Does this mean that Christ is the one who makes us sinners? No, it doesn't!


book: Gal
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It was the Law itself that killed me and freed me from its power, so I could live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.


book: Gal
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I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.


book: Gal
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I don't turn my back on God's gift of undeserved grace. If we can be acceptable to God by obeying the Law, it was useless for Christ to die.


book: Gal
contenido:
You stupid Galatians! I told you exactly how Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross. Has someone now put an evil spell on you?


book: Gal
contenido:
I want to know only one thing. How were you given God's Spirit? Was it by obeying the Law of Moses or by hearing about Christ and having faith in him?


book: Gal
contenido:
How can you be so stupid? Do you think that by yourself you can complete what God's Spirit started in you?


book: Gal
contenido:
God gives you his Spirit and works miracles in you. But does he do this because you obey the Law of Moses or because you have heard about Christ and have faith in him?


book: Gal
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Long ago the Scriptures said God would accept the Gentiles because of their faith. This is why God told Abraham the good news that all nations would be blessed because of him.


book: Gal
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This means everyone who has faith will share in the blessings given to Abraham because of his faith.


book: Gal
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Anyone who tries to please God by obeying the Law is under a curse. The Scriptures say, “Everyone who doesn't obey everything in the Law is under a curse.”


book: Gal
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No one can please God by obeying the Law. The Scriptures also say, “The people God accepts because of their faith will live.”


book: Gal
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But Christ rescued us from the Law's curse, when he became a curse in our place. This is because the Scriptures say that anyone who is nailed to a tree is under a curse.


book: Gal
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And because of what Jesus Christ has done, the blessing promised to Abraham was taken to the Gentiles. This happened so that by faith we would be given the promised Holy Spirit.


book: Gal
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My friends, I will use an everyday example to explain what I mean. Once someone agrees to something, no one else can change or cancel the agreement.


book: Gal
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That is how it is with the promises God made to Abraham and his descendant. The promises were not made to many descendants, but only to one, and that one is Christ.


book: Gal
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What I am saying is that the Law cannot change or cancel God's promise made 430 years before the Law was given.


book: Gal
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If we have to obey the Law in order to receive God's blessings, those blessings don't really come to us because of God's promise. But God was kind to Abraham and made him a promise.


book: Gal
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What is the use of the Law? It was given later to show that we sin. But it was only supposed to last until the coming of that descendant who was given the promise. In fact, angels gave the Law to Moses, and he gave it to the people.


book: Gal
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Does the Law disagree with God's promises? No, it doesn't! If any law could give life to us, we could become acceptable to God by obeying that law.


book: Gal
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But the Scriptures say that sin controls everyone, so that God's promises will be for anyone who has faith in Jesus Christ.


book: Gal
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In fact, the Law was to be our teacher until Christ came. Then we could have faith and be acceptable to God.


book: Gal
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And when you were baptized, it was as though you had put on Christ in the same way you put on new clothes.


book: Gal
contenido:
Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.


book: Gal
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So if you belong to Christ, you are now part of Abraham's family, and you will be given what God has promised.


book: Gal
contenido:
Children who are under age are no better off than slaves, even though everything their parents own will someday be theirs.


book: Gal
contenido:
This is because children are placed in the care of guardians and teachers until the time their parents have set.


book: Gal
contenido:
But when the time was right, God sent his Son, and a woman gave birth to him. His Son obeyed the Law,


book: Gal
contenido:
Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. And his Spirit tells us that God is our Father.


book: Gal
contenido:
But now you know God, or better still, God knows you. How can you turn back and become the slaves of those weak and pitiful powers?


book: Gal
contenido:
when I first preached to you? No you didn't, even though you knew I had come there because I was sick.


book: Gal
contenido:
My illness must have caused you some trouble, but you didn't hate me or turn me away because of it. You welcomed me as though I were one of God's angels or even Christ Jesus himself.


book: Gal
contenido:
Where is that good feeling now? I am sure if it had been possible, you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me.


book: Gal
contenido:
Those people may be paying you a lot of attention, but it isn't for your good. They only want to keep you away from me, so you will pay them a lot of attention.


book: Gal
contenido:
In the Scriptures we learn that Abraham had two sons. The mother of one of them was a slave, while the mother of the other one had always been free.


book: Gal
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The son of the slave woman was born in the usual way. But the son of the free woman was born because of God's promise.


book: Gal
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All of this has another meaning as well. Each of the two women stands for one of the agreements God made with his people. Hagar, the slave woman, stands for the agreement that was made at Mount Sinai. Everyone born into her family is a slave.


book: Gal
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Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and for the present city of Jerusalem. She and her children are slaves.


book: Gal
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The Scriptures say about her, “You have never had children, but now you can be glad. You have never given birth, but now you can shout. Once you had no children, but now you will have more children than a woman who has been married for a long time.”


book: Gal
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But the child who was born in the natural way made trouble for the child who was born because of the Spirit. The same thing is happening today.


book: Gal
contenido:
The Scriptures say, “Get rid of the slave woman and her son! He won't be given anything. The son of the free woman will receive everything.”


book: Gal
contenido:
Christ has set us free! This means we are really free. Now hold on to your freedom and don't ever become slaves of the Law again.


book: Gal
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And if you try to please God by obeying the Law, you have cut yourself off from Christ and his gift of undeserved grace.


book: Gal
contenido:
If you are a follower of Christ Jesus, it makes no difference whether you are circumcised or not. All that matters is your faith that makes you love others.


book: Gal
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but you belong to the Lord. This makes me certain you will do what I say, instead of what someone else tells you to do. Whoever is causing trouble for you will be punished.


book: Gal
contenido:
My friends, if I still preach that people need to be circumcised, why am I in so much trouble? The message about the cross would no longer be a problem, if I told people to be circumcised.


book: Gal
contenido:
My friends, you were chosen to be free. So don't use your freedom as an excuse to do anything you want. Use it as an opportunity to serve each other with love.


book: Gal
contenido:
But if you keep attacking each other like wild animals, you had better watch out or you will destroy yourselves.


book: Gal
contenido:
The Spirit and your desires are enemies of each other. They are always fighting each other and keeping you from doing what you feel you should.


book: Gal
contenido:
They worship idols, practice witchcraft, hate others, and are hard to get along with. People become jealous, angry, and selfish. They not only argue and cause trouble, but they are


book: Gal
contenido:
envious. They get drunk, carry on at wild parties, and do other evil things as well. I told you before, and I am telling you again: No one who does these things will share in the blessings of God's kingdom.


book: Gal
contenido:
My friends, you are spiritual. So if someone is trapped in sin, you should gently lead that person back to the right path. But watch out, and don't be tempted yourself.


book: Gal
contenido:
Do your own work well, and then you will have something to be proud of. But don't compare yourself with others.


book: Gal
contenido:
If you follow your selfish desires, you will harvest destruction, but if you follow the Spirit, you will harvest eternal life.


book: Gal
contenido:
Don't get tired of helping others. You will be rewarded when the time is right, if you don't give up.


book: Gal
contenido:
Those people who are telling you to get circumcised are only trying to show how important they are. And they don't want to get into trouble for preaching about the cross of Christ.


book: Gal
contenido:
They are circumcised, but they don't obey the Law of Moses. All they want is to brag about having you circumcised.


book: Gal
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But I will never brag about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his cross, the world is dead as far as I am concerned, and I am dead as far as the world is concerned.


book: Gal
contenido:
If you follow this rule, you will belong to God's true people. God will treat you with undeserved kindness and will bless you with peace.


book: Gal
contenido:
On my own body are scars that prove I belong to Christ Jesus. So I don't want anyone to bother me anymore.


book: Eph
contenido:
From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. To God's people who live in Ephesus and are faithful followers of Christ Jesus.


book: Eph
contenido:
I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


book: Eph
contenido:
Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the spiritual blessings that Christ has brought us from heaven!


book: Eph
contenido:
Before the world was created, God had Christ choose us to live with him and to be his holy and innocent and loving people.


book: Eph
contenido:
God treated us with undeserved grace because of the Son he dearly loves, and so we should praise God.


book: Eph
contenido:
Christ sacrificed his life's blood to set us free, which means our sins are now forgiven. Christ did this because of God's gift of undeserved grace to us. God has great wisdom and understanding,


book: Eph
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Then when the time is right, God will do all he has planned, and Christ will bring together everything in heaven and on earth.


book: Eph
contenido:
Christ also brought you the truth, which is the good news about how you can be saved. You put your faith in Christ and were given the promised Holy Spirit to show you belong to God.


book: Eph
contenido:
The Spirit also makes us sure we will be given what God has stored up for his people. Then we will be set free, and God will be honored and praised.


book: Eph
contenido:
I ask the glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you his Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what it means to know God.


book: Eph
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My prayer is that light will flood your hearts and you will understand the hope given to you when God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will be yours together with all God's people.


book: Eph
contenido:
I want you to know about the great and mighty power that God has for us followers. It is the same wonderful power he used


book: Eph
contenido:
There Christ rules over all forces, authorities, powers, and rulers. He rules over all beings in this world and will rule in the future world as well.


book: Eph
contenido:
God has put all things under the power of Christ, and for the good of the church he has made him the head of everything.


book: Eph
contenido:
You followed the ways of this world and obeyed the devil. He rules the world, and his spirit has power over everyone who doesn't obey God.


book: Eph
contenido:
Once we were also ruled by the selfish desires of our bodies and minds. We had made God angry, and we were going to be punished like everyone else.


book: Eph
contenido:
But God was merciful! We were dead because of our sins, but God loved us so much he made us alive with Christ, and God's gift of undeserved grace is what saves you.


book: Eph
contenido:
God raised us from death to life with Christ Jesus, and he has given us a place beside Christ in heaven.


book: Eph
contenido:
God did this so in the future world he could show how truly good and kind he is to us because of what Christ Jesus has done.


book: Eph
contenido:
You were saved by faith in God, who treats us much better than we deserve. This is God's gift to you, and not anything you have done on your own.


book: Eph
contenido:
God planned for us to do good things and to live as he has always wanted us to live. This is why he sent Christ to make us what we are.


book: Eph
contenido:
Don't forget that you are Gentiles. In fact, you used to be called “uncircumcised” by those who take pride in being circumcised.


book: Eph
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At that time you did not know about Christ. You were foreigners to the people of Israel, and you had no part in the promises God had made to them. You were living in this world without hope and without God,


book: Eph
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and you were far from God. But Christ offered his life's blood as a sacrifice and brought you near God.


book: Eph
contenido:
Christ has made peace between Jews and Gentiles, and he has united us by breaking down the wall of hatred that separated us. Christ gave his own body


book: Eph
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to destroy the Law of Moses with all its rules and commands. He even brought Jews and Gentiles together as though we were only one person, when he united us in peace.


book: Eph
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On the cross Christ did away with our hatred for each other. He also made peace between us and God by uniting Jews and Gentiles in one body.


book: Eph
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Christ came and preached peace to you Gentiles, who were far from God, and peace to us Jews, who were near God.


book: Eph
contenido:
You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God.


book: Eph
contenido:
You are like a building with the apostles and prophets as the foundation and with Christ as the most important stone.


book: Eph
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Christ is the one who holds the building together and makes it grow into a holy temple for the Lord.


book: Eph
contenido:
As you read the letter, you will also find out how well I really do understand the mystery about Christ.


book: Eph
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And the mystery is this: Because of Christ Jesus, the good news has given the Gentiles a share in the promises God gave to the Jews. God has also let the Gentiles be part of the same body.


book: Eph
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I am the least important of all God's people. But God was kind and chose me to tell the Gentiles that because of Christ there are blessings that cannot be measured.


book: Eph
contenido:
God, who created everything, wanted me to help everyone understand the mysterious plan that had always been hidden in his mind.


book: Eph
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Then God would use the church to show the powers and authorities in the spiritual world that he has many different kinds of wisdom.


book: Eph
contenido:
God did this according to his eternal plan. And he was able to do what he had planned because of all Christ Jesus our Lord had done.


book: Eph
contenido:
This is why you should not be discouraged when I suffer for you. After all, it will bring honor to you.


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and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in his love.


book: Eph
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I want you to know all about Christ's love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.


book: Eph
contenido:
I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will forever bring praise to God. His power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.


book: Eph
contenido:
As a prisoner of the Lord, I beg you to live in a way that is worthy of the people God has chosen to be his own.


book: Eph
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All of you are part of the same body. There is only one Spirit of God, just as you were given one hope when you were chosen to be God's people.


book: Eph
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There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us.


book: Eph
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As the Scriptures say, “When he went up to the highest place, he led away many prisoners and gave gifts to people.”


book: Eph
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This also means that the one who went deep into the earth is the same one who went into the highest heaven, so he would fill the whole universe.


book: Eph
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This will continue until we are united by our faith and by our understanding of the Son of God. Then we will be mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him.


book: Eph
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We must stop acting like children. We must not let deceitful people trick us by their false teachings, which are like winds that toss us around from place to place.


book: Eph
contenido:
Love should always make us tell the truth. Then we will grow in every way and be more like Christ, the head


book: Eph
contenido:
of the body. Christ holds it together and makes all of its parts work perfectly, as it grows and becomes strong because of love.


book: Eph
contenido:
Their minds are in the dark, and they are stubborn and ignorant and have missed out on the life that comes from God. They no longer have any feelings about what is right,


book: Eph
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But this isn't what you were taught about Jesus Christ. He is the truth, and you heard about him and learned about him.


book: Eph
contenido:
You were told that your foolish desires will destroy you and that you must give up your old way of life with all its bad habits.


book: Eph
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and make you into a new person. You were created to be like God, and so you must please him and be truly holy.


book: Eph
contenido:
If you are a thief, quit stealing. Be honest and work hard, so you will have something to give to people in need.


book: Eph
contenido:
Don't make God's Spirit sad. The Spirit makes you sure that someday you will be free from your sins.


book: Eph
contenido:
Stop being bitter and angry and mad at others. Don't yell at one another or curse each other or ever be rude.


book: Eph
contenido:
Let love be your guide. Christ loved us and offered his life for us as a sacrifice that pleases God.


book: Eph
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Being greedy, indecent, or immoral is just another way of worshiping idols. You can be sure people who behave in this way will never be part of the kingdom that belongs to Christ and to God.


book: Eph
contenido:
Don't let anyone trick you with foolish talk. God punishes everyone who disobeys him and says foolish things.


book: Eph
contenido:
You used to be like people living in the dark, but now you are people of the light because you belong to the Lord. So act like people of the light


book: Eph
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Don't take part in doing those worthless things that are done in the dark. Instead, show how wrong they are.


book: Eph
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Light shows up everything, just as the Scriptures say, “Wake up from your sleep and rise from death. Then Christ will shine on you.”


book: Eph
contenido:
When you meet together, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, as you praise the Lord with all your heart.


book: Eph
contenido:
A husband is the head of his wife, as Christ is the head and the Savior of the church, which is his own body.


book: Eph
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Christ did this, so he would have a glorious and holy church, without faults or spots or wrinkles or any other flaws.


book: Eph
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In the same way, a husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself. A husband who loves his wife shows he loves himself.


book: Eph
contenido:
None of us hate our own bodies. We provide for them and take good care of them, just as Christ does for the church,


book: Eph
contenido:
As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother to get married, and he becomes like one person with his wife.”


book: Eph
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So each husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself, and each wife should respect her husband.


book: Eph
contenido:
Children, you belong to the Lord, and you do the right thing when you obey your parents. The first commandment with a promise says,


book: Eph
contenido:
Parents, don't be hard on your children. Raise them properly. Teach them and instruct them about the Lord.


book: Eph
contenido:
Slaves, you must obey your earthly masters. Show them great respect and be as loyal to them as you are to Christ.


book: Eph
contenido:
Try to please them at all times, and not just when you think they are watching. You are slaves of Christ, so with your whole heart you must do what God wants you to do.


book: Eph
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Slave owners, you must treat your slaves with this same respect. Don't threaten them. They have the same Master in heaven that you do, and he doesn't have favorites.


book: Eph
contenido:
We are not fighting against humans. We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world.


book: Eph
contenido:
So put on all the armor that God gives. Then when that evil day comes, you will be able to defend yourself. And when the battle is over, you will still be standing firm.


book: Eph
contenido:
Be ready! Let the truth be like a belt around your waist, and let God's justice protect you like armor.


book: Eph
contenido:
Let your faith be like a shield, and you will be able to stop all the flaming arrows of the evil one.


book: Eph
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Let God's saving power be like a helmet, and for a sword use God's message that comes from the Spirit.


book: Eph
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Never stop praying, especially for others. Always pray by the power of the Spirit. Stay alert and keep praying for God's people.


book: Eph
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Pray that I will be given the message to speak and that I may fearlessly explain the mystery about the good news.


book: Eph
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I was sent to do this work, and this is the reason I am in jail. So pray that I will be brave and will speak as I should.


book: Eph
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I want you to know how I am getting along and what I am doing. This is why I am sending Tychicus to you. He is a dear friend, as well as a faithful servant of the Lord. He will tell you how I am doing, and he will cheer you up.


book: Eph
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I pray that God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will give peace, love, and faith to every follower!


book: Phil
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From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus. To all God's people who belong to Christ Jesus at Philippi and to all your bishops and deacons.


book: Phil
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This is because you have taken part with me in spreading the good news from the first day you heard about it.


book: Phil
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God is the one who began this good work in you, and I am certain that he won't stop before it is complete on the day that Christ Jesus returns.


book: Phil
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You have a special place in my heart. So it is only natural for me to feel the way I do. All of you have helped in the work God has given me, as I defend the good news and tell about it here in jail.


book: Phil
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God himself knows how much I want to see you. He knows I care for you in the same way Christ Jesus does.


book: Phil
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how to make the right choices. Then you will still be pure and innocent when Christ returns. And until that day,


book: Phil
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My dear friends, I want you to know that what has happened to me has helped to spread the good news.


book: Phil
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Some are preaching about Christ because they are jealous and envious of us. Others are preaching because they want to help.


book: Phil
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But the ones who are jealous of us are not sincere. They just want to cause trouble for me while I am in jail.


book: Phil
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But that doesn't matter. All that matters is that people are telling about Christ, whether they are sincere or not. This is what makes me glad. I will keep on being glad,


book: Phil
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because I know that your prayers and the help that comes from the Spirit of Christ Jesus will keep me safe.


book: Phil
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I honestly expect and hope I will never do anything to be ashamed of. Whether I live or die, I always want to be as brave as I am now and bring honor to Christ.


book: Phil
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But I know that all of you still need me. This is why I am sure I will stay on to help you grow and be happy in your faith.


book: Phil
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Then, when I visit you again, you will have good reason to take great pride in Christ Jesus because of me.


book: Phil
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Above all else, you must live in a way that brings honor to the good news about Christ. Then, whether I visit you or not, I will hear that all of you think alike. I will know that you are working together and are struggling side by side to get others to believe the good news.


book: Phil
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Be brave when you face your enemies. Your courage will show them that they are going to be destroyed, and it will show you that you will be saved. God will make all of this happen,


book: Phil
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Christ encourages you, and his love comforts you. God's Spirit unites you, and you are concerned for others.


book: Phil
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Now make me completely happy! Live in harmony by showing love for each other. Be united in what you think, as if you were only one person.


book: Phil
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My dear friends, you always obeyed when I was with you. Now that I am away, you should obey even more. So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved.


book: Phil
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Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything they can say is wrong. Try to shine as lights among the people of this world,


book: Phil
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as you hold firmly to the message that gives life. Then on the day when Christ returns, I can take pride in you. I can also know that my work and efforts were not useless.


book: Phil
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Your faith in the Lord and your service are like a sacrifice offered to him. And my own blood may have to be poured out with the sacrifice. If this happens, I will be glad and rejoice with you.


book: Phil
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I want to be encouraged by news about you. So I hope the Lord Jesus will soon let me send Timothy to you.


book: Phil
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But you know what kind of person Timothy is. He has worked with me like a son in spreading the good news.


book: Phil
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I think I ought to send my dear friend Epaphroditus back to you. He is a follower and a worker and a soldier of the Lord, just as I am. You sent him to look after me,


book: Phil
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In fact, he was very sick and almost died. But God was kind to him, and also to me, and he kept me from being burdened down with sorrow.


book: Phil
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Now I am more eager than ever to send Epaphroditus back again. You will be glad to see him, and I won't have to worry any longer.


book: Phil
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Finally, my dear friends, be glad that you belong to the Lord. It doesn't bother me to write the same things to you that I have written before. In fact, it is for your own good.


book: Phil
contenido:
Watch out for those people who behave like dogs! They are evil and want to do more than just circumcise you.


book: Phil
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But we are the ones who are truly circumcised, because we worship by the power of God's Spirit and take pride in Christ Jesus. We don't brag about what we have done,


book: Phil
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although I could. Others may brag about themselves, but I have more reason to brag than anyone else.


book: Phil
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I was circumcised when I was eight days old, and I am from the nation of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin. I am a true Hebrew. As a Pharisee, I strictly obeyed the Law of Moses.


book: Phil
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And I was so eager I even made trouble for the church. I did everything the Law demands in order to please God.


book: Phil
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Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have given up everything else and count it all as garbage. All I want is Christ


book: Phil
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and to know that I belong to him. I could not make myself acceptable to God by obeying the Law of Moses. God accepted me simply because of my faith in Christ.


book: Phil
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All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did,


book: Phil
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I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize.


book: Phil
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My friends, I don't feel I have already arrived. But I forget what is behind, and I struggle for what is ahead.


book: Phil
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I run toward the goal, so I can win the prize of being called to heaven. This is the prize God offers because of what Christ Jesus has done.


book: Phil
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All of us who are mature should think in this same way. And if any of you think differently, God will make it clear to you.


book: Phil
contenido:
My friends, I want you to follow my example and learn from others who closely follow the example we set for you.


book: Phil
contenido:
I often warned you that many people are living as enemies of the cross of Christ. And now with tears in my eyes, I warn you again


book: Phil
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that they are headed for hell! They worship their stomachs and brag about the disgusting things they do. All they can think about are the things of this world.


book: Phil
contenido:
But we are citizens of heaven and are eagerly waiting for our Savior to come from there. Our Lord Jesus Christ


book: Phil
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Dear friends, I love you and long to see you. Please keep on being faithful to the Lord. You are my pride and joy.


book: Phil
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And, my true partner, I ask you to help them. These women have worked together with me and with Clement and with the others in spreading the good news. Their names are now written in the book of life.


book: Phil
contenido:
Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God.


book: Phil
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Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel.


book: Phil
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Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.


book: Phil
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You know the teachings I gave you, and you know what you heard me say and saw me do. So follow my example. And God, who gives peace, will be with you.


book: Phil
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The Lord has made me very grateful that at last you have thought about me once again. Actually, you were thinking about me all along, but you didn't have any chance to show it.


book: Phil
contenido:
I know what it is to be poor or to have plenty, and I have lived under all kinds of conditions. I know what it means to be full or to be hungry, to have too much or too little.


book: Phil
contenido:
My friends at Philippi, you remember what it was like when I started preaching the good news in Macedonia. After I left there, you were the only church that became my partner by giving blessings and by receiving them in return.


book: Phil
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I am not trying to get something from you, but I want you to receive the blessings that come from giving.


book: Phil
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I have been paid back everything, and with interest. I am completely satisfied with the gifts you sent with Epaphroditus. They are like a sweet-smelling offering or like the right kind of sacrifice that pleases God.


book: Phil
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I pray that God will take care of all your needs with the wonderful blessings that come from Christ Jesus!


book: Phil
contenido:
Give my greetings to all who are God's people because of Christ Jesus. The Lord's followers here with me send you their greetings.


book: Col
contenido:
From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, who is also a follower.


book: Col
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To God's people who live in Colossae and are faithful followers of Christ. I pray that God our Father will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!


book: Col
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because what you hope for is kept safe for you in heaven. You first heard about this hope when you believed the true message, which is the good news.


book: Col
contenido:
The good news is spreading all over the world with great success. It has spread in this same way among you, ever since the first day you learned the truth about God's wonderful kindness


book: Col
contenido:
from our good friend Epaphras. He works together with us for Christ and is a faithful worker for you.


book: Col
contenido:
We have not stopped praying for you since the first day we heard about you. In fact, we always pray that God will show you everything he wants you to do and that you may have all the wisdom and understanding his Spirit gives.


book: Col
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Then you will live a life that honors the Lord, and you will always please him by doing good deeds. You will come to know God even better.


book: Col
contenido:
His glorious power will make you patient and strong enough to endure anything, and you will be truly happy.


book: Col
contenido:
I pray that you will be grateful to God for letting you have part in what he has promised his people in the kingdom of light.


book: Col
contenido:
Everything was created by him, everything in heaven and on earth, everything seen and unseen, including all forces and powers, and all rulers and authorities. All things were created by God's Son, and everything was made for him.


book: Col
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He is the head of his body, which is the church. He is the very beginning, the first to be raised from death, so that he would be above all others.


book: Col
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And God was pleased for him to make peace by sacrificing his blood on the cross, so that all beings in heaven and on earth would be brought back to God.


book: Col
contenido:
But his Son became a human and died. So God made peace with you, and now he lets you stand in his presence as people who are holy and faultless and innocent.


book: Col
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But you must stay deeply rooted and firm in your faith. You must not give up the hope you received when you heard the good news. It was preached to everyone on earth, and I myself have become a servant of this message.


book: Col
contenido:
I am glad I can suffer for you. I am pleased also that in my own body I can continue the suffering of Christ for his body, the church.


book: Col
contenido:
God's plan was to make me a servant of his church and to send me to preach his complete message to you.


book: Col
contenido:
For ages and ages this message was kept secret from everyone, but now it has been explained to God's people.


book: Col
contenido:
God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ lives in you, and he is your hope of sharing in God's glory.


book: Col
contenido:
We announce the message about Christ, and we use all our wisdom to warn and teach everyone, so all of Christ's followers will grow and become mature.


book: Col
contenido:
I want you to know what a struggle I am going through for you, for God's people at Laodicea, and for all of those followers who have never met me.


book: Col
contenido:
I do it to encourage them. Then as their hearts are joined together in love, they will be wonderfully blessed with complete understanding. And they will truly know Christ. Not only is he the key to God's mystery,


book: Col
contenido:
Even though I am not with you, I keep thinking about you. I am glad to know that you are living as you should and your faith in Christ is strong.


