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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.007.005","MRK","7","MK7_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK7_5' data-id='MK7_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>So the Pharisees and religious leaders asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples follow the tradition of our ancestors? They eat food<span class='note' id='footnote-156'><a href='#note-156' class='key'>†</a></span> with unclean hands.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.007.008","MRK","7","MK7_8","<span class='v MK7_8' data-id='MK7_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>You disregard God’s law, and instead you carefully observe human traditions,” he told them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.009.011","MRK","9","MK9_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK9_11' data-id='MK9_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Why do the religious teachers state that Elijah has to come first?” they asked him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.010.003","MRK","10","MK10_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK10_3' data-id='MK10_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“What did Moses tell you to do?” he asked in reply. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.024","MRK","12","MK12_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_24' data-id='MK12_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Jesus told them, “This proves you’re mistaken, and that you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.029","MRK","12","MK12_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_29' data-id='MK12_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “The first commandment is, ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.031","MRK","12","MK12_31","<span class='v MK12_31' data-id='MK12_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>The second is ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’<span class='note' id='footnote-188'><a href='#note-188' class='key'>†</a></span> There’s no more important commandment than these.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.032","MRK","12","MK12_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_32' data-id='MK12_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“That’s right, Teacher,” the man replied. “It’s true as you said that God is one, and there is no other. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.034","MRK","12","MK12_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_34' data-id='MK12_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Jesus saw that he gave a thoughtful answer, and said, “You’re not far from the kingdom of God.” After this no one was brave enough to ask him any more questions. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.035","MRK","12","MK12_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_35' data-id='MK12_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he asked, “Why do the religious teachers state that Christ is the son of David? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.036","MRK","12","MK12_36","<span class='v MK12_36' data-id='MK12_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>As David himself declared, inspired by the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’<span class='note' id='footnote-189'><a href='#note-189' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.037","MRK","12","MK12_37","<span class='v MK12_37' data-id='MK12_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Since David himself calls him Lord, how can he be David’s son?” The large crowd listened to what Jesus said with great delight. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.038","MRK","12","MK12_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_38' data-id='MK12_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Jesus continued to teach them, saying, “Beware of religious leaders! They love to walk around in long robes, to be greeted respectfully in the marketplaces. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.012.041","MRK","12","MK12_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK12_41' data-id='MK12_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Jesus sat down opposite the treasury collection box, watching people tossing in coins. Many of the rich were extravagantly throwing in a lot of money. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.013.004","MRK","13","MK13_4","<span class='v MK13_4' data-id='MK13_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“Tell us when this will happen. What’s the sign that all this is about to be fulfilled?”<span class='note' id='footnote-193'><a href='#note-193' class='key'>†</a></span> </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.013.014","MRK","13","MK13_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK13_14' data-id='MK13_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“But when you see the “abomination of desolation”<span class='note' id='footnote-194'><a href='#note-194' class='key'>‡</a></span> standing where he should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea should run to the mountains. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.013.019","MRK","13","MK13_19","<span class='v MK13_19' data-id='MK13_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>For these will be days of trouble like never before since the beginning of God’s creation until now, and they won’t ever come again. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.013.029","MRK","13","MK13_29","<span class='v MK13_29' data-id='MK13_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>In the same way, when you see these things happening, you know that it’s near—right outside the door! </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.014.006","MRK","14","MK14_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK14_6' data-id='MK14_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But Jesus replied, “Leave her alone! Why are you criticizing her for doing something beautiful to me? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.014.010","MRK","14","MK14_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK14_10' data-id='MK14_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the chief priests and arranged to betray Jesus to them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.016.005","MRK","16","MK16_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK16_5' data-id='MK16_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>When they went into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, wearing a long white robe. They became very frightened. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.001","LUK","1","LK1_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_1' data-id='LK1_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>As you know, many others have attempted to put down in writing the things that have been fulfilled<span class='note' id='footnote-215'><a href='#note-215' class='key'>*</a></span> that involve us. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.002","LUK","1","LK1_2","<span class='v LK1_2' data-id='LK1_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>They based their accounts on evidence from the earliest eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.018","LUK","1","LK1_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_18' data-id='LK1_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“How can I be sure about this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I’m an old man, and my wife is getting old too.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.019","LUK","1","LK1_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_19' data-id='LK1_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>“I am Gabriel,” the angel replied. “I stand in God’s presence, and I was sent to speak to you and give you this good news. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.024","LUK","1","LK1_24","<span class='v LK1_24' data-id='LK1_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Some time later his wife Elizabeth became pregnant. She stayed at home for five months. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.030","LUK","1","LK1_30","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_30' data-id='LK1_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>“Don’t worry, Mary,” the angel went on, “for God has shown his graciousness to you. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.034","LUK","1","LK1_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_34' data-id='LK1_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“How is this possible?” Mary asked. “I’m still a virgin.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.035","LUK","1","LK1_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_35' data-id='LK1_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>He replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you. The baby who is to be born is holy, and will be called the Son of God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.037","LUK","1","LK1_37","<span class='v LK1_37' data-id='LK1_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Nothing is impossible for God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.038","LUK","1","LK1_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK1_38' data-id='LK1_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>“Here I am, ready to be the Lord’s servant,” said Mary. “May it happen to me just as you said.” Then the angel left her. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.001.041","LUK","1","LK1_41","<span class='v LK1_41' data-id='LK1_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s voice, the baby jumped for joy inside her. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.002.023","LUK","2","LK2_23","<span class='v LK2_23' data-id='LK2_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>as the law of the Lord states, “Every firstborn son must be dedicated to the Lord.”<span class='note' id='footnote-222'><a href='#note-222' class='key'>*</a></span> </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.003.001","LUK","3","LK3_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK3_1' data-id='LK3_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>By now Tiberias had been Caesar for fifteen years. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea. Herod was ruler<span class='note' id='footnote-225'><a href='#note-225' class='key'>*</a></span> of Galilee, his brother Philip was ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanius was ruler of Abiline. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.005","LUK","5","LK5_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_5' data-id='LK5_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“Lord, we worked hard all night, and didn’t catch anything. But if you say so, I’ll let down the nets,” Simon replied. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.007","LUK","5","LK5_7","<span class='v LK5_7' data-id='LK5_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>They waved to their partners in the other boat, asking them to come over and help. The others came over and together they filled both of the boats with fish. The boats were so full that they began to sink. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.008","LUK","5","LK5_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_8' data-id='LK5_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he dropped to his knees before Jesus. “Lord, please stay away from me, for I am a sinful man!” he exclaimed. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.010","LUK","5","LK5_10","<span class='v LK5_10' data-id='LK5_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners, felt the same way. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_10' data-id='LK5_10'>“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you’ll be fishing for people!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.020","LUK","5","LK5_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_20' data-id='LK5_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>When Jesus saw the trust they had in him, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.021","LUK","5","LK5_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_21' data-id='LK5_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>The religious teachers and the Pharisees began to argue with that. “Who is this who’s speaking blasphemies?” they asked. “Who can forgive sins? Only God can do that!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.022","LUK","5","LK5_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_22' data-id='LK5_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Jesus knew what they were arguing about, so he asked them, “Why are you thinking to question this? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.023","LUK","5","LK5_23","<span class='v LK5_23' data-id='LK5_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>What is easier? To say your sins are forgiven, or to say get up and walk? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.024","LUK","5","LK5_24","<span class='v LK5_24' data-id='LK5_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>However I will prove to you that the Son of man has the authority here on earth to forgive sins.” Then he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.025","LUK","5","LK5_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_25' data-id='LK5_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Immediately the man stood up in front of them. He picked up the mat he’d been lying on, and went home, praising God as he went. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.026","LUK","5","LK5_26","<span class='v LK5_26' data-id='LK5_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Everyone was completely astonished at what had happened, and in great awe they praised God, saying, “What we saw today was amazing!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.027","LUK","5","LK5_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_27' data-id='LK5_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Later, as Jesus was leaving the town, he saw a tax collector called Levi sitting at his tax booth. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_27' data-id='LK5_27'>“Follow me,” Jesus told him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.029","LUK","5","LK5_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_29' data-id='LK5_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Levi organized a large banquet at his home in Jesus’ honor. Many tax collectors and others were in the crowd that sat down to eat with them. But the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained to Jesus’ disciples, asking, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.030","LUK","5","LK5_30","<span class='v LK5_30' data-id='LK5_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.031","LUK","5","LK5_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_31' data-id='LK5_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“Healthy people don’t need a doctor—but sick people do,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.032","LUK","5","LK5_32","<span class='v LK5_32' data-id='LK5_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“I didn’t come to call those who are living right to repentance—I came to call sinners.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.033","LUK","5","LK5_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_33' data-id='LK5_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>“Well, John’s disciples often fast and pray, and the Pharisees’ disciples do so as well. But your disciples don’t—they go on eating and drinking,” they told him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.034","LUK","5","LK5_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_34' data-id='LK5_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“Should the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them?” Jesus asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.035","LUK","5","LK5_35","<span class='v LK5_35' data-id='LK5_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>“No—but the time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they can fast.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.005.036","LUK","5","LK5_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK5_36' data-id='LK5_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Then he gave them an illustration: “You don’ tear out a patch from new clothes to mend old clothes. Otherwise you’d ruin new clothes, and the patch from the new wouldn’t match the old. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.002","LUK","6","LK6_2","<span class='v LK6_2' data-id='LK6_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Some of the Pharisees questioned him, asking, “Why are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.003","LUK","6","LK6_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_3' data-id='LK6_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.004","LUK","6","LK6_4","<span class='v LK6_4' data-id='LK6_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>How he went into the house of God and took the consecrated bread? He ate it, and gave it to his men too. That’s not permitted either. The consecrated bread is only for the priests.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.005","LUK","6","LK6_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_5' data-id='LK6_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Then he told them, “The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.006","LUK","6","LK6_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_6' data-id='LK6_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue to teach. A man was there with a crippled right hand. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.007","LUK","6","LK6_7","<span class='v LK6_7' data-id='LK6_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>The religious teachers and the Pharisees were observing Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. They wanted to find something to accuse him of. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.012","LUK","6","LK6_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_12' data-id='LK6_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>One day shortly after, Jesus went up a mountain to pray. He remained there all night, praying to God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.019","LUK","6","LK6_19","<span class='v LK6_19' data-id='LK6_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Everyone in the crowd tried to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.020","LUK","6","LK6_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_20' data-id='LK6_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Looking at his disciples, Jesus told them, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.021","LUK","6","LK6_21","<span class='v LK6_21' data-id='LK6_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“How happy are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. How happy are you who are hungry now, for you will eat all you need. How happy are you who are weeping now, for you will laugh. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.022","LUK","6","LK6_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_22' data-id='LK6_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>“How happy are you when people hate you, exclude you, insult you, and curse your name as evil because of me, the Son of man. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.024","LUK","6","LK6_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_24' data-id='LK6_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“But how sad are you who are rich, for you have already received your reward. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.026","LUK","6","LK6_26","<span class='v LK6_26' data-id='LK6_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“How sad are you when everyone praises you. Don’t forget that their forefathers praised false prophets just like this. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.027","LUK","6","LK6_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_27' data-id='LK6_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>“But I say to those of you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.029","LUK","6","LK6_29","<span class='v LK6_29' data-id='LK6_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>If someone hits you on one cheek, turn the other cheek. If someone takes your coat, don’t prevent them taking your shirt. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.030","LUK","6","LK6_30","<span class='v LK6_30' data-id='LK6_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Give to anyone who asks you. If someone takes something from you, don’t ask for it back. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.031","LUK","6","LK6_31","<span class='v LK6_31' data-id='LK6_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Do to others what you want them to do to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.032","LUK","6","LK6_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_32' data-id='LK6_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“If you love those who love you, why should you deserve any credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.033","LUK","6","LK6_33","<span class='v LK6_33' data-id='LK6_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>If you do good to those who do good to you, why should you deserve any credit for that either? Sinners do that as well. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.034","LUK","6","LK6_34","<span class='v LK6_34' data-id='LK6_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>If you lend money expecting to be repaid, why should you deserve any credit for that? Sinners lend money to other sinners as well, expecting to be repaid what they loaned. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.035","LUK","6","LK6_35","<span class='v LK6_35' data-id='LK6_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>No: love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting to be repaid anything. Then you will receive a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, for he is kind to ungrateful and wicked people. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.036","LUK","6","LK6_36","<span class='v LK6_36' data-id='LK6_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.037","LUK","6","LK6_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_37' data-id='LK6_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>“Don’t judge<span class='note' id='footnote-231'><a href='#note-231' class='key'>‡</a></span>, and you won’t be judged; don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned; forgive, and you’ll be forgiven; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.038","LUK","6","LK6_38","<span class='v LK6_38' data-id='LK6_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>give, and you will be given generously in return. When what you’re given is measured out, it’s pressed down so more can be added, spilling out over the top, pouring into your lap! For how much you give will determine how much you receive<span class='note' id='footnote-232'><a href='#note-232' class='key'>§</a></span>.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.039","LUK","6","LK6_39","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_39' data-id='LK6_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Then he illustrated the point: “Can a blind person lead another? Wouldn’t they both fall into a ditch? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.040","LUK","6","LK6_40","<span class='v LK6_40' data-id='LK6_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>Do students know more than the teacher? Only when they’ve learned everything: then they will be like their teacher. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.041","LUK","6","LK6_41","<span class='v LK6_41' data-id='LK6_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Why are you so worried about the speck that’s in your brother’s eye when you don’t even notice the plank that’s in your own eye? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.042","LUK","6","LK6_42","<span class='v LK6_42' data-id='LK6_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that’s in your eye,’ when you don’t even see the plank that’s in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you’ll be able to see well enough to take out the speck from your brother’s eye. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.043","LUK","6","LK6_43","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_43' data-id='LK6_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.044","LUK","6","LK6_44","<span class='v LK6_44' data-id='LK6_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>You recognize a tree by the fruit it produces. You don’t pick figs from thorn bushes, or harvest grapes from brambles. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.045","LUK","6","LK6_45","<span class='v LK6_45' data-id='LK6_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Good people produce what’s good from the good things they value that they have stored inside them. Bad people produce what’s bad from the bad things they have stored inside them. What fills people’s minds spills out in what they say. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.046","LUK","6","LK6_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK6_46' data-id='LK6_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>“So why do you bother to call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ when you don’t do what I say? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.006.048","LUK","6","LK6_48","<span class='v LK6_48' data-id='LK6_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>That person is like a man building a house. He digs down deep and lays the foundations on solid rock. When the river bursts its banks and the floodwater breaks against the house it’s not damaged because it’s built so well. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.022","LUK","7","LK7_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK7_22' data-id='LK7_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Jesus answered John’s disciples, “Go and tell John what you’ve seen and heard. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers cured, the deaf hear, the dead raised back to life, the poor are told the good news. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.024","LUK","7","LK7_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK7_24' data-id='LK7_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>After the messengers from John had left, Jesus began telling the crowd, “About John: what did you expect to see when you went out to meet him in the desert? Some reed blown about by the wind? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.026","LUK","7","LK7_26","<span class='v LK7_26' data-id='LK7_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Were you looking for a prophet? Yes he is, and I’m telling you, he’s much more than a prophet. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.031","LUK","7","LK7_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK7_31' data-id='LK7_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“What shall I compare these people to?” asked Jesus. “What are they like? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.044","LUK","7","LK7_44","<span class='v LK7_44' data-id='LK7_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “You see this woman? When I came into your house, you didn’t give me water to wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.007.045","LUK","7","LK7_45","<span class='v LK7_45' data-id='LK7_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>You didn’t give me a kiss, but since I came in she hasn’t stopped kissing my feet. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.001","LUK","8","LK8_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK8_1' data-id='LK8_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Soon after this Jesus went around the towns and villages announcing the good news of God’s kingdom. The twelve disciples went with him, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.002","LUK","8","LK8_2","<span class='v LK8_2' data-id='LK8_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>along with a number of women who had been healed from evil spirits and sickness: Mary called Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven demons; </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.010","LUK","8","LK8_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK8_10' data-id='LK8_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “You’ve been given insights into the mysteries of God’s kingdom, but the rest are given illustrations, so that, ‘Even though they see, they don’t really see; and even though they hear, they don’t really understand.’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.016","LUK","8","LK8_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK8_16' data-id='LK8_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“You don’t light a lamp and then cover it with a bucket, or hide it under a bed. No, you put it on a stand, so that anyone who comes in can see the light. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.017","LUK","8","LK8_17","<span class='v LK8_17' data-id='LK8_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For there’s nothing hidden that won’t be revealed; there’s nothing secret that won’t become known and obvious. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.008.018","LUK","8","LK8_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK8_18' data-id='LK8_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“So pay attention how you ‘hear.’<span class='note' id='footnote-239'><a href='#note-239' class='key'>*</a></span> To those who have received, more will be given; from those who don’t receive, even what they think they have will be taken away!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.009.035","LUK","9","LK9_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK9_35' data-id='LK9_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>A voice spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.009.040","LUK","9","LK9_40","<span class='v LK9_40' data-id='LK9_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.009.041","LUK","9","LK9_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK9_41' data-id='LK9_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“What an unbelieving and corrupt people you are! How long do I have to remain here with you, and put up with you?” said Jesus. “Bring your son here.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.009.043","LUK","9","LK9_43","<span class='v LK9_43' data-id='LK9_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Everyone was amazed at this demonstration of God’s power. However even though everyone was amazed by all he did, Jesus warned his disciples, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.009.061","LUK","9","LK9_61","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK9_61' data-id='LK9_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>Another man said, “Lord, I will follow you! But first let me go home and say goodbye to my family.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.002","LUK","10","LK10_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK10_2' data-id='LK10_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“The harvest is large, but the number of workers is small,” he told them. “Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers to his harvest fields. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.009","LUK","10","LK10_9","<span class='v LK10_9' data-id='LK10_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>and heal those who are sick. Tell them, ‘God’s kingdom has come to you.’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.011","LUK","10","LK10_11","<span class='v LK10_11' data-id='LK10_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>‘We are wiping off even the dust from your town that clings to our feet to show you our disapproval<span class='note' id='footnote-247'><a href='#note-247' class='key'>†</a></span>. But you should recognize this: God’s kingdom has come.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.012","LUK","10","LK10_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK10_12' data-id='LK10_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“I tell you, in the Day of Judgment it will be better for Sodom than for such a town. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.013","LUK","10","LK10_13","<span class='v LK10_13' data-id='LK10_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Shame on you Korazin! Shame on you Bethsaida! For if the miracles you saw happen had happened in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented a long time ago, and they would be sitting in sackcloth and ashes. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.015","LUK","10","LK10_15","<span class='v LK10_15' data-id='LK10_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>And you, Capernaum, you won’t be exalted to heaven; you will go down to Hades. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.037","LUK","10","LK10_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK10_37' data-id='LK10_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>“The one who showed him kindness,” the man replied. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v LK10_37' data-id='LK10_37'>“Go and do the same,” Jesus told him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.039","LUK","10","LK10_39","<span class='v LK10_39' data-id='LK10_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.040","LUK","10","LK10_40","<span class='v LK10_40' data-id='LK10_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>Martha was concerned about all that needed to be done to prepare the meal, so she came to Jesus and said, “Master, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to come and help me!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.041","LUK","10","LK10_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK10_41' data-id='LK10_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you’re worried and upset about all this. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.010.042","LUK","10","LK10_42","<span class='v LK10_42' data-id='LK10_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>But only one thing is really necessary. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it shall not be taken away from her.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.001","LUK","11","LK11_1","<div class='c'>11</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_1' data-id='LK11_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples asked him, “Lord, please teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.002","LUK","11","LK11_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_2' data-id='LK11_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Jesus told them, “When you pray, say, ‘Father, let your name be honored as holy. May your kingdom come. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.003","LUK","11","LK11_3","<span class='v LK11_3' data-id='LK11_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Give us every day the food we need. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.004","LUK","11","LK11_4","<span class='v LK11_4' data-id='LK11_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Forgive us our sins, just as we forgive everyone who sins against us. Keep us from temptation.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.005","LUK","11","LK11_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_5' data-id='LK11_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Jesus went on to tell them, “Say you have a friend and you go to him in the middle of the night and ask, ‘My friend, lend me three loaves of bread </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.007","LUK","11","LK11_7","<span class='v LK11_7' data-id='LK11_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Your friend in the house might reply, ‘Don’t bother me—I’ve already locked the door, and I and my children have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything now.’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.009","LUK","11","LK11_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_9' data-id='LK11_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>“I tell you: ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.011","LUK","11","LK11_11","<span class='v LK11_11' data-id='LK11_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.012","LUK","11","LK11_12","<span class='v LK11_12' data-id='LK11_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Or if he asks for an egg, would you give him a scorpion? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.013","LUK","11","LK11_13","<span class='v LK11_13' data-id='LK11_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>So if you, even though you are evil, still know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.014","LUK","11","LK11_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_14' data-id='LK11_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Jesus was driving out a demon that had made a man dumb. When the demon had left, the man who was dumb spoke, and the crowds were amazed. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.016","LUK","11","LK11_16","<span class='v LK11_16' data-id='LK11_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Others were trying to test Jesus by demanding a miraculous sign from heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.017","LUK","11","LK11_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_17' data-id='LK11_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Any kingdom divided against itself will be destroyed. A family<span class='note' id='footnote-249'><a href='#note-249' class='key'>*</a></span> divided against itself will fall. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.018","LUK","11","LK11_18","<span class='v LK11_18' data-id='LK11_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? You say that I cast out demons using the power of Beelzebub. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.019","LUK","11","LK11_19","<span class='v LK11_19' data-id='LK11_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>But if I drive out demons by the power of Beelzebub, by whose power do your own people<span class='note' id='footnote-250'><a href='#note-250' class='key'>†</a></span> drive them out? They themselves will condemn you as wrong! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.020","LUK","11","LK11_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_20' data-id='LK11_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“However, if I am driving out demons by the power of God, then this proves God’s kingdom has arrived. It’s right here among you! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.021","LUK","11","LK11_21","<span class='v LK11_21' data-id='LK11_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>When a strong man who is fully armed guards his house, all he owns is safe. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.022","LUK","11","LK11_22","<span class='v LK11_22' data-id='LK11_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But if a stronger man comes and defeats him, taking from him all his weapons that he depended on, then he can carry off all his possessions. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.024","LUK","11","LK11_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_24' data-id='LK11_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“When an evil spirit leaves someone, it goes through the desert looking for a place to stay. When it doesn’t find anywhere, it says, ‘I’ll return to the house I left.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.025","LUK","11","LK11_25","<span class='v LK11_25' data-id='LK11_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>When it returns, it finds its old home is swept and tidy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.026","LUK","11","LK11_26","<span class='v LK11_26' data-id='LK11_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So it goes and finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. In the end that man is worse off than before.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.027","LUK","11","LK11_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_27' data-id='LK11_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>As he was speaking, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the womb from where you came and the breasts that nursed you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.028","LUK","11","LK11_28","<span class='v LK11_28' data-id='LK11_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But Jesus said, “Even more blessed are those who hear God’s word, and follow what it says.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.029","LUK","11","LK11_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_29' data-id='LK11_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>As people crowded around him, Jesus began telling them, “This is an evil generation for it’s looking for some miraculous sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.030","LUK","11","LK11_30","<span class='v LK11_30' data-id='LK11_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>In the same way that Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be a sign to this generation. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.033","LUK","11","LK11_33","<span class='v LK11_33' data-id='LK11_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>No one lights a lamp and then hides it or places it under a bowl. No, you put it on a lamp stand so that those who come into the house can see the light. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.036","LUK","11","LK11_36","<span class='v LK11_36' data-id='LK11_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>If your whole body is full of light, with no areas of darkness, then it will be completely illuminated, just as a bright lamp gives you light.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.037","LUK","11","LK11_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_37' data-id='LK11_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>After Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to come and eat with him. So Jesus went and sat down to a meal. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.038","LUK","11","LK11_38","<span class='v LK11_38' data-id='LK11_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>The Pharisee was surprised that Jesus didn’t wash his hands before eating as ceremonially required. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.039","LUK","11","LK11_39","<span class='v LK11_39' data-id='LK11_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>So the Lord told him, “You Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you’re full of greed and wickedness. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.040","LUK","11","LK11_40","<span class='v LK11_40' data-id='LK11_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>You’re so foolish! Don’t you think the One who made the outside made the inside as well? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.041","LUK","11","LK11_41","<span class='v LK11_41' data-id='LK11_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>If, acting from within, you do acts of kindness to others, then everything will be clean to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.042","LUK","11","LK11_42","<span class='v LK11_42' data-id='LK11_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>Shame on you Pharisees! You pay tithe on herbs<span class='note' id='footnote-251'><a href='#note-251' class='key'>‡</a></span> and plants, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You need to pay attention to the latter, while not leaving the former things undone. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.043","LUK","11","LK11_43","<span class='v LK11_43' data-id='LK11_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Shame on you Pharisees! You love to have the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect when you go to the markets. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.044","LUK","11","LK11_44","<span class='v LK11_44' data-id='LK11_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Shame on you! You are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.045","LUK","11","LK11_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_45' data-id='LK11_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>One of the experts in religious law reacted, saying, “Teacher, when you talk like this, you’re insulting us too!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.046","LUK","11","LK11_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_46' data-id='LK11_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “Shame on you lawyers too! You place burdens on people that are too hard to carry, but you don’t lift a finger to help them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.047","LUK","11","LK11_47","<span class='v LK11_47' data-id='LK11_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>Shame on you! You build memorial tombs to honor the prophets, but it was your own fathers who killed them in the first place! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.048","LUK","11","LK11_48","<span class='v LK11_48' data-id='LK11_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>By doing this you are witnesses showing that you agree with what your fathers did. They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.049","LUK","11","LK11_49","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_49' data-id='LK11_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>“This is why God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will kill, and others they will persecute.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.050","LUK","11","LK11_50","<span class='v LK11_50' data-id='LK11_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>Consequently, this generation will be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets shed from the beginning of the world, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.051","LUK","11","LK11_51","<span class='v LK11_51' data-id='LK11_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>from the blood of Abel right up to the blood of Zachariah who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held accountable for all of it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.052","LUK","11","LK11_52","<span class='v LK11_52' data-id='LK11_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>Shame on you lawyers! You have removed the key of knowledge. You didn’t go in yourselves, and you prevented others from going in too.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.053","LUK","11","LK11_53","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK11_53' data-id='LK11_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>As Jesus was leaving, the religious teachers and the Pharisees began to attack him aggressively, asking questions to provoke him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.011.054","LUK","11","LK11_54","<span class='v LK11_54' data-id='LK11_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>They were hoping to catch him out, trying to get him to say something they could use against him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.001","LUK","12","LK12_1","<div class='c'>12</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_1' data-id='LK12_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>In the meantime so many thousands of people had gathered that they were treading on each another. Jesus began speaking first to his disciples. “Beware the yeast of the Pharisees—hypocrisy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.002","LUK","12","LK12_2","<span class='v LK12_2' data-id='LK12_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For there’s nothing hidden that won’t be revealed, nothing secret that won’t be made known. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.003","LUK","12","LK12_3","<span class='v LK12_3' data-id='LK12_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and whatever you whispered in private will be announced from the rooftops. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.004","LUK","12","LK12_4","<span class='v LK12_4' data-id='LK12_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, for once they’ve done that there’s no more they can do. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.005","LUK","12","LK12_5","<span class='v LK12_5' data-id='LK12_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Let me make it clear whom you should be afraid of. You should be afraid of the one who after he has killed has the power to dispose of them in Gehenna<span class='note' id='footnote-252'><a href='#note-252' class='key'>*</a></span>. That’s the one you should be afraid of. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.006","LUK","12","LK12_6","<span class='v LK12_6' data-id='LK12_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? But God doesn’t forget a single one of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.007","LUK","12","LK12_7","<span class='v LK12_7' data-id='LK12_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Even the hairs on your head have been counted. Don’t be afraid—you’re worth more than many sparrows! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.008","LUK","12","LK12_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_8' data-id='LK12_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“I tell you the truth, those who declare they belong to me, the Son of man will also declare they belong to him before God’s angels, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.009","LUK","12","LK12_9","<span class='v LK12_9' data-id='LK12_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>but those who deny me will be denied before God’s angels. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.010","LUK","12","LK12_10","<span class='v LK12_10' data-id='LK12_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Everyone who speaks against the Son of man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.011","LUK","12","LK12_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_11' data-id='LK12_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“When you’re brought to trial before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, don’t worry about how to defend yourself, or what you should say. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.013","LUK","12","LK12_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_13' data-id='LK12_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Someone in the crowd asked Jesus, “Teacher, please tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.014","LUK","12","LK12_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_14' data-id='LK12_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“My friend,” Jesus replied, “Who appointed me as your judge to decide how your inheritance should be divided?” He told the people, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.016","LUK","12","LK12_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_16' data-id='LK12_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Then he told them a story as an illustration. “Once there was a rich man who owned land that was very productive. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.018","LUK","12","LK12_18","<span class='v LK12_18' data-id='LK12_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>‘I know what I’ll do,” he decided. “I’ll pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and then I’ll be able to store all my crops and everything I own. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.019","LUK","12","LK12_19","<span class='v LK12_19' data-id='LK12_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Then I’ll tell myself, ‘You have enough to live on for many years, so take life easy: eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.020","LUK","12","LK12_20","<span class='v LK12_20' data-id='LK12_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Your life will be demanded back this very night, and then who will get everything you’ve stored up?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.021","LUK","12","LK12_21","<span class='v LK12_21' data-id='LK12_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>This is what happens to people who hoard up wealth for themselves but are not rich as far as God is concerned.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.022","LUK","12","LK12_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_22' data-id='LK12_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Jesus told his disciples, “That’s why I tell you don’t worry about life, about what to eat, or about what clothes you should wear. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.024","LUK","12","LK12_24","<span class='v LK12_24' data-id='LK12_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Look at the ravens. They don’t sow or reap, they don’t have any storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you’re far more valuable than birds! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.025","LUK","12","LK12_25","<span class='v LK12_25' data-id='LK12_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Can you add an hour to your life by worrying about it? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.026","LUK","12","LK12_26","<span class='v LK12_26' data-id='LK12_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>If you can’t do anything about such small things, why worry about the rest? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.027","LUK","12","LK12_27","<span class='v LK12_27' data-id='LK12_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Think of the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work, and they don’t spin thread for clothes, but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was as beautifully dressed as one of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.028","LUK","12","LK12_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_28' data-id='LK12_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“So if God clothes the fields with such beautiful flowers, which are here today but gone tomorrow when they are burned in a fire to heat an oven, how much more will God clothe you, you who have so little trust! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.029","LUK","12","LK12_29","<span class='v LK12_29' data-id='LK12_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Don’t be concerned about what you’re going to eat or drink—don’t worry about it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.030","LUK","12","LK12_30","<span class='v LK12_30' data-id='LK12_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>These are all things that people in the world worry about, but your Father knows you need them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.031","LUK","12","LK12_31","<span class='v LK12_31' data-id='LK12_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Search for God’s kingdom, and you’ll be given these things as well. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.032","LUK","12","LK12_32","<span class='v LK12_32' data-id='LK12_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Don’t be afraid, little flock, for your Father is happy to give you the kingdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.033","LUK","12","LK12_33","<span class='v LK12_33' data-id='LK12_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Sell what you have, and give the money to the poor. Get yourselves purses that don’t wear out: treasure in heaven that will never run out, where no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.034","LUK","12","LK12_34","<span class='v LK12_34' data-id='LK12_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>For your heart will be wherever your treasure is. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.035","LUK","12","LK12_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_35' data-id='LK12_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>“Be dressed and ready, and keep your lamps lit, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.036","LUK","12","LK12_36","<span class='v LK12_36' data-id='LK12_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>like servants waiting for their master when he returns from his wedding feast, prepared to open the door quickly for him when he comes and knocks. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.037","LUK","12","LK12_37","<span class='v LK12_37' data-id='LK12_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>How good it will be for those servants that the master finds watching when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will get dressed, have them sit down for a meal, and will come and serve them himself! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.038","LUK","12","LK12_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_38' data-id='LK12_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>“Even if he comes at midnight, or just before dawn—how good for them if he finds them watching and ready! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.039","LUK","12","LK12_39","<span class='v LK12_39' data-id='LK12_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>But remember this: if the master knew when a thief was coming, he would keep watch, and not allow his house be broken into. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.040","LUK","12","LK12_40","<span class='v LK12_40' data-id='LK12_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>You must also be ready, for the Son of man is coming when you don’t expect him.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.041","LUK","12","LK12_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_41' data-id='LK12_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“Is this story you’re telling just for us, or for everyone?” Peter asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.042","LUK","12","LK12_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_42' data-id='LK12_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>The Lord replied, “Who then is the trustworthy and wise manager, the one person in the household that the master puts in charge to share out their food at the right time? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.043","LUK","12","LK12_43","<span class='v LK12_43' data-id='LK12_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>It will be good for that servant when his master returns and finds him doing what he should. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.044","LUK","12","LK12_44","<span class='v LK12_44' data-id='LK12_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of everything. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.045","LUK","12","LK12_45","<span class='v LK12_45' data-id='LK12_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>But what if the servant were to say to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and then starts beating the other servants, both men and women, feasting and getting drunk? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.046","LUK","12","LK12_46","<span class='v LK12_46' data-id='LK12_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>That servant’s master will return unexpectedly one day at a time he wasn’t aware of, and will punish him severely, treating him as totally untrustworthy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.047","LUK","12","LK12_47","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_47' data-id='LK12_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>“That servant who knew what his master wanted and yet didn’t get ready or follow his instructions, will be beaten severely; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.048","LUK","12","LK12_48","<span class='v LK12_48' data-id='LK12_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>but the servant who didn’t know and did things deserving punishment will be beaten only lightly. From those who are given much, much will be required, and from those who are entrusted with more, more will be demanded. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.049","LUK","12","LK12_49","<span class='v LK12_49' data-id='LK12_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>I have come to set the earth on fire, and I really wish it was already burning! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.050","LUK","12","LK12_50","<span class='v LK12_50' data-id='LK12_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>But I have a baptism to go through, and I’m in agony, wishing it was over! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.051","LUK","12","LK12_51","<span class='v LK12_51' data-id='LK12_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, I bring division. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.052","LUK","12","LK12_52","<span class='v LK12_52' data-id='LK12_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>From now on, if there are five in a family, they will be divided against each other: three against two, and two against three. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.053","LUK","12","LK12_53","<span class='v LK12_53' data-id='LK12_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>They will be divided against each other—father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.054","LUK","12","LK12_54","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK12_54' data-id='LK12_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Then Jesus spoke to the crowds. “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘a rain-shower’s coming,’ and it happens. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.055","LUK","12","LK12_55","<span class='v LK12_55' data-id='LK12_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>When a south wind blows, you say ‘it’s going to be hot,’ and it is. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.056","LUK","12","LK12_56","<span class='v LK12_56' data-id='LK12_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>You hypocrites, how is it that you know how to rightly interpret the weather but you don’t know how to interpret the present time? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.057","LUK","12","LK12_57","<span class='v LK12_57' data-id='LK12_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Why don’t you think for yourselves and judge what’s right? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.058","LUK","12","LK12_58","<span class='v LK12_58' data-id='LK12_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>As you go with your accuser to the magistrate, on the way you should be working on a settlement. Otherwise you may be dragged before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.012.059","LUK","12","LK12_59","<span class='v LK12_59' data-id='LK12_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>I tell you, you won’t get out until you’ve paid the last penny.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.001","LUK","13","LK13_1","<div class='c'>13</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_1' data-id='LK13_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>It was around this time that some people told Jesus about Pilate’s killing of some Galileans while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.002","LUK","13","LK13_2","<span class='v LK13_2' data-id='LK13_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than any other Galileans because they suffered like this?” Jesus asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.003","LUK","13","LK13_3","<span class='v LK13_3' data-id='LK13_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.005","LUK","13","LK13_5","<span class='v LK13_5' data-id='LK13_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.006","LUK","13","LK13_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_6' data-id='LK13_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Then he told them this story as an illustration. “Once there was man who had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came to look for fruit on the tree, but he didn’t find any. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.007","LUK","13","LK13_7","<span class='v LK13_7' data-id='LK13_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>So he told the gardener, ‘Look, for three years I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and I haven’t found any. Chop it down! Why should it be taking up space?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.008","LUK","13","LK13_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_8' data-id='LK13_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“ ‘Master,’ the man replied, ‘please leave it alone for just one more year. I’ll dig the soil around it and put down some fertilizer. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.009","LUK","13","LK13_9","<span class='v LK13_9' data-id='LK13_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>If it produces fruit, then that’s fine. If not, then chop it down.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.010","LUK","13","LK13_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_10' data-id='LK13_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.011","LUK","13","LK13_11","<span class='v LK13_11' data-id='LK13_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand straight. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.012","LUK","13","LK13_12","<span class='v LK13_12' data-id='LK13_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When Jesus saw her, he called her over and told her, “You’re freed of your sickness.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.013","LUK","13","LK13_13","<span class='v LK13_13' data-id='LK13_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up, and she praised God. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.014","LUK","13","LK13_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_14' data-id='LK13_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>However the synagogue leader was upset that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days for work. Come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.016","LUK","13","LK13_16","<span class='v LK13_16' data-id='LK13_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Why shouldn’t this woman, this daughter of Abraham whom Satan has kept tied up for eighteen years, be untied and set free this Sabbath day?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.017","LUK","13","LK13_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_17' data-id='LK13_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>What he said shamed all his opponents, but everyone in the crowd was delighted by all the wonderful things he was doing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.018","LUK","13","LK13_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_18' data-id='LK13_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Then Jesus asked, “So what is the kingdom of God like? What should I compare it to? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.019","LUK","13","LK13_19","<span class='v LK13_19' data-id='LK13_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>It’s like a mustard seed that a man planted in his garden. It grew into a tree, and the birds came and nested in its branches.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.020","LUK","13","LK13_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_20' data-id='LK13_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>He asked again, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.021","LUK","13","LK13_21","<span class='v LK13_21' data-id='LK13_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures<span class='note' id='footnote-253'><a href='#note-253' class='key'>*</a></span> of flour which made the whole batch rise.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.022","LUK","13","LK13_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_22' data-id='LK13_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Jesus went around the towns and villages, teaching on his way to Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.023","LUK","13","LK13_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_23' data-id='LK13_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_23' data-id='LK13_23'>Jesus replied, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.024","LUK","13","LK13_24","<span class='v LK13_24' data-id='LK13_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won’t succeed. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.025","LUK","13","LK13_25","<span class='v LK13_25' data-id='LK13_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Once the house owner gets up and closes the door, you’ll be standing outside knocking on the door, saying, ‘Master, please open the door for us.’ But he’ll reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.026","LUK","13","LK13_26","<span class='v LK13_26' data-id='LK13_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Then you’ll say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.027","LUK","13","LK13_27","<span class='v LK13_27' data-id='LK13_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>He’ll reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all of you who don’t do what’s right!’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.030","LUK","13","LK13_30","<span class='v LK13_30' data-id='LK13_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.031","LUK","13","LK13_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_31' data-id='LK13_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>At that moment some Pharisees came to Jesus and told him, “You should leave here. Herod wants to kill you!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.032","LUK","13","LK13_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_32' data-id='LK13_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox that I will go on driving out demons and healing people for today and tomorrow, and on the third day I’ll achieve what I came to do<span class='note' id='footnote-254'><a href='#note-254' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.033","LUK","13","LK13_33","<span class='v LK13_33' data-id='LK13_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Well anyway I must continue on my way for today and tomorrow, and the day after. For it wouldn’t be right for a prophet to die outside of Jerusalem! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.013.034","LUK","13","LK13_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK13_34' data-id='LK13_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather all your children together just like a hen does with her chicks under her wings, but you refused! </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.007","LUK","14","LK14_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK14_7' data-id='LK14_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>So he told a story to the guests, noticing how they’d chosen to sit in places of honor. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.008","LUK","14","LK14_8","<span class='v LK14_8' data-id='LK14_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“When you’re invited to a wedding reception, don’t take the place of honor, because someone more important than you may have been invited,” he began. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.010","LUK","14","LK14_10","<span class='v LK14_10' data-id='LK14_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Instead, when you’re invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he’ll tell you, ‘My friend, please move to a better seat.’ Then you’ll be honored before all the guests sitting with you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.011","LUK","14","LK14_11","<span class='v LK14_11' data-id='LK14_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.012","LUK","14","LK14_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK14_12' data-id='LK14_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Then he said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you back, and then you’d be repaid. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.013","LUK","14","LK14_13","<span class='v LK14_13' data-id='LK14_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Instead, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.014","LUK","14","LK14_14","<span class='v LK14_14' data-id='LK14_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>and you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you with, and you’ll be rewarded at the resurrection of the good.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.015","LUK","14","LK14_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK14_15' data-id='LK14_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>When one of them eating at the table with Jesus heard this, he said to Jesus, “How wonderful it will be for those who feast in the kingdom of God!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.019","LUK","14","LK14_19","<span class='v LK14_19' data-id='LK14_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Another said, ‘I’ve just bought five pairs of oxen and have to go and try them out. Please excuse me.’ Still another said, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.021","LUK","14","LK14_21","<span class='v LK14_21' data-id='LK14_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>The servant returned and told his master what they’d said. The home-owner became angry and told his servant, ‘Quickly, go out into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.024","LUK","14","LK14_24","<span class='v LK14_24' data-id='LK14_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>I tell you, not a single one of those people I invited will get a taste of my banquet.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.025","LUK","14","LK14_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK14_25' data-id='LK14_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>A large crowd was accompanying Jesus. He turned to them and said, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.028","LUK","14","LK14_28","<span class='v LK14_28' data-id='LK14_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>If you planned to build a tower, wouldn’t you first work out how much it would cost, and see if you had enough money to complete it? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.029","LUK","14","LK14_29","<span class='v LK14_29' data-id='LK14_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Otherwise, if after laying the foundation you weren’t able to finish it, everyone who saw it would laugh at you, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.030","LUK","14","LK14_30","<span class='v LK14_30' data-id='LK14_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>‘Look at him: he started building but he couldn’t finish it.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.031","LUK","14","LK14_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK14_31' data-id='LK14_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“What king goes to war with another king without first sitting down with his advisors to work out whether he and his ten thousand can defeat the one marching against him with twenty thousand? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.032","LUK","14","LK14_32","<span class='v LK14_32' data-id='LK14_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>If he can’t, he’ll send representatives to ask for peace while the other king is still a long way off. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.014.033","LUK","14","LK14_33","<span class='v LK14_33' data-id='LK14_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>In the same way every one of you who doesn’t give up everything can’t be my disciple. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.001","LUK","15","LK15_1","<div class='c'>15</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_1' data-id='LK15_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Tax collectors and other “sinners” often used to come and listen to Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.002","LUK","15","LK15_2","<span class='v LK15_2' data-id='LK15_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>As a result the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.003","LUK","15","LK15_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_3' data-id='LK15_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>So Jesus told them this story as an illustration. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.006","LUK","15","LK15_6","<span class='v LK15_6' data-id='LK15_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Once he gets home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Come and celebrate with me! I’ve found my lost sheep!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.007","LUK","15","LK15_7","<span class='v LK15_7' data-id='LK15_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>I tell you that there’s more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don’t need to repent. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.010","LUK","15","LK15_10","<span class='v LK15_10' data-id='LK15_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>I tell you there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner that repents. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.011","LUK","15","LK15_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_11' data-id='LK15_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Once there was a man who had two sons,” Jesus explained. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.016","LUK","15","LK15_16","<span class='v LK15_16' data-id='LK15_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food<span class='note' id='footnote-256'><a href='#note-256' class='key'>†</a></span>, but no one gave him anything. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.019","LUK","15","LK15_19","<span class='v LK15_19' data-id='LK15_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Please treat me as one of your hired workers.” ’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.020","LUK","15","LK15_20","<span class='v LK15_20' data-id='LK15_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So he left and went home to his father. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_20' data-id='LK15_20'>“Even though he was still far away in the distance, his father saw him coming, and his heart went out to his son. The father ran to his son, hugging and kissing him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.021","LUK","15","LK15_21","<span class='v LK15_21' data-id='LK15_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>The son said to him, ‘Father, I’ve sinned against heaven and against you. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.022","LUK","15","LK15_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_22' data-id='LK15_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>“But the father told his servants, ‘Quick—bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.023","LUK","15","LK15_23","<span class='v LK15_23' data-id='LK15_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Bring the calf we’ve been fattening and kill it. Let’s have a feast to celebrate </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.024","LUK","15","LK15_24","<span class='v LK15_24' data-id='LK15_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>because this is my son who was dead, but who has returned alive; he was lost but now he’s found.’ So they started celebrating. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.025","LUK","15","LK15_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_25' data-id='LK15_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>“Now the older son was working out in the fields. As he walked towards the house, he heard music and dancing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.026","LUK","15","LK15_26","<span class='v LK15_26' data-id='LK15_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.027","LUK","15","LK15_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_27' data-id='LK15_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>“ ‘Your brother is back,” he replied, “and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he’s come home safe and sound.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.029","LUK","15","LK15_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_29' data-id='LK15_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“He told his father, ‘Look, all these years I’ve served you, and never disobeyed you, but you never once gave me even a young goat so I could have a party with my friends. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.030","LUK","15","LK15_30","<span class='v LK15_30' data-id='LK15_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for him!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.015.031","LUK","15","LK15_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK15_31' data-id='LK15_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“ ‘Son,’ the father replied, ‘you are always here with me. Everything I have is yours. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.016.005","LUK","16","LK16_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK16_5' data-id='LK16_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“So he invited all those who were in debt to his master to come and see him. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.016.008","LUK","16","LK16_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK16_8' data-id='LK16_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“The rich man commended his dishonest manager for his cunning idea. The children of this world are more cunning towards one another than are the children of light. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.016.011","LUK","16","LK16_11","<span class='v LK16_11' data-id='LK16_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>So if you can’t be trusted when it comes to worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.016.030","LUK","16","LK16_30","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK16_30' data-id='LK16_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>“ ‘No, father Abraham,’ said the man. ‘But they would repent if someone went to them from the dead!’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.005","LUK","17","LK17_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_5' data-id='LK17_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The apostles said to the Lord, “Help us to have more trust!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.006","LUK","17","LK17_6","<span class='v LK17_6' data-id='LK17_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The Lord replied, “Even if your trust was as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Uproot yourself, and plant yourself in the sea,’ and it would obey you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.007","LUK","17","LK17_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_7' data-id='LK17_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>“Say you have a servant who does plowing or shepherding. When he comes in from work, do you say to him, ‘Come in and sit down now for a meal’? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.010","LUK","17","LK17_10","<span class='v LK17_10' data-id='LK17_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Likewise once you’ve done everything you were told, you should simply say, ‘We are undeserving servants. We just did our duty.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.011","LUK","17","LK17_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_11' data-id='LK17_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>As Jesus continued on his way to Jerusalem, he passed along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.014","LUK","17","LK17_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_14' data-id='LK17_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>When Jesus saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” On their way there, they were healed. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.016","LUK","17","LK17_16","<span class='v LK17_16' data-id='LK17_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>He fell down at Jesus’ feet, thanking him. He was a Samaritan. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.017","LUK","17","LK17_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_17' data-id='LK17_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“Weren’t ten lepers healed?” Jesus asked. “Where are the other nine? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.025","LUK","17","LK17_25","<span class='v LK17_25' data-id='LK17_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>But first he will have to suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.027","LUK","17","LK17_27","<span class='v LK17_27' data-id='LK17_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>People went on eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.028","LUK","17","LK17_28","<span class='v LK17_28' data-id='LK17_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>It will be like it was in Lot’s day. People went on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.029","LUK","17","LK17_29","<span class='v LK17_29' data-id='LK17_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.030","LUK","17","LK17_30","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_30' data-id='LK17_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>“The day when the Son of man appears will be just like that. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.031","LUK","17","LK17_31","<span class='v LK17_31' data-id='LK17_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>If you’re up on the roof that day don’t go down and get your things; and if you’re out in the fields don’t go back home either. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.032","LUK","17","LK17_32","<span class='v LK17_32' data-id='LK17_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Remember Lot’s wife! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.033","LUK","17","LK17_33","<span class='v LK17_33' data-id='LK17_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>If you try to hold on to your life you’ll lose it; but if you lose your life you’ll save it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.034","LUK","17","LK17_34","<span class='v LK17_34' data-id='LK17_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>I tell you, at that time two will be in bed at night; one will be taken and the other left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.035","LUK","17","LK17_35","<span class='v LK17_35' data-id='LK17_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Two women will be grinding grain, one will be taken; and the other left.”<span class='note' id='footnote-262'><a href='#note-262' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.017.037","LUK","17","LK17_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK17_37' data-id='LK17_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>“Where, Lord?” they asked. “Where the carcass is, that’s where the vultures gather,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.018.001","LUK","18","LK18_1","<div class='c'>18</div><div class='p'><span class='v LK18_1' data-id='LK18_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Jesus told them this story to encourage them to pray at all times, and not to become discouraged. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.018.002","LUK","18","LK18_2","<span class='v LK18_2' data-id='LK18_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“Once there was a judge in this particular town who didn’t respect God or care about anyone,” Jesus explained. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.018.003","LUK","18","LK18_3","<span class='v LK18_3' data-id='LK18_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“In the same town lived a widow who time and again went to the judge, saying, ‘Give me justice in the case against my enemy!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("072.018.004","LUK","18","LK18_4","<span class='v LK18_4' data-id='LK18_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>For a while he didn’t want to do anything about it, but eventually he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t respect God or care about anyone, </span>");
