INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C18_11","076_8_11","1CO","8","11","11","And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C18_12","076_8_12","1CO","8","12","12","In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C18_13","076_8_13","1CO","8","13","13","Therefore, if what I eat makes a follower of the Lord fall, rather than make them fall, I will never eat meat again. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_1","076_9_1","1CO","9","1","1","Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Aren’t you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_2","076_9_2","1CO","9","2","2","If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal that stamps me as an apostle in union with the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_3","076_9_3","1CO","9","3","3","The defense that I make to my critics is this: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_4","076_9_4","1CO","9","4","4","Haven’t we a right to food and drink? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_5","076_9_5","1CO","9","5","5","Haven’t we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other apostles and the Master’s brothers and Cephas all do? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_6","076_9_6","1CO","9","6","6","Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_7","076_9_7","1CO","9","7","7","Does anyone ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does anyone look after a herd and not drink the milk? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_8","076_9_8","1CO","9","8","8","Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_9","076_9_9","1CO","9","9","9","For in the Law of Moses it is said – ‘You should not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.’ Is it the bullocks that God is thinking of? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_10","076_9_10","1CO","9","10","10","Or is not is said entirely for our sakes? Surely it was written for our sakes, for the plowman ought not to plow, nor the thrasher to thrash, without expecting a share of the grain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_11","076_9_11","1CO","9","11","11","Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_12","076_9_12","1CO","9","12","12","If others share in this right over you, don’t we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the good news of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_13","076_9_13","1CO","9","13","13","Don’t you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_14","076_9_14","1CO","9","14","14","So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the good news should get their living from the good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_15","076_9_15","1CO","9","15","15","I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die – Nobody will make my boast a vain one! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_16","076_9_16","1CO","9","16","16","If I proclaim the good news, I have nothing to boast of, for I am compelled to do so. Woe is me if I do not share it! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_17","076_9_17","1CO","9","17","17","If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_18","076_9_18","1CO","9","18","18","What is my reward, then? To present the good news free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_19","076_9_19","1CO","9","19","19","Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone’s slave. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_20","076_9_20","1CO","9","20","20","To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to Law I became like a man subject to Law – though I was not myself subject to Law – to win those who are subject to Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_21","076_9_21","1CO","9","21","21","To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law – not that I am free from God’s Law; no, for I am under Christ’s Law – to win those who have no law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_22","076_9_22","1CO","9","22","22","To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so as at all costs to save some. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_23","076_9_23","1CO","9","23","23","And I do everything for the sake of the good news, so that with them I may share in its blessings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_24","076_9_24","1CO","9","24","24","Don’t you know that on a racecourse, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_25","076_9_25","1CO","9","25","25","Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_26","076_9_26","1CO","9","26","26","I, therefore, do not run aimlessly. I do not box like a man hitting the air. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C19_27","076_9_27","1CO","9","27","27","No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, so that I, who have called others to the contest, will not myself be rejected. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_1","076_10_1","1CO","10","1","1","I want you to bear in mind, friends, that all our ancestors were beneath the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_2","076_10_2","1CO","10","2","2","that in the cloud and in the sea they all underwent baptism as followers of Moses; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_3","076_10_3","1CO","10","3","3","and that they all ate the same supernatural food, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_4","076_10_4","1CO","10","4","4","and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_5","076_10_5","1CO","10","5","5","Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were struck down in the desert. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_6","076_10_6","1CO","10","6","6","Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our ancestors longed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_7","076_10_7","1CO","10","7","7","Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says – ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_8","076_10_8","1CO","10","8","8","Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_9","076_10_9","1CO","10","9","9","Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they were, one after another, destroyed by snakes. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_10","076_10_10","1CO","10","10","10","And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so were destroyed by the angel of death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_11","076_10_11","1CO","10","11","11","These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_12","076_10_12","1CO","10","12","12","Therefore let the person who thinks that they stand take care that they do not fall. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_13","076_10_13","1CO","10","13","13","No temptation has come upon you that is not common to all humanity. God will not fail you, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; but, when he sends the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, so that you may have strength to endure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_14","076_10_14","1CO","10","14","14","Therefore, my dear friends, shun the worship of idols. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_15","076_10_15","1CO","10","15","15","I speak to you as man of discernment; form your own judgment about what I am saying. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_16","076_10_16","1CO","10","16","16","In the cup of blessing which we bless, is not there a sharing in the blood of the Christ? And in the bread which we break, is not there a sharing in the body of the Christ? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_17","076_10_17","1CO","10","17","17","The bread is one, and we, though many, are one body; for we all partake of that one bread. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_18","076_10_18","1CO","10","18","18","Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices share with the altar? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_19","076_10_19","1CO","10","19","19","What do I mean? That an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_20","076_10_20","1CO","10","20","20","No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles are offered to demons and to a being who is no God, and I do not want you to share with demons. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_21","076_10_21","1CO","10","21","21","You cannot drink both the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_22","076_10_22","1CO","10","22","22","Or are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord? Are we stronger than he? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_23","076_10_23","1CO","10","23","23","Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_24","076_10_24","1CO","10","24","24","A person must not study their own interests, but the interests of others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_25","076_10_25","1CO","10","25","25","Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_26","076_10_26","1CO","10","26","26","for the earth, with all that is in it, belongs to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_27","076_10_27","1CO","10","27","27","If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_28","076_10_28","1CO","10","28","28","But, if anyone should say to you ‘This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,’ then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_29","076_10_29","1CO","10","29","29","I do not say your scruples, but his. For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_30","076_10_30","1CO","10","30","30","If, for my part, I take the food thankfully, why should I be abused for eating that for which I give thanks? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_31","076_10_31","1CO","10","31","31","Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything to the honor of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_32","076_10_32","1CO","10","32","32","Do not cause offense either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C110_33","076_10_33","1CO","10","33","33","for I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but do what is best for others, so that they may be saved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_1","076_11_1","1CO","11","1","1","Imitate me, as I myself imitate Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_2","076_11_2","1CO","11","2","2","I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them on you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_3","076_11_3","1CO","11","3","3","But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the head of every man, that man is the head of woman, and that God is the head of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_4","076_11_4","1CO","11","4","4","Any man who keeps his head covered, when praying or preaching in public, dishonors him who is his head; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_5","076_11_5","1CO","11","5","5","while any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonors him who is her head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_6","076_11_6","1CO","11","6","6","Indeed, if a woman does not keep her head covered, she may as well cut her hair short. But, since to cut her hair short, or shave it off, marks her as one of the shameless women, she should keep her head covered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_7","076_11_7","1CO","11","7","7","A man ought not to have his head covered, for he has been from the beginning the likeness of God and the reflection of his glory, but woman is the reflection of man’s glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_8","076_11_8","1CO","11","8","8","For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_9","076_11_9","1CO","11","9","9","Besides, man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_10","076_11_10","1CO","11","10","10","And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_11","076_11_11","1CO","11","11","11","Still, when in union with the Lord, woman is not independent of man, or man of woman; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_12","076_11_12","1CO","11","12","12","for just as woman came from man, so man comes by means of woman; and all things come from God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_13","076_11_13","1CO","11","13","13","Judge for yourselves. Is it fitting that a woman should pray to God in public with her head uncovered? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_14","076_11_14","1CO","11","14","14","Does not nature herself teach us that, while for a man to wear his hair long is degrading to him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_15","076_11_15","1CO","11","15","15","a woman’s long hair is her glory? Her hair has been given her to serve as a covering. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_16","076_11_16","1CO","11","16","16","If, however, anyone still thinks it right to contest the point – well, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_17","076_11_17","1CO","11","17","17","In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_18","076_11_18","1CO","11","18","18","To begin with, I am told that when you meet together as a church there are divisions among you. In part I believe this, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_19","076_11_19","1CO","11","19","19","indeed, there must be parties among you, so that the people of real worth become known. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_20","076_11_20","1CO","11","20","20","When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s Supper; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_21","076_11_21","1CO","11","21","21","for, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_22","076_11_22","1CO","11","22","22","Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_23","076_11_23","1CO","11","23","23","For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you – how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_24","076_11_24","1CO","11","24","24","and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said “This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_25","076_11_25","1CO","11","25","25","And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying “This cup is the new covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_26","076_11_26","1CO","11","26","26","For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death – until he comes. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_27","076_11_27","1CO","11","27","27","Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord’s cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offense against the Lord’s body and blood. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_28","076_11_28","1CO","11","28","28","Let everyone look into their own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_29","076_11_29","1CO","11","29","29","For the person who eats and drinks brings a judgment on themselves by their eating and drinking, when they do not discern the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_30","076_11_30","1CO","11","30","30","That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_31","076_11_31","1CO","11","31","31","But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_32","076_11_32","1CO","11","32","32","Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed on us with the rest of the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_33","076_11_33","1CO","11","33","33","Therefore, my friends, when you meet together to eat the Supper, wait for one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C111_34","076_11_34","1CO","11","34","34","If anyone is hungry, they should eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment on you. The other details I will settle when I come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_1","076_12_1","1CO","12","1","1","In the next place, friends, I do not want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_2","076_12_2","1CO","12","2","2","You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_3","076_12_3","1CO","12","3","3","Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says ‘JESUS IS ACCURSED,’ and that no one can say ‘JESUS IS LORD,’ except under the influence of the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_4","076_12_4","1CO","12","4","4","Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_5","076_12_5","1CO","12","5","5","ways of serving differ, yet the Master is the same; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_6","076_12_6","1CO","12","6","6","results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_7","076_12_7","1CO","12","7","7","To each of us there is given spiritual illumination for the general good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_8","076_12_8","1CO","12","8","8","To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_9","076_12_9","1CO","12","9","9","to another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_10","076_12_10","1CO","12","10","10","to another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of ‘tongues’; to another the power to interpret ‘tongues.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_11","076_12_11","1CO","12","11","11","All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_12","076_12_12","1CO","12","12","12","For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_13","076_12_13","1CO","12","13","13","for it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and were all imbued with one Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_14","076_12_14","1CO","12","14","14","The human body, I repeat, consists not of one part, but of many. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_15","076_12_15","1CO","12","15","15","If the foot says ‘Since I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not because of that cease to belong to the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_16","076_12_16","1CO","12","16","16","Or if the ear says ‘Since I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not because of that cease to belong to the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_17","076_12_17","1CO","12","17","17","If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_18","076_12_18","1CO","12","18","18","But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_19","076_12_19","1CO","12","19","19","If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_20","076_12_20","1CO","12","20","20","But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_21","076_12_21","1CO","12","21","21","The eye cannot say to the hand ‘I do not need you,’ nor, again, the head to the feet ‘I do not need you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_22","076_12_22","1CO","12","22","22","No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_23","076_12_23","1CO","12","23","23","and those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_24","076_12_24","1CO","12","24","24","Yes, God has so constructed the body – by giving a special honor to the part that lacks it – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_25","076_12_25","1CO","12","25","25","As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_26","076_12_26","1CO","12","26","26","If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done to it, all the others share its joy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_27","076_12_27","1CO","12","27","27","Together you are the body of Christ, and individually its parts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_28","076_12_28","1CO","12","28","28","In the church God has appointed, first, apostles, secondly preachers, thirdly teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of ‘tongues.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_29","076_12_29","1CO","12","29","29","Can everyone be an apostle? Can everyone be a preacher? Can everyone be a teacher? Can everyone have supernatural powers? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_30","076_12_30","1CO","12","30","30","Can everyone have power to cure diseases? Can everyone speak in ‘tongues’? Can everyone interpret them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C112_31","076_12_31","1CO","12","31","31","Strive for the greater gifts. Yet I can still show you a way beyond all comparison the best. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_1","076_13_1","1CO","13","1","1","Though I speak in the ‘tongues’ of people, or even of angels, yet have not love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_2","076_13_2","1CO","13","2","2","Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not love, I am nothing! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_3","076_13_3","1CO","13","3","3","Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body in order to boast, yet have not love, it avails me nothing! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_4","076_13_4","1CO","13","4","4","Love is long-suffering, and kind; love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_5","076_13_5","1CO","13","5","5","love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_6","076_13_6","1CO","13","6","6","love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of truth; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_7","076_13_7","1CO","13","7","7","love bears with all things, ever trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_8","076_13_8","1CO","13","8","8","Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will end; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will vanish. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_9","076_13_9","1CO","13","9","9","For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_10","076_13_10","1CO","13","10","10","but, when the perfect has come, that which is incomplete will end. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_11","076_13_11","1CO","13","11","11","When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_12","076_13_12","1CO","13","12","12","As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then – face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I will know in full, as I have been fully known. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C113_13","076_13_13","1CO","13","13","13","Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure – these three, but the greatest of these is love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_1","076_14_1","1CO","14","1","1","Seek this love earnestly, and strive for spiritual gifts, above all for the gift of preaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_2","076_14_2","1CO","14","2","2","The person who, when speaking, uses the gift of ‘tongues’ is speaking, not to people, but to God, for no one understands them; yet in spirit they are speaking of hidden truths. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_3","076_14_3","1CO","14","3","3","But those who preach are speaking to their fellow men and women words that will build up faith, and give them comfort and encouragement. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_4","076_14_4","1CO","14","4","4","Those who, when speaking, use the gift of ‘tongues’ builds up their own faith, while those who preach build up the faith of the church. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_5","076_14_5","1CO","14","5","5","Now I want you all to speak in ‘tongues,’ but much more I wish that you should preach. A preacher is worth more than one who speaks in ‘tongues,’ unless they interprets their words, so that the faith of the church may be built up. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_6","076_14_6","1CO","14","6","6","This being so, friends, what good will I do you, if I come to you and speak in ‘tongues,’ unless my words convey some revelation, or knowledge, or take the form of preaching or teaching? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_7","076_14_7","1CO","14","7","7","Even with inanimate things, such as a flute or a harp, though they produce sounds, yet unless the notes are quite distinct, how can the tune played on the flute or the harp be recognized? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_8","076_14_8","1CO","14","8","8","If the bugle sounds a doubtful call, who will prepare for battle? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_9","076_14_9","1CO","14","9","9","And so with you; unless, in using the gift of ‘tongues,’ you utter intelligible words, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_10","076_14_10","1CO","14","10","10","There are, for instance, a certain number of different languages in the world, and not one of them fails to convey meaning. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_11","076_14_11","1CO","14","11","11","If, however, I do not happen to know the language, I will be a foreigner to those who speak it, and they will be foreigners to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_12","076_14_12","1CO","14","12","12","And so with you; since you are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the church. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_13","076_14_13","1CO","14","13","13","Therefore anyone who, when speaking, uses the gift of ‘tongues’ should pray for ability to interpret them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_14","076_14_14","1CO","14","14","14","If, when praying, I use the gift of ‘tongues,’ my spirit indeed prays, but my mind is a blank. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_15","076_14_15","1CO","14","15","15","What, then, is my conclusion? Simply this – I will pray with my spirit, but with my mind as well; I will sing with my spirit, but with my mind as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_16","076_14_16","1CO","14","16","16","If you bless God with your spirit only, how can people in the congregation who are without your gift say ‘Amen’ to your thanksgiving? They do not know what you are saying! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_17","076_14_17","1CO","14","17","17","Your thanksgiving may be excellent, but the other is not helped by it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_18","076_14_18","1CO","14","18","18","Thank God, I use the gift of ‘tongues’ more than any of you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_19","076_14_19","1CO","14","19","19","But at a meeting of the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of ‘tongues.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_20","076_14_20","1CO","14","20","20","My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_21","076_14_21","1CO","14","21","21","It is said in the Law – ‘In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_22","076_14_22","1CO","14","22","22","Therefore the gift of the ‘tongues’ is intended as a sign, not for those who believe in Christ, but for those who do not, while the gift of preaching is intended as a sign, not for those who do not believe in Christ, but for those who do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_23","076_14_23","1CO","14","23","23","So, when the whole church meets, if all present use the gift of ‘tongues,’ and some people who are without the gift, or who are unbelievers, come in, will not they say that you are mad? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_24","076_14_24","1CO","14","24","24","While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or someone without the gift, comes in, they are convinced of their sinfulness by them all, they are called to account by them all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_25","076_14_25","1CO","14","25","25","the secrets of their heart are revealed, and then, throwing themselves on their face, they will worship God, and declare ‘God is indeed among you!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_26","076_14_26","1CO","14","26","26","What do I suggest, then, friends? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of ‘tongues,’ or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_27","076_14_27","1CO","14","27","27","If any of you use the gift of ‘tongues,’ not more than two, or at the most three, should do so – each speaking in his turn – and someone should interpret them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_28","076_14_28","1CO","14","28","28","If there is no one able to interpret what is said, they should remain silent at the meeting of the church, and speak to themselves and to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_29","076_14_29","1CO","14","29","29","Of preachers two or three should speak, and the rest should weigh well what is said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_30","076_14_30","1CO","14","30","30","But, if some revelation is made to another person as he sits there, the first speaker should stop. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_31","076_14_31","1CO","14","31","31","For you can all preach in turn, so that all may learn some lesson and all receive encouragement. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_32","076_14_32","1CO","14","32","32","(The spirit that moves the preachers is within the preachers’ control; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_33","076_14_33","1CO","14","33","33","for God is not a God of disorder, but of peace.) This custom prevails in all the churches of Christ’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_34","076_14_34","1CO","14","34","34","At the meetings of the church married women should remain silent, for they are not allowed to speak in public; they should take a subordinate place, as the Law itself directs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_35","076_14_35","1CO","14","35","35","If they want information on any point, they should ask their husbands about it at home; for it is unbecoming for a married woman to speak at a meeting of the church. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_36","076_14_36","1CO","14","36","36","What! Did God’s message to the world originate with you? Or did it find its way to none but you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_37","076_14_37","1CO","14","37","37","If anyone thinks that he has the gift of preaching or any other spiritual gift, he should recognize that what I am now saying to you is a command from the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_38","076_14_38","1CO","14","38","38","Anyone who ignores it may be ignored. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_39","076_14_39","1CO","14","39","39","Therefore, my friends, strive for the gift of preaching, and yet do not forbid speaking in ‘tongues.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C114_40","076_14_40","1CO","14","40","40","Let everything be done in a proper and orderly manner. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_1","076_15_1","1CO","15","1","1","Next, friends, I would like to remind you of the good news which I told you, and which you received – the good news on which you have taken your stand, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_2","076_15_2","1CO","15","2","2","and by means of which you are being saved. I would like to remind you of the words that I used in telling it to you, since you are still holding fast to it, and since it was not in vain that you became believers in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_3","076_15_3","1CO","15","3","3","For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received – that Christ died for our sins (as the scriptures had foretold), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_4","076_15_4","1CO","15","4","4","that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the scriptures had foretold), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_5","076_15_5","1CO","15","5","5","and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_6","076_15_6","1CO","15","6","6","After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have gone to their rest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_7","076_15_7","1CO","15","7","7","After that, he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_8","076_15_8","1CO","15","8","8","Last of all, he appeared even to me, who am, as it were, a miscarried baby – born untimely. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_9","076_15_9","1CO","15","9","9","For I am the least of the apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of ‘apostle,’ because I persecuted the church of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_10","076_15_10","1CO","15","10","10","But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_11","076_15_11","1CO","15","11","11","Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_12","076_15_12","1CO","15","12","12","Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_13","076_15_13","1CO","15","13","13","But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_14","076_15_14","1CO","15","14","14","and, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_15","076_15_15","1CO","15","15","15","Yes, and we are being proved to have borne false testimony about God; for we testified of God that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead do not rise! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_16","076_15_16","1CO","15","16","16","For, if the dead do not rise, then even Christ himself has not been raised, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_17","076_15_17","1CO","15","17","17","and, if Christ has not been raised, your faith is folly – your sins are on you still! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_18","076_15_18","1CO","15","18","18","Yes, and they, who have passed to their rest in union with Christ, perished! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_19","076_15_19","1CO","15","19","19","If all that we have done has been to place our hope in Christ for this life, then we of all people are the most to be pitied. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_20","076_15_20","1CO","15","20","20","But, in truth, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are at rest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_21","076_15_21","1CO","15","21","21","For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_22","076_15_22","1CO","15","22","22","For, as through union with Adam all die, so through union with the Christ will all be made to live. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_23","076_15_23","1CO","15","23","23","But each in their proper order – Christ the first-fruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_24","076_15_24","1CO","15","24","24","Then will come the end – when he surrenders the kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_25","076_15_25","1CO","15","25","25","For he must reign until God ‘has put all his enemies under his feet.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_26","076_15_26","1CO","15","26","26","The last enemy to be overthrown is death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_27","076_15_27","1CO","15","27","27","for God has placed all things under Christ’s feet. (But, when it is said that all things have been placed under Christ, it is plain that God is excepted who placed everything under him.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_28","076_15_28","1CO","15","28","28","And, when everything has been placed under him, the Son will place himself under God who placed everything under him, so that God may be all in all! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_29","076_15_29","1CO","15","29","29","Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_30","076_15_30","1CO","15","30","30","Why, too, do we risk our lives every hour? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_31","076_15_31","1CO","15","31","31","Daily I face death – I swear it, friends, by the pride in you that I feel through my union with Christ Jesus, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_32","076_15_32","1CO","15","32","32","If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_33","076_15_33","1CO","15","33","33","Do not be deceived. ‘Good character is marred by evil company.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_34","076_15_34","1CO","15","34","34","Wake up to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_35","076_15_35","1CO","15","35","35","Someone, however, may ask ‘How do the dead rise? And in what body will they come?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_36","076_15_36","1CO","15","36","36","You foolish person! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_37","076_15_37","1CO","15","37","37","And when you sow, you sow not the body that will be, but a mere grain – perhaps of wheat, or something else. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_38","076_15_38","1CO","15","38","38","God gives it the body that he pleases – to each seed its special body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_39","076_15_39","1CO","15","39","39","All forms of life are not the same; there is one for people, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fish. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_40","076_15_40","1CO","15","40","40","There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_41","076_15_41","1CO","15","41","41","There is a beauty of the sun, and a beauty of the moon, and a beauty of the stars; for even star differs from star in beauty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_42","076_15_42","1CO","15","42","42","It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. Sown a mortal body, it rises immortal; sown disfigured, it rises beautiful; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_43","076_15_43","1CO","15","43","43","sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_44","076_15_44","1CO","15","44","44","As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_45","076_15_45","1CO","15","45","45","That is what is meant by the words – ‘Adam, the first man, became a human being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_46","076_15_46","1CO","15","46","46","That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterward comes the spiritual; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_47","076_15_47","1CO","15","47","47","the first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_48","076_15_48","1CO","15","48","48","Those who are of the dust are like him who came from the dust; and those who are of heaven are like him who came from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_49","076_15_49","1CO","15","49","49","And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_50","076_15_50","1CO","15","50","50","This I say, friends – Flesh and blood can have no share in the kingdom of God, nor can the perishable share the imperishable. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_51","076_15_51","1CO","15","51","51","Listen, I will tell you God’s hidden purpose! We will not all have passed to our rest, but we will all be transformed – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_52","076_15_52","1CO","15","52","52","at the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, will be transformed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_53","076_15_53","1CO","15","53","53","For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_54","076_15_54","1CO","15","54","54","And, when this dying body has put on its deathless form, then indeed will the words of scripture come true – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_55","076_15_55","1CO","15","55","55","‘death has been swallowed up in victory! Where, Death, is your victory? Where, death, is your sting?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_56","076_15_56","1CO","15","56","56","It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_57","076_15_57","1CO","15","57","57","But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C115_58","076_15_58","1CO","15","58","58","Therefore, my dear friends, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord’s work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_1","076_16_1","1CO","16","1","1","With reference to the collection for Christ’s people, I want you to follow the instructions that I gave to the churches in Galatia. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_2","076_16_2","1CO","16","2","2","On the first day of every week each of you should put by what he can afford, so that no collections need be made after I have come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_3","076_16_3","1CO","16","3","3","On my arrival, I will send any persons, whom you may authorize by letter, to carry your gift to Jerusalem; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_4","076_16_4","1CO","16","4","4","and, if it appears to be worth while for me to go also, they will go with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_5","076_16_5","1CO","16","5","5","I will come to you as soon as I have been through Macedonia – for I am going through Macedonia – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_6","076_16_6","1CO","16","6","6","And I will probably make some stay with you or, perhaps, remain for the winter, so that you may yourselves send me on my way, wherever I may be going. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_7","076_16_7","1CO","16","7","7","I do not propose to pay you a visit in passing now, for I hope to stay with you for some time, if the Lord permits. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_8","076_16_8","1CO","16","8","8","I intend, however, staying at Ephesus until the Festival at the close of the Harvest; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_9","076_16_9","1CO","16","9","9","for a great opening for active work has presented itself, and there are many opponents. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_10","076_16_10","1CO","16","10","10","If Timothy comes, take care that he has no cause for feeling anxious while he is with you. He is doing the Master’s work no less than I am. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_11","076_16_11","1CO","16","11","11","No one, therefore, should slight him. See him safely on his way to me, for I am expecting him with some of our friends. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_12","076_16_12","1CO","16","12","12","As for our friend Apollos, I have often urged him to go to you with the others. He has, however, been very unwilling to do so as yet; but he will go as soon as he finds a good opportunity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_13","076_16_13","1CO","16","13","13","Be watchful; stand firm in your faith; be brave; be strong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_14","076_16_14","1CO","16","14","14","Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_15","076_16_15","1CO","16","15","15","I have another request to make of you, friends. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_16","076_16_16","1CO","16","16","16","I want you, on your part, to show deference to such people as these, as well as to every fellow laborer and earnest worker. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_17","076_16_17","1CO","16","17","17","I am glad Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have come, for they have made up for your absence; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_18","076_16_18","1CO","16","18","18","they have cheered my heart, and your hearts also. Recognize the worth of such people as these. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_19","076_16_19","1CO","16","19","19","The churches in Roman Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca and the church that meets at their house send you many Christian greetings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_20","076_16_20","1CO","16","20","20","All of the Lord’s followers send you greetings. Greet one another with a sacred kiss. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_21","076_16_21","1CO","16","21","21","I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_22","076_16_22","1CO","16","22","22","Accursed be anyone who has no love for the Lord. THE LORD IS COMING. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_23","076_16_23","1CO","16","23","23","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus be with you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C116_24","076_16_24","1CO","16","24","24","My love to all of you who are in union with Christ Jesus.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_1","077_1_1","2CO","1","1","1"," To the church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ’s people throughout Greece, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, who is also a follower. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_2","077_1_2","2CO","1","2","2","May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_3","077_1_3","2CO","1","3","3","Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-merciful Father, the God ever ready to console, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_4","077_1_4","2CO","1","4","4","who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_5","077_1_5","2CO","1","5","5","It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_6","077_1_6","2CO","1","6","6","If we meet with trouble, it is for the sake of your consolation and salvation; and, if we find consolation, it is for the sake of the consolation that you will experience when you are called to endure the sufferings that we ourselves are enduring; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_7","077_1_7","2CO","1","7","7","and our hope for you remains unshaken. We know that, as you are sharing our sufferings, you will also share our consolation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_8","077_1_8","2CO","1","8","8","We want you, friends, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_9","077_1_9","2CO","1","9","9","Indeed, we had the presentiment that we must die, so that we might rely, not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_10","077_1_10","2CO","1","10","10","And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_11","077_1_11","2CO","1","11","11","And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_12","077_1_12","2CO","1","12","12","Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this – Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_13","077_1_13","2CO","1","13","13","We never write anything to you other than what you will acknowledge to the very end – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_14","077_1_14","2CO","1","14","14","And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us – that you have a right to be proud of us, as we will be proud of you, on the day of our Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_15","077_1_15","2CO","1","15","15","With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_16","077_1_16","2CO","1","16","16","To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_17","077_1_17","2CO","1","17","17","As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_18","077_1_18","2CO","1","18","18","As God is true, the message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_19","077_1_19","2CO","1","19","19","The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we – Silas, Timothy, and I – proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_20","077_1_20","2CO","1","20","20","For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the ‘Yes’ that fulfills them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the ‘Amen’ rise, through us, to the glory of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_21","077_1_21","2CO","1","21","21","God who brings us, with you, into close union with Christ, and who consecrated us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_22","077_1_22","2CO","1","22","22","also set his seal on us, and gave us his Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of future blessings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_23","077_1_23","2CO","1","23","23","But, as my life will answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C21_24","077_1_24","2CO","1","24","24","I do not mean that we are to dictate to you with regard to your faith; on the contrary, we work with you for your true happiness; indeed, it is through your faith that you are standing firm. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_1","077_2_1","2CO","2","1","1","For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_2","077_2_2","2CO","2","2","2","If it is I who cause you pain, why, who is there to cheer me, except the person whom I am paining? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_3","077_2_3","2CO","2","3","3","So I wrote as I did because I was afraid that if I had come, I should have been pained by those who ought to have made me glad; for I felt sure that it was true of you all that my joy was in every case yours also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_4","077_2_4","2CO","2","4","4","I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_5","077_2_5","2CO","2","5","5","Now whoever has caused the pain has not so much pained me, as he has, to some extent – not to be too severe – pained every one of you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_6","077_2_6","2CO","2","6","6","The man to whom I refer has been sufficiently punished by the penalty inflicted by the majority of you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_7","077_2_7","2CO","2","7","7","so that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_8","077_2_8","2CO","2","8","8","So I entreat you to assure him of your love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_9","077_2_9","2CO","2","9","9","I had this further object, also, in what I wrote – to find out whether you might be relied on to be obedient in everything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_10","077_2_10","2CO","2","10","10","Anyone you forgive, I forgive them, too. Indeed, for my part, whatever I have forgiven (if I have had to forgive anything), I have forgiven for your sakes, in the presence of Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_11","077_2_11","2CO","2","11","11","so as to prevent Satan from taking advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_12","077_2_12","2CO","2","12","12","When I went to the district around Troas to tell the good news of the Christ, even though there was an opening for serving the Master, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_13","077_2_13","2CO","2","13","13","I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my friend; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_14","077_2_14","2CO","2","14","14","All thanks to God, who, through our union with the Christ, leads us in one continual triumph, and uses us to spread the sweet perfume of the knowledge of him in every place. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_15","077_2_15","2CO","2","15","15","For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God – both among those who are in the path of salvation and among those who are in the path to ruin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_16","077_2_16","2CO","2","16","16","To the latter we are a stench which arises from death and tells of death; to the former a fragrance which arises from life and tells of life. But who is equal to such a task? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C22_17","077_2_17","2CO","2","17","17","Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God’s message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God’s commission, we speak before him in union with Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_1","077_3_1","2CO","3","1","1","Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_2","077_3_2","2CO","3","2","2","You yourselves are our letter – a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_3","077_3_3","2CO","3","3","3","All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_4","077_3_4","2CO","3","4","4","This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_5","077_3_5","2CO","3","5","5","I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_6","077_3_6","2CO","3","6","6","our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be assistants of a new covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means death, but the Spirit gives life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_7","077_3_7","2CO","3","7","7","If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_8","077_3_8","2CO","3","8","8","will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_9","077_3_9","2CO","3","9","9","For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_10","077_3_10","2CO","3","10","10","Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_11","077_3_11","2CO","3","11","11","And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_12","077_3_12","2CO","3","12","12","With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_13","077_3_13","2CO","3","13","13","unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_14","077_3_14","2CO","3","14","14","But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_15","077_3_15","2CO","3","15","15","But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_16","077_3_16","2CO","3","16","16","Yet, whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_17","077_3_17","2CO","3","17","17","And the Lord is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C23_18","077_3_18","2CO","3","18","18","And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_1","077_4_1","2CO","4","1","1","Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_2","077_4_2","2CO","4","2","2","No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God’s message, and commending ourselves to everyone’s conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_3","077_4_3","2CO","4","3","3","And, even if the good news that we bring is veiled, it is veiled only in the case of those who are on the path to ruin – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_4","077_4_4","2CO","4","4","4","people whose minds have been blinded by the God of this age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the incarnation of God, should not shine for them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_5","077_4_5","2CO","4","5","5","(For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_6","077_4_6","2CO","4","6","6","Indeed, the same God who said ‘Out of darkness light will shine,’ has shone in on our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_7","077_4_7","2CO","4","7","7","This treasure we have in these earthen vessels, so that its all-prevailing power may be seen to come from God, and not to be our own. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_8","077_4_8","2CO","4","8","8","Though hard pressed on every side, we are never hemmed in; though perplexed, never driven to despair; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_9","077_4_9","2CO","4","9","9","though pursued, never abandoned; though struck down, never killed! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_10","077_4_10","2CO","4","10","10","We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_11","077_4_11","2CO","4","11","11","Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_12","077_4_12","2CO","4","12","12","And so, while death is at work within us, life is at work within you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_13","077_4_13","2CO","4","13","13","But, in the same spirit of faith as that expressed in the words – ‘I believed, and therefore I spoke,’ we, also believe, and therefore speak. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_14","077_4_14","2CO","4","14","14","For we know that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with him, and will bring us, with you, into his presence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_15","077_4_15","2CO","4","15","15","For all this is for your sakes, so that the loving kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_16","077_4_16","2CO","4","16","16","Therefore, as I said, we do not lose heart. No, even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_17","077_4_17","2CO","4","17","17","The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us a weight of imperishable glory, beyond all measure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C24_18","077_4_18","2CO","4","18","18","We, all the while, gaze not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_1","077_5_1","2CO","5","1","1","For we know that if our tent – that earthly body which is now our home – is taken down, we have a house of God’s building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_2","077_5_2","2CO","5","2","2","Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly house, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_3","077_5_3","2CO","5","3","3","sure that, when we have put it on, we will never be found naked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_4","077_5_4","2CO","5","4","4","For we who are in this tent sigh under our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be absorbed in life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_5","077_5_5","2CO","5","5","5","And he who has prepared us for this change is God, who has also given us his Spirit as a pledge. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_6","077_5_6","2CO","5","6","6","Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_8","077_5_8","2CO","5","8","8","And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_9","077_5_9","2CO","5","9","9","Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_10","077_5_10","2CO","5","10","10","For at the court of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, so that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions – whether good or worthless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_11","077_5_11","2CO","5","11","11","Therefore, because we know the fear inspired by the Lord, it is true that we are trying to win people over, but our motives are plain to God; and I hope that in your inmost hearts they are plain to you also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_12","077_5_12","2CO","5","12","12","We are not “commending ourselves” again to you, but rather are giving you cause for pride in us, so that you may have an answer ready for those who pride themselves on appearances and not on character. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_13","077_5_13","2CO","5","13","13","For, if we were “beside ourselves,” it was in God’s service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_14","077_5_14","2CO","5","14","14","It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_15","077_5_15","2CO","5","15","15","and that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_16","077_5_16","2CO","5","16","16","For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard anyone from the world’s standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_17","077_5_17","2CO","5","17","17","Therefore, if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_18","077_5_18","2CO","5","18","18","But all this is the work of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_19","077_5_19","2CO","5","19","19","To proclaim that God, in Christ, was reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning people’s offenses against them, and that he had entrusted us with the message of this reconciliation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_20","077_5_20","2CO","5","20","20","It is, then, on Christ’s behalf that we are acting as ambassadors, God, as it were, appealing to you through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf – Be reconciled to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C25_21","077_5_21","2CO","5","21","21","For our sake God made Christ, who was innocent of sin, one with our sinfulness, so that in him we might be made one with the righteousness of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_1","077_6_1","2CO","6","1","1","Therefore, as God’s fellow workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving kindness in vain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_2","077_6_2","2CO","6","2","2","For he says – ‘At the time for acceptance I listened to you, and on the day of deliverance I helped you.’ Now is the time for acceptance! Now is the day of deliverance! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_3","077_6_3","2CO","6","3","3","Never do we put an obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_4","077_6_4","2CO","6","4","4","No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God’s assistants should – in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_5","077_6_5","2CO","6","5","5","in floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in hunger; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_6","077_6_6","2CO","6","6","6","by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindliness, by holiness of spirit, by unfeigned love; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_7","077_6_7","2CO","6","7","7","by the message of truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_8","077_6_8","2CO","6","8","8","amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_9","077_6_9","2CO","6","9","9","as unknown, yet well-known; as at death’s door, yet, see, we are living; as chastised, yet not killed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_10","077_6_10","2CO","6","10","10","as saddened, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_11","077_6_11","2CO","6","11","11","We have been speaking freely to you, dear friends in Corinth; we have opened our heart; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_12","077_6_12","2CO","6","12","12","there is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_13","077_6_13","2CO","6","13","13","Can you not in return – I appeal to you as I should to children – open your hearts to us? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_14","077_6_14","2CO","6","14","14","Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what has light to do with darkness? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_15","077_6_15","2CO","6","15","15","What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? Or what can those who accept the faith have in common with those who reject it? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_16","077_6_16","2CO","6","16","16","What agreement can there be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the living God. That is what God meant when he said – ‘I will live among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_17","077_6_17","2CO","6","17","17","Therefore “Come out from among the nations, and separate yourselves from them,” says the Lord, “And touch nothing impure; and I will welcome you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C26_18","077_6_18","2CO","6","18","18","and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the Lord, the Ruler of all.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_1","077_7_1","2CO","7","1","1","With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest respect for God, aim at perfect holiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_2","077_7_2","2CO","7","2","2","Make room for us in your hearts. In no instance have we ever wronged, or harmed, or taken advantage of, anyone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_3","077_7_3","2CO","7","3","3","I am not saying this to condemn you. Indeed, I have already said that you are in our heart, to live and die together. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_4","077_7_4","2CO","7","4","4","I have the utmost confidence in you; I am always boasting about you. I am full of encouragement and, in spite of all our troubles, my heart is overflowing with happiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_5","077_7_5","2CO","7","5","5","Ever since we reached Macedonia, we have had no rest in body or mind; on every side there have been troubles – conflicts without, anxieties within. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_6","077_7_6","2CO","7","6","6","But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_7","077_7_7","2CO","7","7","7","And it is not only by his arrival that we are encouraged, but also by the encouragement which he received from you; for he tells us of your strong affection, your penitence, and your zeal on my behalf – so that I am happier still. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_8","077_7_8","2CO","7","8","8","For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it – for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_9","077_7_9","2CO","7","9","9","I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God’s will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_10","077_7_10","2CO","7","10","10","For, when sorrow is in accordance with God’s will, it results in a repentance leading to salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_11","077_7_11","2CO","7","11","11","For see what results that other sorrow – sorrow in accordance with God’s will – has had in your case. What earnestness it produced! What explanations! What strong feeling! What alarm! What longing! What eagerness! What readiness to punish! You have proved yourselves altogether free from guilt in that matter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_12","077_7_12","2CO","7","12","12","So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrongdoer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_13","077_7_13","2CO","7","13","13","In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_14","077_7_14","2CO","7","14","14","Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_15","077_7_15","2CO","7","15","15","And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C27_16","077_7_16","2CO","7","16","16","I am glad that I can feel perfect confidence in you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_1","077_8_1","2CO","8","1","1","We want to remind you, friends, of the love that God has shown to the churches in Macedonia – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_2","077_8_2","2CO","8","2","2","How, tired though they were by many a trouble, their overflowing happiness, and even their deep poverty, resulted in a flood of generosity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_3","077_8_3","2CO","8","3","3","I can bear witness that to the full extent of their power, and even beyond their power, spontaneously, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_4","077_8_4","2CO","8","4","4","and with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow Christians. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_5","077_8_5","2CO","8","5","5","And that, not only in the way we had expected; but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us also, in accordance with God’s will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_6","077_8_6","2CO","8","6","6","And this led us to beg Titus, that since he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_7","077_8_7","2CO","8","7","7","And, remembering how you excel in everything – in faith, in teaching, in knowledge, in unfailing earnestness, and in the affection that we have awakened in you – I ask you to excel also in this expression of your love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_8","077_8_8","2CO","8","8","8","I am not laying a command on you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_9","077_8_9","2CO","8","9","9","For you do not forget the loving kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ – how that for your sakes, although he was rich, he became poor, so that you also might become rich through his poverty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_10","077_8_10","2CO","8","10","10","I am only making suggestions on this matter; for this is the best course for you, since you were a year before others, not only in taking action, but also in showing your readiness to do so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_11","077_8_11","2CO","8","11","11","And now I want you to complete the work, so that its completion may correspond with your willing readiness – in proportion, of course, to your means. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_12","077_8_12","2CO","8","12","12","For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do not have. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_13","077_8_13","2CO","8","13","13","For our object is not to give relief to others and bring distress on you. It is a matter of a fair balance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_14","077_8_14","2CO","8","14","14","On this occasion what you can spare will supply what they need, at another time what they can spare may supply your need, and so things will be equal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_15","077_8_15","2CO","8","15","15","As scripture says – ‘Those who had much had nothing over, and those who had little did not lack!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_16","077_8_16","2CO","8","16","16","I thank God for inspiring Titus with the same keen interest in your welfare that I have; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_17","077_8_17","2CO","8","17","17","for Titus has responded to my appeals and, in his great earnestness, is starting to go to you of his own accord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_18","077_8_18","2CO","8","18","18","We are sending with him one of the Lord’s followers whose fame in the service of the good news has spread through all the churches; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_19","077_8_19","2CO","8","19","19","and not only that, but he has been elected by the churches to accompany us on our journey, in connexion with this expression of your love, which we are personally administering to the honor of the Lord, and to show our deep interest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_20","077_8_20","2CO","8","20","20","What we are specially guarding against is that any fault should be found with us in regard to our administration of this charitable fund; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_21","077_8_21","2CO","8","21","21","for we are trying to make arrangements which will be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_22","077_8_22","2CO","8","22","22","We are also sending with them another of our friends, whose earnestness we have many a time proved in many ways, and whom we now find made even more earnest by his great confidence in you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_23","077_8_23","2CO","8","23","23","If I must say anything about Titus, he is my intimate companion, and he shares my work for you; if it is our friends, they are delegates of the churches, an honor to Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C28_24","077_8_24","2CO","8","24","24","Show them, therefore – so that the churches may see it – the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_1","077_9_1","2CO","9","1","1","With reference, indeed, to the fund for your fellow Christians, it is quite superfluous for me to say anything to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_2","077_9_2","2CO","9","2","2","I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_3","077_9_3","2CO","9","3","3","So my reason for sending our friends is to prevent what we said about you from proving, in this particular matter, an empty boast, and to enable you to be as well prepared as I have been saying that you are. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_4","077_9_4","2CO","9","4","4","Otherwise, if any Macedonians were to come with me, and find you unprepared, we – to say nothing of you – should feel ashamed of our present confidence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_5","077_9_5","2CO","9","5","5","Therefore I think it necessary to beg the friends to go to you in advance, and to complete the arrangements for the gift, which you have already promised, so that it may be ready, as a gift, before I come, and not look as if it were being given under pressure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_6","077_9_6","2CO","9","6","6","Remember the saying – ‘Scanty sowing, scanty harvest; plentiful sowing, plentiful harvest.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_7","077_9_7","2CO","9","7","7","Let everyone give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_8","077_9_8","2CO","9","8","8","God has power to shower all kinds of blessings on you, so that, having, under all circumstances and on all occasions, all that you can need, you may be able to shower all kinds of benefits on others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_9","077_9_9","2CO","9","9","9","(As scripture says – ‘He shared freely, he gave to the poor; his righteousness continues for ever.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_10","077_9_10","2CO","9","10","10","And he who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, will supply you with seed, and cause it to increase, and will multiply the fruits of your righteousness). ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_11","077_9_11","2CO","9","11","11","Rich in all things yourselves, you will be able to show liberality to all, which, with our help, will cause thanksgiving to be offered to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_12","077_9_12","2CO","9","12","12","For the rendering of a public service such as this, not only relieves the needs of your fellow Christians, but also results in the offering to God of many a thanksgiving. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_13","077_9_13","2CO","9","13","13","Through the evidence afforded by the service rendered, you cause people to praise God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the good news of the Christ, as well as for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_14","077_9_14","2CO","9","14","14","And they also, in their prayers for you, express their longing to see you, because of the surpassing love of God displayed toward you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C29_15","077_9_15","2CO","9","15","15","All thanks to God for his inestimable gift! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_1","077_10_1","2CO","10","1","1","Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ – I who, “in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you” – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_2","077_10_2","2CO","10","2","2","I implore you not to drive me to “show my boldness,” when I do come, by the confident tone which I expect to have to adopt towards some of you, who are expecting to find us influenced in our conduct by earthly motives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_3","077_10_3","2CO","10","3","3","For, though we live an earthly life, we do not wage an earthly war. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_4","077_10_4","2CO","10","4","4","The weapons for our warfare are not earthly, but, under God, are powerful enough to pull down strongholds. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_5","077_10_5","2CO","10","5","5","We are engaged in confuting arguments and pulling down every barrier raised against the knowledge of God. We are taking captive every hostile thought, to bring it into submission to the Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_6","077_10_6","2CO","10","6","6","and are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_7","077_10_7","2CO","10","7","7","You look at the outward appearance of things! Let anyone, who is confident that he belongs to Christ, reflect, for himself, again on the fact – that we belong to Christ no less than he does. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_8","077_10_8","2CO","10","8","8","Even if I boast extravagantly about our authority – which the Lord gave us for building up your faith and not for overthrowing it – still I have no reason to be ashamed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_9","077_10_9","2CO","10","9","9","I say this so that it doesn’t seem as if I am trying to overawe you by my letters. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_10","077_10_10","2CO","10","10","10","For people say “His letters are impressive and vigorous, but his personal appearance is insignificant and his speaking contemptible.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_11","077_10_11","2CO","10","11","11","Let such a person be assured of this – that our words in our letters show us to be, when absent, just what our deeds will show us to be, when present. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_12","077_10_12","2CO","10","12","12","We have not indeed the audacity to class or compare ourselves with some of those who indulge in self-commendation! But, when such persons measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they show a want of wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_13","077_10_13","2CO","10","13","13","We, however, will not give way to unlimited boasting, but will confine ourselves to the limits of the sphere to which God limited us, when he permitted us to come as far as Corinth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_14","077_10_14","2CO","10","14","14","For it is not the case, as it would be if we were not in the habit of coming to you, that we are exceeding our bounds! Why, we were the very first to reach you with the good news of the Christ! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_15","077_10_15","2CO","10","15","15","Our boasting, therefore, is not unlimited, nor does it extend to the labors of others; but our hope is that, as your faith grows, our influence among you may be very greatly increased – though still confined to our sphere – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_16","077_10_16","2CO","10","16","16","So that we will be able to tell the good news in the districts beyond you, without trespassing on the sphere assigned to others, or boasting of what has been already done. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_17","077_10_17","2CO","10","17","17","Let anyone who boasts make their boast of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C210_18","077_10_18","2CO","10","18","18","For it is not those who commend themselves that stand the test, but those who are commended by the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_1","077_11_1","2CO","11","1","1","I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_2","077_11_2","2CO","11","2","2","I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I promised you in marriage as a pure bride, to one husband – the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_3","077_11_3","2CO","11","3","3","Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the snake by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_4","077_11_4","2CO","11","4","4","For, if some newcomer is proclaiming a Jesus other than him whom we proclaimed, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the Spirit which you received, or a good news different from that which you welcomed, then you are marvelously tolerant! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_5","077_11_5","2CO","11","5","5","I do not regard myself as in any way inferior to the most eminent apostles! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_6","077_11_6","2CO","11","6","6","Though I am no trained orator, yet I am not without knowledge; indeed we made this perfectly clear to you in every way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_7","077_11_7","2CO","11","7","7","Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted – I mean because I told you God’s good news without payment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_8","077_11_8","2CO","11","8","8","I robbed other churches by taking pay from them, so that I might serve you! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_9","077_11_9","2CO","11","9","9","And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our friends, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_10","077_11_10","2CO","11","10","10","As surely as I know anything of the truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, will not be stopped in any part of Greece. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_11","077_11_11","2CO","11","11","11","Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_12","077_11_12","2CO","11","12","12","What I am doing now I will continue to do in order to cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_13","077_11_13","2CO","11","13","13","Such people are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_14","077_11_14","2CO","11","14","14","And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_15","077_11_15","2CO","11","15","15","It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_16","077_11_16","2CO","11","16","16","I say again – Let no one think me a fool! Yet, if you do, at least welcome me as you would a fool, so that I, too may indulge in a little boasting. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_17","077_11_17","2CO","11","17","17","When I speak like this, I am not speaking as the Master would, but as a fool might, in boasting so confidently. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_18","077_11_18","2CO","11","18","18","As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_19","077_11_19","2CO","11","19","19","For all your cleverness, you tolerate fools willingly enough! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_20","077_11_20","2CO","11","20","20","You tolerate a person even when they enslave you, when they plunder you, when they get you into their power, when they put on airs of superiority, when they strike you in the face! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_21","077_11_21","2CO","11","21","21","I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast – though it is foolish to say so – I am not afraid either! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_22","077_11_22","2CO","11","22","22","Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_23","077_11_23","2CO","11","23","23","Are they ‘Servants of Christ’? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death’s door. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_24","077_11_24","2CO","11","24","24","Five times I received at the hands of my own people forty lashes, all but one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_25","077_11_25","2CO","11","25","25","Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_26","077_11_26","2CO","11","26","26","My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among people pretending to be followers of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_27","077_11_27","2CO","11","27","27","I have been through toil and hardship. I have passed many a sleepless night; I have endured hunger and thirst; I have often been without food; I have known cold and nakedness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_28","077_11_28","2CO","11","28","28","And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the churches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_29","077_11_29","2CO","11","29","29","Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_30","077_11_30","2CO","11","30","30","If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_31","077_11_31","2CO","11","31","31","The God and Father of the Lord Jesus – he who is for ever blessed – knows that I am speaking the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_32","077_11_32","2CO","11","32","32","When I was in Damascus, the Governor under King Aretas had the gates of that city guarded, so as to arrest me, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C211_33","077_11_33","2CO","11","33","33","but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_1","077_12_1","2CO","12","1","1","I must boast! It is unprofitable; but I will pass to visions and revelations given by the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_2","077_12_2","2CO","12","2","2","I know a man in union with Christ, who, fourteen years ago – whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows – was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) to the third heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_3","077_12_3","2CO","12","3","3","And I know that this man – whether in the body or separated from the body I do not know; God knows – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_4","077_12_4","2CO","12","4","4","Was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable things of which no human being may tell. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_5","077_12_5","2CO","12","5","5","About such a man I will boast, but about myself I will not boast except as regards my weaknesses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_6","077_12_6","2CO","12","6","6","Yet if I choose to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will be speaking no more than the truth. But I refrain, in case anyone should credit me with more than he can see in me or hear from me, and because of the marvelous character of the revelations. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_7","077_12_7","2CO","12","7","7","It was for this reason, and to prevent my thinking too highly of myself, that a thorn was sent to pierce my flesh – an instrument of Satan to discipline me – so that I should not think too highly of myself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_8","077_12_8","2CO","12","8","8","About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_9","077_12_9","2CO","12","9","9","But his reply has been – ‘My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.’ Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_10","077_12_10","2CO","12","10","10","That is why I delight in weakness, ill treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_11","077_12_11","2CO","12","11","11","I have been “playing the fool!” It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent apostles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_12","077_12_12","2CO","12","12","12","The marks of the true apostle were exhibited among you in constant endurance, as well as by signs, by marvels, and by miracles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_13","077_12_13","2CO","12","13","13","In what respect, I ask, were you treated worse than the other churches, unless it was that, for my part, I refused to become a burden to you? Forgive me the wrong I did to you! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_14","077_12_14","2CO","12","14","14","Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I will refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_15","077_12_15","2CO","12","15","15","For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_16","077_12_16","2CO","12","16","16","You will admit that I was not a burden to you but you say that I was “crafty” and caught you “by a trick”! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_17","077_12_17","2CO","12","17","17","Do you assert that I took advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_18","077_12_18","2CO","12","18","18","I urged Titus to go, and I sent another follower with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_19","077_12_19","2CO","12","19","19","Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_20","077_12_20","2CO","12","20","20","for I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill feeling, rivalry, slandering, backbiting, self-assertion, and disorder. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C212_21","077_12_21","2CO","12","21","21","I am afraid that, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_1","077_13_1","2CO","13","1","1","For the third time I am coming to see you. By the word of two or three witnesses each statement will be established. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_2","077_13_2","2CO","13","2","2","I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others – that if I come again, I will spare no one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_3","077_13_3","2CO","13","3","3","And that will be the proof, which you are looking for, that the Christ speaks through me. There is no weakness in his dealings with you. No, he shows his power among you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_4","077_13_4","2CO","13","4","4","For though his crucifixion was due to weakness, his life is due to the power of God. And we, also, are weak in his weakness, but with him we will live for you through the power of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_5","077_13_5","2CO","13","5","5","Put yourselves to the test, to see whether you are holding to the faith. Examine yourselves. Surely you recognize this fact about yourselves – that Jesus Christ is in you! Unless indeed you cannot stand the test! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_6","077_13_6","2CO","13","6","6","But I hope that you will recognize that we can stand the test. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_7","077_13_7","2CO","13","7","7","We pray to God that you may do nothing wrong, not that we may be seen to stand the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem not to stand the test. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_8","077_13_8","2CO","13","8","8","We have no power at all against the truth, but we have power in the service of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_9","077_13_9","2CO","13","9","9","We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_10","077_13_10","2CO","13","10","10","This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me – and gave me for building up and not for pulling down. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_11","077_13_11","2CO","13","11","11","And now, friends, goodbye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_12","077_13_12","2CO","13","12","12","Greet one another with a sacred kiss. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_13","077_13_13","2CO","13","13","13","All Christ’s people here send you their greetings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("C213_14","077_13_14","2CO","13","14","14","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion with the Holy Spirit, be with you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_1","078_1_1","GAL","1","1","1"," To the churches in Galatia, from Paul, an apostle whose commission is not from any human authority and is given, not by human beings, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_2","078_1_2","GAL","1","2","2","and from all the followers of the Lord here. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_3","078_1_3","GAL","1","3","3","May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you and give you peace. For Christ, to rescue us from this present wicked age, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_4","078_1_4","GAL","1","4","4","gave himself for our sins, in accordance with the will of our God and Father, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_5","078_1_5","GAL","1","5","5","to whom be ascribed all glory for ever and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_6","078_1_6","GAL","1","6","6","I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different ‘good news,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_7","078_1_7","GAL","1","7","7","which is really no good news at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_8","078_1_8","GAL","1","8","8","Yet even if we – or if an angel from heaven were to tell you any other ‘good news’ than that which we told you, may he be accursed! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_9","078_1_9","GAL","1","9","9","We have said it before, and I repeat it now – If anyone tells you a ‘good news’ other than that which you received, may he be accursed! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_10","078_1_10","GAL","1","10","10","Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate people, or God? Am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I should not be a servant of Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_11","078_1_11","GAL","1","11","11","I remind you, friends, that the good news which I told is no mere human invention. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_12","078_1_12","GAL","1","12","12","I, at least, did not receive it from any human being, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_13","078_1_13","GAL","1","13","13","You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism – how I persecuted the church of God to an extent beyond belief, and tried to destroy it, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_14","078_1_14","GAL","1","14","14","and how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_15","078_1_15","GAL","1","15","15","But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_16","078_1_16","GAL","1","16","16","saw fit to reveal his Son in me, so that I might tell the good news of him among the Gentiles, then at once, instead of consulting any human being, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_17","078_1_17","GAL","1","17","17","or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, I went to Arabia, and came back again to Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_18","078_1_18","GAL","1","18","18","Three years afterward I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter, and I stayed a fortnight with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_19","078_1_19","GAL","1","19","19","I did not, however, see any other apostle, except James, the Master’s brother. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_20","078_1_20","GAL","1","20","20","(As to what I am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking the truth). ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_21","078_1_21","GAL","1","21","21","Afterward I went to the districts of Syria and Cilicia. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_23","078_1_23","GAL","1","23","23","all that they had heard was – ‘The man who once persecuted us is now telling the good news of the faith of which he once tried to destroy.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL1_24","078_1_24","GAL","1","24","24","And they praised God for my sake. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_1","078_2_1","GAL","2","1","1","Fourteen years afterward I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, and I took Titus also with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_2","078_2_2","GAL","2","2","2","It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the apostles the good news that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of because I was afraid that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_3","078_2_3","GAL","2","3","3","Yet even my companion, Titus, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_4","078_2_4","GAL","2","4","4","But, because of those who pretended to be followers who had stolen in, the intruders who had crept in to spy on the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_5","078_2_5","GAL","2","5","5","Why, we did not for a moment yield submission to them, so that the truth of the good news might be yours always! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_6","078_2_6","GAL","2","6","6","Of those who are thought somewhat highly of – what they once were makes no difference to me; God does not recognize human distinctions – those, I say, who are thought highly of added nothing to my message. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_7","078_2_7","GAL","2","7","7","On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news for the Gentiles, just as Peter had been for the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_8","078_2_8","GAL","2","8","8","For he who gave Peter power for his mission to the Jews gave me, also, power to go to the Gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_9","078_2_9","GAL","2","9","9","Recognizing the charge entrusted to me, James, Peter, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, openly acknowledged Barnabas and me as fellow workers, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_10","078_2_10","GAL","2","10","10","Only we were to remember the poor – the thing I was myself anxious to do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_11","078_2_11","GAL","2","11","11","But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face; for he stood self-condemned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_12","078_2_12","GAL","2","12","12","Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, because he was afraid of offending those who still held to circumcision. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_13","078_2_13","GAL","2","13","13","The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_14","078_2_14","GAL","2","14","14","But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the truth of the good news, I said to Peter, before them all, “If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_15","078_2_15","GAL","2","15","15","We, though we are Jews by birth and not sinners of Gentile origin, know that no one is pronounced righteous as the result of obedience to Law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_16","078_2_16","GAL","2","16","16","So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience will not result in even one soul’s being pronounced righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_17","078_2_17","GAL","2","17","17","If, while seeking to be pronounced righteous through union with Christ, we were ourselves seen to be sinners, would that make Christ an agent of sin? Heaven forbid! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_18","078_2_18","GAL","2","18","18","For, if I rebuild the things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_19","078_2_19","GAL","2","19","19","I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_20","078_2_20","GAL","2","20","20","I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL2_21","078_2_21","GAL","2","21","21","I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_1","078_3_1","GAL","3","1","1","Foolish Galatians! Who has been enchanting you – you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was depicted on the cross? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_2","078_3_2","GAL","3","2","2","Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you – Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_3","078_3_3","GAL","3","3","3","Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_4","078_3_4","GAL","3","4","4","Did you go through so much to no purpose? – if indeed it really was to no purpose! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_5","078_3_5","GAL","3","5","5","He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers – does he do this as the result of obedience to Law? Or as the result of your having listened with faith? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_6","078_3_6","GAL","3","6","6","It is just as it was with Abraham – he had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_7","078_3_7","GAL","3","7","7","You see, then, that those whose lives are based on faith are the sons of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_8","078_3_8","GAL","3","8","8","And scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the good news to Abraham in the words – ‘Through you all the Gentiles will be blessed.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_9","078_3_9","GAL","3","9","9","And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed on the faith of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_10","078_3_10","GAL","3","10","10","All who rely on obedience to Law are under a curse, for scripture says – ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the book of the Law, and do it.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_11","078_3_11","GAL","3","11","11","Again, it is evident that no one is pronounced righteous before God through Law, for we read – ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_12","078_3_12","GAL","3","12","12","But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are – ‘Those who practice these precepts will find life through them.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_13","078_3_13","GAL","3","13","13","Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for scripture says – ‘Cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_14","078_3_14","GAL","3","14","14","And this he did that the blessing given to Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through their union with Jesus Christ; that so, through our faith, we also might receive the promised gift of the Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_15","078_3_15","GAL","3","15","15","To take an illustration, friends, from daily life – No one sets aside even an agreement between two people, when once it has been confirmed, nor do they add conditions to it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_16","078_3_16","GAL","3","16","16","Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, ‘and to his offspring.’ It was not said ‘to his offsprings,’ as if many persons were meant, but the words were ‘to your offspring,’ showing that one person was meant – and that was Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_17","078_3_17","GAL","3","17","17","My point is this – An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_18","078_3_18","GAL","3","18","18","If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_19","078_3_19","GAL","3","19","19","What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make people conscious of their wrongdoings, and intended to last only until the coming of that offspring to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_20","078_3_20","GAL","3","20","20","Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_21","078_3_21","GAL","3","21","21","Does that set the Law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_22","078_3_22","GAL","3","22","22","But the words of scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_23","078_3_23","GAL","3","23","23","Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the faith that was destined to be revealed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_24","078_3_24","GAL","3","24","24","Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_25","078_3_25","GAL","3","25","25","But now that faith has come we no longer need a guide. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_26","078_3_26","GAL","3","26","26","For you are all sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_27","078_3_27","GAL","3","27","27","For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_28","078_3_28","GAL","3","28","28","All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL3_29","078_3_29","GAL","3","29","29","And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_1","078_4_1","GAL","4","1","1","My point is this – as long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_2","078_4_2","GAL","4","2","2","He is subject to the control of guardians and stewards, during the period for which his father has power to appoint them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_3","078_4_3","GAL","4","3","3","And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_4","078_4_4","GAL","4","4","4","but, when the full time came, God sent his Son – born a woman’s child, born subject to Law – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_5","078_4_5","GAL","4","5","5","to ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_6","078_4_6","GAL","4","6","6","And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry – ‘Abba, our Father.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_7","078_4_7","GAL","4","7","7","You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God’s appointment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_8","078_4_8","GAL","4","8","8","Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to ‘gods’ which were no gods. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_9","078_4_9","GAL","4","9","9","But now that you have found God – or, rather, have been found by him – how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_10","078_4_10","GAL","4","10","10","You are scrupulous in keeping days and months and seasons and years! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_11","078_4_11","GAL","4","11","11","You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_12","078_4_12","GAL","4","12","12","I entreat you, friends, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_13","078_4_13","GAL","4","13","13","You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_14","078_4_14","GAL","4","14","14","And as for what must have tried you in my condition, it did not inspire you with scorn or disgust, but you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God – or Christ Jesus himself! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_15","078_4_15","GAL","4","15","15","What has become then, of your blessings? For I can bear witness that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_16","078_4_16","GAL","4","16","16","Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_17","078_4_17","GAL","4","17","17","Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_18","078_4_18","GAL","4","18","18","It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_19","078_4_19","GAL","4","19","19","you for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, until a likeness to Christ will have been formed in you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_20","078_4_20","GAL","4","20","20","But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_21","078_4_21","GAL","4","21","21","Tell me, you who want to be still subject to Law – Why don’t you listen to the Law? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_22","078_4_22","GAL","4","22","22","Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_23","078_4_23","GAL","4","23","23","But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_24","078_4_24","GAL","4","24","24","This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two covenants. One covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_25","078_4_25","GAL","4","25","25","Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents the Jerusalem of today, for she and her children are in slavery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_26","078_4_26","GAL","4","26","26","But the Jerusalem above is free, and she it is who is our mother. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_27","078_4_27","GAL","4","27","27","For scripture says – ‘Rejoice, you barren one, who have never given birth, break into shouts, you who are never in labor, for many are the children of her who is desolate – yes, more than of her who has a husband.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_28","078_4_28","GAL","4","28","28","As for ourselves, friends, we, like Isaac, are children born in fulfillment of a promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_29","078_4_29","GAL","4","29","29","Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_30","078_4_30","GAL","4","30","30","But what does the passage of scripture say? ‘Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave’s son will not be coheir with the son of the free woman.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL4_31","078_4_31","GAL","4","31","31","And so, friends, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_1","078_5_1","GAL","5","1","1","It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery. p ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_2","078_5_2","GAL","5","2","2","Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_3","078_5_3","GAL","5","3","3","I again declare to everyone who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey the whole Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_4","078_5_4","GAL","5","4","4","You have severed yourselves from Christ – you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_5","078_5_5","GAL","5","5","5","For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope – that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_6","078_5_6","GAL","5","6","6","If we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_7","078_5_7","GAL","5","7","7","You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the truth? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_8","078_5_8","GAL","5","8","8","The persuasion brought to bear on you does not come from him who calls you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_9","078_5_9","GAL","5","9","9","A little yeast leavens all the dough. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_10","078_5_10","GAL","5","10","10","I, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_11","078_5_11","GAL","5","11","11","If I, friends, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the cross has ceased to be an obstacle! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_12","078_5_12","GAL","5","12","12","I could even wish that the people who are unsettling you would go further still and mutilate themselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_13","078_5_13","GAL","5","13","13","Remember, friends, to you the call came to give you freedom. Only, do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence but serve one another in a loving spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_14","078_5_14","GAL","5","14","14","Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept – ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_15","078_5_15","GAL","5","15","15","But, if you are continually wounding and preying on one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_16","078_5_16","GAL","5","16","16","This is what I have to say – Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_17","078_5_17","GAL","5","17","17","For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature – they are two contrary principles – so that you cannot do what you wish. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_18","078_5_18","GAL","5","18","18","But, if you follow the guidance of the Spirit, you are not subject to Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_19","078_5_19","GAL","5","19","19","The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these – sexual immorality, impurity, indecency, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_20","078_5_20","GAL","5","20","20","idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_21","078_5_21","GAL","5","21","21","feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the kingdom of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_22","078_5_22","GAL","5","22","22","But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_23","078_5_23","GAL","5","23","23","Against such things there is no law! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_24","078_5_24","GAL","5","24","24","And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_25","078_5_25","GAL","5","25","25","Since our life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL5_26","078_5_26","GAL","5","26","26","Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or envy one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_1","078_6_1","GAL","6","1","1","My friends, even if someone should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help them to recover themselves, taking care that you yourselves are not tempted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_2","078_6_2","GAL","6","2","2","Bear one another’s burdens, and so carry out the Law of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_3","078_6_3","GAL","6","3","3","If a person imagines themselves to be somebody, when they are really nobody, they deceive themselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_4","078_6_4","GAL","6","4","4","Let everyone test their own work, and then their cause for satisfaction will be in themselves and not in a comparison with their neighbor; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_5","078_6_5","GAL","6","5","5","for everyone must bear their own load. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_6","078_6_6","GAL","6","6","6","The person, however, who is being instructed in the message ought always to share their blessings with their teacher. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_7","078_6_7","GAL","6","7","7","Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a person sows that they will reap. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_8","078_6_8","GAL","6","8","8","For the person who sows the field of their earthly nature will from that earthly nature reap corruption; while the one who sows the field of the spirit will from that spirit reap eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_9","078_6_9","GAL","6","9","9","Let us never tire of doing right, for at the proper season we will reap our harvest, if we do not grow weary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_10","078_6_10","GAL","6","10","10","Therefore, I say, as the opportunity occurs, let us treat everyone with kindness, and especially members of the household of the faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_11","078_6_11","GAL","6","11","11","See in what large letters I am writing with my own hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_12","078_6_12","GAL","6","12","12","The people who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are the people who wish to appear to advantage in regard to outward observances. They do it only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Jesus, the Christ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_13","078_6_13","GAL","6","13","13","Even these men who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law; yet they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast of your observance of the rite. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_14","078_6_14","GAL","6","14","14","But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_15","078_6_15","GAL","6","15","15","For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_16","078_6_16","GAL","6","16","16","May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy – they who are the Israel of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_17","078_6_17","GAL","6","17","17","For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("GL6_18","078_6_18","GAL","6","18","18","May the blessing of Jesus Christ, our Lord, rest on your souls, friends. Amen.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_1","079_1_1","EPH","1","1","1"," To Christ’s people at Ephesus who are faithful to him, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_2","079_1_2","EPH","1","2","2","May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_3","079_1_3","EPH","1","3","3","Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has blessed us on high with every spiritual blessing, in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_4","079_1_4","EPH","1","4","4","For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, so that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_5","079_1_5","EPH","1","5","5","From the first he destined us, in his goodwill towards us, to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_6","079_1_6","EPH","1","6","6","and so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving kindness which he gave us in the one he loves; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_7","079_1_7","EPH","1","7","7","for in him, and through the shedding of his blood, we have found redemption in the pardon of our offenses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_8","079_1_8","EPH","1","8","8","All this accords with the loving kindness which God lavished on us, accompanied by countless gifts of wisdom and discernment, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_9","079_1_9","EPH","1","9","9","when he made known to us his hidden purpose. And it also accords with the goodwill which God purposed to exhibit in Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_10","079_1_10","EPH","1","10","10","in view of that divine order which was to mark the completion of the ages, when he should make everything, both in heaven and on earth, center in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_11","079_1_11","EPH","1","11","11","In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God’s heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_12","079_1_12","EPH","1","12","12","that we should enhance his glory – we who have been the first to rest our hopes on the Christ. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_17","079_1_17","EPH","1","17","17","My prayer is that the God of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-glorious Father, may inspire you with wisdom and true insight through a fuller knowledge of himself; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_18","079_1_18","EPH","1","18","18","that your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God’s call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ’s people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_19","079_1_19","EPH","1","19","19","and the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_20","079_1_20","EPH","1","20","20","The same mighty power was exerted on the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and ‘caused him to sit at his right hand’ on high, exalting him above all angels and archangels of every rank, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_21","079_1_21","EPH","1","21","21","and above every name that can be named, whether in the present age, or in the age to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_22","079_1_22","EPH","1","22","22","And God placed all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as its supreme head; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP1_23","079_1_23","EPH","1","23","23","for the church is Christ’s body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_1","079_2_1","EPH","2","1","1","You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_2","079_2_2","EPH","2","2","2","For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_3","079_2_3","EPH","2","3","3","And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_4","079_2_4","EPH","2","4","4","Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_5","079_2_5","EPH","2","5","5","even though we were dead because of our offenses, gave life to us in giving life to the Christ. (By God’s loving kindness you have been saved.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_6","079_2_6","EPH","2","6","6","And, through our union with Christ Jesus, God raised us with him, and caused us to sit with him on high, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_7","079_2_7","EPH","2","7","7","in order that, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving kindness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_8","079_2_8","EPH","2","8","8","For it is by God’s loving kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God’s. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_9","079_2_9","EPH","2","9","9","It is not due to obedience to Law, so that no one can boast. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_10","079_2_10","EPH","2","10","10","For we are God’s handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_11","079_2_11","EPH","2","11","11","Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called ‘the Uncircumcised’ by those who were called ‘the Circumcised’ – circumcised only by human hands! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_12","079_2_12","EPH","2","12","12","Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the covenants founded on God’s promise; you were in the world without hope and without God. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_14","079_2_14","EPH","2","14","14","He it is who is our peace. He made the two divisions of humanity one, broke down the barrier that separated them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_15","079_2_15","EPH","2","15","15","and in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them – the Law with its injunctions and ordinances – in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one new humanity and so make peace. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_17","079_2_17","EPH","2","17","17","He came with the good news of peace for you who were far off, and of peace for those who were near; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_18","079_2_18","EPH","2","18","18","for it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_19","079_2_19","EPH","2","19","19","It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with Christ’s people and members of God’s household. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_20","079_2_20","EPH","2","20","20","You have been built up on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP2_21","079_2_21","EPH","2","21","21","United in him, every part of the building, closely joined together, will grow into a temple, consecrated by its union with the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_1","079_3_1","EPH","3","1","1","For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus, the Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_2","079_3_2","EPH","3","2","2","For you have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge with which God entrusted me for your benefit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_3","079_3_3","EPH","3","3","3","and also that it was by direct revelation that the hidden purpose of God was made known to me, as I have already briefly told you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_4","079_3_4","EPH","3","4","4","And, by reading what I have written, you will be able to judge how far I understand this hidden purpose of God in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_5","079_3_5","EPH","3","5","5","In former generations it was not made known to humanity, as fully as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to the apostles and prophets among Christ’s people – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_6","079_3_6","EPH","3","6","6","That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the good news, the Gentiles are coheirs with us and members of one body, and that they share with us in God’s Promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_7","079_3_7","EPH","3","7","7","Of this good news I become an assistant, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_8","079_3_8","EPH","3","8","8","Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ’s people, was this charge entrusted! – to tell the Gentiles the good news of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_9","079_3_9","EPH","3","9","9","and to make clear what is God’s way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_10","079_3_10","EPH","3","10","10","so that now to the archangels and to all the powers on high should be made known, through the church, the all-embracing wisdom of God, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_11","079_3_11","EPH","3","11","11","in accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_12","079_3_12","EPH","3","12","12","And in union with him, and through our trust in him, we find courage to approach God with confidence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_13","079_3_13","EPH","3","13","13","Therefore I beg you not to be disheartened at the sufferings that I am undergoing for your sakes; for they redound to your honor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_14","079_3_14","EPH","3","14","14","For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_15","079_3_15","EPH","3","15","15","from whom all ‘fatherhood’ in heaven and on earth derives its name – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_16","079_3_16","EPH","3","16","16","and pray that, in proportion to the wealth of his glory, he will strengthen you with his power by breathing his Spirit into your inmost soul, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_17","079_3_17","EPH","3","17","17","so that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; and I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ’s people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_18","079_3_18","EPH","3","18","18","have the power to comprehend in all its width and length and height and depth, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_19","079_3_19","EPH","3","19","19","and to understand – though it surpasses all understanding – the love of the Christ; and so be filled with all the fullness of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_20","079_3_20","EPH","3","20","20","To him who, through his power which is at work within us, is able to do far more than anything that we can ask or conceive – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP3_21","079_3_21","EPH","3","21","21","to him be all glory through the church and through Christ Jesus, for all generations, age after age. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_1","079_4_1","EPH","4","1","1","I beg you, then – I who am a prisoner in the Master’s cause – to live lives worthy of the call that you have received; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_2","079_4_2","EPH","4","2","2","always humble and gentle, patient, bearing lovingly with one another, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_3","079_4_3","EPH","4","3","3","and striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_4","079_4_4","EPH","4","4","4","There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your call. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_5","079_4_5","EPH","4","5","5","There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_6","079_4_6","EPH","4","6","6","There is but one God and Father of all – the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_7","079_4_7","EPH","4","7","7","Everyone of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_8","079_4_8","EPH","4","8","8","That is why it is said – ‘When he went up on high, he led his captives into captivity. And gave gifts to humanity.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_9","079_4_9","EPH","4","9","9","Now surely this ‘going up’ must imply that he had already gone down into the world beneath. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_10","079_4_10","EPH","4","10","10","He who went down is the same as he who went up – up beyond the highest heaven, so that he might fill all things with his presence. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_12","079_4_12","EPH","4","12","12","to fit his people for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_13","079_4_13","EPH","4","13","13","And this will continue, until we all attain to that unity which is given by faith and by a fuller knowledge of the Son of God; until we reach maturity – the full standard of the perfection of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_14","079_4_14","EPH","4","14","14","Then we will no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching and by people’s trickery and craftiness; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_15","079_4_15","EPH","4","15","15","but holding the truth in a spirit of love, we will grow into complete union with him who is our head – Christ himself. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_17","079_4_17","EPH","4","17","17","This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I implore: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_18","079_4_18","EPH","4","18","18","with their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_19","079_4_19","EPH","4","19","19","Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_21","079_4_21","EPH","4","21","21","and through union with him were taught the truth, as it is to be found in Jesus. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_23","079_4_23","EPH","4","23","23","that the spirit of your minds must be constantly renewed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_24","079_4_24","EPH","4","24","24","and that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_25","079_4_25","EPH","4","25","25","Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors. For we are united to one another like the parts of a body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_26","079_4_26","EPH","4","26","26","Be angry, yet do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_27","079_4_27","EPH","4","27","27","and give no opportunity to the devil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_28","079_4_28","EPH","4","28","28","Let the person who steals steal no longer, but rather they should toil with their hands at honest work, so that they may have something to share with anyone in need. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_29","079_4_29","EPH","4","29","29","Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, so that they may be a help to those who hear them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_30","079_4_30","EPH","4","30","30","And do not grieve God’s Holy Spirit; for it was through that Spirit that God sealed you as his, against the day of redemption. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP4_31","079_4_31","EPH","4","31","31","Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_1","079_5_1","EPH","5","1","1","Therefore imitate God, as his dear children, ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_3","079_5_3","EPH","5","3","3","As for sexual immorality and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ’s people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_4","079_5_4","EPH","5","4","4","nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, for they are wholly out of place among you; but rather thanksgiving. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_5","079_5_5","EPH","5","5","5","For of this you may be sure – that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_6","079_5_6","EPH","5","6","6","Do not let anyone deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the wrath of God on the disobedient. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_7","079_5_7","EPH","5","7","7","Therefore have nothing to do with such people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_8","079_5_8","EPH","5","8","8","For, although you were once in darkness, now, by your union with the Lord, you are in the light. Live as children of light – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_10","079_5_10","EPH","5","10","10","always trying to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_11","079_5_11","EPH","5","11","11","Take no part in deeds of darkness, from which no good can come; on the contrary, expose them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_12","079_5_12","EPH","5","12","12","It is degrading even to speak of the things continually done by them in secret. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_13","079_5_13","EPH","5","13","13","All such actions, when exposed, have their true character made manifest by the light. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_15","079_5_15","EPH","5","15","15","Take great care, then, how you live – not unwisely but wisely, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_16","079_5_16","EPH","5","16","16","making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_17","079_5_17","EPH","5","17","17","Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord’s will is. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_18","079_5_18","EPH","5","18","18","Do not drink wine to excess, for that leads to profligacy; but seek to be filled with the Spirit of God, and speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sacred songs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_19","079_5_19","EPH","5","19","19","Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_20","079_5_20","EPH","5","20","20","Always give thanks for everything to our God and Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_21","079_5_21","EPH","5","21","21","Submit to one another because you honor and respect Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_22","079_5_22","EPH","5","22","22","Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_26","079_5_26","EPH","5","26","26","to make her holy, after purifying her by the washing with the water, according to his promise; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP5_27","079_5_27","EPH","5","27","27","so that he might himself bring the church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_2","079_6_2","EPH","6","2","2","‘Honor your father and mother’ – this is the first Commandment with a promise – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_3","079_6_3","EPH","6","3","3","‘so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_4","079_6_4","EPH","6","4","4","And fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up with Christian discipline and instruction. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_5","079_6_5","EPH","6","5","5","Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_6","079_6_6","EPH","6","6","6","not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please people, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_7","079_6_7","EPH","6","7","7","Give your service heartily and cheerfully, as working for the Master and not for people; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_8","079_6_8","EPH","6","8","8","for you know that everyone will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or free. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_9","079_6_9","EPH","6","9","9","And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_10","079_6_10","EPH","6","10","10","For the future, find strength in your union with the Lord, and in the power which comes from his might. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_11","079_6_11","EPH","6","11","11","Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_12","079_6_12","EPH","6","12","12","For ours is no struggle against enemies of flesh and blood, but against all the various powers of evil that hold sway in the darkness around us, against the spirits of wickedness on high. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_13","079_6_13","EPH","6","13","13","Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the evil day comes, you may be able to withstand the attack, and, having fought to the end, still to stand your ground. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_14","079_6_14","EPH","6","14","14","Stand your ground, then, with truth for your belt, and with righteousness for your breastplate, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_15","079_6_15","EPH","6","15","15","and with the readiness to serve the good news of peace as shoes for your feet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_16","079_6_16","EPH","6","16","16","At every onslaught take up faith for your shield; for with it you will be able to extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_17","079_6_17","EPH","6","17","17","And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit – which is the message of God – always with prayer and supplication. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_18","079_6_18","EPH","6","18","18","Pray in spirit at all times. Be intent on this, with unwearying perseverance and supplication for all Christ’s people – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_19","079_6_19","EPH","6","19","19","and on my behalf also, so that when I begin to speak, words may be given me, so that I may fearlessly make known the inmost truth of the good news, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_20","079_6_20","EPH","6","20","20","on behalf of which I am an ambassador – in chains! Pray that, in telling it, I may speak fearlessly as I ought. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_21","079_6_21","EPH","6","21","21","To enable you, as well as others, to know all that concerns me and what I am doing, Tychicus, our dear friend and faithful helper in the Master’s cause, will tell you everything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_22","079_6_22","EPH","6","22","22","I am sending him to you on purpose that you may learn all about us, and that he may cheer your hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_23","079_6_23","EPH","6","23","23","May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give every follower peace, and love linked with faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("EP6_24","079_6_24","EPH","6","24","24","May God’s blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_1","080_1_1","PHP","1","1","1"," To all Christ’s people at Philippi, with the supervisors and assistants, from Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_2","080_1_2","PHP","1","2","2","May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you, and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_3","080_1_3","PHP","1","3","3","Every recollection that I have of you is a cause of thanksgiving to God, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_4","080_1_4","PHP","1","4","4","always, in every prayer that I offer for you all – my prayers are full of joy – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_5","080_1_5","PHP","1","5","5","because of the share that you have had in spreading the good news, from the first day that you received it until now. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_6","080_1_6","PHP","1","6","6","For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the day of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_7","080_1_7","PHP","1","7","7","And, indeed, I am justified in feeling like this about you all; because you have a warm place in my heart – you who all, both in my imprisonment and in the work of defending and establishing the good news, shared my privilege with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_8","080_1_8","PHP","1","8","8","God will bear me witness how I yearn for you all with the tenderness of Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_9","080_1_9","PHP","1","9","9","And what I pray for is this – that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_10","080_1_10","PHP","1","10","10","until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the day of Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_11","080_1_11","PHP","1","11","11","bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_12","080_1_12","PHP","1","12","12","Friends, I want you to realize that what has happened to me has actually served to forward the good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_13","080_1_13","PHP","1","13","13","It has even become evident, not only to all the imperial guard, but to everyone else, that it is for Christ’s sake that I am in chains. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_14","080_1_14","PHP","1","14","14","And besides this, most of our fellow followers have gained confidence in the Lord through my chains, and now venture with far greater freedom to speak of God’s message fearlessly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_15","080_1_15","PHP","1","15","15","It is true that some do proclaim the Christ out of jealousy and opposition, but there are others who proclaim him from goodwill. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_16","080_1_16","PHP","1","16","16","The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_17","080_1_17","PHP","1","17","17","The former spread the news of the Christ in a factious spirit, and not sincerely, thinking to add to the pain of my chains. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_18","080_1_18","PHP","1","18","18","But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_19","080_1_19","PHP","1","19","19","Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that, through your prayers and through a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, all this will make for my salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_20","080_1_20","PHP","1","20","20","And this will fulfill my earnest expectation and hope that I will have no cause for shame, but that, with unfailing courage, now as before, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_21","080_1_21","PHP","1","21","21","for to me life is Christ, and death is gain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_22","080_1_22","PHP","1","22","22","But what if the life here in the body – if this brings me fruit from my labors? Then which to choose I cannot tell! I am sorely perplexed either way! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_23","080_1_23","PHP","1","23","23","My own desire is to depart and be with Christ, for this would be far better. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_24","080_1_24","PHP","1","24","24","But, for your sakes, it may be more needful that I should still remain here in the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_25","080_1_25","PHP","1","25","25","Yes, I am confident that this is so, and therefore I am sure that I will stay, and stay near you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_26","080_1_26","PHP","1","26","26","so that, when you once more have me among you, you, in your union with Christ Jesus, may find in me fresh cause for exultation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_27","080_1_27","PHP","1","27","27","Under all circumstances let your lives be worthy of the good news of the Christ: so that, whether I come and see you, or whether I hear of your affairs at a distance, I may know that you are standing firm, animated by one spirit, and joining with one heart in a common struggle for the faith taught by the good news, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_28","080_1_28","PHP","1","28","28","without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their destruction and of your salvation – a sign from God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_29","080_1_29","PHP","1","29","29","For, on behalf of Christ, you have had the privilege granted you, not only of trusting in him, but also of suffering on his behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP1_30","080_1_30","PHP","1","30","30","You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_1","080_2_1","PHP","2","1","1","If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_2","080_2_2","PHP","2","2","2","I entreat you to make my happiness complete – live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_3","080_2_3","PHP","2","3","3","Nothing should be done out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility lift others up above yourselves, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_4","080_2_4","PHP","2","4","4","considering not only your own interests but also the interests of others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_5","080_2_5","PHP","2","5","5","Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_6","080_2_6","PHP","2","6","6","Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look on equality with God as above all things to be clung to, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_7","080_2_7","PHP","2","7","7","but impoverished himself by taking the nature of a servant and becoming like one of us; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_8","080_2_8","PHP","2","8","8","he appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death – to death on a cross! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_9","080_2_9","PHP","2","9","9","And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the name which stands above all other names, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_10","080_2_10","PHP","2","10","10","so that in adoration of the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_11","080_2_11","PHP","2","11","11","and that every tongue should acknowledge JESUS CHRIST as LORD – to the glory of God the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_12","080_2_12","PHP","2","12","12","Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_13","080_2_13","PHP","2","13","13","Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_14","080_2_14","PHP","2","14","14","In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_15","080_2_15","PHP","2","15","15","so as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent – faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation, in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_16","080_2_16","PHP","2","16","16","offering to them the message of life; and then I will be able at the day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_17","080_2_17","PHP","2","17","17","And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my lifeblood must be poured out in addition, still I will rejoice and share the joy of you all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_18","080_2_18","PHP","2","18","18","and you must also rejoice and share my joy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_19","080_2_19","PHP","2","19","19","I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_20","080_2_20","PHP","2","20","20","For I have no one but him to send – no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_21","080_2_21","PHP","2","21","21","They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_22","080_2_22","PHP","2","22","22","But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_23","080_2_23","PHP","2","23","23","It is Timothy, then, whom I hope to send, just as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me here. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_24","080_2_24","PHP","2","24","24","And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself will follow. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_25","080_2_25","PHP","2","25","25","Still I think it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you now, for he is my dear friend, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and he was also your messenger to help me in my need. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_26","080_2_26","PHP","2","26","26","For he has been longing to see you all, and has been distressed because you heard of his illness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_27","080_2_27","PHP","2","27","27","And I can assure you that his illness very nearly proved fatal. But God had pity on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_28","080_2_28","PHP","2","28","28","I am all the more ready, therefore, to send him, so that the sight of him may revive your spirits and my own sorrow be lightened. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_29","080_2_29","PHP","2","29","29","Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such people in great honor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP2_30","080_2_30","PHP","2","30","30","For it was owing to his devotion to the Master’s work that he was at the point of death, having risked his own life in the effort to supply what was wanting in the help that you sent me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_1","080_3_1","PHP","3","1","1","In conclusion, my friends, may all joy be yours in your union with the Lord. To repeat what I have already written does not weary me, and is the safe course for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_2","080_3_2","PHP","3","2","2","Beware of those dogs! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_3","080_3_3","PHP","3","3","3","For it is we who are the circumcised – we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely on external privileges; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_4","080_3_4","PHP","3","4","4","though I, if anyone, have cause to rely even on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on external privileges, far more can I! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_5","080_3_5","PHP","3","5","5","I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by birth, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_6","080_3_6","PHP","3","6","6","as to zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_7","080_3_7","PHP","3","7","7","But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ’s sake, come to count as loss. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_8","080_3_8","PHP","3","8","8","More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as rubbish, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_9","080_3_9","PHP","3","9","9","any righteousness that I have being, not the righteousness that results from Law, but the righteousness which comes through faith in Christ – the righteousness which is derived from God and is founded on faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_10","080_3_10","PHP","3","10","10","Then indeed I will know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_11","080_3_11","PHP","3","11","11","in the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_12","080_3_12","PHP","3","12","12","Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_13","080_3_13","PHP","3","13","13","For I, friends, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do – forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_14","080_3_14","PHP","3","14","14","I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward call which God gave me through Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_15","080_3_15","PHP","3","15","15","Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think this way. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_16","080_3_16","PHP","3","16","16","Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_17","080_3_17","PHP","3","17","17","My friends, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_18","080_3_18","PHP","3","18","18","For there are many – of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears – who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_19","080_3_19","PHP","3","19","19","The end of such people is ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_20","080_3_20","PHP","3","20","20","But we are citizens of heaven, and from heaven we expect a savior to come, the Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP3_21","080_3_21","PHP","3","21","21","By the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, he will make our humble bodies like his glorious body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_1","080_4_1","PHP","4","1","1","So then, my dear friends, whom I am longing to see – you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_2","080_4_2","PHP","4","2","2","I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntyche, to live in harmony, in union with the Lord; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_3","080_4_3","PHP","4","3","3","yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the good news; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_4","080_4_4","PHP","4","4","4","All joy be yours at all times in your union with the Lord. Again I repeat – All joy be yours. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_5","080_4_5","PHP","4","5","5","Let your forbearing spirit be plain to everyone. The Lord is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_6","080_4_6","PHP","4","6","6","Do not be anxious about anything; but under all circumstances, by prayer and entreaty joined with thanksgiving, make your needs known to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_7","080_4_7","PHP","4","7","7","Then the peace of God, which is beyond all human understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and thoughts, through your union with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_8","080_4_8","PHP","4","8","8","In conclusion, friends, whenever you find things that are true or honorable, righteous or pure, lovable or praiseworthy, or if virtue and honor have any meaning, let them fill your thoughts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_9","080_4_9","PHP","4","9","9","All that you learned and received and heard and saw in me put into practice continually; and then God, the giver of peace, will be with you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_10","080_4_10","PHP","4","10","10","It was a matter of great joy to me, as one in union with the Lord, that at length your interest in me had revived. The interest indeed you had, but not the opportunity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_11","080_4_11","PHP","4","11","11","Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_12","080_4_12","PHP","4","12","12","I know how to face humble circumstances, and I know how to face prosperity. Into all and every human experience I have been initiated – into plenty and hunger, into prosperity and want. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_13","080_4_13","PHP","4","13","13","I can do everything through the strength of the one who makes me strong! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_14","080_4_14","PHP","4","14","14","Yet you have acted nobly in sharing my troubles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_15","080_4_15","PHP","4","15","15","And you at Philippi know, as well as I, that in the early days of the good news – at the time when I had just left Macedonia – no church, with the one exception of yourselves, had anything to do with me as far as giving and receiving are concerned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_16","080_4_16","PHP","4","16","16","Indeed, even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent more than once to relieve my wants. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_17","080_4_17","PHP","4","17","17","It is not that I am anxious for your gifts, but I am anxious to see the abundant return that will be placed to your account. I have enough of everything, and to spare. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_18","080_4_18","PHP","4","18","18","My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me – the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_19","080_4_19","PHP","4","19","19","And my God, out of the greatness of his wealth, will, in glory, fully satisfy your every need, through your union with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_20","080_4_20","PHP","4","20","20","To him, our God and Father, be ascribed all glory for every and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_21","080_4_21","PHP","4","21","21","Give my greeting to everyone of the people of Christ Jesus. The Lord’s followers who are with me send your their greetings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_22","080_4_22","PHP","4","22","22","All Christ’s people here, and especially those who belong to the Emperor’s household, send theirs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PP4_23","080_4_23","PHP","4","23","23","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ rest on your souls.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_1","081_1_1","COL","1","1","1"," From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, also a follower of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_2","081_1_2","COL","1","2","2","To Christ’s people at Colossae – the followers who are faithful to him: May God, our Father, bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_3","081_1_3","COL","1","3","3","Whenever we pray we never fail to thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_4","081_1_4","COL","1","4","4","now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_5","081_1_5","COL","1","5","5","because of the hope which is kept safe for you in heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true message of the good news which reached you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_6","081_1_6","COL","1","6","6","bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you from the very day that you heard of God’s loving kindness, and understood what that loving kindness really is. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_7","081_1_7","COL","1","7","7","It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_8","081_1_8","COL","1","8","8","and who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_9","081_1_9","COL","1","9","9","And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_10","081_1_10","COL","1","10","10","Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and grow into a fuller knowledge of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_11","081_1_11","COL","1","11","11","you will be made strong at all points with a strength worthy of the power manifested in his glory – strong to endure with patience, and even with gladness, whatever may happen to you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_12","081_1_12","COL","1","12","12","and you will give thanks to the Father who made you fit to share the lot which awaits Christ’s people in the realms of light. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_13","081_1_13","COL","1","13","13","For God has rescued us from the tyranny of darkness, and has removed us into the kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_14","081_1_14","COL","1","14","14","and through whom we have found deliverance in the forgiveness of our sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_15","081_1_15","COL","1","15","15","For Christ is the incarnation of the invisible God – firstborn and head of all creation; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_16","081_1_16","COL","1","16","16","for in him was created all that is in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible – angels and archangels and all the powers of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_17","081_1_17","COL","1","17","17","All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_18","081_1_18","COL","1","18","18","and he is the head of the church, which is his body. The firstborn from the dead, he is to the church the source of its life, that he, in all things, may stand first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_19","081_1_19","COL","1","19","19","For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should live, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_20","081_1_20","COL","1","20","20","and through him to reconcile all things to himself (making peace by the shedding of Christ’s blood offered on the cross) – whether on earth or in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_21","081_1_21","COL","1","21","21","And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_22","081_1_22","COL","1","22","22","but now he has reconciled you to himself by the sacrifice of Christ’s earthly body in death – it has pleased God that you should stand in his presence holy, pure, and blameless, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_23","081_1_23","COL","1","23","23","if only you remain true to your faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made an assistant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_24","081_1_24","COL","1","24","24","Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his body, the church; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_25","081_1_25","COL","1","25","25","of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the message of God in all its fulness – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_26","081_1_26","COL","1","26","26","that truth which has been hidden from former ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to God’s people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_27","081_1_27","COL","1","27","27","to whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles – ‘Christ among you! Your hope of glory!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_28","081_1_28","COL","1","28","28","This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning everyone, and instructing everyone, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing everyone into God’s presence perfected by union with Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL1_29","081_1_29","COL","1","29","29","It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_1","081_2_1","COL","2","1","1","I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ’s people at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_2","081_2_2","COL","2","2","2","in the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God’s hidden truth, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_3","081_2_3","COL","2","3","3","even Christ himself, in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_4","081_2_4","COL","2","4","4","I say this to prevent anyone from deceiving you by plausible arguments. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_5","081_2_5","COL","2","5","5","It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_6","081_2_6","COL","2","6","6","Since, therefore, you have received Jesus, the Christ, as your Lord, live your lives in union with him – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_7","081_2_7","COL","2","7","7","rooted in him, building up your characters through union with him, growing stronger through your faith, as you were taught, overflowing with faith and thanksgiving. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_8","081_2_8","COL","2","8","8","Take care that there is not someone who will carry you away by his ‘philosophy’ – a hollow sham! – following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_9","081_2_9","COL","2","9","9","For in Christ the Godhead in all its fulness dwells incarnate; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_10","081_2_10","COL","2","10","10","and, by your union with him, you also are filled with it. He is the head of all archangels and powers of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_11","081_2_11","COL","2","11","11","By your union with him you received a circumcision that was not performed by human hands, when you threw off the tyranny of the earthly body, and received the circumcision of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_12","081_2_12","COL","2","12","12","For in baptism you were buried with Christ; and in baptism you were also raised to life with him, through your faith in the omnipotence of God, who raised him from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_13","081_2_13","COL","2","13","13","And to you, who once were dead, by reason of your sins and your uncircumcised nature – to you God gave life in giving life to Christ! He pardoned all our sins! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_14","081_2_14","COL","2","14","14","He canceled the bond which stood against us – the bond that consisted of ordinances – and which was directly hostile to us! He has taken it out of our way by nailing it to the cross! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_15","081_2_15","COL","2","15","15","He rid himself of all the powers of evil, and held them up to open contempt, when he celebrated his triumph over them on the cross! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_16","081_2_16","COL","2","16","16","Do not, then, allow anyone to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_17","081_2_17","COL","2","17","17","These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_18","081_2_18","COL","2","18","18","Do not let anyone defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called ‘humility’ and angel-worship. Such a person busies themselves with their visions, and without reason are rendered conceited by their merely human intellect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_19","081_2_19","COL","2","19","19","They fail to maintain union with the head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and connexion of every part, grows with a divine growth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_20","081_2_20","COL","2","20","20","Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as if you still belonged to the world, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_21","081_2_21","COL","2","21","21","to such ordinances as ‘Do not handle, or taste, or touch’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_22","081_2_22","COL","2","22","22","For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL2_23","081_2_23","COL","2","23","23","Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called ‘humility,’ and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_1","081_3_1","COL","3","1","1","Since, therefore, you were raised to life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_2","081_3_2","COL","3","2","2","Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_3","081_3_3","COL","3","3","3","For you died, and your life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_4","081_3_4","COL","3","4","4","When the Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_5","081_3_5","COL","3","5","5","Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you – immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_6","081_3_6","COL","3","6","6","These are the things because of which the wrath of God comes, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_7","081_3_7","COL","3","7","7","and to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_8","081_3_8","COL","3","8","8","You, however, must now lay aside all such things – anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_9","081_3_9","COL","3","9","9","Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_10","081_3_10","COL","3","10","10","and clothe yourselves with that new self, which, as it gains in knowledge, is being constantly renewed in resemblance to him who made it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_11","081_3_11","COL","3","11","11","In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all! – and in all! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_12","081_3_12","COL","3","12","12","Therefore, as God’s people, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_13","081_3_13","COL","3","13","13","bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, forgiving one another freely. As the Master freely forgave you, so you must forgive one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_14","081_3_14","COL","3","14","14","Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the belt which makes all complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_15","081_3_15","COL","3","15","15","Let the peace that the Christ gives decide all doubts within your hearts; for you also were called to the enjoyment of peace as members of one body. And show yourselves thankful. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_16","081_3_16","COL","3","16","16","Let the message of the Christ be alive in your minds in all its wealth, bringing all wisdom with it. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, and hymns, and sacred songs, full of the loving kindness of God, lifting your hearts in song to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_17","081_3_17","COL","3","17","17","And, whatever you say or do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus; and through him offer thanksgiving to God the father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_18","081_3_18","COL","3","18","18","Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_19","081_3_19","COL","3","19","19","Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_20","081_3_20","COL","3","20","20","Children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_21","081_3_21","COL","3","21","21","Fathers, never irritate your children, otherwise they might become disheartened. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_22","081_3_22","COL","3","22","22","Slaves, always obey your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had but to please people alone, but giving them ungrudging service, in your respect for the Master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_23","081_3_23","COL","3","23","23","Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as if working for the Master and not for people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_24","081_3_24","COL","3","24","24","since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your reward. You are serving Christ, the Master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL3_25","081_3_25","COL","3","25","25","Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_1","081_4_1","COL","4","1","1","Masters, do what is right and fair by your slaves, for you know that you also have a Master – in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_2","081_4_2","COL","4","2","2","Devote yourselves to prayer. Give your whole mind to it, and also offer thanksgiving; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_3","081_4_3","COL","4","3","3","and at the same time pray for us, so that God may give us an opening for our message, so that we may speak of the truths hidden in the Christ – the truths for which I am in chains! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_4","081_4_4","COL","4","4","4","Then I will make them known, as I ought to do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_5","081_4_5","COL","4","5","5","Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_6","081_4_6","COL","4","6","6","Let your conversation always be kindly, but not bland, season it, as it were, with salt; be aware in each case of the answer you should be giving. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_7","081_4_7","COL","4","7","7","Our dear friend, Tychicus, will tell you all about me. He is a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Master’s cause. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_8","081_4_8","COL","4","8","8","I send him to you expressly that you may learn our circumstances, and that he may give you encouragement. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_9","081_4_9","COL","4","9","9","With him will be Onesimus, our dear faithful friend, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you all that is going on here. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_10","081_4_10","COL","4","10","10","My fellow prisoner, Aristarchus, sends you his greeting, and Barnabas’s cousin, Mark, sends his. (You have received directions about him. If he comes to you, make him welcome.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_11","081_4_11","COL","4","11","11","Joshua, who is called Justus, also sends his greeting. These are the only converts from Judaism who have worked with me for the kingdom of God; I have found them a great comfort. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_12","081_4_12","COL","4","12","12","Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God’s will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_13","081_4_13","COL","4","13","13","I can bear testimony to the deep interest he takes in you, as well as in the followers at Laodicea and at Hierapolis. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_14","081_4_14","COL","4","14","14","Luke, our dear doctor, sends you his greeting, and Demas sends his. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_15","081_4_15","COL","4","15","15","Give my greeting to the followers at Laodicea, and to Nymphe, and to the church that meets at her house. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_16","081_4_16","COL","4","16","16","And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read before the church at Laodicea, and that you yourselves read the letter which will be forwarded from there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_17","081_4_17","COL","4","17","17","Give this message to Archippus – ‘Take care to discharge to the best of your ability the office to which you were appointed in the Master’s cause.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("CL4_18","081_4_18","COL","4","18","18","I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting. Remember these chains of mine. God’s blessing be with you.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_1","082_1_1","1TH","1","1","1"," To the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, from Paul, Silas, and Timothy. May God bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_2","082_1_2","1TH","1","2","2","We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_3","082_1_3","1TH","1","3","3","recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_4","082_1_4","1TH","1","4","4","Friends, whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_5","082_1_5","1TH","1","5","5","because the good news that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_6","082_1_6","1TH","1","6","6","And you yourselves began to follow, not only our example, but the Master’s also; and, in spite of much suffering, you welcomed the message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_7","082_1_7","1TH","1","7","7","and so became a pattern to all who believed in Christ throughout Macedonia and Greece. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_8","082_1_8","1TH","1","8","8","For it was from you that the Lord’s message resounded throughout Macedonia and Greece; and, more than that, your faith in God has become known far and wide; so that there is no need for us to say another word. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_9","082_1_9","1TH","1","9","9","Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H11_10","082_1_10","1TH","1","10","10","and are now awaiting the return from heaven of his Son whom he raised from the dead – Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_1","082_2_1","1TH","2","1","1","Yes, friends, you yourselves know that your reception of us was not without result. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_2","082_2_2","1TH","2","2","2","For, although we had experienced suffering and ill treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God’s good news in spite of great opposition. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_3","082_2_3","1TH","2","3","3","Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_4","082_2_4","1TH","2","4","4","But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the good news, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not people, but God who proves our hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_5","082_2_5","1TH","2","5","5","Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_6","082_2_6","1TH","2","6","6","Nor did we seek to win honor from people, whether from you or from others, although, as apostles of Christ, we might have burdened you with our support. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_7","082_2_7","1TH","2","7","7","But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_8","082_2_8","1TH","2","8","8","In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God’s good news, but our lives as well – so dear had you become to us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_9","082_2_9","1TH","2","9","9","You will not have forgotten, friends, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_10","082_2_10","1TH","2","10","10","You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_11","082_2_11","1TH","2","11","11","Indeed, you know that, like a father with his own children, we used to encourage and comfort every one of you, and solemnly plead with you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_12","082_2_12","1TH","2","12","12","so that you should make your daily lives worthy of God who is calling you into the glory of his kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_13","082_2_13","1TH","2","13","13","This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God – because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of humans, but as what it really is – the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_14","082_2_14","1TH","2","14","14","For you, friends, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow citizens, in the same way as those churches did at the hands of their people – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_15","082_2_15","1TH","2","15","15","who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all humanity, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_16","082_2_16","1TH","2","16","16","for they try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation, and so are always filling up the measure of their iniquity. But the wrath of God has come upon them to the full! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_17","082_2_17","1TH","2","17","17","As for ourselves, friends, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time – though in body only, and not in spirit – made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong on us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_18","082_2_18","1TH","2","18","18","That was why we made up our minds to go and see you – at least I, Paul, did, more than once – but Satan put difficulties in our way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_19","082_2_19","1TH","2","19","19","For what hope or joy will be ours, or what crown will we have to boast of, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming, if it isn’t you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H12_20","082_2_20","1TH","2","20","20","You are our pride and our delight! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_1","082_3_1","1TH","3","1","1","And so, as we could bear it no longer, we made up our minds to remain behind alone at Athens, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_2","082_3_2","1TH","3","2","2","and sent Timothy, our dear friend and God’s minister of the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_3","082_3_3","1TH","3","3","3","so that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_4","082_3_4","1TH","3","4","4","For, even while we were with you, we warned you beforehand that we were certain to encounter trouble. And so it proved, as you know. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_5","082_3_5","1TH","3","5","5","Therefore, since I could no longer endure the uncertainty, I sent to make inquiries about your faith, fearing that the Tempter had tempted you, and that our toil might prove to have been in vain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_6","082_3_6","1TH","3","6","6","But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us – always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_7","082_3_7","1TH","3","7","7","on hearing this, we felt encouraged about you, friends, in the midst of all our difficulties and troubles, by your faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_8","082_3_8","1TH","3","8","8","For it is new life to us to know that you are holding fast to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_9","082_3_9","1TH","3","9","9","How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_10","082_3_10","1TH","3","10","10","Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face, and make good any deficiency in your faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_11","082_3_11","1TH","3","11","11","May our God and Father himself, and Jesus, our Lord, make the way plain for us to come to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_12","082_3_12","1TH","3","12","12","And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for everyone, just as we are filled with love for you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H13_13","082_3_13","1TH","3","13","13","and so make your hearts strong, and your lives pure beyond reproach, in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his Holy Ones. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_1","082_4_1","1TH","4","1","1","Further, friends, we beg and urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever – as indeed you are already doing – all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_2","082_4_2","1TH","4","2","2","For you have not forgotten the directions that we gave you on the authority of our Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_3","082_4_3","1TH","4","3","3","For this is God’s purpose – that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_4","082_4_4","1TH","4","4","4","each of you learning to gain control over your own body, in a way that is holy and honorable, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_5","082_4_5","1TH","4","5","5","and not for the mere gratification of your passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_6","082_4_6","1TH","4","6","6","none of you overreaching or taking advantage of their fellow follower of the Lord in such matters. The Lord takes vengeance on all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_7","082_4_7","1TH","4","7","7","For God does not call us to an impure life, but demands holiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_8","082_4_8","1TH","4","8","8","Therefore the person who disregards this warning disregards, not people, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_9","082_4_9","1TH","4","9","9","As to love for each other there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_10","082_4_10","1TH","4","10","10","and indeed you do act in this spirit towards all his people throughout Macedonia. Yet, friends, we beg you to do even more. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_11","082_4_11","1TH","4","11","11","Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_12","082_4_12","1TH","4","12","12","so that your conduct may win respect from those outside the church, and that you may not want for anything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_13","082_4_13","1TH","4","13","13","We don’t want you to be ignorant, friends, about those who have passed to their rest. We don’t want you to grieve like other people who have no hope. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_14","082_4_14","1TH","4","14","14","For, as we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring, with Jesus, those who through him have passed to their rest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_15","082_4_15","1TH","4","15","15","This we tell you on the authority of the Lord – that those of us who are still living at the coming of the Lord will not anticipate those who have passed to their rest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_16","082_4_16","1TH","4","16","16","For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_17","082_4_17","1TH","4","17","17","Then those who died in union with Christ will rise first; and afterward we who are still living will be caught up in the clouds, with them, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be for ever with the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H14_18","082_4_18","1TH","4","18","18","Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_1","082_5_1","1TH","5","1","1","But as to the times and the moments, there is no need, friends, for anyone to write to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_2","082_5_2","1TH","5","2","2","You yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come just as a thief comes in the night. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_3","082_5_3","1TH","5","3","3","When people are saying ‘All is quiet and safe,’ it is then that, like birth pains on a pregnant woman, ruin comes suddenly upon them, and there will be no escape! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_4","082_5_4","1TH","5","4","4","You, however, friends, are not in darkness, that the daylight should take you by surprise as if you were thieves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_5","082_5_5","1TH","5","5","5","For you all are children of light and children of the day. We have nothing to do with night, or darkness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_6","082_5_6","1TH","5","6","6","Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_7","082_5_7","1TH","5","7","7","It is at night that people sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_8","082_5_8","1TH","5","8","8","But let us, who belong to the day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_9","082_5_9","1TH","5","9","9","For God destined us, not for wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_10","082_5_10","1TH","5","10","10","that, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_11","082_5_11","1TH","5","11","11","Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another’s characters, as indeed you are doing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_12","082_5_12","1TH","5","12","12","We beg you, friends, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord’s service, and give you counsel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_13","082_5_13","1TH","5","13","13","Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_14","082_5_14","1TH","5","14","14","We entreat you also, friends – warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with everyone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_15","082_5_15","1TH","5","15","15","Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with everyone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_16","082_5_16","1TH","5","16","16","Always be joyful; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_17","082_5_17","1TH","5","17","17","never cease to pray; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_18","082_5_18","1TH","5","18","18","under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_19","082_5_19","1TH","5","19","19","Do not quench the Spirit; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_20","082_5_20","1TH","5","20","20","do not make light of preaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_21","082_5_21","1TH","5","21","21","Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_22","082_5_22","1TH","5","22","22","shun every form of evil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_23","082_5_23","1TH","5","23","23","May God himself, the giver of peace, make you altogether holy; and may your spirits, souls, and bodies be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_24","082_5_24","1TH","5","24","24","He who calls you will not fail you; he will complete his work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_25","082_5_25","1TH","5","25","25","Friends, pray for us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_26","082_5_26","1TH","5","26","26","Greet all the Lord’s followers with a sacred kiss. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_27","082_5_27","1TH","5","27","27","I order you in the Lord’s name to have this letter read to all the brethren. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H15_28","082_5_28","1TH","5","28","28","May the blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_1","083_1_1","2TH","1","1","1"," To the Thessalonian church in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, From Paul, Silas, and Timothy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_2","083_1_2","2TH","1","2","2","May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_3","083_1_3","2TH","1","3","3","Friends, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_4","083_1_4","2TH","1","4","4","So much is this the case that we ourselves speak with pride, before the churches of God, of the patience and faith which you have shown, in spite of all the persecutions and troubles that you are enduring. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_5","083_1_5","2TH","1","5","5","These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God’s judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God’s kingdom, for the sake of which you are now suffering; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_6","083_1_6","2TH","1","6","6","since God deems it just to inflict suffering on those who are now inflicting suffering on you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_7","083_1_7","2TH","1","7","7","and to give relief to you who are suffering, as well as to us, at the appearing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_8","083_1_8","2TH","1","8","8","Then he will inflict punishment on those who refuse to know God, and on those who turn a deaf ear to the good news of Jesus, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_9","083_1_9","2TH","1","9","9","They will pay the penalty of unutterable ruin – banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glorious manifestation of his might, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_10","083_1_10","2TH","1","10","10","when he comes to be honored in his people, and to be revered in all who have learned to believe in him (for you also believed our testimony) – as he will be on that day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_11","083_1_11","2TH","1","11","11","With this in view, our constant prayer for you is that our God may count you worthy of the call that you have received, and by his power make perfect your delight in all goodness and the efforts that have resulted from your faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H21_12","083_1_12","2TH","1","12","12","Then, in the loving kindness of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, will the name of Jesus, our Lord, be honored in you, and you in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_1","083_2_1","2TH","2","1","1","As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered to meet him, we beg you, friends, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_2","083_2_2","2TH","2","2","2","not lightly to let your minds become unsettled or disturbed by any revelation, or by any message or letter purporting to come from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_3","083_2_3","2TH","2","3","3","Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For it will not come before the final rebellion against God, when lawlessness is revealed in human form, headed for destruction. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_4","083_2_4","2TH","2","4","4","He is the adversary of everything that is spoken of as a god or as an object of worship, enthroning himself in God’s Temple claiming to be God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_5","083_2_5","2TH","2","5","5","Don’t you remember how, when I was with you, I used to speak to you of all this? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_6","083_2_6","2TH","2","6","6","And you know now what the restraining influence is which prevents his appearing before his appointed time. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_7","083_2_7","2TH","2","7","7","Wickedness, indeed, is already at work in secret, but only until he who at present restrains it is removed out of the way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_8","083_2_8","2TH","2","8","8","Then the lawless person will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth, annihilate him by the splendor of his coming. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_9","083_2_9","2TH","2","9","9","When the lawless person comes, there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_10","083_2_10","2TH","2","10","10","to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the truth to their own salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_11","083_2_11","2TH","2","11","11","That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_12","083_2_12","2TH","2","12","12","so that sentence may be passed on all those who refuse to believe the truth, but delight in wickedness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_13","083_2_13","2TH","2","13","13","But, friends, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_14","083_2_14","2TH","2","14","14","To this you were called by the good news which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_15","083_2_15","2TH","2","15","15","Stand firm then, friends, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_16","083_2_16","2TH","2","16","16","And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and, in his loving kindness, gave us unfailing consolation and good ground for hope, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H22_17","083_2_17","2TH","2","17","17","console your hearts, and strengthen you to do and to say all that is right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_1","083_3_1","2TH","3","1","1","In conclusion, friends, pray for us – pray that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly, and be received everywhere with honor, as it was among you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_2","083_3_2","2TH","3","2","2","and that we may be preserved from wrong-headed and wicked people – for it is not everyone who believes in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_3","083_3_3","2TH","3","3","3","But the Lord will not fail you. He will give you strength, and guard you from evil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_4","083_3_4","2TH","3","4","4","Yes, and the confidence that our union with the Lord enables us to place in you leads us to believe that you are doing, and will do, what we direct you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_5","083_3_5","2TH","3","5","5","May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_6","083_3_6","2TH","3","6","6","We beg you, friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any follower who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_7","083_3_7","2TH","3","7","7","For you know well that you ought to follow our example. When we were with you, our life was not ill-ordered, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_8","083_3_8","2TH","3","8","8","nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it. Night and day, laboring and toiling, we used to work at our trades, so as not to be a burden on any of you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_9","083_3_9","2TH","3","9","9","This was not because we had not a right to receive support, but our object was to give you a pattern for you to copy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_10","083_3_10","2TH","3","10","10","Indeed, when we were with you, the rule we laid down was – ‘Whoever does not choose to work will not get to eat.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_11","083_3_11","2TH","3","11","11","We hear that there are among you people who are living ill-ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busybodies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_12","083_3_12","2TH","3","12","12","All such people we beg, and implore, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to attend quietly to their business, and earn their own living. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_13","083_3_13","2TH","3","13","13","You, friends, must not grow weary of doing what is right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_14","083_3_14","2TH","3","14","14","If anyone disregards what we have said in this letter, take note of them and avoid their company, so that they may feel ashamed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_15","083_3_15","2TH","3","15","15","Yet do not think of them as an enemy, but caution them as you would a brother or sister. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_16","083_3_16","2TH","3","16","16","May the Lord, from whom all peace comes, himself give you his peace at all times and in all ways. May he be with you all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_17","083_3_17","2TH","3","17","17","I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting. It is my signature to every letter. This is how I write. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("H23_18","083_3_18","2TH","3","18","18","May the blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_1","084_1_1","1TI","1","1","1"," From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our hope. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_2","084_1_2","1TI","1","2","2","To Timothy, my true child in the faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_3","084_1_3","1TI","1","3","3","I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; so that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_4","084_1_4","1TI","1","4","4","nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_5","084_1_5","1TI","1","5","5","The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_6","084_1_6","1TI","1","6","6","And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_7","084_1_7","1TI","1","7","7","They want to be teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_8","084_1_8","1TI","1","8","8","We know, of course, that the Law is excellent, when used legitimately, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_9","084_1_9","1TI","1","9","9","by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good people, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_10","084_1_10","1TI","1","10","10","for the immoral, for perverts, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_11","084_1_11","1TI","1","11","11","as is taught in the glorious good news of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_12","084_1_12","1TI","1","12","12","I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_13","084_1_13","1TI","1","13","13","though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_14","084_1_14","1TI","1","14","14","and the loving kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_15","084_1_15","1TI","1","15","15","How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’! And there is no greater sinner than I! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_16","084_1_16","1TI","1","16","16","Yet mercy was shown me for the express purpose that Christ Jesus might exhibit in my case, beyond all others, his exhaustless patience, as an example for those who were afterward to believe on him and attain eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_17","084_1_17","1TI","1","17","17","To the eternal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_18","084_1_18","1TI","1","18","18","This, then, is the charge that I lay on you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with what was predicted of you – Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_19","084_1_19","1TI","1","19","19","with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the faith, some have wrecked their lives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T11_20","084_1_20","1TI","1","20","20","Hymenaeus and Alexander are instances – the men whom I delivered over to Satan so that they might be taught not to blaspheme. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_1","084_2_1","1TI","2","1","1","First of all, then, I ask that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be offered for everyone, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_2","084_2_2","1TI","2","2","2","especially for kings and all who are in high positions, in order that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in a deeply religious and reverent spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_3","084_2_3","1TI","2","3","3","This will be good and acceptable in the eyes of God, our Savior, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_4","084_2_4","1TI","2","4","4","whose will is that everyone should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_5","084_2_5","1TI","2","5","5","There is but one God, and one mediator between God and humanity – the human, Christ Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_6","084_2_6","1TI","2","6","6","who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all. This must be our testimony, as opportunities present themselves; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_7","084_2_7","1TI","2","7","7","and it was for this that I was myself appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie) – a teacher of the Gentiles in the faith and truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_8","084_2_8","1TI","2","8","8","My desire, then, is that it should be the custom everywhere for the men to lead the prayers, with hands reverently uplifted, avoiding heated controversy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_9","084_2_9","1TI","2","9","9","I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_10","084_2_10","1TI","2","10","10","but – as is proper for women who profess to be religious – with good actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_11","084_2_11","1TI","2","11","11","They must learn, listening quietly to their teachers and showing them all deference. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_12","084_2_12","1TI","2","12","12","I do not consent to them becoming teachers, or exercising authority over men; they ought to not make a fuss. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_13","084_2_13","1TI","2","13","13","Adam was formed first, not Eve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_14","084_2_14","1TI","2","14","14","And it was not Adam who was deceived; it was the woman who was entirely deceived and fell into sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T12_15","084_2_15","1TI","2","15","15","But she will be saved by the birth of a child, if they never abandon faith, love, or holiness, and behave with modesty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_1","084_3_1","1TI","3","1","1","How true is this saying: ‘To aspire to be to be a supervisor in the church is to be ambitious for a noble task.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_2","084_3_2","1TI","3","2","2","The supervisor should be of blameless character; a faithful partner; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_3","084_3_3","1TI","3","3","3","not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_4","084_3_4","1TI","3","4","4","they should provide for their own household well, and their children should kept under control and be well-behaved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_5","084_3_5","1TI","3","5","5","If someone does not know how to provide for their own household, how can they take charge of the church of God? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_6","084_3_6","1TI","3","6","6","The supervisor should not be a recent convert, or they might become blinded by pride and fall under the same judgment as the devil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_7","084_3_7","1TI","3","7","7","They should also be well spoken of by outsiders, so that they may not incur censure and so fall into the devil’s trap. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_8","084_3_8","1TI","3","8","8","So, too, assistants should be serious and straightforward, not given to taking much drink or to questionable money-making, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_9","084_3_9","1TI","3","9","9","but people who hold the deep truths of the faith and have a clear conscience. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_10","084_3_10","1TI","3","10","10","They should be tested first, and only appointed to their office if no objection is raised against them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_11","084_3_11","1TI","3","11","11","It should be the same with the women in this office. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_12","084_3_12","1TI","3","12","12","Assistants should be faithful partners who manage their children and their households well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_13","084_3_13","1TI","3","13","13","Those who have filled that post with honor gain for themselves an honorable position, as well as great confidence through the faith that they place in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_14","084_3_14","1TI","3","14","14","I am writing this to you, though I hope that I will come to see you before long; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_15","084_3_15","1TI","3","15","15","but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know what your conduct ought to be in the household of God, which is the church of the living God – the pillar and stay of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T13_16","084_3_16","1TI","3","16","16","Yes, and undeniably wonderful are the deep truths of our religion; for – ‘He was revealed in our nature, pronounced righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_1","084_4_1","1TI","4","1","1","But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_2","084_4_2","1TI","4","2","2","who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These people’s consciences are seared, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_3","084_4_3","1TI","4","3","3","and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the faith and have attained a full knowledge of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_4","084_4_4","1TI","4","4","4","Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected – provided only that it is received thankfully; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_5","084_4_5","1TI","4","5","5","for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_6","084_4_6","1TI","4","6","6","Put all this before the followers, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the faith and of that good teaching by which you have guided your life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_7","084_4_7","1TI","4","7","7","As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_8","084_4_8","1TI","4","8","8","for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of life both here and hereafter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_9","084_4_9","1TI","4","9","9","How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_10","084_4_10","1TI","4","10","10","With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the living God, who is the Savior of all, and especially of those who hold the faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_11","084_4_11","1TI","4","11","11","Remember these things in your teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_12","084_4_12","1TI","4","12","12","Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_13","084_4_13","1TI","4","13","13","Until I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_14","084_4_14","1TI","4","14","14","Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the church elders were laid on your head. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_15","084_4_15","1TI","4","15","15","Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to everyone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T14_16","084_4_16","1TI","4","16","16","Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_1","084_5_1","1TI","5","1","1","Do not reprimand an older man, but plead with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_2","084_5_2","1TI","5","2","2","the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters – with all purity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_3","084_5_3","1TI","5","3","3","Show consideration for widows – I mean those who are really widowed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_4","084_5_4","1TI","5","4","4","But, if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should learn to show proper regard for the members of their own family first, and to make some return to their parents; for that is pleasing in God’s sight. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_5","084_5_5","1TI","5","5","5","As for the woman who is really widowed and left quite alone, her hopes are fixed on God, and she devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_6","084_5_6","1TI","5","6","6","But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_7","084_5_7","1TI","5","7","7","Those are the points you should teach, so that there may be no call for your censure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_8","084_5_8","1TI","5","8","8","Anyone who fails to provide for their own relatives, and especially for those under their own roof, has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_9","084_5_9","1TI","5","9","9","A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_10","084_5_10","1TI","5","10","10","and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_11","084_5_11","1TI","5","11","11","But you should exclude the younger widows from the list; for, when they grow restive under the yoke of the Christ, they want to marry, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_12","084_5_12","1TI","5","12","12","and so they bring condemnation on themselves for having broken their previous promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_13","084_5_13","1TI","5","13","13","And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busybodies, and talk of what they ought not. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_14","084_5_14","1TI","5","14","14","Therefore I advise young widows to marry, bear children, and attend to their homes, and so avoid giving the enemy an opportunity for scandal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_15","084_5_15","1TI","5","15","15","There are some who have already left us, to follow Satan. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_16","084_5_16","1TI","5","16","16","Any Christian woman, who has relatives who are widows, ought to relieve them and not allow them to become a burden to the church, so that the church may relieve those widows who are really widowed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_17","084_5_17","1TI","5","17","17","Those church elders who fill their office well should be held deserving of especial consideration, particularly those whose work lies in preaching and teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_18","084_5_18","1TI","5","18","18","The words of scripture are – ‘You should not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain.’ and again – ‘The worker is worth their wages.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_19","084_5_19","1TI","5","19","19","Do not entertain a charge against an church elder, unless it is supported by two or three witnesses; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_20","084_5_20","1TI","5","20","20","but rebuke offenders publicly, so that others may take warning. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_21","084_5_21","1TI","5","21","21","I charge you solemnly, before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, to carry out these directions, unswayed by prejudice, never acting with partiality. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_22","084_5_22","1TI","5","22","22","Never ordain anyone hastily, and take no part in the wrongdoing of others. Keep your life pure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_23","084_5_23","1TI","5","23","23","Do not continue to drink water only, but take a little wine because of the weakness of your stomach, and your frequent ailments. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_24","084_5_24","1TI","5","24","24","There are some people whose sins are conspicuous and lead on to judgment, while there are others whose sins dog their steps. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T15_25","084_5_25","1TI","5","25","25","In the same way noble deeds become conspicuous, and those which are otherwise cannot be concealed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_1","084_6_1","1TI","6","1","1","All who are in the position of slaves should regard their masters as deserving of the greatest respect, so that the name of God, and our teaching, may not be maligned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_2","084_6_2","1TI","6","2","2","Those who have Christian masters should not think less of them because they are also followers of Christ, but on the contrary they should serve them all the better, because those who are to benefit by their good work are dear to them as their fellow Christians. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_3","084_6_3","1TI","6","3","3","Anyone who teaches otherwise, and refuses their assent to sound instruction – the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ – and to the teaching of religion, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_4","084_6_4","1TI","6","4","4","is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_5","084_6_5","1TI","6","5","5","and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_6","084_6_6","1TI","6","6","6","Of course religion is a great source of gain – when combined with contentment! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_7","084_6_7","1TI","6","7","7","For we brought nothing into the world, because we cannot even carry anything out of it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_8","084_6_8","1TI","6","8","8","So, with food and shelter, we will be content. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_9","084_6_9","1TI","6","9","9","Those who want to be rich fall into the net of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into destruction and ruin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_10","084_6_10","1TI","6","10","10","Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_11","084_6_11","1TI","6","11","11","But you must, servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_12","084_6_12","1TI","6","12","12","Run the great race of the faith, and win the eternal life. It was for this that you received the call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_13","084_6_13","1TI","6","13","13","I beg you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of faith – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_14","084_6_14","1TI","6","14","14","I implore you to keep his command free from stain or reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_15","084_6_15","1TI","6","15","15","This will be brought about in his own time by the one ever-blessed Potentate, the king of all kings and Lord of all lords, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_16","084_6_16","1TI","6","16","16","who alone is possessed of immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or ever can see – to whom be ascribed honor and power for ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_17","084_6_17","1TI","6","17","17","Teach those who are wealthy in this life not to pride themselves, or fix their hopes, on so uncertain a thing as wealth, but on God, who gives us a wealth of enjoyment on every side. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_18","084_6_18","1TI","6","18","18","Teach them to show kindness, to exhibit a wealth of good actions, to be open-handed and generous, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_19","084_6_19","1TI","6","19","19","storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, so that they may gain the only true life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_20","084_6_20","1TI","6","20","20","Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall ‘theology,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T16_21","084_6_21","1TI","6","21","21","for there are those who, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet, as regards the faith, gone altogether astray. God bless you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_1","085_1_1","2TI","1","1","1"," From Paul who, by the will of God, is an apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the life that comes from union with Christ Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_2","085_1_2","2TI","1","2","2","to Timothy, my dear child: may God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_3","085_1_3","2TI","1","3","3","I am thankful to God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I never fail to do, in my prayers – night and day alike, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_4","085_1_4","2TI","1","4","4","as I think of your tears, longing to see you, that my happiness may be completed, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_5","085_1_5","2TI","1","5","5","now that I have been reminded of the sincere faith that you have shown. That faith was seen first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and is now, I am convinced, in you also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_6","085_1_6","2TI","1","6","6","And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_7","085_1_7","2TI","1","7","7","For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_8","085_1_8","2TI","1","8","8","Do not, therefore, be ashamed of the testimony which we have to bear to our Lord, or of me imprisoned for his sake; but join with me in suffering for the good news, as far as God enables you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_9","085_1_9","2TI","1","9","9","It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn call – not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_10","085_1_10","2TI","1","10","10","and has now been made apparent through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus; who has made an end of death, and has brought life and immortality to light by that good news, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_11","085_1_11","2TI","1","11","11","of which I was myself appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_12","085_1_12","2TI","1","12","12","That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_13","085_1_13","2TI","1","13","13","Keep before you, as an example of sound teaching, all that you learnt from me as you listened with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_14","085_1_14","2TI","1","14","14","Guard by the help of the Holy Spirit, who is within us, the glorious trust that has been committed to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_15","085_1_15","2TI","1","15","15","You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, including Phygellus and Hermogenes. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_16","085_1_16","2TI","1","16","16","May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus; for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chains. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_17","085_1_17","2TI","1","17","17","On the contrary, when he arrived in Rome, he sought eagerly for me until he found me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T21_18","085_1_18","2TI","1","18","18","The Lord grant that he may find mercy at the hands of the Lord on that day. The many services that he rendered at Ephesus you have the best means of knowing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_1","085_2_1","2TI","2","1","1","You must, then, my child, find strength in the help which comes from the union with Christ Jesus; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_2","085_2_2","2TI","2","2","2","and what you learnt from me, in the presence of many listeners, entrust to reliable people, who will be able in their turn to teach others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_3","085_2_3","2TI","2","3","3","Share hardships with me, as a true soldier of Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_4","085_2_4","2TI","2","4","4","A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_5","085_2_5","2TI","2","5","5","No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless they have kept the rules. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_6","085_2_6","2TI","2","6","6","The laborer who does the work should be the first to receive a share of the fruits of the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_7","085_2_7","2TI","2","7","7","Reflect on what I say; the Lord will always help you to understand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_8","085_2_8","2TI","2","8","8","Keep before your mind Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as told in the good news entrusted to me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_9","085_2_9","2TI","2","9","9","in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the message of God is not fettered; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_10","085_2_10","2TI","2","10","10","and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God’s people: so that they also may obtain the salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_11","085_2_11","2TI","2","11","11","How true this saying is – ‘If we have shared his death, we will also share his life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_12","085_2_12","2TI","2","12","12","If we continue to endure, we will also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_13","085_2_13","2TI","2","13","13","If we lose our trust, he is still to be trusted, for he cannot be false to himself!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_14","085_2_14","2TI","2","14","14","Remind people of all this; tell them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_15","085_2_15","2TI","2","15","15","Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a worker with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the message of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_16","085_2_16","2TI","2","16","16","Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_17","085_2_17","2TI","2","17","17","and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_18","085_2_18","2TI","2","18","18","They have gone completely astray as regards the truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people’s faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_19","085_2_19","2TI","2","19","19","Yet God’s firm foundation still stands unmoved, and it bears this inscription – ‘THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS’; and this – ‘LET ALL THOSE WHO USE THE NAME OF THE LORD TURN AWAY FROM WICKEDNESS.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_20","085_2_20","2TI","2","20","20","Now in a large house there are not only things of gold and silver, but also others of wood and earthenware, some for better and some for common use. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_21","085_2_21","2TI","2","21","21","If, then, a person has escaped from the pollution of such errors as I have mentioned, they will be like a thing kept for better use, set apart, serviceable to its owner, ready for any good purpose. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_22","085_2_22","2TI","2","22","22","Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_23","085_2_23","2TI","2","23","23","Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_24","085_2_24","2TI","2","24","24","and a servant of the Lord should never quarrel. They ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to everyone, skillful teachers, and forbearing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_25","085_2_25","2TI","2","25","25","They should instruct their opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give those opponents a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of truth, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T22_26","085_2_26","2TI","2","26","26","and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the devil’s net, when captured by the Lord’s servant to do the will of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_1","085_3_1","2TI","3","1","1","Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_4","085_3_4","2TI","3","4","4","treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_5","085_3_5","2TI","3","5","5","and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such people as these. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_6","085_3_6","2TI","3","6","6","For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women – women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_7","085_3_7","2TI","3","7","7","are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_8","085_3_8","2TI","3","8","8","Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the faith, they are utterly worthless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_9","085_3_9","2TI","3","9","9","They will not, however, make further progress; for their wicked folly will be plain to everyone, just as the folly Jannes and Jambres was. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_10","085_3_10","2TI","3","10","10","But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_11","085_3_11","2TI","3","11","11","as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_12","085_3_12","2TI","3","12","12","Yes, and all who aim at living a religious life in union with Christ Jesus will have to suffer persecution; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_13","085_3_13","2TI","3","13","13","but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_14","085_3_14","2TI","3","14","14","You, however, must stand by what you learnt and accepted as true. You know who they were from whom you learnt it; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_15","085_3_15","2TI","3","15","15","and that, from your childhood, you have known the sacred writings, which can give you the wisdom that, through belief in Christ Jesus, leads to salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_16","085_3_16","2TI","3","16","16","All scripture is God-breathed: helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T23_17","085_3_17","2TI","3","17","17","so that God’s people may be capable and equipped for good work of every kind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_1","085_4_1","2TI","4","1","1","I solemnly charge you – in the sight of God and of Christ Jesus, who will one day judge the living and the dead – I charge you by his appearing and by his kingdom: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_2","085_4_2","2TI","4","2","2","Proclaim the message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_3","085_4_3","2TI","4","3","3","For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_4","085_4_4","2TI","4","4","4","They will turn a deaf ear to the truth, and give their attention to legends instead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_5","085_4_5","2TI","4","5","5","But you, Timothy, must always be temperate. Face hardships; do the work of a missionary; discharge all the duties of your office. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_6","085_4_6","2TI","4","6","6","As for me, my life blood is already being poured out; the time of my departure is close at hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_7","085_4_7","2TI","4","7","7","I have run the great race; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_8","085_4_8","2TI","4","8","8","And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will give me on that day – and not only to me, but to all who have loved his appearing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_9","085_4_9","2TI","4","9","9","Do your utmost to come to me soon, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_10","085_4_10","2TI","4","10","10","for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_11","085_4_11","2TI","4","11","11","There is no one but Luke with me. Pick up Mark on your way, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in my work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_12","085_4_12","2TI","4","12","12","I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_13","085_4_13","2TI","4","13","13","Bring with you, when you come, the cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_14","085_4_14","2TI","4","14","14","Alexander, the coppersmith, showed much ill feeling towards me. The Lord will give him what his actions deserve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_15","085_4_15","2TI","4","15","15","You must also be on your guard against him, for he is strongly opposed to our teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_16","085_4_16","2TI","4","16","16","At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_17","085_4_17","2TI","4","17","17","But the Lord came to my help and strengthened me, in order that, through me, the proclamation should be made so widely that all the Gentiles should hear it; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_18","085_4_18","2TI","4","18","18","The Lord will rescue me from all evil, and bring me safe into his Heavenly kingdom. All glory to him for ever and ever! Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_19","085_4_19","2TI","4","19","19","Give my greeting to Prisca and Aquila, and to the household of Onesiphorus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_20","085_4_20","2TI","4","20","20","Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Thophimus ill at Miletus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_21","085_4_21","2TI","4","21","21","Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia send you their greetings, and so do the rest of the Lord’s followers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("T24_22","085_4_22","2TI","4","22","22","May the Lord be with your soul. God bless you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_1","086_1_1","TIT","1","1","1"," From Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, on behalf of the faith of God’s chosen people, and their knowledge of that truth which makes for godliness ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_2","086_1_2","TIT","1","2","2","– and is based on the hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_3","086_1_3","TIT","1","3","3","and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the preaching of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_4","086_1_4","TIT","1","4","4","To Titus, my true child in our shared faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_5","086_1_5","TIT","1","5","5","My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unfinished, and appoint church elders in the various towns, as I myself directed you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_6","086_1_6","TIT","1","6","6","They are to be of irreproachable character, faithful to their partners, whose children are believers in Christ and have never been open to the charge of being wild or unruly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_7","086_1_7","TIT","1","7","7","For a supervisor, as God’s steward, ought to be of blameless character – not arrogant or quick-tempered, not given to drunkeness, violence or shady money-making. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_8","086_1_8","TIT","1","8","8","Instead, they should be hospitable, love what is good, self-controlled, upright, people of holy life and disciplined, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_9","086_1_9","TIT","1","9","9","holding firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught – so that they may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute those who contradict it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_10","086_1_10","TIT","1","10","10","For there are many undisciplined persons who lead others astray with their nonsense, especially those of the group advocating the necessity of circumcision. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_11","086_1_11","TIT","1","11","11","They need to be kept quiet as they disrupt whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, simply to make shameful financial gain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_12","086_1_12","TIT","1","12","12","It was a Cretan – one of their own prophets – who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons.’ This statement is true. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_13","086_1_13","TIT","1","13","13","Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_14","086_1_14","TIT","1","14","14","and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_15","086_1_15","TIT","1","15","15","To those whose minds are pure, all things are ritually pure, but to those whose minds are tainted and unbelieving nothing is pure, as their minds and consciences are alike polluted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_16","086_1_16","TIT","1","16","16","They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable and disobedient and useless for any good work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_1","086_2_1","TIT","2","1","1","You however, should speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_2","086_2_2","TIT","2","2","2","Teach that the older men should be soberly clear minded, dignified and self-controlled – sound in faith, love, and patient endurance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_3","086_2_3","TIT","2","3","3","So, too, that the older women should live reverent lives, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_4","086_2_4","TIT","2","4","4","They should teach what is good, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_5","086_2_5","TIT","2","5","5","and to be self-controlled, pure-minded, to be watching over their home, to be kind, respecting the authority of their husbands, so that no one will speak badly of God’s message. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_6","086_2_6","TIT","2","6","6","In the same way with the younger men – encourage them to be self-controlled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_7","086_2_7","TIT","2","7","7","In all things, set an example of doing good. In your teaching, show integrity and seriousness – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_8","086_2_8","TIT","2","8","8","let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed when they fail to find anything bad to say about us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_9","086_2_9","TIT","2","9","9","Tell slaves to respect their owner’s authority in all circumstances, and to try their best to please them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_10","086_2_10","TIT","2","10","10","Teach them not to contradict or to pilfer, but to show such praiseworthy fidelity in everything, as to recommend the teaching about God our Savior by all that they do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_11","086_2_11","TIT","2","11","11","For the loving kindness of God has been revealed, bringing salvation for all, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_12","086_2_12","TIT","2","12","12","leading us to renounce ungodliness and worldly desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives here in this present age, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_13","086_2_13","TIT","2","13","13","while awaiting our blessed hope – the appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_14","086_2_14","TIT","2","14","14","For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a people who should be truly his own and eager to do good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_15","086_2_15","TIT","2","15","15","Tell them of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone belittle you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_1","086_3_1","TIT","3","1","1","Remind them to respect and obey the rulers and authorities, to be ready for every kind of good work, to slander no one, to avoid quarreling, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_2","086_3_2","TIT","3","2","2","to be reasonable, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit with all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_3","086_3_3","TIT","3","3","3","There was a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all kinds of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hating ourselves and hating one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_4","086_3_4","TIT","3","4","4","But, when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for humanity appeared, he saved us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_5","086_3_5","TIT","3","5","5","not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but due to his mercy. He saved us though the washing of rebirth and renewal by the power of the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_6","086_3_6","TIT","3","6","6","which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_7","086_3_7","TIT","3","7","7","so that, having been put right with God through his grace, we become heirs to the hope of eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_8","086_3_8","TIT","3","8","8","This saying is trustworthy! And it is on these subjects that I want you to lay special emphasis, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of benefit to all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_9","086_3_9","TIT","3","9","9","But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, or with genealogies, or with quarrels, or fights about the Law. They are useless and futile. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_10","086_3_10","TIT","3","10","10","If someone is causing divisions among you then, after giving them a second warning, excuse yourself from them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_11","086_3_11","TIT","3","11","11","You can be sure that such a person has forsaken the truth and is in the wrong. They stand self-condemned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_12","086_3_12","TIT","3","12","12","As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me as quickly as possible at Nicopolis, for I have arranged to spend the winter there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_13","086_3_13","TIT","3","13","13","Do your best to help Zenas, the teacher of the Law, and Apollos, on their way, and see that they want for nothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_14","086_3_14","TIT","3","14","14","Let all our people learn to devote themselves to doing good, so as to meet the most pressing needs, and that their lives may not be unfruitful. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_15","086_3_15","TIT","3","15","15","All who are with me here send you their greeting. Give my greeting to our friends in the faith. God bless you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_1","087_1_1","PHM","1","1","1"," From Paul, now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, a fellow follower of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_2","087_1_2","PHM","1","2","2","To our dear friend and fellow worker Philemon, to our sister Apphia, to our fellow soldier Archippus; and to the church that meets at Philemon’s house; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_3","087_1_3","PHM","1","3","3","may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_4","087_1_4","PHM","1","4","4","I always mention you in my prayers and thank God for you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_5","087_1_5","PHM","1","5","5","because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his people; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_6","087_1_6","PHM","1","6","6","and I pray that your participation in the faith may result in action, as you come to a fuller realization of everything that is good and Christlike in us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_7","087_1_7","PHM","1","7","7","I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ’s people have been cheered, friend, by you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_8","087_1_8","PHM","1","8","8","And so, though my union with Christ enables me, with all confidence, to dictate the course that you should adopt, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_9","087_1_9","PHM","1","9","9","yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you – yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_10","087_1_10","PHM","1","10","10","I plead with you for this child of mine, Onesimus, to whom, in my prison, I have become a father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_11","087_1_11","PHM","1","11","11","Once he was of little service to you, but now he has become of great service, not only to you, but to me as well; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_12","087_1_12","PHM","1","12","12","and I am sending him back to you with this letter – though it is like tearing out of my heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_13","087_1_13","PHM","1","13","13","For my own sake I should like to keep him with me, so that, while I am in prison for the good news, he might attend to my wants on your behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_14","087_1_14","PHM","1","14","14","But I do not wish to do anything without your consent, because I want your generosity to be voluntary and not, as it were, compulsory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_15","087_1_15","PHM","1","15","15","It may be that he was separated from you for an hour, for this reason, so that you might have him back for ever, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_16","087_1_16","PHM","1","16","16","no longer as a slave, but as something better – a dearly loved friend and follower of the Lord, especially dear to me, and how much more so to you, not only as a person, but as your fellow Christian! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_17","087_1_17","PHM","1","17","17","If, then, you count me your friend, receive him as you would me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_18","087_1_18","PHM","1","18","18","If he has caused you any loss, or owes you anything, charge it to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_19","087_1_19","PHM","1","19","19","I, Paul, put my own hand to it – I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your self. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_20","087_1_20","PHM","1","20","20","Yes, friend, let me gain something from you because of your union with the Lord. Cheer my heart by your Christlike spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_21","087_1_21","PHM","1","21","21","Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_22","087_1_22","PHM","1","22","22","Please also get a lodging ready for me, for I hope that I will be given back to you all in answer to your prayers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_23","087_1_23","PHM","1","23","23","Epaphras, who is my fellow prisoner for Christ Jesus, sends you his greeting; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_24","087_1_24","PHM","1","24","24","and Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers, send theirs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_25","087_1_25","PHM","1","25","25","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ rest on your souls.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_1","088_1_1","HEB","1","1","1"," God, who, of old, at many times and in many ways, spoke to our ancestors, by the prophets, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_2","088_1_2","HEB","1","2","2","has in these latter days spoken to us by the Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_3","088_1_3","HEB","1","3","3","For he is the radiance of the glory of God and the expression of his being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of humanity, he took his seat at the right hand of God’s Majesty on high, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_4","088_1_4","HEB","1","4","4","having shown himself as much greater than the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_5","088_1_5","HEB","1","5","5","For to which of the angels did God ever say – ‘You are my Son; this day I have become your Father’? or again – ‘I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_6","088_1_6","HEB","1","6","6","And again, when God brought the firstborn into the world, he said – ‘Let all the angels of God bow down before him.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_7","088_1_7","HEB","1","7","7","Speaking of the angels, he said – ‘He makes the winds his angels and the flames of fire his servants’; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_8","088_1_8","HEB","1","8","8","while of the Son he said – ‘God is your throne for ever and ever; the scepter of his kingdom is the scepter of Justice; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_9","088_1_9","HEB","1","9","9","You love righteousness and hates iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the festal oil more abundantly than your peers.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_10","088_1_10","HEB","1","10","10","Again – ‘You, Lord, in the beginning did lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_11","088_1_11","HEB","1","11","11","They will perish, but you remain; as a garment they will all grow old; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_12","088_1_12","HEB","1","12","12","As a mantle you will fold them up, and as a garment they will be changed, but you are the same, and your years will know no end.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_13","088_1_13","HEB","1","13","13","To which of the angels has God ever said – ‘Sit you at my right hand until I put your enemies as a stool for your feet’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_14","088_1_14","HEB","1","14","14","Are not all the angels spirits in the service of God, sent out to minister for the sake of those who are destined to obtain salvation? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_1","088_2_1","HEB","2","1","1","Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, so we do not drift away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_2","088_2_2","HEB","2","2","2","For, if the message which was delivered by angels had its authority confirmed, so that every offense against it, or neglect of it, met with a fitting requital, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_3","088_2_3","HEB","2","3","3","how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_4","088_2_4","HEB","2","4","4","while God himself added his testimony to it by signs, and marvels, and many different miracles, as well as by imparting the Holy Spirit as he saw fit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_5","088_2_5","HEB","2","5","5","God has not given to angels the control of that future world of which we are speaking! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_6","088_2_6","HEB","2","6","6","No; a writer has declared somewhere – ‘What are mere mortals that you should remember them? Or human beings that you should care for them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_7","088_2_7","HEB","2","7","7","You have made them, for a while, lower than angels; with glory and honor you have crowned them; you have set them over all that your hands have made; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_8","088_2_8","HEB","2","8","8","you have placed all things beneath their feet.’ This ‘placing of everything’ under humanity means that there was nothing which was not placed under them. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under humanity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_9","088_2_9","HEB","2","9","9","What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honor; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God’s loving kindness, be on behalf of all humanity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_10","088_2_10","HEB","2","10","10","It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many children to glory, make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_11","088_2_11","HEB","2","11","11","For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_12","088_2_12","HEB","2","12","12","He says – ‘I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters, in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_13","088_2_13","HEB","2","13","13","And again – ‘As for me, I will put my trust in God.’ And yet again – ‘See, here am I and the children whom God gave me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_14","088_2_14","HEB","2","14","14","Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of the children, Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death – that is, the devil – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_15","088_2_15","HEB","2","15","15","and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_16","088_2_16","HEB","2","16","16","It was not, surely, to the help of the angels that Jesus came, but to the help of the descendants of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_17","088_2_17","HEB","2","17","17","And consequently it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers and sisters, in order that he might prove a merciful as well as a faithful high priest in humanity’s relations with God, for the purpose of expiating the sins of his people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_18","088_2_18","HEB","2","18","18","The fact that he himself suffered under temptation enables him to help those who are tempted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_1","088_3_1","HEB","3","1","1","Therefore, my Christian friends, you who, all alike, have received the call from heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our religion. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_2","088_3_2","HEB","3","2","2","See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole house of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_3","088_3_3","HEB","3","3","3","He has been deemed worthy of far higher honor than Moses, just as the founder of the house is held in greater regard than the house itself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_4","088_3_4","HEB","3","4","4","For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_5","088_3_5","HEB","3","5","5","While the faithful service of Moses in the whole house of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a message still to come, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_6","088_3_6","HEB","3","6","6","the faithfulness of Christ was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are his house – if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_7","088_3_7","HEB","3","7","7","Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_8","088_3_8","HEB","3","8","8","harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_9","088_3_9","HEB","3","9","9","Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_10","088_3_10","HEB","3","10","10","Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – “Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways”; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_11","088_3_11","HEB","3","11","11","While in my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_12","088_3_12","HEB","3","12","12","Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_13","088_3_13","HEB","3","13","13","Rather encourage one another daily – while there is a today – to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_14","088_3_14","HEB","3","14","14","For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_15","088_3_15","HEB","3","15","15","To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_16","088_3_16","HEB","3","16","16","Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_17","088_3_17","HEB","3","17","17","And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_18","088_3_18","HEB","3","18","18","And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_19","088_3_19","HEB","3","19","19","We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_1","088_4_1","HEB","4","1","1","We must, therefore, be very careful, though there is a promise still standing that we will enter upon God’s rest, that none of you even appear to have missed it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_2","088_4_2","HEB","4","2","2","For we have had the good news told us just as they had. But the message which they heard did them no good, since they did not share the faith of those who were attentive to it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_3","088_4_3","HEB","4","3","3","Upon that rest we who have believed are now entering. As God has said – ‘In my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest;”’ Although God’s work was finished at the creation of the world; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_4","088_4_4","HEB","4","4","4","for, in a passage referring to the seventh day, you will find these words – ‘God rested on the seventh day after all his work.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_5","088_4_5","HEB","4","5","5","On the other hand, we read in that passage – ‘They will never enter upon my rest.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_6","088_4_6","HEB","4","6","6","Since, then, there is still a promise that some will enter upon this rest, and since those who were first told the good news did not enter upon it, because of their disbelief, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_7","088_4_7","HEB","4","7","7","again God fixed a day. ‘Today,’ he said, speaking after a long interval through the mouth of David, in the passage already quoted – ‘If today you hear God’s voice harden not your hearts.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_8","088_4_8","HEB","4","8","8","Now if Joshua had given ‘rest’ to the people, God would not have spoken of another and later day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_9","088_4_9","HEB","4","9","9","There is, then, a Sabbath rest still awaiting God’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_10","088_4_10","HEB","4","10","10","For the person who enters upon God’s rest do themselves rest after their work, just as God did. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_11","088_4_11","HEB","4","11","11","Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_12","088_4_12","HEB","4","12","12","God’s message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way until it penetrates soul and spirit – not the joints only but the marrow – and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_13","088_4_13","HEB","4","13","13","There is no created thing that can hide itself from the sight of God. Everything is exposed and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we have to give account. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_14","088_4_14","HEB","4","14","14","We have, then, in Jesus, the Son of God, a great high priest who has passed into the highest heaven; let us, therefore, hold fast to the faith which we have professed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_15","088_4_15","HEB","4","15","15","Our high priest is not one unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has in every way been tempted, exactly as we have been, but without sinning. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_16","088_4_16","HEB","4","16","16","Therefore, let us draw near boldly to the throne of love, to find pity and love for the hour of need. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_1","088_5_1","HEB","5","1","1","Every high priest, taken from among the people, is appointed as their representative in their relations with God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices in expiation of sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_2","088_5_2","HEB","5","2","2","And he is able to sympathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_3","088_5_3","HEB","5","3","3","and is therefore bound to offer sacrifices for sins, not only for the people, but equally so for himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_4","088_5_4","HEB","5","4","4","Nor does anyone take that high office on themselves, until they have been called to do so by God, as Aaron was. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_5","088_5_5","HEB","5","5","5","In the same way, even the Christ did not take the honor of the high priesthood on himself, but he was appointed by him who said to him – ‘You are my Son; this day I have become your Father’; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_6","088_5_6","HEB","5","6","6","and on another occasion also – ‘You are a priest for all time of the order of Melchizedek.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_7","088_5_7","HEB","5","7","7","Jesus, in the days of his earthly life, offered prayers and supplications, with earnest cries and with tears, to him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard because of his devout submission. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_8","088_5_8","HEB","5","8","8","Son though he was, he learned obedience from his sufferings; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_9","088_5_9","HEB","5","9","9","and, being made perfect, he became to all those who obey him the source of eternal salvation, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_10","088_5_10","HEB","5","10","10","while God himself pronounced him a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_11","088_5_11","HEB","5","11","11","Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_12","088_5_12","HEB","5","12","12","For whereas, considering the time that has elapsed, you ought to be teaching others, you still need someone to teach you the alphabet of the divine revelation, and need again to be fed with milk instead of with ‘solid food.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_13","088_5_13","HEB","5","13","13","For everyone who still has to take milk knows nothing of the teaching of righteousness; they are a mere infant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_14","088_5_14","HEB","5","14","14","But solid food is for Christians of mature faith – those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_1","088_6_1","HEB","6","1","1","Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_2","088_6_2","HEB","6","2","2","teaching concerning baptisms and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and a final judgment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_3","088_6_3","HEB","6","3","3","Yes and, with God’s help, we will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_4","088_6_4","HEB","6","4","4","For if those who were once for all brought into the light, and learned to appreciate the gift from heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_5","088_6_5","HEB","6","5","5","and learned to appreciate the beauty of the divine message, and the new powers of the coming age – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_6","088_6_6","HEB","6","6","6","if those, I say, fell away, it would be impossible to bring them again to repentance; they would be crucifying the Son of God over again for themselves, and exposing him to open contempt. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_7","088_6_7","HEB","6","7","7","Ground that drinks in the showers that from time to time fall on it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_8","088_6_8","HEB","6","8","8","but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is regarded as worthless, it is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be the fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_9","088_6_9","HEB","6","9","9","But about you, dear friends, even though we speak in this way, we are confident of better things – of things that point to your salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_10","088_6_10","HEB","6","10","10","For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his name, in sending help to your fellow Christians – as you are still doing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_11","088_6_11","HEB","6","11","11","But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_12","088_6_12","HEB","6","12","12","Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God’s promises. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_13","088_6_13","HEB","6","13","13","When God gave his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater by whom he could swear, he swore by himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_14","088_6_14","HEB","6","14","14","His words were – ‘I will assuredly bless you and increase your numbers.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_15","088_6_15","HEB","6","15","15","And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfillment of God’s promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_16","088_6_16","HEB","6","16","16","People, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_17","088_6_17","HEB","6","17","17","And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_18","088_6_18","HEB","6","18","18","For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false – we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_19","088_6_19","HEB","6","19","19","This hope is an anchor for our souls, secure and strong, and it reaches into the sanctuary that lies behind the curtain, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_20","088_6_20","HEB","6","20","20","where Jesus, our forerunner, has entered on our behalf, after being made for all time a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_1","088_7_1","HEB","7","1","1","It was this Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and gave him his blessing; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_2","088_7_2","HEB","7","2","2","and it was to him that Abraham allotted a tithe of all the spoil. The meaning of his name is ‘king of righteousness,’ and besides that, he was also king of Salem, which means ‘king of peace.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_3","088_7_3","HEB","7","3","3","There is no record of his father, or mother, or lineage, nor again of any beginning of his days, or end of his life. In this he resembles the Son of God, and stands before us as a priest whose priesthood is continuous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_4","088_7_4","HEB","7","4","4","Consider, then the importance of this Melchizedek, to whom even the patriarch Abraham himself gave a tithe of the choicest spoils. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_5","088_7_5","HEB","7","5","5","Those descendants of Levi, who are from time to time appointed to the priesthood, are directed to collect tithes from the people in accordance with the Law – that is from their own kindred, although they also are descended from Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_6","088_7_6","HEB","7","6","6","But Melchizedek, although not of this lineage, received tithes from Abraham, and gave his blessing to the man who had God’s promises. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_7","088_7_7","HEB","7","7","7","Now no one can dispute that it is the superior who blesses the inferior. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_8","088_7_8","HEB","7","8","8","In the one case the tithes are received by people who are mortal; in the other case by one about whom there is the statement that his life still continues. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_9","088_7_9","HEB","7","9","9","Moreover, in a sense, even Levi, who is the receiver of the tithes, has, through Abraham, paid tithes; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_10","088_7_10","HEB","7","10","10","for Levi was still in the body of his ancestor when Melchizedek met Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_11","088_7_11","HEB","7","11","11","If, then, perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood – and it was under this priesthood that the people received the Law – why was it still necessary that a priest of a different order should appear, a priest of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_12","088_7_12","HEB","7","12","12","With the change of the priesthood a change of the Law became a necessity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_13","088_7_13","HEB","7","13","13","And he of whom all this is said belonged to quite a different tribe, no member of which has ever served at the altar. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_14","088_7_14","HEB","7","14","14","For it is plain that our Lord had sprung from the tribe of Judah, though of that tribe Moses said nothing about their being priests. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_15","088_7_15","HEB","7","15","15","All this becomes even yet plainer when we remember that a new priest has appeared, resembling Melchizedek, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_16","088_7_16","HEB","7","16","16","and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_17","088_7_17","HEB","7","17","17","for that is the meaning of the declaration – ‘You are for all time a priest of the order of Melchizedek.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_18","088_7_18","HEB","7","18","18","On the one hand, we have the abolition of a previous regulation as being both inefficient and useless ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_19","088_7_19","HEB","7","19","19","(for the Law never brought anything to perfection); and, on the other hand, we have the introduction of a better hope, which enables us to draw near to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_20","088_7_20","HEB","7","20","20","Then again, the appointment of this new priest was ratified by an oath, which is not so with the Levitical priests, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_21","088_7_21","HEB","7","21","21","but his appointment was ratified by an oath, when God said to him – ‘The Lord has sworn, and will not change, “You are a priest for all time.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_22","088_7_22","HEB","7","22","22","And the oath shows the corresponding superiority of the covenant of which Jesus is appointed the surety. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_23","088_7_23","HEB","7","23","23","Again, new Levitical priests are continually being appointed, because death prevents their remaining in office; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_24","088_7_24","HEB","7","24","24","but Jesus remains for all time, and therefore the priesthood that he holds will never pass to another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_25","088_7_25","HEB","7","25","25","And that is why he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, living for ever, as he does, to intercede of their behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_26","088_7_26","HEB","7","26","26","This was the high priest that we needed – holy, innocent, spotless, withdrawn from sinners, exalted above the highest heaven, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_27","088_7_27","HEB","7","27","27","one who has no need to offer sacrifices daily as those high priests have, first for their own sins, and then for those of the people. For this he did once and for all, when he offered himself as the sacrifice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_28","088_7_28","HEB","7","28","28","The Law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the words of God’s oath, which was later than the Law, name the Son as, for all time, the perfect priest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_1","088_8_1","HEB","8","1","1","To sum up what I have been saying: Such is the high priest that we have, one who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God’s Majesty in heaven, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_2","088_8_2","HEB","8","2","2","where he serves in the sanctuary, in that true tent set up by the Lord and not by man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_3","088_8_3","HEB","8","3","3","Every high priest is appointed for the purpose of offering gifts and sacrifices to God; it follows, therefore, that this high priest must have some offering to make. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_4","088_8_4","HEB","8","4","4","If he were, however, still on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts as the Law directs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_5","088_8_5","HEB","8","5","5","(These priests, it is true, are engaged in a service which is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly realities, as is shown by the directions given to Moses when he was about to construct the tent. ‘Look to it,’ are the words, ‘that you make every part in accordance with the pattern shown you on the mountain.’) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_6","088_8_6","HEB","8","6","6","But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former covenant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_7","088_8_7","HEB","8","7","7","If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_8","088_8_8","HEB","8","8","8","But, finding fault with the people, God says – ‘“A time is coming,” says the Lord, “When I will ratify a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_9","088_8_9","HEB","8","9","9","Not such a covenant as I made with their ancestors on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not abide by their covenant with me, and therefore I disregarded them,” says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_10","088_8_10","HEB","8","10","10","“This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will impress my laws on their minds, and will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_11","088_8_11","HEB","8","11","11","There will be no need for anyone to instruct their fellow citizen, or for a person to say to their relatives ‘Learn to know the Lord’; for everyone will know me, from the lowest to the highest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_12","088_8_12","HEB","8","12","12","For I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and I will no longer remember their sins.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_13","088_8_13","HEB","8","13","13","By speaking of a new covenant, God at once renders the former covenant obsolete; and whatever becomes obsolete and loses its force is virtually annulled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_1","088_9_1","HEB","9","1","1","It is true that even the first covenant had its regulations for divine worship, and its sanctuary – though only a material one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_2","088_9_2","HEB","9","2","2","For a tent was constructed, with an outer part which contained the stand for the lamps, and the table, and the consecrated bread. This is called the sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_3","088_9_3","HEB","9","3","3","The part of the tent behind the second curtain is called the inner sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_4","088_9_4","HEB","9","4","4","In it is the gold incense-altar, and the ark containing the covenant, completely covered with gold. In the ark is a gold casket containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets on which the covenant was written; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_5","088_9_5","HEB","9","5","5","while above it, and overshadowing the cover on which atonement was made, are the cherubim of the presence. Now is not the time to discuss these things in detail. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_6","088_9_6","HEB","9","6","6","Such, then, was the arrangement of the tent. Into the outer part priests are constantly going, in the discharge of their sacred duties; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_7","088_9_7","HEB","9","7","7","but into the inner only the high priest goes, and that but once a year, and never without taking the blood of a victim, which he offers on his own behalf, and on behalf of the errors of the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_8","088_9_8","HEB","9","8","8","By this the Holy Spirit is teaching that the way into the sanctuary was hidden, as long as the outer part of the tent still remained. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_9","088_9_9","HEB","9","9","9","For that was only a type, to continue down to the present time; and, in keeping with it, both gifts and sacrifices are offered, though incapable of satisfying the conscience of the worshiper; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_10","088_9_10","HEB","9","10","10","the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions – external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the new order. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_11","088_9_11","HEB","9","11","11","But, when Christ came, he appeared as high priest of that better system which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect tent, not made by human hands – that is to say, not a part of this present creation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_12","088_9_12","HEB","9","12","12","Nor was it with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, that he entered, once and for all, into the sanctuary, and obtained our eternal deliverance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_13","088_9_13","HEB","9","13","13","For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, purify those who have been defiled (as far as ceremonial purification goes), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_14","088_9_14","HEB","9","14","14","how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the living God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_15","088_9_15","HEB","9","15","15","And that is why he is the intermediary of a new covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first covenant, those who have received the call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_16","088_9_16","HEB","9","16","16","Whenever such a covenant as a will is in question, the death of the testator must of necessity be alleged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_17","088_9_17","HEB","9","17","17","For such a covenant takes effect only on death, it does not come into force as long as the testator is alive. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_18","088_9_18","HEB","9","18","18","This explains why even the first covenant was not ratified without the shedding of blood. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_19","088_9_19","HEB","9","19","19","For, when every command had been announced to all the people by Moses in accordance with the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, scarlet wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled even the book of the Law, as well as all the people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_20","088_9_20","HEB","9","20","20","saying, as he did so – “This is the blood that renders valid the covenant which God has commanded to be made with you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_21","088_9_21","HEB","9","21","21","And in the same way he also sprinkled with the blood the tent and all the things that were used in public worship. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_22","088_9_22","HEB","9","22","22","Indeed, under the Law, almost everything is purified with blood; and, unless blood is shed, no forgiveness is to be obtained. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_23","088_9_23","HEB","9","23","23","While, then, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly realities to be purified by such means as these, the heavenly realities themselves required better sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_24","088_9_24","HEB","9","24","24","For it was not into a sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_25","088_9_25","HEB","9","25","25","Nor yet was it to offer himself may times, as year after year the high priest entered the sanctuary with an offering of blood – but not his own blood; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_26","088_9_26","HEB","9","26","26","for then Christ would have had to undergo death many times since the creation of the world. But now, once and for all, at the close of the age, he has appeared, in order to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_28","088_9_28","HEB","9","28","28","so it is with the Christ. He was offered up once and for all, to bear away the sins of many; and the second time he will appear – but without any burden of sin – to those who are waiting for him, to bring salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_1","088_10_1","HEB","10","1","1","The Law, though able to foreshadow the better system which was coming, never had its actual substance. Its priests, with those sacrifices which they offer continuously year after year, can never make those who come to worship perfect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_2","088_10_2","HEB","10","2","2","Otherwise, would not the offering of these sacrifices have been abandoned, as the worshipers, having been once purified, would have had their consciences clear from sins? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_3","088_10_3","HEB","10","3","3","But, on the contrary, these sacrifices recall their sins to mind year after year. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_4","088_10_4","HEB","10","4","4","For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to remove sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_5","088_10_5","HEB","10","5","5","That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared – ‘Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you provide for me a body; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_6","088_10_6","HEB","10","6","6","You take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_7","088_10_7","HEB","10","7","7","So I said, “See, I have come” (as is written of me in the pages of the book), “To do your will, God.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_8","088_10_8","HEB","10","8","8","First come the words – ‘You do not desire, nor do you take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin’ (offerings regularly made under the Law), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_9","088_10_9","HEB","10","9","9","and then there is added – ‘See, I have come to do your will.’ The former sacrifices are set aside to be replaced by the latter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_10","088_10_10","HEB","10","10","10","And it is in the fulfillment of the will of God that we have been purified by the sacrifice, once and for all, of the body of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_11","088_10_11","HEB","10","11","11","Every other priest stands day after day at his ministrations, and offers the same sacrifices over and over again – sacrifices that can never take sins away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_12","088_10_12","HEB","10","12","12","But, this priest, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, which should serve for all time, ‘took his seat at the right hand of God,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_13","088_10_13","HEB","10","13","13","and has since then been waiting ‘for his enemies to be put as a stool for his feet.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_14","088_10_14","HEB","10","14","14","By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being purified. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_15","088_10_15","HEB","10","15","15","We have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit. For, after saying – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_16","088_10_16","HEB","10","16","16","‘“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord; “I will impress my laws on their hearts, and will inscribe them on their minds,”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_17","088_10_17","HEB","10","17","17","then we have – ‘And their sins and their iniquities I will no longer remember.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_18","088_10_18","HEB","10","18","18","And, when these are forgiven, there is no further need of an offering for sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_19","088_10_19","HEB","10","19","19","Therefore, friends, since we may enter the sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_20","088_10_20","HEB","10","20","20","by the way which he inaugurated for us – a new and living way, a way through the sanctuary curtain (that is, his human nature); ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_21","088_10_21","HEB","10","21","21","and, since we have in him ‘a great priest set over the house of God,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_22","088_10_22","HEB","10","22","22","let us draw near to God in all sincerity of heart and in perfect faith, with our hearts purified by the sprinkled blood from all consciousness of wrong, and with our bodies washed with pure water. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_23","088_10_23","HEB","10","23","23","Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_24","088_10_24","HEB","10","24","24","Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_25","088_10_25","HEB","10","25","25","And let us not, as some do, cease to meet together; but, on the contrary, let us encourage one another, and all the more, now that you see the day drawing near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_26","088_10_26","HEB","10","26","26","Remember, if we sin willfully after we have gained a full knowledge of the truth, there can be no further sacrifice for sin; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_27","088_10_27","HEB","10","27","27","there is only a fearful anticipation of judgment, and a burning indignation which will destroy all opponents. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_28","088_10_28","HEB","10","28","28","When someone disregarded the Law of Moses, they were, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_29","088_10_29","HEB","10","29","29","How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the covenant valid – the blood by which they were purified – as if it were not holy, and who have outraged the Spirit of love? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_30","088_10_30","HEB","10","30","30","We know who it was that said – ‘It is for me to avenge, I will requite’; and again – ‘The Lord will judge his people.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_31","088_10_31","HEB","10","31","31","It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_32","088_10_32","HEB","10","32","32","Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_33","088_10_33","HEB","10","33","33","Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped on you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of people who were in the same position in which you had been. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_34","088_10_34","HEB","10","34","34","For you not only sympathised with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_35","088_10_35","HEB","10","35","35","Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_36","088_10_36","HEB","10","36","36","You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God’s will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_37","088_10_37","HEB","10","37","37","‘For there is indeed but a very little while before he who is coming will have come, without delay; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_38","088_10_38","HEB","10","38","38","and through faith the righteous will find life, but, if anyone draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in them.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_39","088_10_39","HEB","10","39","39","But we do not belong to those who draw back, to their ruin, but to those who have faith, to the saving of their souls. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_1","088_11_1","HEB","11","1","1","Faith is the realization of things hoped for – the proof of things not seen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_2","088_11_2","HEB","11","2","2","And it was for faith that the people of old were renowned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_3","088_11_3","HEB","11","3","3","Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God – so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_4","088_11_4","HEB","11","4","4","Faith made the sacrifice which Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain’s, and won him renown as a righteous man, God himself establishing his renown by accepting his gifts; and it is by the example of his faith that Abel, though dead, still speaks. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_5","088_11_5","HEB","11","5","5","Faith led to Enoch’s removal from earth, so that he might not experience death. ‘He could not be found because God had removed him.’ For, before his removal, he was renowned as having pleased God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_6","088_11_6","HEB","11","6","6","but without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who seek for him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_7","088_11_7","HEB","11","7","7","It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows on faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_8","088_11_8","HEB","11","8","8","It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterward to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_9","088_11_9","HEB","11","9","9","It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the promised land – as in a strange country – living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_10","088_11_10","HEB","11","10","10","For he was looking for the city with the sure foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_11","088_11_11","HEB","11","11","11","Again, it was faith that enabled Sarah to conceive (though she was past the age for childbearing), because she felt sure that he who had given her the promise would not fail her. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_12","088_11_12","HEB","11","12","12","And so from one man – and that when his powers were dead – there sprang a people as numerous ‘as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand on the shore.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_13","088_11_13","HEB","11","13","13","All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_14","088_11_14","HEB","11","14","14","Those who speak like this show plainly that they are seeking their homeland. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_15","088_11_15","HEB","11","15","15","If they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they could have found opportunities to return. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_16","088_11_16","HEB","11","16","16","But no, they were longing for a better, a heavenly, land! And therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God; indeed he had already prepared them a city. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_17","088_11_17","HEB","11","17","17","It was faith that enabled Abraham, when put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice – he who had received the promises offering up his only son, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_18","088_11_18","HEB","11","18","18","of whom it had been said – ‘It is through Isaac that there will be descendants to bear your name.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_19","088_11_19","HEB","11","19","19","For he argued that God was even able to raise a man from the dead – and indeed, figuratively speaking, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_20","088_11_20","HEB","11","20","20","It was faith that enabled Isaac to bless Jacob and Esau, even with regard to the future. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_21","088_11_21","HEB","11","21","21","Faith enabled Jacob, when dying, to give his blessing to each of the sons of Joseph, and ‘to bow himself in worship as he leant on the top of his staff.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_22","088_11_22","HEB","11","22","22","Faith caused Joseph, when his end was near, to speak of the future migration of the Israelites, and to give instructions with regard to his bones. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_23","088_11_23","HEB","11","23","23","Faith caused the parents of Moses to hide the child for three months after his birth, for they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they would not respect the king’s order. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_24","088_11_24","HEB","11","24","24","It was faith that caused Moses, when he was grown up, to refuse the title of ‘son of a daughter of Pharaoh.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_25","088_11_25","HEB","11","25","25","He preferred sharing the hardships of God’s people to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_26","088_11_26","HEB","11","26","26","For he counted ‘the reproaches that are heaped on the Christ’ of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, looking forward, as he did, to the reward awaiting him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_27","088_11_27","HEB","11","27","27","Faith caused him to leave Egypt, though undaunted by the king’s anger, for he was strengthened in his endurance by the vision of the invisible God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_28","088_11_28","HEB","11","28","28","Faith led him to institute the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the Destroyer might not touch the eldest children of the Israelites. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_29","088_11_29","HEB","11","29","29","Faith enabled the people to cross the Red Sea, as if it had been dry land, while the Egyptians, when they attempted to do so, were drowned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_30","088_11_30","HEB","11","30","30","Faith caused the walls of Jericho to fall after being encircled for seven days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_31","088_11_31","HEB","11","31","31","Faith saved Rahab, the prostitute, from perishing with the unbelievers, after she had entertained the spies with friendliness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_32","088_11_32","HEB","11","32","32","Need I add anything more? Time would fail me if I attempted to relate the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, and those of David, Samuel, and the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_33","088_11_33","HEB","11","33","33","By their faith they subdued kingdoms, ruled righteously, gained the fulfillment of God’s promises, shut the mouths of lions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_34","088_11_34","HEB","11","34","34","quelled the fury of the flames, escaped the edge of the sword, found strength in the hour of weakness, displayed their prowess in war, and routed hostile armies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_35","088_11_35","HEB","11","35","35","Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_36","088_11_36","HEB","11","36","36","Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_37","088_11_37","HEB","11","37","37","They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_38","088_11_38","HEB","11","38","38","people of whom the world was not worthy – roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_39","088_11_39","HEB","11","39","39","Yet, though they all won renown by their faith, they did not obtain the final fulfillment of God’s promise; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_40","088_11_40","HEB","11","40","40","since God had in view some better thing for us, so that they would only reach perfection together with us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_1","088_12_1","HEB","12","1","1","Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_2","088_12_2","HEB","12","2","2","our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfect example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now ‘has taken his seat at the right hand’ of the throne of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_3","088_12_3","HEB","12","3","3","Weigh well the example of him who had to endure such opposition from ‘people who were sinning against themselves,’ so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_4","088_12_4","HEB","12","4","4","You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_5","088_12_5","HEB","12","5","5","and you have forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as God’s children – ‘My child, think not lightly of the Lord’s discipline, do not despond when he rebukes you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_6","088_12_6","HEB","12","6","6","For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_7","088_12_7","HEB","12","7","7","It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_8","088_12_8","HEB","12","8","8","If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_9","088_12_9","HEB","12","9","9","Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Should we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_10","088_12_10","HEB","12","10","10","Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_11","088_12_11","HEB","12","11","11","No discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is painful. But afterward its fruit is seen in the peacefulness of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been trained under it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_12","088_12_12","HEB","12","12","12","Therefore ‘lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_13","088_12_13","HEB","12","13","13","make straight paths for your feet,’ so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_14","088_12_14","HEB","12","14","14","Try earnestly to live at peace with everyone, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_15","088_12_15","HEB","12","15","15","Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, ‘that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,’ and so poison the whole community. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_16","088_12_16","HEB","12","16","16","Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_17","088_12_17","HEB","12","17","17","For you know that even afterward, when he wished to claim his father’s blessing, he was rejected – for he never found an opportunity to repair his error – though he begged for the blessing with tears. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_18","088_12_18","HEB","12","18","18","It is not to tangible ‘flaming fire’ that you have drawn near, nor to ‘gloom, and darkness, and storm, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_19","088_12_19","HEB","12","19","19","and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.’ Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_20","088_12_20","HEB","12","20","20","for they could not bear to think of the command – ‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_21","088_12_21","HEB","12","21","21","and so fearful was the sight that Moses said – ‘I tremble with fear.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_22","088_12_22","HEB","12","22","22","No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_23","088_12_23","HEB","12","23","23","to the festal gathering and assemblage of God’s firstborn whose names are enrolled in heaven, to God the judge of all people, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained perfection, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_24","088_12_24","HEB","12","24","24","to Jesus, the intermediary of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_25","088_12_25","HEB","12","25","25","Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_26","088_12_26","HEB","12","26","26","Then his voice shook the earth, but now his declaration is – ‘Still once more I will cause not only the earth to tremble, but also the heavens.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_27","088_12_27","HEB","12","27","27","And those words ‘still once more’ indicate the passing away of all that is shaken – that is, of all created things – in order that only what is unshaken may remain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_28","088_12_28","HEB","12","28","28","Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_29","088_12_29","HEB","12","29","29","For our God is ‘a consuming fire.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_1","088_13_1","HEB","13","1","1","Let your love for the Lord’s followers continue. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_2","088_13_2","HEB","13","2","2","Do not neglect to show hospitality; for, through being hospitable, people have all unawares entertained angels. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_3","088_13_3","HEB","13","3","3","Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_4","088_13_4","HEB","13","4","4","Let marriage be honored by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_5","088_13_5","HEB","13","5","5","Do not let your conduct be ruled by the love of money. Be content with what you have, for God himself has said – ‘I will never forsake you, nor will I ever abandon you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_6","088_13_6","HEB","13","6","6","Therefore we may say with confidence – ‘The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can mere people do to me?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_7","088_13_7","HEB","13","7","7","Do not forget your leaders, who told you God’s message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_8","088_13_8","HEB","13","8","8","Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today – yes, and for ever! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_9","088_13_9","HEB","13","9","9","Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength on the divine help, than on regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service. ");
