INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_30","073_12_30","JHN","12","30","30","‘It was not for my sake that the voice came,’ said Jesus, ‘but for yours. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_31","073_12_31","JHN","12","31","31","Now this world is on its trial. Now the Spirit that is ruling this world will be driven out; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_32","073_12_32","JHN","12","32","32","and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_33","073_12_33","JHN","12","33","33","By these words he indicated what death he was destined to die. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_34","073_12_34","JHN","12","34","34","‘We,’ replied the people, ‘have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; how is it, then, that you say that the Son of Man must be “lifted up” Who is this “Son of Man”?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_35","073_12_35","JHN","12","35","35","‘Only a little while longer,’ answered Jesus, ‘will you have the light among you. Travel on while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_36","073_12_36","JHN","12","36","36","While you still have the light, believe in the light, so that you may be children of light.’ After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_37","073_12_37","JHN","12","37","37","But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_38","073_12_38","JHN","12","38","38","in fulfilment of the words of the prophet Isaiah, where he says – “Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_39","073_12_39","JHN","12","39","39","The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_40","073_12_40","JHN","12","40","40","“He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn – And I should heal them.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_41","073_12_41","JHN","12","41","41","Isaiah said this, because he saw Christ’s glory; and it was of him that he spoke. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_42","073_12_42","JHN","12","42","42","Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, because they were afraid that they should be expelled from their synagogues; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_43","073_12_43","JHN","12","43","43","for they valued honour from people more than honour from God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_44","073_12_44","JHN","12","44","44","But Jesus had proclaimed, ‘He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_45","073_12_45","JHN","12","45","45","and he who sees me sees him who sent me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_46","073_12_46","JHN","12","46","46","I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_47","073_12_47","JHN","12","47","47","When anyone hears my teaching and pays no heed to it, I am not his judge; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_48","073_12_48","JHN","12","48","48","He who rejects me, and disregards my teaching, has a judge already – the message which I have delivered will itself be his judge at the Last day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_49","073_12_49","JHN","12","49","49","For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN12_50","073_12_50","JHN","12","50","50","And I know that eternal life lies in keeping his command. Therefore, whatever I say, I say only what the Father has taught me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_1","073_13_1","JHN","13","1","1","Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_2","073_13_2","JHN","13","2","2","The devil had already put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_3","073_13_3","JHN","13","3","3","and at supper, Jesus – although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_4","073_13_4","JHN","13","4","4","rose from his place, and, taking off his upper garments, tied a towel round his waist. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_5","073_13_5","JHN","13","5","5","He then poured some water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel which was tied round him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_6","073_13_6","JHN","13","6","6","When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said, ‘You, Master! Are you going to wash my feet?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_7","073_13_7","JHN","13","7","7","‘You do not understand now what I am doing,’ replied Jesus, ‘but you will learn by and by.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_8","073_13_8","JHN","13","8","8","‘You will never wash my feet!’ exclaimed Peter. ‘Unless I wash you,’ answered Jesus, ‘you have nothing in common with me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_9","073_13_9","JHN","13","9","9","‘Then, Master, not my feet only,’ exclaimed Simon Peter, ‘but also my hands and my head.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_10","073_13_10","JHN","13","10","10","‘He who has bathed,’ replied Jesus, ‘has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you,’ he said to the disciples, ‘are clean, yet not all of you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_11","073_13_11","JHN","13","11","11","For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said “You are not all clean.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_12","073_13_12","JHN","13","12","12","When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. ‘Do you understand what I have been doing to you?’ he asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_13","073_13_13","JHN","13","13","13","‘You yourselves call me “the teacher” and “the Master”, and you are right, for I am both. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_14","073_13_14","JHN","13","14","14","If I, then – “the Master” and “the teacher” – have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_15","073_13_15","JHN","13","15","15","for I have given you an example, so that you may do just as I have done to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_16","073_13_16","JHN","13","16","16","In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than their master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_17","073_13_17","JHN","13","17","17","Now that you know these things, happy are you if you do them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_18","073_13_18","JHN","13","18","18","I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfilment of the words of scripture – “He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_19","073_13_19","JHN","13","19","19","For the future I will tell you of things before they take place, so that, when they take place, you may believe that I am what I am. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_20","073_13_20","JHN","13","20","20","In truth I tell you, the one who receives anyone that I send receives me; and the person who receives me receives him who sent me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_21","073_13_21","JHN","13","21","21","After saying this, Jesus was much troubled, and said solemnly, ‘In truth I tell you that it is one of you who will betray me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_22","073_13_22","JHN","13","22","22","The disciples looked at one another, wondering whom he meant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_23","073_13_23","JHN","13","23","23","Next to Jesus, in the place on his right hand, was one of his disciples, whom he loved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_24","073_13_24","JHN","13","24","24","So Simon Peter made signs to that disciple, and whispered, ‘Tell me who it is that he means.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_25","073_13_25","JHN","13","25","25","Being in this position, that disciple leant back on Jesus’ shoulder, and asked him, ‘Who is it, Master?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_26","073_13_26","JHN","13","26","26","‘It is the one,’ answered Jesus, ‘to whom I will give a piece of bread after dipping it in the dish.’ And, when Jesus had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_27","073_13_27","JHN","13","27","27","and it was then, after he had received it, that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him, ‘Do at once what you are going to do.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_28","073_13_28","JHN","13","28","28","But no one at the table understood why he said this to Judas. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_29","073_13_29","JHN","13","29","29","Some thought that, as Judas kept the purse, Jesus meant that he was to buy some things needed for the Festival, or to give something to the poor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_30","073_13_30","JHN","13","30","30","After taking the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_31","073_13_31","JHN","13","31","31","When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_32","073_13_32","JHN","13","32","32","and God will exalt him with himself – yes, he will exalt him forthwith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_33","073_13_33","JHN","13","33","33","My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the people – “You cannot come where I am going” – I now say to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_34","073_13_34","JHN","13","34","34","I give you a new commandment – love one another; love one another as I have loved you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_35","073_13_35","JHN","13","35","35","It is by this that everyone will recognise you as my disciples – by your loving one another.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_36","073_13_36","JHN","13","36","36","‘Where are you going, Master?’ asked Peter. ‘I am going where you cannot now follow me,’ answered Jesus, ‘but you will follow me later.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_37","073_13_37","JHN","13","37","37","‘Why cannot I follow you now, Master?’ asked Peter. ‘I will lay down my life for you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN13_38","073_13_38","JHN","13","38","38","‘Will you lay down your life for me?’ replied Jesus. ‘In truth I tell you, the cock will not crow until you have disowned me three times. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_1","073_14_1","JHN","14","1","1","Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_2","073_14_2","JHN","14","2","2","In my Father’s home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_3","073_14_3","JHN","14","3","3","And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_4","073_14_4","JHN","14","4","4","and you know the way to the place where I am going.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_5","073_14_5","JHN","14","5","5","‘We do not know where you are going, Master,’ said Thomas. ‘So how can we know the way?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_6","073_14_6","JHN","14","6","6","Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_7","073_14_7","JHN","14","7","7","If you had recognised me, you would have known my Father also; for the future you will recognise him, indeed you have already seen him.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_8","073_14_8","JHN","14","8","8","‘Master, show us the Father,’ said Philip, ‘and we will be satisfied.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_9","073_14_9","JHN","14","9","9","‘Have I been all this time among you,’ said Jesus, ‘and yet you, Philip, have not recognised me? The person who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, “Show us the Father”? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_10","073_14_10","JHN","14","10","10","Don’t you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_11","073_14_11","JHN","14","11","11","Believe me,’ he said to them all, ‘when I say that I am in union with the Father and the Father with me, or else believe me because of the work itself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_12","073_14_12","JHN","14","12","12","In truth I tell you, the person who believes in me will themselves do the work that I am doing; and they will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_13","073_14_13","JHN","14","13","13","Whatever you ask, in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be honoured in the Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_14","073_14_14","JHN","14","14","14","If you ask anything, in my name, I will do it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_15","073_14_15","JHN","14","15","15","If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_16","073_14_16","JHN","14","16","16","and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, to be with you always – the Spirit of truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_17","073_14_17","JHN","14","17","17","The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognise him, but you recognise him, because he is always with you, and is within you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_18","073_14_18","JHN","14","18","18","I will not leave you bereaved; I will come to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_19","073_14_19","JHN","14","19","19","In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_20","073_14_20","JHN","14","20","20","At that time you will recognise that I am in union with the Father, and you with me, and I with you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_21","073_14_21","JHN","14","21","21","It is they who have my commands and lays them to heart who loves me; and the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them, and will reveal myself to them.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_22","073_14_22","JHN","14","22","22","‘What has happened, Master,’ said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), ‘that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_23","073_14_23","JHN","14","23","23","‘Whoever loves me,’ Jesus answered, ‘will lay my message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_24","073_14_24","JHN","14","24","24","The person who does not love me will not lay my message to heart; and the message to which you are listening is not my own, but comes from the Father who sent me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_25","073_14_25","JHN","14","25","25","I have told you all this while still with you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_26","073_14_26","JHN","14","26","26","but the helper – the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name – will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_27","073_14_27","JHN","14","27","27","Peace be with you! My own peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, or dismayed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_28","073_14_28","JHN","14","28","28","You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_29","073_14_29","JHN","14","29","29","And this I have told you now before it happens, so that, when it does happen, you may still believe in me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_30","073_14_30","JHN","14","30","30","I will not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN14_31","073_14_31","JHN","14","31","31","but he is coming so that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_1","073_15_1","JHN","15","1","1","‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_2","073_15_2","JHN","15","2","2","Any unfruitful branch in me he takes away, and he cleanses every fruitful branch, so that it may bear more fruit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_3","073_15_3","JHN","15","3","3","You are already clean because of the message that I have given you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_4","073_15_4","JHN","15","4","4","Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains united to the vine; no more can you, unless you remain united to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_5","073_15_5","JHN","15","5","5","I am the vine, you are the branches. If you remains united to me, while I remain united to you – you bear fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_6","073_15_6","JHN","15","6","6","If anyone does not remain united to me, they are thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_7","073_15_7","JHN","15","7","7","If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it will be yours. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_8","073_15_8","JHN","15","8","8","It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honoured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_9","073_15_9","JHN","15","9","9","As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_10","073_15_10","JHN","15","10","10","If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father’s commands to heart and remain in his love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_11","073_15_11","JHN","15","11","11","I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_12","073_15_12","JHN","15","12","12","This is my command – love one another, as I have loved you. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_15","073_15_15","JHN","15","15","15","I no longer call you “servants,” because a servant does not know what their master is doing; but I have given you the name of “friends,” because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_16","073_15_16","JHN","15","16","16","It wasn’t you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_17","073_15_17","JHN","15","17","17","I am giving you these commands that you may love one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_18","073_15_18","JHN","15","18","18","If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_20","073_15_20","JHN","15","20","20","Remember what I said to you – “A servant is not greater than their master.” If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_21","073_15_21","JHN","15","21","21","But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my name, for they do not know him who sent me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_22","073_15_22","JHN","15","22","22","If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_23","073_15_23","JHN","15","23","23","The person who hates me hates my Father also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_24","073_15_24","JHN","15","24","24","If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_25","073_15_25","JHN","15","25","25","And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law – “They hated me without cause.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN15_27","073_15_27","JHN","15","27","27","yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_1","073_16_1","JHN","16","1","1","‘I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_2","073_16_2","JHN","16","2","2","They will expel you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that they are making an offering to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_3","073_16_3","JHN","16","3","3","They will do this, because they have not learned to know the Father, or even me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_4","073_16_4","JHN","16","4","4","But I have spoken to you of these things so that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_5","073_16_5","JHN","16","5","5","I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me – “Where are you going?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_6","073_16_6","JHN","16","6","6","Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_7","073_16_7","JHN","16","7","7","Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_8","073_16_8","JHN","16","8","8","And he, when he comes, will bring conviction to the world as to sin, and as to righteousness, and as to judgment; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_9","073_16_9","JHN","16","9","9","as to sin, for people do not believe in me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_10","073_16_10","JHN","16","10","10","as to righteousness, for I am going to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_11","073_16_11","JHN","16","11","11","as to judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_12","073_16_12","JHN","16","12","12","I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_13","073_16_13","JHN","16","13","13","Yet when he – The Spirit of truth – comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_14","073_16_14","JHN","16","14","14","He will honour me; because he will take of what is mine, and will tell it to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_15","073_16_15","JHN","16","15","15","Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he takes of what is mine, and will tell it to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_16","073_16_16","JHN","16","16","16","In a little while you will no longer see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_17","073_16_17","JHN","16","17","17","At this some of his disciples said to one another, ‘What does he mean by saying to us “In a little while you will not see me, and then in a little while you will see me indeed”; and by saying “Because I am going to the Father”? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_18","073_16_18","JHN","16","18","18","What does he mean by “In a little while”?’ they said. ‘We do not know what he is speaking about.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_19","073_16_19","JHN","16","19","19","Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said, ‘Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying “In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed”? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_20","073_16_20","JHN","16","20","20","In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain will turn to joy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_21","073_16_21","JHN","16","21","21","A woman in labour is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a child has been born into the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_22","073_16_22","JHN","16","22","22","You, in the same way, are sorry now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_23","073_16_23","JHN","16","23","23","And at that time you will not ask me anything; in truth I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will grant it to you in my name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_24","073_16_24","JHN","16","24","24","So far you have not asked for anything, in my name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_25","073_16_25","JHN","16","25","25","I have spoken to you of all this in figures; a time is coming, however, when I will not speak any longer to you in figures, but will tell you about the Father plainly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_26","073_16_26","JHN","16","26","26","You will ask, at that time, in my name; and I do not say that I will intercede with the Father for you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_27","073_16_27","JHN","16","27","27","for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_28","073_16_28","JHN","16","28","28","I came out from the Father, and have come into the world; and now I am to leave the world, and go to the Father.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_29","073_16_29","JHN","16","29","29","‘At last,’ exclaimed the disciples, ‘you are using plain words and not speaking in figures at all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_30","073_16_30","JHN","16","30","30","Now we are sure that you know everything, and need not wait for anyone to question you. This makes us believe that you did come from God.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_31","073_16_31","JHN","16","31","31","‘Do you believe that already?’ Jesus answered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_32","073_16_32","JHN","16","32","32","‘Listen! A time is coming – indeed it has already come – when you are to be scattered, each going his own way, and to leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN16_33","073_16_33","JHN","16","33","33","I have spoken to you in this way, so that in me you may find peace. In the world you will find trouble; yet, take courage! I have conquered the world.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_1","073_17_1","JHN","17","1","1","After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heavenwards, and said: ‘Father, the hour has come; honour your Son, so that your Son may honour you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_2","073_17_2","JHN","17","2","2","even as you gave him power over all humanity, so that he should give eternal life to everyone you have given him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_3","073_17_3","JHN","17","3","3","And the eternal life is this – to know you the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent as your messenger. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_4","073_17_4","JHN","17","4","4","I have honoured you on earth by completing the work which you have given me to do; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_5","073_17_5","JHN","17","5","5","and now do you honour me, Father, at your own side, with the honour which I had at your side before the world began. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_6","073_17_6","JHN","17","6","6","I have revealed you to those whom you gave me from the world; they were your own, and you gave them to me; and they have laid your message to heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_7","073_17_7","JHN","17","7","7","They recognise now that everything that you gave me was from you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_8","073_17_8","JHN","17","8","8","for I have given them the teaching which you gave me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you have sent me as your messenger. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_9","073_17_9","JHN","17","9","9","I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are your own – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_10","073_17_10","JHN","17","10","10","All that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine – and I am honoured in them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_11","073_17_11","JHN","17","11","11","Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to you. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_12","073_17_12","JHN","17","12","12","While I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul – in fulfilment of scripture. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_13","073_17_13","JHN","17","13","13","But now I am to come to you; and I am speaking like this, while still in the world, so that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_14","073_17_14","JHN","17","14","14","I have given them your message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_15","073_17_15","JHN","17","15","15","I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_16","073_17_16","JHN","17","16","16","They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_17","073_17_17","JHN","17","17","17","Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_18","073_17_18","JHN","17","18","18","Just as you have sent me as your messenger to the world, so I send them as my messengers to the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_19","073_17_19","JHN","17","19","19","And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_20","073_17_20","JHN","17","20","20","But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their message, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_21","073_17_21","JHN","17","21","21","that they all may be one – that as you, Father, are in union with us – and so the world may believe that you have sent me as your messenger. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_22","073_17_22","JHN","17","22","22","I have given them the honour which you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_23","073_17_23","JHN","17","23","23","I in union with them and you with me – so that they may be perfected in their union, and so that the world may know that you have sent me as your messenger, and that you have loved them as you have loved me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_24","073_17_24","JHN","17","24","24","Father, my desire for all those whom you have given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honour which you have given me; for you did love me before the beginning of the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_25","073_17_25","JHN","17","25","25","Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you; and these people knew that you have sent me as your messenger. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN17_26","073_17_26","JHN","17","26","26","I have made you known to them, and will do so still; that the love that you have had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_1","073_18_1","JHN","18","1","1","When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples and crossed the Kidron ravine to a place where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples went. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_2","073_18_2","JHN","18","2","2","The place was well known to Judas, the betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_3","073_18_3","JHN","18","3","3","So Judas, who had obtained the soldiers of the Roman garrison, and some guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_4","073_18_4","JHN","18","4","4","Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon him, went to meet them, and said to them, ‘For whom are you looking?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_5","073_18_5","JHN","18","5","5","‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ was their answer. ‘I am he,’ said Jesus. (Judas, the betrayer, was also standing with them.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_6","073_18_6","JHN","18","6","6","When Jesus said “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_7","073_18_7","JHN","18","7","7","So he again asked for whom they were looking, and they answered, ‘Jesus of Nazareth.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_8","073_18_8","JHN","18","8","8","‘I have already told you that I am he,’ replied Jesus, ‘so, if it is for me that you are looking, let these people go.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_9","073_18_9","JHN","18","9","9","This was in fulfilment of his words – “Of those whom you have given me I have not lost one.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_10","073_18_10","JHN","18","10","10","At this, Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_11","073_18_11","JHN","18","11","11","But Jesus said to Peter, ‘Sheathe your sword. Should I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?’ p ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_12","073_18_12","JHN","18","12","12","So the soldiers of the garrison, with their commanding officer and the Jewish guards, arrested Jesus and bound him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_13","073_18_13","JHN","18","13","13","and took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_14","073_18_14","JHN","18","14","14","It was Caiaphas who had counselled the religious authorities, that it was best that one person should die for the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_15","073_18_15","JHN","18","15","15","Meanwhile Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. That disciple, being well-known to the high priest, went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_16","073_18_16","JHN","18","16","16","while Peter stood outside by the door. Presently the other disciple – the one well-known to the high priest – went out and spoke to the portress, and brought Peter in. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_17","073_18_17","JHN","18","17","17","So the maidservant said to Peter, ‘Aren’t you also one of this man’s disciples?’ ‘No, I am not,’ he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_18","073_18_18","JHN","18","18","18","The servants and guards were standing round a charcoal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_19","073_18_19","JHN","18","19","19","The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_20","073_18_20","JHN","18","20","20","‘For my part,’ answered Jesus, ‘I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in some synagogue, or in the Temple Courts, places where everyone assembles, and I never spoke of anything in secret. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_21","073_18_21","JHN","18","21","21","Why question me? Question those who have listened to me as to what I have spoken about to them. They must know what I said.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_22","073_18_22","JHN","18","22","22","When Jesus said this, one of the guards, who was standing near, gave him a blow with his hand. ‘Do you answer the high priest like that?’ he exclaimed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_23","073_18_23","JHN","18","23","23","‘If I said anything wrong, give evidence about it,’ replied Jesus, ‘but if not, why do you strike me?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_24","073_18_24","JHN","18","24","24","Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_25","073_18_25","JHN","18","25","25","Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing there, warming himself; so they said to him, ‘Aren’t you also one of his disciples?’ Peter denied it. ‘No, I am not,’ he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_26","073_18_26","JHN","18","26","26","One of the high priest’s servants, a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, exclaimed, ‘Didn’t I myself see you with him in the garden?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_27","073_18_27","JHN","18","27","27","Peter again denied it; and at that moment a cock crowed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_28","073_18_28","JHN","18","28","28","From Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Government house. It was early in the morning. But they did not enter the Government house themselves, otherwise they might become defiled, and so be unable to eat the Passover. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_29","073_18_29","JHN","18","29","29","Therefore Pilate came outside to speak to them. ‘What charge do you bring against this man?’ he asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_30","073_18_30","JHN","18","30","30","‘If he had not been a criminal, we should not have given him up to you,’ they answered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_31","073_18_31","JHN","18","31","31","‘Take him yourselves,’ said Pilate, ‘and try him by your own Law.’ ‘We have no power to put anyone to death,’ the authorities replied – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_32","073_18_32","JHN","18","32","32","in fulfilment of what Jesus had said when indicating the death that he was destined to die. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_33","073_18_33","JHN","18","33","33","After that, Pilate went into the Government house again, and calling Jesus up, asked him, ‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_34","073_18_34","JHN","18","34","34","‘Do you ask me that yourself?’ replied Jesus, ‘or did others say it to you about me?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_35","073_18_35","JHN","18","35","35","‘Do you take me for a Jew?’ was Pilate’s answer. ‘It is your own nation and the chief priests who have given you up to me. What have you done?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_36","073_18_36","JHN","18","36","36","‘My kingly power,’ replied Jesus, ‘is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the authorities; but my kingly power is not from the world.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_37","073_18_37","JHN","18","37","37","‘So you are a king after all!’ exclaimed Pilate. ‘Yes, it is true I am a king,’ answered Jesus. ‘I was born for this, I have come into the world for this – to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_38","073_18_38","JHN","18","38","38","‘What is truth?’ exclaimed Pilate. After saying this, he went out to the crowd again, and said, ‘For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_39","073_18_39","JHN","18","39","39","It is, however, the custom for me to grant you the release of one man at the Passover Festival. Do you wish for the release of the king of the Jews?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN18_40","073_18_40","JHN","18","40","40","‘No, not this man,’ they shouted again, ‘but Barabbas!’ This Barabbas was a robber. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_1","073_19_1","JHN","19","1","1","After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_2","073_19_2","JHN","19","2","2","The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_3","073_19_3","JHN","19","3","3","They kept coming up to him and saying, ‘Long live the king of the Jews!’ and they gave him blow after blow with their hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_4","073_19_4","JHN","19","4","4","Pilate again came outside, and said to the people, ‘Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find nothing with which he can be charged.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_5","073_19_5","JHN","19","5","5","Then Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them, ‘Here is the man!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_6","073_19_6","JHN","19","6","6","When the chief priests and the guards saw him, they shouted, ‘Crucify him! Crucify him!’ ‘Take him yourselves and crucify him,’ said Pilate. ‘For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_7","073_19_7","JHN","19","7","7","‘But we,’ replied the crowd, ‘have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_8","073_19_8","JHN","19","8","8","When Pilate heard what they said, he became still more alarmed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_9","073_19_9","JHN","19","9","9","and, going into the Government house again, he said to Jesus, ‘Where do you come from?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_10","073_19_10","JHN","19","10","10","But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him, ‘Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_11","073_19_11","JHN","19","11","11","‘You would have no power over me at all,’ answered Jesus, ‘if it had not been given you from above; and, therefore, the man who betrayed me to you is guilty of the greater sin.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_12","073_19_12","JHN","19","12","12","This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the crowd shouted, ‘If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Anyone who makes himself out to be a king is setting himself against the Emperor!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_13","073_19_13","JHN","19","13","13","On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out, and took his seat on the Bench at a place called “The Stone Pavement” – in Hebrew “Gabbatha.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_14","073_19_14","JHN","19","14","14","It was the Passover Preparation day, and about noon. Then he said to the crowd, ‘Here is your king!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_15","073_19_15","JHN","19","15","15","At that the people shouted, ‘Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!’ ‘What! Should I crucify your king?’ exclaimed Pilate. ‘We have no king but the Emperor,’ replied the chief priests; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_16","073_19_16","JHN","19","16","16","so Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_30","073_19_30","JHN","19","30","30","When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed, ‘All is finished!’ Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_31","073_19_31","JHN","19","31","31","It was the Preparation day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_33","073_19_33","JHN","19","33","33","but, on coming to him, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_36","073_19_36","JHN","19","36","36","For all this happened in fulfilment of the words of scripture – “Not one of its bones will be broken.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN19_39","073_19_39","JHN","19","39","39","Nicodemus, too – the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night – came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_4","073_20_4","JHN","20","4","4","The two began running together; but the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_5","073_20_5","JHN","20","5","5","Stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_6","073_20_6","JHN","20","6","6","Presently Simon Peter came following behind him, and went into the tomb; and he looked at the linen wrappings lying there, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_7","073_20_7","JHN","20","7","7","and the cloth which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side, separately. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_9","073_20_9","JHN","20","9","9","For they did not then understand the passage of scripture which says that Jesus must rise again from the dead. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_12","073_20_12","JHN","20","12","12","and perceived two angels clothed in white sitting there, where the body of Jesus had been lying, one where the head and the other where the feet had been. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_15","073_20_15","JHN","20","15","15","‘Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?’ he asked. Supposing him to be the gardener, Mary answered, ‘If it was you, Sir, who carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away myself.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_16","073_20_16","JHN","20","16","16","‘Mary!’ said Jesus. She turned round, and exclaimed in Hebrew, ‘Rabboni!’ (or, as we should say, “teacher”). ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_20","073_20_20","JHN","20","20","20","after which he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_21","073_20_21","JHN","20","21","21","Again Jesus said to them, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his messenger, so I am sending you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_22","073_20_22","JHN","20","22","22","After saying this, he breathed on them, and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_23","073_20_23","JHN","20","23","23","if you remit anyone’s sins, they have been remitted; and, if you retain them, they have been retained.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_24","073_20_24","JHN","20","24","24","But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called “The Twin,” was not with them when Jesus came; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_25","073_20_25","JHN","20","25","25","so the rest of the disciples said to him, ‘We have seen the Master!’ ‘Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands,’ he exclaimed, ‘and put my finger into the marks, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_27","073_20_27","JHN","20","27","27","Then he said to Thomas, ‘Place your finger here, and look at my hands; and place your hand here, and put it into my side; and do not refuse to believe, but believe.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_29","073_20_29","JHN","20","29","29","‘Is it because you have seen me that you have believed?’ said Jesus. ‘Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_30","073_20_30","JHN","20","30","30","There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN20_31","073_20_31","JHN","20","31","31","but these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – and that, through your belief in his name, you may have life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_1","073_21_1","JHN","21","1","1","Later on, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_3","073_21_3","JHN","21","3","3","‘I am going fishing.’ ‘We will come with you,’ said the others. They went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_7","073_21_7","JHN","21","7","7","The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Master!’ When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he fastened his coat round him (for he had taken it off), and threw himself into the sea. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_12","073_21_12","JHN","21","12","12","‘Come and have breakfast.’, Jesus said. None of the disciples dared ask him who he was, because they knew it was the Master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_13","073_21_13","JHN","21","13","13","Jesus went and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish too. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_17","073_21_17","JHN","21","17","17","The third time, Jesus said to him, ‘Simon, son of John, are you my friend?’ Peter was hurt at his third question being “Are you my friend?”; and exclaimed, ‘Master, you know everything! You can tell that I am your friend.’ ‘Feed my sheep,’ said Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_18","073_21_18","JHN","21","18","18","‘In truth I tell you,’ he continued, ‘when you were young, you used to put on your own clothes, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while someone else puts on your clothes, and takes you where you do not wish.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_19","073_21_19","JHN","21","19","19","Jesus said this to show the death by which Peter was to honour God, and then he added, ‘Follow me.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_21","073_21_21","JHN","21","21","21","Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, what about this man?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JN21_23","073_21_23","JHN","21","23","23","So the report spread among his followers that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said ‘If it is my will that he should wait until I come, what has that to do with you?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_2","074_1_2","ACT","1","2","2","down to that day on which he was taken up to heaven, after he had, by the help of the Holy Spirit, given instructions to the apostles whom he had chosen. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_5","074_1_5","ACT","1","5","5","for, while John baptized with water, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit before many days have passed.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_6","074_1_6","ACT","1","6","6","So, when the apostles had met together, they asked Jesus this question – ‘Master, is this the time when you intend to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_8","074_1_8","ACT","1","8","8","but you will receive power, when the Holy Spirit will have descended on you, and will be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_9","074_1_9","ACT","1","9","9","No sooner had Jesus said this than he was caught up before their eyes, and a cloud received him from their sight. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_11","074_1_11","ACT","1","11","11","and said, ‘People of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the same way in which you have seen him go into the heavens.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_20","074_1_20","ACT","1","20","20","‘For in the book of Psalms,’ Peter continued, ‘it is said – “Let his home become desolate, and let no one live in it”; and also – “His office let another take.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC1_22","074_1_22","ACT","1","22","22","from his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us – someone must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_4","074_2_4","ACT","2","4","4","and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit prompted their utterances. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_5","074_2_5","ACT","2","5","5","Now there were then staying in Jerusalem religious Jews from every country in the world; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_6","074_2_6","ACT","2","6","6","and, when this sound was heard, numbers of people collected, in the greatest excitement, because each of them heard the disciples speaking in his own language. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_7","074_2_7","ACT","2","7","7","They were utterly amazed, and kept asking in astonishment, ‘What! Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_8","074_2_8","ACT","2","8","8","Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own language? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_9","074_2_9","ACT","2","9","9","Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_10","074_2_10","ACT","2","10","10","in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_11","074_2_11","ACT","2","11","11","either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians – yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own languages of the great things that God has done.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_13","074_2_13","ACT","2","13","13","But there were some who said with a sneer, ‘They have had too much new wine.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_14","074_2_14","ACT","2","14","14","Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. ‘People of Judea,’ he began, ‘and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_15","074_2_15","ACT","2","15","15","These people are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_16","074_2_16","ACT","2","16","16","This is what is spoken of in the prophet Joel – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_17","074_2_17","ACT","2","17","17","“It will come about in the last days,” God says, “That I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; your sons and your daughters will become prophets, your young men will see visions, and your old men dream dreams; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_18","074_2_18","ACT","2","18","18","yes, even on the slaves – for they are mine – both men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit, and they will become prophets; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_19","074_2_19","ACT","2","19","19","and I will show wonders in the heavens above, and signs on the earth below – blood and fire and mist of smoke; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_20","074_2_20","ACT","2","20","20","the sun will become darkness, and the moon blood-red, before the day of the Lord comes – that great and awful day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_21","074_2_21","ACT","2","21","21","Then will everyone who invokes the name of the Lord be saved.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_22","074_2_22","ACT","2","22","22","People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed among you through him, as you know full well – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_23","074_2_23","ACT","2","23","23","he, I say, in accordance with God’s definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_25","074_2_25","ACT","2","25","25","Indeed he was the one David was referring to when he said – “I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, for he stands at my right hand, so that I should not be disquieted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_26","074_2_26","ACT","2","26","26","Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_27","074_2_27","ACT","2","27","27","For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_28","074_2_28","ACT","2","28","28","You have shown me the path to life, you will fill me with gladness in your presence.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_29","074_2_29","ACT","2","29","29","Friends, I can speak to you the more confidently about the patriarch David, because he is dead and buried, and his tomb is here among us to this very day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_30","074_2_30","ACT","2","30","30","David, then, prophet as he was, knowing that God had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants on his throne, looked into the future, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_31","074_2_31","ACT","2","31","31","and referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that he had not been abandoned to Hades, nor had his body undergone corruption. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_32","074_2_32","ACT","2","32","32","It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_33","074_2_33","ACT","2","33","33","And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_34","074_2_34","ACT","2","34","34","It was not David who went up into heaven; for he himself says – “The Lord said to my master, ‘Sit on my right hand, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_35","074_2_35","ACT","2","35","35","Until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_36","074_2_36","ACT","2","36","36","So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ – this Jesus whom you crucified.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_37","074_2_37","ACT","2","37","37","When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Friends, what can we do?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_38","074_2_38","ACT","2","38","38","‘Repent,’ answered Peter, ‘and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_39","074_2_39","ACT","2","39","39","For the promise is for you and for your children, and also for all those now far away, who may be called by the Lord our God.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_40","074_2_40","ACT","2","40","40","Peter spoke to them for a long time using many other arguments and pleaded with them – ‘Save yourselves from the perverse spirit of this age.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_41","074_2_41","ACT","2","41","41","So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_42","074_2_42","ACT","2","42","42","They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the Common life of the church, to the breaking of the bread and to the Prayers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_43","074_2_43","ACT","2","43","43","A deep impression was made on everyone, and many wonders and signs were done at the hands of the apostles. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_45","074_2_45","ACT","2","45","45","they sold their property and their goods, and shared the proceeds among them all, according to their individual needs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_46","074_2_46","ACT","2","46","46","Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the breaking of bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the goodwill of all the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC2_47","074_2_47","ACT","2","47","47","And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of salvation. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_2","074_3_2","ACT","3","2","2","a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by. This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called “the Beautiful Gate,” to beg of those who went in. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_3","074_3_3","ACT","3","3","3","Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_4","074_3_4","ACT","3","4","4","Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_5","074_3_5","ACT","3","5","5","The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_6","074_3_6","ACT","3","6","6","but Peter added, ‘I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_7","074_3_7","ACT","3","7","7","Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_8","074_3_8","ACT","3","8","8","and, leaping up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_9","074_3_9","ACT","3","9","9","All the people saw him walking about and praising God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_10","074_3_10","ACT","3","10","10","and, when they recognised him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_11","074_3_11","ACT","3","11","11","While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered round them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_12","074_3_12","ACT","3","12","12","On seeing this, Peter said to the people, ‘People of Israel, why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_13","074_3_13","ACT","3","13","13","The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honour to his servant Jesus – him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_14","074_3_14","ACT","3","14","14","You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_15","074_3_15","ACT","3","15","15","The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves witnesses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_16","074_3_16","ACT","3","16","16","And it is by faith in the name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has – by his name – been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_17","074_3_17","ACT","3","17","17","And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_18","074_3_18","ACT","3","18","18","But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_19","074_3_19","ACT","3","19","19","Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_20","074_3_20","ACT","3","20","20","and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_21","074_3_21","ACT","3","21","21","But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_22","074_3_22","ACT","3","22","22","Moses himself said – “The Lord your God will raise up from among yourselves a prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_23","074_3_23","ACT","3","23","23","And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_24","074_3_24","ACT","3","24","24","Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_25","074_3_25","ACT","3","25","25","You yourselves are the heirs of the prophets, and heirs, too, of the covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham – “In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC3_26","074_3_26","ACT","3","26","26","For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_1","074_4_1","ACT","4","1","1","While Peter and John were still speaking to the people, the chief priest, with the officer in charge at the Temple and the Sadducees, came up to them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_2","074_4_2","ACT","4","2","2","much annoyed because they were teaching the people, and because, through Jesus, they were preaching the resurrection from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_3","074_4_3","ACT","4","3","3","They arrested the apostles and, as it was already evening, had them placed in custody until the next day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_4","074_4_4","ACT","4","4","4","Many, however, of those who had heard the apostles’ message became believers in Christ, the number of the men alone amounting to about five thousand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_5","074_4_5","ACT","4","5","5","The next day, a meeting of the leaders of the people, the elders, and the teachers of the Law was held in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_6","074_4_6","ACT","4","6","6","There were present Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who were of High-Priestly rank. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_7","074_4_7","ACT","4","7","7","They had Peter and John brought before them, and questioned them. ‘By what power,’ they asked, ‘Or in whose name have men like you done this thing?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_8","074_4_8","ACT","4","8","8","Then, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said, ‘Leaders of the people and elders, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_9","074_4_9","ACT","4","9","9","since we are on our trial today for a kind act done to a helpless man, and are asked in what way the man here before you has been cured, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_10","074_4_10","ACT","4","10","10","let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead – it is, I say, by his name that this man stands here before you lame no longer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_11","074_4_11","ACT","4","11","11","Jesus is “the stone which, scorned by you the builders, has yet become the corner stone.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_12","074_4_12","ACT","4","12","12","And salvation is in him alone; for there is no other name in the whole world, given to people, to which we must look for our salvation.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_13","074_4_13","ACT","4","13","13","When the Council saw how boldly Peter and John spoke, and found that they were uneducated men of humble station, they were surprised, and realised that they had been companions of Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_14","074_4_14","ACT","4","14","14","But, when they looked at the man who had been healed, standing there with them, they had nothing to say. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_16","074_4_16","ACT","4","16","16","‘What are we to do to these men?’ they asked one another. ‘That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to everyone living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_17","074_4_17","ACT","4","17","17","But, to prevent this thing from spreading further among the people, let us warn them not to speak in this name any more to anyone whatever.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_18","074_4_18","ACT","4","18","18","So they called the apostles in, and ordered them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_19","074_4_19","ACT","4","19","19","But Peter and John replied, ‘Whether it is right, in the sight of God, to listen to you rather than to him – judge for yourselves, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_20","074_4_20","ACT","4","20","20","for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_22","074_4_22","ACT","4","22","22","for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_24","074_4_24","ACT","4","24","24","All who heard their story, moved by a common impulse, raised their voices to God in prayer: ‘Sovereign Lord, it is you who has made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_25","074_4_25","ACT","4","25","25","and who, by the lips of our ancestor, your servant David, who spoke under the influence of the Holy Spirit, have said – “Why did the nations rage, and the peoples form vain designs? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_26","074_4_26","ACT","4","26","26","The kings of the earth set their array, and its rulers gathered together, against the Lord and against his Christ.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_27","074_4_27","ACT","4","27","27","There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_28","074_4_28","ACT","4","28","28","yet only to do what you, by your power and of your own will, did long ago destine to be done. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_30","074_4_30","ACT","4","30","30","while you stretch out your hand to heal, and cause signs and wonders to take place through the name of your holy servant Jesus.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC4_33","074_4_33","ACT","4","33","33","The apostles continued with great power to bear their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s blessing rested on them all abundantly. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_3","074_5_3","ACT","5","3","3","‘Ananias,’ Peter exclaimed, ‘how is it that Satan has so taken possession of your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit, and kept back a part of the money paid for the land? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_4","074_5_4","ACT","5","4","4","While it was unsold, was not it your own? And after it was sold, was not the money at your own disposal? How did you come to think of such a thing? You have lied, not to people, but to God!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_5","074_5_5","ACT","5","5","5","As Ananias heard these words, he fell down and expired; and everyone who heard of it was appalled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_6","074_5_6","ACT","5","6","6","The young men got up, and, winding the body in a sheet, carried it out and buried it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_7","074_5_7","ACT","5","7","7","After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_18","074_5_18","ACT","5","18","18","arrested the apostles, and had them placed in custody. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_19","074_5_19","ACT","5","19","19","An angel of the Lord, however, opened the prison doors at night and led them out. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_20","074_5_20","ACT","5","20","20","‘Go,’ he said, ‘and stand in the Temple Courts, and tell the people the whole message of this new life.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_23","074_5_23","ACT","5","23","23","while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_26","074_5_26","ACT","5","26","26","Then, the officer went with his men and fetched the apostles – without using violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_27","074_5_27","ACT","5","27","27","and then brought them before the Council. The high priest demanded an explanation from them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_28","074_5_28","ACT","5","28","28","‘We gave you strict orders,’ he said, ‘not to teach in this name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_29","074_5_29","ACT","5","29","29","To this Peter and the apostles replied, ‘We must obey God rather than people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_30","074_5_30","ACT","5","30","30","The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_33","074_5_33","ACT","5","33","33","The members of the Council became frantic with rage on hearing this, and were for putting the apostles to death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_34","074_5_34","ACT","5","34","34","But Gamaliel, a Pharisee, who was a Doctor of the Law and who was held in universal respect, rose in the Council, and directed that the men should be taken out of court for a little while. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_35","074_5_35","ACT","5","35","35","He then said, ‘People of Israel, take care as to what you intend to do with these men. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_36","074_5_36","ACT","5","36","36","For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_37","074_5_37","ACT","5","37","37","After him, Judas the Galilean appeared at the time of the census, and induced people to follow him; yet he, too, perished and all his followers were dispersed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_38","074_5_38","ACT","5","38","38","And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to leave them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_39","074_5_39","ACT","5","39","39","but, if they are of divine origin, you will be powerless to put an end to them – or else you may find yourselves fighting against God!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_40","074_5_40","ACT","5","40","40","The Council followed his advice, and, calling the apostles in, had them flogged, and then, after cautioning them not to speak in the name of Jesus, set them free. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC5_42","074_5_42","ACT","5","42","42","and never for a single day, either in the Temple Courts or in private houses, did they cease to teach, or to tell the good news of Jesus, the Christ. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_3","074_6_3","ACT","6","3","3","Therefore, friends, look for seven men of reputation among yourselves, wise and spiritually-minded men, and we will appoint them to attend to this matter; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_4","074_6_4","ACT","6","4","4","while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer, and to the delivery of the message.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_5","074_6_5","ACT","6","5","5","This proposal was unanimously agreed to; and the disciples chose Stephen – a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit – and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a former convert to Judaism; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_10","074_6_10","ACT","6","10","10","yet they were quite unable to withstand the wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_12","074_6_12","ACT","6","12","12","and they stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the teachers of the Law, and set on Stephen, and arrested him, and brought him before the High Council. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC6_14","074_6_14","ACT","6","14","14","indeed, we have heard him declare that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and change the customs handed down to us by Moses.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_2","074_7_2","ACT","7","2","2","Stephen replied, ‘Brothers and fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_4","074_7_4","ACT","7","4","4","And so Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father’s death, God caused him to migrate into this country, in which you are now living. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_5","074_7_5","ACT","7","5","5","God did not at that time give him any part of it, not even a foot of ground. But he promised to give him possession of it and his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_6","074_7_6","ACT","7","6","6","God’s words were these – “Abraham’s descendants will live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_8","074_7_8","ACT","7","8","8","Then God made with Abraham the covenant of circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_9","074_7_9","ACT","7","9","9","The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him, ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_15","074_7_15","ACT","7","15","15","and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_16","074_7_16","ACT","7","16","16","and their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_18","074_7_18","ACT","7","18","18","until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_19","074_7_19","ACT","7","19","19","This king acted deceitfully towards our people and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_20","074_7_20","ACT","7","20","20","It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father’s house; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_21","074_7_21","ACT","7","21","21","and, when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and brought him up as her own son. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_23","074_7_23","ACT","7","23","23","When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his fellow Israelites; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_24","074_7_24","ACT","7","24","24","and, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_25","074_7_25","ACT","7","25","25","He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_26","074_7_26","ACT","7","26","26","The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. “Men,” he said, “you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_27","074_7_27","ACT","7","27","27","But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying – “Who made you a ruler and judge over us? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_28","074_7_28","ACT","7","28","28","Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_30","074_7_30","ACT","7","30","30","Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_32","074_7_32","ACT","7","32","32","“I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Moses trembled, and did not dare to look. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_33","074_7_33","ACT","7","33","33","Then the Lord said to him – “Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_34","074_7_34","ACT","7","34","34","I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_35","074_7_35","ACT","7","35","35","This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words – “Who made you a ruler and a judge?” was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_38","074_7_38","ACT","7","38","38","He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_40","074_7_40","ACT","7","40","40","while they said to Aaron – “Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_42","074_7_42","ACT","7","42","42","So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the book of the prophets – “Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, house of Israel, all those forty years in the desert? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_43","074_7_43","ACT","7","43","43","You took with you the tent where Moloch is worshipped and the star of the god Rephan – the images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_50","074_7_50","ACT","7","50","50","Was it not my hand that made all these things?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_51","074_7_51","ACT","7","51","51","Stubborn people, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_52","074_7_52","ACT","7","52","52","Which of the prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the righteous one; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_53","074_7_53","ACT","7","53","53","you who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC7_55","074_7_55","ACT","7","55","55","He, filled as he was with the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes intently on the heavens, and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God’s right hand. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_8","074_8_8","ACT","8","8","8","so that there was great rejoicing throughout that city. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_17","074_8_17","ACT","8","17","17","Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_20","074_8_20","ACT","8","20","20","‘A curse on you and on your silver,’ Peter exclaimed, ‘for thinking that God’s free gift can be bought with money! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_21","074_8_21","ACT","8","21","21","You have no share or part in our message, for your heart is not right with God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_22","074_8_22","ACT","8","22","22","Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, that, if possible, you may be forgiven for such a thought; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_23","074_8_23","ACT","8","23","23","for I see that you have fallen into the bitterness of envy and the fetters of sin.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_25","074_8_25","ACT","8","25","25","Peter and John, having borne their testimony and delivered the Lord’s message, returned to Jerusalem, telling the good news, as they went, in many Samaritan villages. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_26","074_8_26","ACT","8","26","26","Meanwhile an angel of the Lord had said to Philip, ‘Set out on a journey southwards, along the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (It is now deserted). ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_27","074_8_27","ACT","8","27","27","So Philip set out on a journey; and on his way he came on an official of high rank, in the service of Candace, Queen of the Abyssinians. He was her treasurer, and had been to Jerusalem to worship, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_28","074_8_28","ACT","8","28","28","and was now on his way home, sitting in his carriage and reading the prophet Isaiah. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_30","074_8_30","ACT","8","30","30","So Philip ran up, and he heard the Abyssinian reading the prophet Isaiah. ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ he asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_31","074_8_31","ACT","8","31","31","‘How can I,’ the other answered, ‘unless someone will explain it to me?’ and he invited Philip to get up and sit by his side. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_32","074_8_32","ACT","8","32","32","The passage of scripture which he was reading was this – “Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_33","074_8_33","ACT","8","33","33","He was humiliated and justice was denied him. Who will tell the story of his generation? For his life is cut off from earth.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_34","074_8_34","ACT","8","34","34","‘Now,’ said the Treasurer, addressing Philip, ‘tell me, of whom is the prophet speaking? Of himself, or of someone else?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_35","074_8_35","ACT","8","35","35","Then Philip began, and, taking this passage as his text, told him the good news about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_36","074_8_36","ACT","8","36","36","Presently, as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the Treasurer exclaimed, ‘Look! Here is water; what is to prevent my being baptized?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_38","074_8_38","ACT","8","38","38"," So he ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water – both Philip and the Treasurer – and Philip baptized him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_39","074_8_39","ACT","8","39","39","But, when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the Treasurer saw no more of him; for he continued his journey with a joyful heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC8_40","074_8_40","ACT","8","40","40","But Philip was found at Ashdod, and, as he went on his way, he told the good news in all the towns through which he passed, until he came to Caesarea. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_1","074_9_1","ACT","9","1","1","Meanwhile Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_5","074_9_5","ACT","9","5","5","‘Who are you, Lord?’ he asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the voice answered; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_6","074_9_6","ACT","9","6","6","‘Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_11","074_9_11","ACT","9","11","11","‘Go at once,’ said the Lord, ‘to the Straight Street, and ask at Judas’s house for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. He is at this moment praying, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_12","074_9_12","ACT","9","12","12","and he has seen, in a vision, a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him, so that he may recover his sight.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_13","074_9_13","ACT","9","13","13","‘Lord,’ exclaimed Ananias, ‘I have heard from many people about this man – how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your people there. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_15","074_9_15","ACT","9","15","15","But the Lord said to him, ‘Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_16","074_9_16","ACT","9","16","16","I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my name.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_17","074_9_17","ACT","9","17","17","So Ananias went, entered the house, and, placing his hands on Saul, said, ‘Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord – by Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here – so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_20","074_9_20","ACT","9","20","20","and at once began in the synagogues to proclaim Jesus as the Son of God. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_24","074_9_24","ACT","9","24","24","but it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_25","074_9_25","ACT","9","25","25","but his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_27","074_9_27","ACT","9","27","27","Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the name of Jesus. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_32","074_9_32","ACT","9","32","32","Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the people of Christ living at Lydda. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_35","074_9_35","ACT","9","35","35","and all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord’s side. p ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_36","074_9_36","ACT","9","36","36","At Joppa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek “Dorcas” – a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_39","074_9_39","ACT","9","39","39","Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came round him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_40","074_9_40","ACT","9","40","40","But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said, ‘Tabitha! Stand up.’ She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_41","074_9_41","ACT","9","41","41","Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ’s people, presented her to them alive. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC9_42","074_9_42","ACT","9","42","42","This became known all through Joppa, and numbers of people came to believe in the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_3","074_10_3","ACT","10","3","3","One afternoon, about three o’clock, he distinctly saw in a vision an angel from God come to him, and call him by name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_4","074_10_4","ACT","10","4","4","Cornelius fixed his eyes on him and, in great alarm, said, ‘What is it, Lord?’ ‘Your prayers and your charities,’ the angel answered, ‘have been an acceptable offering to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_5","074_10_5","ACT","10","5","5","And now, send messengers to Joppa and fetch a man called Simon, who is also known as Peter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_6","074_10_6","ACT","10","6","6","He is lodging with a tanner named Simon, who has a house near the sea.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_7","074_10_7","ACT","10","7","7","When the angel, who had spoken to him, had gone, Cornelius called two servants and a religious soldier, who was one of his constant attendants, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_8","074_10_8","ACT","10","8","8","and, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_11","074_10_11","ACT","10","11","11","and saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_14","074_10_14","ACT","10","14","14","‘No, Lord, I cannot,’ answered Peter, ‘for I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_16","074_10_16","ACT","10","16","16","This happened three times, and then suddenly it was all taken up into the heavens. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_17","074_10_17","ACT","10","17","17","While Peter was still perplexed as to the meaning of the vision that he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius, having enquired the way to Simon’s house, came up to the gate, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_18","074_10_18","ACT","10","18","18","and called out and asked if the Simon, who was also known as Peter, was lodging there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_19","074_10_19","ACT","10","19","19","Peter was still pondering over the vision, when the Spirit said to him, ‘There are two men looking for you at this moment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_20","074_10_20","ACT","10","20","20","Go down at once and do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_21","074_10_21","ACT","10","21","21","Peter went down to the men and said, ‘I am the person you are looking for. What is your reason for coming?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_24","074_10_24","ACT","10","24","24","and the day following he entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them, and had invited his relatives and intimate friends to meet them. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC10_38","074_10_38","ACT","10","38","38","the story, I mean, of Jesus of Nazareth, and how God consecrated him his Christ by enduing him with the Holy Spirit and with power; and how he went about doing good and curing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_4","074_11_4","ACT","11","4","4","So Peter began to relate the facts to them as they had occurred. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_5","074_11_5","ACT","11","5","5","‘I was in the town of Joppa,’ he said, ‘and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_6","074_11_6","ACT","11","6","6","Looking intently at it, I began to distinguish quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_7","074_11_7","ACT","11","7","7","and I also heard a voice saying to me – “Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_8","074_11_8","ACT","11","8","8","“No, Lord, I cannot,” I answered, “for nothing defiled or unclean has ever passed my lips.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_9","074_11_9","ACT","11","9","9","Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. “What God has pronounced clean”, it said, “you must not call defiled.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_12","074_11_12","ACT","11","12","12","The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six companions also went with me. And, when we came into the man’s house, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_13","074_11_13","ACT","11","13","13","he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and how the angel had said to him – “Send to Joppa and fetch the Simon, who is also known as Peter; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_15","074_11_15","ACT","11","15","15","I had but just begun to speak,’ continued Peter, ‘when the Holy Spirit fell on them, exactly as on us at the first; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_16","074_11_16","ACT","11","16","16","and I recalled the saying of the Master – “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_18","074_11_18","ACT","11","18","18","On hearing this statement, they said no more, but broke out into praise of God. ‘So even to the Gentiles,’ they exclaimed, ‘God has granted the repentance which leads to life!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_19","074_11_19","ACT","11","19","19","Now those who had been scattered in different directions, in consequence of the persecution that followed the death of Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message – but only to Jews. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC11_26","074_11_26","ACT","11","26","26","and, when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And so it came about that, for a whole year, they attended the meetings of the church there, and taught a large number of people; and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_3","074_12_3","ACT","12","3","3","and, when he saw that the Jews were pleased with this, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of the unleavened bread.) ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_6","074_12_6","ACT","12","6","6","Just when Herod was intending to bring him before the people, on that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, chained to them both, while there were sentries in front of the door, guarding the prison. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_7","074_12_7","ACT","12","7","7","Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. The angel struck Peter on the side, and roused him with the words, ‘Get up quickly.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_8","074_12_8","ACT","12","8","8","The chains dropped from his wrists, and then the angel said, ‘Put on your belt and sandals.’ When Peter had done so, the angel added, ‘Throw your cloak round you and follow me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_9","074_12_9","ACT","12","9","9","Peter followed him out, not knowing that what was happening under the angel’s guidance was real, but thinking that he was seeing a vision. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_10","074_12_10","ACT","12","10","10","Passing the first Guard, and then the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of itself; and, when they had passed through that, and had walked along one street, all at once the angel left him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_12","074_12_12","ACT","12","12","12","As soon as he realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also known as Mark, where a number of people were gathered together, praying. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_17","074_12_17","ACT","12","17","17","Peter signed to them with his hand to be silent, and then told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, adding, ‘Tell James and the others all this.’ Then he left the house, and went away to another place. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_20","074_12_20","ACT","12","20","20","It happened that Herod was deeply offended with the people of Tyre and Sidon, but they went in a body to him, and, having succeeded in winning over Blastus, the Chamberlain, they begged Herod for a reconciliation, because their country was dependent on the king’s for its food supply. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_23","074_12_23","ACT","12","23","23","Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was attacked with worms, and died. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC12_25","074_12_25","ACT","12","25","25","When Barnabas and Saul had carried out their mission, they returned to Jerusalem, and took with them John, who was also known as Mark. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_2","074_13_2","ACT","13","2","2","While they were engaged in the worship of the Lord and were fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_4","074_13_4","ACT","13","4","4","Barnabas and Saul, sent on this mission, as they were, by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed to Cyprus. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_6","074_13_6","ACT","13","6","6","After passing through the whole island, they reached Paphos, where they found an astrologer who pretended to be a prophet – a Jew by birth, whose name was Barjoshua. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_9","074_13_9","ACT","13","9","9","However, Saul (who is the same as Paul), full of the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on him and said, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_10","074_13_10","ACT","13","10","10","‘You incarnation of deceit and all fraud! You son of the devil! You opponent of all that is good! Will you never cease to divert the straight paths of the Lord? Listen! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_11","074_13_11","ACT","13","11","11","The hand of the Lord is on you even now, and you will be blind for a time and unable to see the sun.’ Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went feeling about for someone to guide him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_12","074_13_12","ACT","13","12","12","When the Governor saw what had happened, he became a believer in Christ, being greatly impressed by the teaching about the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_14","074_13_14","ACT","13","14","14","The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_15","074_13_15","ACT","13","15","15","After the reading of the Law and the prophets, the synagogue leader sent them this message – ‘Friends, if you have any helpful words to address to the people, now is the time to speak.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_16","074_13_16","ACT","13","16","16","So Paul rose and, motioning with his hand, said: ‘People of Israel and all here who worship God, hear what I have to say. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_17","074_13_17","ACT","13","17","17","The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, and during their stay in Egypt increased the prosperity of the people, and then with uplifted arm brought them out from that land. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_18","074_13_18","ACT","13","18","18","For about forty years he bore with them in the desert; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_19","074_13_19","ACT","13","19","19","then, after destroying seven heathen nations in Canaan, he allotted their land to this people – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_22","074_13_22","ACT","13","22","22","After removing him, he raised David to the throne, and bore this testimony to him – “In David, the son of Jesse, I have found a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my purposes.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_23","074_13_23","ACT","13","23","23","It was from this man’s descendants that God, in accordance with his promise, gave Israel a Saviour – Jesus; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_24","074_13_24","ACT","13","24","24","John having first proclaimed, before the appearance of Jesus, a baptism on repentance for all the people of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_25","074_13_25","ACT","13","25","25","As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said “What do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is ‘one coming’ after me, whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_26","074_13_26","ACT","13","26","26","Brothers and sisters, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who worship God, it was to us that the message of this salvation was sent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_27","074_13_27","ACT","13","27","27","The people of Jerusalem and their leaders, failing to recognise Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_29","074_13_29","ACT","13","29","29","and, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_30","074_13_30","ACT","13","30","30","But God raised him from the dead; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_31","074_13_31","ACT","13","31","31","and he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and who are now witnesses for him to the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_32","074_13_32","ACT","13","32","32","We also have good news to tell you, about the promise made to our ancestors – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_33","074_13_33","ACT","13","33","33","That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm – “You are my Son; this day I have become your Father.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_34","074_13_34","ACT","13","34","34","As to his raising Jesus from the dead, never again to return to corruption, this is what is said – “I will give to you the sacred promises made to David;” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_35","074_13_35","ACT","13","35","35","And, therefore, in another Psalm it is said – “You will not give up the Holy One to undergo corruption.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_37","074_13_37","ACT","13","37","37","but Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, did not undergo corruption. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_38","074_13_38","ACT","13","38","38","I would, therefore, like you to know, friends, that through Jesus forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_39","074_13_39","ACT","13","39","39","and that, in union with him, everyone who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the Law of Moses you could not be absolved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_40","074_13_40","ACT","13","40","40","Beware, therefore, that what is said in the prophets does not come true of you – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_41","074_13_41","ACT","13","41","41","“Look, you despisers, and wonder, and perish; for I am doing a deed in your days – a deed which, though told you in full, you will never believe”.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_42","074_13_42","ACT","13","42","42","As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people begged for a repetition of this teaching on the next Sabbath. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_47","074_13_47","ACT","13","47","47","For this is the Lord’s command to us – “I have destined you for a light to the Gentiles, a means of salvation to the ends of the earth”.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_49","074_13_49","ACT","13","49","49","and the Lord’s message was carried throughout that district. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC13_52","074_13_52","ACT","13","52","52","and went to Iconium, leaving the disciples full of joy and of the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_1","074_14_1","ACT","14","1","1","The same thing occurred in Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed in Christ. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_6","074_14_6","ACT","14","6","6","the apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district round, ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_11","074_14_11","ACT","14","11","11","and the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language, ‘The Gods have come down to us in human form.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_22","074_14_22","ACT","14","22","22","reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the kingdom of God. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_25","074_14_25","ACT","14","25","25","and, after telling the message at Perga, went down to Attaleia. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC14_26","074_14_26","ACT","14","26","26","From there they sailed to Antioch – the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC15_8","074_15_8","ACT","15","8","8","Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC15_26","074_15_26","ACT","15","26","26","who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC16_6","074_16_6","ACT","16","6","6","They next went through the Phrygian district of Galatia, but were restrained by the Holy Spirit from delivering the message in Roman Asia. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC16_15","074_16_15","ACT","16","15","15","and, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests. ‘Since you have shown your conviction,’ she said, ‘that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.’ And she insisted on our doing so. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC18_10","074_18_10","ACT","18","10","10","for I am with you, and no one will do you harm, for I have many people in this city.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC18_15","074_18_15","ACT","18","15","15","but, since it is a dispute about words, and names, and your own Law, you must see to it yourselves. I do not choose to be a judge in such matters.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC18_28","074_18_28","ACT","18","28","28","for he vigorously confuted the Jews, publicly proving by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_2","074_19_2","ACT","19","2","2","‘Did you, when you became believers in Christ, receive the Holy Spirit?’ ‘No,’ they answered, ‘we did not even hear that there was a Holy Spirit.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_3","074_19_3","ACT","19","3","3","‘What then was your baptism?’ Paul asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_4","074_19_4","ACT","19","4","4","‘John’s baptism was a baptism on repentance,’ rejoined Paul, ‘and John told the people (speaking of the “one coming” after him) that they should believe in him – that is in Jesus.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_15","074_19_15","ACT","19","15","15","but the wicked spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you – who are you?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_19","074_19_19","ACT","19","19","19","while a number of people, who had practiced magic, collected their books and burnt them publicly; and on reckoning up the price of these, they found it amounted to fifty thousand silver coins. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_26","074_19_26","ACT","19","26","26","and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers of people, by his assertion that those Gods which are made by hands are not Gods at all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC19_27","074_19_27","ACT","19","27","27","So that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the Temple of the great Goddess Artemis will be thought nothing of, and that she herself will be deprived of her splendour – though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_6","074_20_6","ACT","20","6","6","while we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the Passover, and joined them five days later at Troas, where we stayed for a week. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_29","074_20_29","ACT","20","29","29","I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_30","074_20_30","ACT","20","30","30","and from among yourselves, too, people will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_31","074_20_31","ACT","20","31","31","Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_32","074_20_32","ACT","20","32","32","And now I commend you to the Lord and to the message of his love – a message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_33","074_20_33","ACT","20","33","33","I have never coveted anyone’s gold or silver or clothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_34","074_20_34","ACT","20","34","34","You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_35","074_20_35","ACT","20","35","35","I left nothing undone to show you that, labouring as I laboured, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself – “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_36","074_20_36","ACT","20","36","36","When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down and prayed with them all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_37","074_20_37","ACT","20","37","37","All were in tears; and throwing their arms round Paul’s neck, they kissed him again and again, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC20_38","074_20_38","ACT","20","38","38","grieving most of all over what he had said – that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_1","074_21_1","ACT","21","1","1","When we had torn ourselves away and had set sail, we ran before the wind to Cos; the next day we came to Rhodes, and from there to Patara, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_2","074_21_2","ACT","21","2","2","where we found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, and went on board and set sail. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_3","074_21_3","ACT","21","3","3","After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on the left, we sailed to Syria, and put into Tyre, where the ship was to discharge her cargo. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_4","074_21_4","ACT","21","4","4","There we found the disciples and stayed a week with them. Speaking under the influence of the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_6","074_21_6","ACT","21","6","6","and then said goodbye to one another; after which we went on board, and they returned home. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_7","074_21_7","ACT","21","7","7","After we had made the run from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, and exchanged greetings with the followers there, and spent a day with them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_8","074_21_8","ACT","21","8","8","The next day we left, and reached Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip, the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_9","074_21_9","ACT","21","9","9","He had four unmarried daughters, who had the gift of prophecy. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_11","074_21_11","ACT","21","11","11","He came to see us, and, taking Paul’s belt, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says – “The man to whom this belt belongs will be bound like this by the religious authorities in Jerusalem, and they will give him up to the Gentiles”.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_13","074_21_13","ACT","21","13","13","It was then that Paul made the reply, ‘Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_14","074_21_14","ACT","21","14","14","So, as he would not be persuaded, we said no more to him, only adding – ‘The Lord’s will be done.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_15","074_21_15","ACT","21","15","15","At the end of our visit, we made our preparations, and started on our way up to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_16","074_21_16","ACT","21","16","16","Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, and brought Mnason with them, a Cypriot disciple of long standing, with whom we were to stay. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_18","074_21_18","ACT","21","18","18","and the next day Paul went with us to see James, and all the church elders were present. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_20","074_21_20","ACT","21","20","20","and, when they had heard it, they began praising God, and said to Paul: ‘You see, brother, that those of our people who have become believers in Christ may be numbered by tens of thousands, and they are all naturally earnest in upholding the Jewish Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_21","074_21_21","ACT","21","21","21","Now they have heard it said about you, that you teach all of our people in foreign countries to forsake Moses, for you tell them not to circumcise their children or even to observe Jewish customs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_22","074_21_22","ACT","21","22","22","Well now, as they are certain to hear of your arrival, do what we are going to suggest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_23","074_21_23","ACT","21","23","23","We have four men here, who have of their own accord put themselves under a vow. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_24","074_21_24","ACT","21","24","24","Join these men, share their purification, and bear their expenses, so that they may shave their heads; and then all will see that there is no truth in what they have been told about you, but that, on the contrary, you yourself rule your life in obedience to the Jewish Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_25","074_21_25","ACT","21","25","25","As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_26","074_21_26","ACT","21","26","26","Paul joined the men, and the next day shared their purification, and went into the Temple, and gave notice of the expiration of the period of purification when the usual offering should have been made on behalf of each of them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_27","074_21_27","ACT","21","27","27","But, just as the seven days were drawing to a close, some of the Jewish people from Roman Asia caught sight of Paul in the Temple, and caused great excitement among all the people present, by seizing Paul and shouting, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_28","074_21_28","ACT","21","28","28","‘People of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our Law, and this place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_29","074_21_29","ACT","21","29","29","(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in Paul’s company in the city, and were under the belief that Paul had taken him into the Temple.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_30","074_21_30","ACT","21","30","30","The whole city was stirred, and the people quickly collected, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, when the doors were immediately shut. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_31","074_21_31","ACT","21","31","31","They were bent on killing him, when it was reported to the officer commanding the garrison, that all Jerusalem was in commotion. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_32","074_21_32","ACT","21","32","32","He instantly got together some officers and soldiers, and charged down on the crowd, who, when they saw the commanding officer and his soldiers, stopped beating Paul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_33","074_21_33","ACT","21","33","33","Then he went up to Paul, arrested him, ordered him to be doubly chained, and proceeded to inquire who he was, and what he had been doing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_34","074_21_34","ACT","21","34","34","Some of the crowd said one thing, and some another; and, as he could get no definite reply because of the uproar, he ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_35","074_21_35","ACT","21","35","35","When Paul reached the steps, he was actually being carried by the soldiers, owing to the violence of the mob; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_36","074_21_36","ACT","21","36","36","for the people were following in a mass, shouting out, ‘Kill him!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_37","074_21_37","ACT","21","37","37","Just as he was about to be taken into the Fort, Paul said to the commanding officer, ‘May I speak to you?’ ‘Do you know Greek?’ asked the commanding officer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_38","074_21_38","ACT","21","38","38","‘Aren’t you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the wilderness?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_39","074_21_39","ACT","21","39","39","‘No,’ said Paul, ‘I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a city of some note. I beg you to give me permission to speak to the people.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC21_40","074_21_40","ACT","21","40","40","The commanding officer gave his permission, and Paul, standing on the steps, made signs with his hand to the people, and, when comparative silence had been obtained, he said to them in Hebrew: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_1","074_22_1","ACT","22","1","1","‘Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence which I am about to make.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_2","074_22_2","ACT","22","2","2","When they heard that he was speaking to them in Hebrew, they were still more quiet; and Paul went on: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_3","074_22_3","ACT","22","3","3","‘I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, but I was brought up in this city under the teaching of Gamaliel, and educated in accordance with the strict system of our ancestral Law. I was as zealous in God’s service as any of you who are here today. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_4","074_22_4","ACT","22","4","4","In my persecution of this Way I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_5","074_22_5","ACT","22","5","5","And to that the high priest himself and all the council of elders can testify. For I had letters of introduction from them to our fellow Jews at Damascus, and I was on my way to that place, to bring those whom I might find there prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_6","074_22_6","ACT","22","6","6","While I was still on my way, just as I was getting close to Damascus, about midday, suddenly there flashed from the heavens a great light all round me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_7","074_22_7","ACT","22","7","7","I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_8","074_22_8","ACT","22","8","8","“Who are you, Lord?” I replied. Then the voice said “I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_9","074_22_9","ACT","22","9","9","The men with me saw the light, but did not hear the speaker’s voice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_10","074_22_10","ACT","22","10","10","Then I said “What am I to do, Lord?” “Get up and go into Damascus,” The Lord said to me, “and there you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_11","074_22_11","ACT","22","11","11","In consequence of that dazzling light I could not see, but my companions held me by the hand, until I reached Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_12","074_22_12","ACT","22","12","12","There a man named Ananias, a strict observer of our Law, well spoken of by all the Jewish inhabitants, came to see me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_13","074_22_13","ACT","22","13","13","Standing close to me, he said “Saul, my brother, recover your sight.” And then and there I recovered my sight and looked up at him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_14","074_22_14","ACT","22","14","14","Then he said “The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the righteous one, and to hear words from his lips; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_15","074_22_15","ACT","22","15","15","for you will be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_16","074_22_16","ACT","22","16","16","And now why wait any longer, Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his name.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_17","074_22_17","ACT","22","17","17","After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_18","074_22_18","ACT","22","18","18","and saw Jesus saying to me “Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_19","074_22_19","ACT","22","19","19","“Lord,” I answered, “these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in synagogue after synagogue, those who believed in you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_20","074_22_20","ACT","22","20","20","and, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_21","074_22_21","ACT","22","21","21","But Jesus said to me “Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away”.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_22","074_22_22","ACT","22","22","22","Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out, ‘Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_23","074_22_23","ACT","22","23","23","As they were shouting, tearing off their clothes, and throwing dust in the air, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_24","074_22_24","ACT","22","24","24","the commanding officer ordered Paul to be taken into the Fort, and directed that he should be examined under the lash so that he might find out the reason for their outcry against him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_25","074_22_25","ACT","22","25","25","But just as they had tied him up to be scourged, Paul said to the centurion standing near, ‘Is it legal for you to scourge a Roman citizen, unconvicted?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_26","074_22_26","ACT","22","26","26","On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commanding officer. ‘Do you know what you are doing?’ he said. ‘This man is a Roman citizen.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_27","074_22_27","ACT","22","27","27","So the commanding officer went up to Paul and said, ‘Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?’ ‘Yes,’ replied Paul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_28","074_22_28","ACT","22","28","28","‘I had to pay a heavy price for my position as citizen,’ said the officer. ‘I am one by birth,’ rejoined Paul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_29","074_22_29","ACT","22","29","29","The men who were to have examined Paul immediately drew back, and the officer, finding that Paul was a Roman citizen, was alarmed at having put him in chains. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC22_30","074_22_30","ACT","22","30","30","On the next day the commanding officer, wishing to find out the real reason why Paul was denounced by the Jewish leaders, had his chains taken off, and directed the chief priests and the whole of the High Council to assemble, and then took Paul down and brought him before them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_1","074_23_1","ACT","23","1","1","Paul fixed his eyes on the Council, and began: ‘Brothers, for my part, I have always ordered my life before God, with a clear conscience, up to this very day.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_2","074_23_2","ACT","23","2","2","At this, the high priest Ananias ordered the men standing near to strike him on the mouth; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_3","074_23_3","ACT","23","3","3","Paul turned to him and said: ‘God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to try me in accordance with law, and yet, in defiance of law, order me to be struck?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_4","074_23_4","ACT","23","4","4","The people standing near said to Paul, ‘Do you know that you are insulting God’s high priest?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_5","074_23_5","ACT","23","5","5","‘I did not know, brothers, that it was the high priest,’ said Paul, ‘for scripture says – “Of the ruler of your people you should speak no ill”.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_6","074_23_6","ACT","23","6","6","Noticing that some of those present were Sadducees and others Pharisees, Paul called out in the Council, ‘Brothers, I am a Pharisee and a son of Pharisees. It is on the question of hope for the dead and of their resurrection that I am on my trial.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_8","074_23_8","ACT","23","8","8","(For Sadducees say there is no such thing as a resurrection, and that there is neither angel nor spirit, while Pharisees believe in both.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_9","074_23_9","ACT","23","9","9","So a great uproar ensued, and some of the Teachers of the Law belonging to the Pharisees’ party stood up and hotly protested, ‘We find nothing whatever wrong in this man. Suppose a spirit did speak to him, or an angel…’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_10","074_23_10","ACT","23","10","10","The dispute was becoming so violent, that the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces between them, ordered the Guard to go down and rescue him from them, and take him into the Fort. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_11","074_23_11","ACT","23","11","11","That night the Lord came and stood by Paul, and said, ‘Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem and you must bear witness in Rome also.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_12","074_23_12","ACT","23","12","12","In the morning some Jewish men combined together, and took an oath that they would not eat or drink until they had killed Paul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_13","074_23_13","ACT","23","13","13","There were more than forty in the plot; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_14","074_23_14","ACT","23","14","14","and they went to the chief priests and the elders, and said, ‘We have taken a solemn oath not to touch food until we have killed Paul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_15","074_23_15","ACT","23","15","15","So we want you now, with the consent of the Council, to suggest to the commanding officer that he should bring Paul down before you, as though you intended to go more fully into his case; but, before he comes here, we will be ready to make away with him.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_16","074_23_16","ACT","23","16","16","However, the son of Paul’s sister, hearing of the plot, went to the Fort, and on being admitted, told Paul about it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_17","074_23_17","ACT","23","17","17","Paul called one of the garrison centurion and asked him to take the lad to the commanding officer, as he had something to tell him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_18","074_23_18","ACT","23","18","18","The centurion went with the lad to the commanding officer, and said, ‘The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this lad to you, as he has something to tell you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_19","074_23_19","ACT","23","19","19","The commanding officer took the lad by the hand, and, stepping aside, asked what it was he had to tell him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_20","074_23_20","ACT","23","20","20","‘Some men have agreed,’ answered the lad, ‘to ask you to bring Paul down before the Council tomorrow, on the plea of your making further inquiry into his case. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_21","074_23_21","ACT","23","21","21","But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, who have taken an oath that they will not eat or drink, until they have made away with him; and they are at this very moment in readiness, counting on your promise.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_24","074_23_24","ACT","23","24","24","and to have horses ready for Paul to ride, so that they might take him safely to Felix, the Governor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_25","074_23_25","ACT","23","25","25","He also wrote a letter along these lines: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_26","074_23_26","ACT","23","26","26","“Claudius Lysias sends his compliments to His Excellency Felix the Governor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_27","074_23_27","ACT","23","27","27","The man whom I send with this had been seized by some Jews, and was on the point of being killed by them, when I came upon them with the force under my command, and rescued him, as I learned that he was a Roman citizen. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_29","074_23_29","ACT","23","29","29","when I found that their charges were connected with questions of their own Law, and that there was nothing alleged involving either death or imprisonment. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_32","074_23_32","ACT","23","32","32","and on the next day, leaving the troopers to go on with him, they returned to the Fort. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC23_35","074_23_35","ACT","23","35","35","‘I will hear all you have to say as soon as your accusers have arrived.’ And he ordered Paul to be kept under guard in Herod’s Government house. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_2","074_24_2","ACT","24","2","2","and, when the hearing came on, Tertullus began his speech for the prosecution. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_3","074_24_3","ACT","24","3","3","‘We owe it to your Excellency,’ he said, ‘that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms – advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_4","074_24_4","ACT","24","4","4","But – not to be tedious – I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_5","074_24_5","ACT","24","5","5","We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among our people all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_6","074_24_6","ACT","24","6","6","He even attempted to desecrate the Temple itself, but we caught him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_8","074_24_8","ACT","24","8","8"," and you will be able, by examining him on all these points, to satisfy yourself as to the charges which we are bringing against him.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_9","074_24_9","ACT","24","9","9","The Jewish crowd also joined in the attack and bore out his statements. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_10","074_24_10","ACT","24","10","10","On a sign from the Governor, Paul made this reply: ‘Knowing, as I do, for how many years you have acted as judge to this nation, it is with confidence that I undertake my own defence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_11","074_24_11","ACT","24","11","11","For you can easily verify that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship at Jerusalem, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_12","074_24_12","ACT","24","12","12","where my prosecutors never found me holding discussions with anyone, or causing a crowd to collect – either in the Temple, or in the synagogues, or about the city; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_13","074_24_13","ACT","24","13","13","and they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_14","074_24_14","ACT","24","14","14","This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Way which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_15","074_24_15","ACT","24","15","15","and I have a hope that rests in God – a hope which they also cherish – that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_16","074_24_16","ACT","24","16","16","This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_17","074_24_17","ACT","24","17","17","After some years’ absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_18","074_24_18","ACT","24","18","18","and it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_19","074_24_19","ACT","24","19","19","There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_20","074_24_20","ACT","24","20","20","Or else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_21","074_24_21","ACT","24","21","21","except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them – “It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you today”.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_22","074_24_22","ACT","24","22","22","Felix, however, adjourned the case – though he had a fairly accurate knowledge of all that concerned the Way – with the promise, ‘When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will give my decision in your case.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_23","074_24_23","ACT","24","23","23","So he gave orders to the centurion in charge of Paul to keep him in custody, but to relax the regulations, and not to prevent any of his personal friends from attending to his wants. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_24","074_24_24","ACT","24","24","24","Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and, sending for Paul, listened to what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_25","074_24_25","ACT","24","25","25","But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him – ‘Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_26","074_24_26","ACT","24","26","26","He was hoping, too, for a bribe from Paul, and so he used to send for him frequently and talk with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC24_27","074_24_27","ACT","24","27","27","But, after the lapse of two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and, wishing to gain popularity with the Jewish leaders, he left Paul a prisoner. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_1","074_25_1","ACT","25","1","1","Three days after Festus had arrived in his province, he left Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_3","074_25_3","ACT","25","3","3","and asked a favour of him, to Paul’s injury – to have Paul brought to Jerusalem. All the while they were plotting to make away with him on the road. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_5","074_25_5","ACT","25","5","5","‘So let the influential men among you,’ he said, ‘go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, charge him formally with it.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_6","074_25_6","ACT","25","6","6","After staying among them some eight or ten days, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he took his seat on the Bench, and ordered Paul to be brought before him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_7","074_25_7","ACT","25","7","7","On Paul’s appearance, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made many serious charges, which they failed to establish. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_8","074_25_8","ACT","25","8","8","Paul’s answer to the charge was – “I have not committed any offence against the Jewish Law, or the Temple, or the Emperor.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_9","074_25_9","ACT","25","9","9","But, as Festus wished to gain popularity with the Jews, he interrupted Paul with the question, ‘Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges before me there?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_11","074_25_11","ACT","25","11","11","If, however, I am breaking the law and have committed any offence deserving death, I do not ask to escape the penalty; but, if there is nothing in the accusations of these people, no one has the power to give me up to them. I appeal to the Emperor.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_12","074_25_12","ACT","25","12","12","Festus, after conferring with his Council, answered, ‘You have appealed to the Emperor; to the Emperor you will go.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_13","074_25_13","ACT","25","13","13","Some days later King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea, and paid a visit of congratulation to Festus; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_14","074_25_14","ACT","25","14","14","and, as they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king. ‘There is a man here,’ he said, ‘left a prisoner by Felix, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_15","074_25_15","ACT","25","15","15","about whom, when I came to Jerusalem, the Jewish chief priest and the elders laid an information, demanding judgment against him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_16","074_25_16","ACT","25","16","16","My answer to them was, that it was not the practice of Romans to give up anyone to their accusers until the accused had met them face to face, and had also had an opportunity of answering the charges brought against them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_17","074_25_17","ACT","25","17","17","So they met here, and without loss of time I took my seat on the Bench the very next day, and ordered the man to be brought before me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_18","074_25_18","ACT","25","18","18","But, when his accusers came forward, they brought no charge of wrongdoing such as I had expected; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_19","074_25_19","ACT","25","19","19","but I found that there were certain questions in dispute between them about their own religion, and about some dead man called Jesus, whom Paul declared to be alive. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_20","074_25_20","ACT","25","20","20","And, as I was at a loss how to enquire into questions of this kind, I asked Paul if he were willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be put on trial there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_21","074_25_21","ACT","25","21","21","Paul, however, appealed to have his case reserved for the consideration of his August Majesty, so I ordered him to be detained in custody, until I could send him to the Emperor.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_22","074_25_22","ACT","25","22","22","‘I should like to hear this man myself,’ Agrippa said to Festus. ‘You will hear him tomorrow,’ Festus answered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_23","074_25_23","ACT","25","23","23","So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come in full state and had entered the Audience Chamber, with the superior officers and the principal people of the city, by the order of Festus Paul was brought before them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_24","074_25_24","ACT","25","24","24","Then Festus said, ‘King Agrippa, and all here present, you see before you the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly asserting that he ought not to be allowed to live. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_25","074_25_25","ACT","25","25","25","I found, however, that he had not done anything deserving death; so, as he had himself appealed to his August Majesty, I decided to send him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC25_26","074_25_26","ACT","25","26","26","But I have nothing definite to write about him to my Imperial Master; and for that reason I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examining him, I may have something to write. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_1","074_26_1","ACT","26","1","1","Turning to Paul, Agrippa said, ‘You are at liberty to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_3","074_26_3","ACT","26","3","3","especially as you are so well-versed in all the customs and questions of the Jewish world. I beg you therefore to give me a patient hearing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_4","074_26_4","ACT","26","4","4","My life, then, from youth upwards, was passed, from the very first, among my own nation, and in Jerusalem, and is within the knowledge of all Jews; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_5","074_26_5","ACT","26","5","5","and they have always known – if they choose to give evidence – that, in accordance with the very strictest form of our religion, I lived a true Pharisee. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_6","074_26_6","ACT","26","6","6","Even now, it is because of my hope in the promise given by God to our ancestors that I stand here on my trial – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_7","074_26_7","ACT","26","7","7","A promise which our twelve tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused – and by Jews themselves! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_8","074_26_8","ACT","26","8","8","Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_9","074_26_9","ACT","26","9","9","I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the name of Jesus of Nazareth; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_10","074_26_10","ACT","26","10","10","and I actually did so at Jerusalem. Acting on the authority of the chief priests, I myself threw many of the people of Christ into prison, and, when it was proposed to put them to death, I gave my vote for it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_11","074_26_11","ACT","26","11","11","Time after time, in every synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_12","074_26_12","ACT","26","12","12","It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the chief priests, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_13","074_26_13","ACT","26","13","13","that at midday, your Majesty, I saw right in my path, coming from the heavens, a light brighter than the glare of the sun, which shone all round me and those traveling with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_14","074_26_14","ACT","26","14","14","We all fell to the ground, and then I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew – “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? By kicking against the goad you are punishing yourself.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_15","074_26_15","ACT","26","15","15","“Who are you, Lord?” I asked. And the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_16","074_26_16","ACT","26","16","16","but get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I will yet appear to you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_17","074_26_17","ACT","26","17","17","since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_18","074_26_18","ACT","26","18","18","to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God’s people, by faith in me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_19","074_26_19","ACT","26","19","19","After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_20","074_26_20","ACT","26","20","20","on the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_21","074_26_21","ACT","26","21","21","This is why some men seized me in the Temple, and made attempts on my life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_22","074_26_22","ACT","26","22","22","However I have received help from God to this very day, and so stand here, and bear my testimony to high and low alike – without adding a word to what the prophets, as well as Moses, declared should happen – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_23","074_26_23","ACT","26","23","23","That the Christ must suffer, and that, by rising from the dead, he was destined to be the first to bring news of light, not only to our nation, but also to the Gentiles.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_24","074_26_24","ACT","26","24","24","While Paul was making this defence, Festus called out loudly, ‘You are mad, Paul; your great learning is driving you mad.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_26","074_26_26","ACT","26","26","26","Indeed, the king knows about these matters, so I speak before him without constraint. I am sure that there is nothing whatever of what I have been telling him that has escaped his attention; for all this has not been done in a corner. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_27","074_26_27","ACT","26","27","27","King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_28","074_26_28","ACT","26","28","28","But Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You are soon trying to make a Christian of me!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_29","074_26_29","ACT","26","29","29","‘Whether it is soon or late,’ answered Paul, ‘I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me, might today become just what I am myself – except for these chains!’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_31","074_26_31","ACT","26","31","31","and, after retiring, discussed the case among themselves. ‘There is nothing,’ they said, ‘deserving death or imprisonment in this man’s conduct’; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC26_32","074_26_32","ACT","26","32","32","and, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added, ‘The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_1","074_27_1","ACT","27","1","1","As it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put in charge of a centurion of the Augustan Guard, named Julius. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_2","074_27_2","ACT","27","2","2","We went on board a ship from Adramyttium, which was on the point of sailing to the ports along the coast of Roman Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_3","074_27_3","ACT","27","3","3","The next day we put in to Sidon, where Julius treated Paul in a friendly manner, and allowed him to go to see his friends and receive their hospitality. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_4","074_27_4","ACT","27","4","4","Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_5","074_27_5","ACT","27","5","5","and, after crossing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_7","074_27_7","ACT","27","7","7","For several days our progress was slow, and it was only with difficulty that we arrived off Cnidus. As the wind was still unfavourable when we came off Cape Salmone, we sailed under the lee of Crete, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_8","074_27_8","ACT","27","8","8","and with difficulty, by keeping close in shore, we reached a place called “Fair Havens,” near which was the town of Lasea. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_9","074_27_9","ACT","27","9","9","This had taken a considerable time, and sailing was already dangerous, for the Fast was already over; and so Paul gave this warning. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_13","074_27_13","ACT","27","13","13","So, when a light wind sprang up from the south, thinking that they had found their opportunity, they weighed anchor and kept along the coast of Crete, close in shore. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_14","074_27_14","ACT","27","14","14","But shortly afterwards a hurricane came down on us off the land – a north-easter, as it is called. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_15","074_27_15","ACT","27","15","15","The ship was caught by it and was unable to keep her head to the wind, so we had to give way and let her drive before it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_16","074_27_16","ACT","27","16","16","Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we only just managed to secure the ship’s boat, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_17","074_27_17","ACT","27","17","17","and, after hoisting it on board, the men frapped the ship. But, afraid of being driven on to the Syrtis Sands, they lowered the yard, and then drifted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_18","074_27_18","ACT","27","18","18","So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_19","074_27_19","ACT","27","19","19","and, on the following day, threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_21","074_27_21","ACT","27","21","21","It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said, ‘My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_22","074_27_22","ACT","27","22","22","Yet, even as things are, I beg you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you – only the ship. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_23","074_27_23","ACT","27","23","23","For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_26","074_27_26","ACT","27","26","26","We will, however, have to be driven on some island.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_29","074_27_29","ACT","27","29","29","Then, as they were afraid of our being driven on some rocky coast, they let go four anchors from the stern, and longed for daylight. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_31","074_27_31","ACT","27","31","31","when Paul said to the Roman officer and his men, ‘Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_33","074_27_33","ACT","27","33","33","In the interval before daybreak Paul kept urging them all to take something to eat. ‘It is a fortnight today,’ he said, ‘that, owing to your anxiety, you have gone without food, taking nothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_34","074_27_34","ACT","27","34","34","So I beg you to take something to eat; your safety depends on it, for not one of you will lose even a hair of his head.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_36","074_27_36","ACT","27","36","36","and the men all felt cheered and had something to eat themselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_37","074_27_37","ACT","27","37","37","There were about seventy-six of us on board, all told. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_39","074_27_39","ACT","27","39","39","When daylight came, they could not make out what land it was, but, observing a creek in which there was a beach, they consulted as to whether they could run the ship safely into it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_41","074_27_41","ACT","27","41","41","They got, however, into a kind of channel, and there ran the ship aground. The bows stuck fast and could not be moved, while the stern began breaking up under the strain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_42","074_27_42","ACT","27","42","42","The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, so that none of them could swim away and make their escape. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_43","074_27_43","ACT","27","43","43","But the Roman officer, anxious to save Paul, prevented their carrying out their intention, and ordered that those who could swim should be the first to jump into the sea and try to reach the shore; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC27_44","074_27_44","ACT","27","44","44","and that the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on different pieces of the ship. In these various ways everyone managed to get safely ashore. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_1","074_28_1","ACT","28","1","1","When we were all safe, we found that the island was called Malta. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_2","074_28_2","ACT","28","2","2","The island’s people showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_3","074_28_3","ACT","28","3","3","Paul had gathered a quantity of dry sticks and laid them on the fire, when a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, fastened on his hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_4","074_28_4","ACT","28","4","4","When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, ‘Evidently this man is a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_6","074_28_6","ACT","28","6","6","The islanders were expecting inflammation to set in, or that he would suddenly fall dead; but, after waiting for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing amiss with him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_7","074_28_7","ACT","28","7","7","In that region there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_9","074_28_9","ACT","28","9","9","After this, all the people in the island who had any illness came to Paul, and were cured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_10","074_28_10","ACT","28","10","10","They also presented us with many gifts, and when we set sail they put supplies of necessaries on board. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_11","074_28_11","ACT","28","11","11","After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island. She was an Alexandrian vessel, and had the Twin sons of Zeus for her figure-head. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_12","074_28_12","ACT","28","12","12","We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_13","074_28_13","ACT","28","13","13","and from there we worked to windward and so got to Rhegium. A day later a south wind sprang up and took us to Puteoli in two days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_14","074_28_14","ACT","28","14","14","There we found some of the Lord’s followers, and were urged to stay a week with them; after which we went on to Rome. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_15","074_28_15","ACT","28","15","15","The followers there had heard about us, and came out as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At sight of them Paul thanked God and was much cheered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_16","074_28_16","ACT","28","16","16","On our reaching Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, except for the soldier who was in charge of him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_17","074_28_17","ACT","28","17","17","Three days after our arrival, Paul invited the leading Jews to meet him; and, when they came, he said, ‘Brothers, although I had done nothing hostile to the interests of our nation or to our ancestral customs, yet I was sent from Jerusalem as a prisoner, and handed over to the Romans. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_18","074_28_18","ACT","28","18","18","The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_19","074_28_19","ACT","28","19","19","But, as the Jewish leaders opposed my release, I was compelled to appeal to the Emperor – not, indeed, that I had any charge to make against my own nation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_20","074_28_20","ACT","28","20","20","This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am here in chains.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_21","074_28_21","ACT","28","21","21","‘We,’ was their reply, ‘have not had any letter about you from Judea, nor have any of our fellow Jews come and reported or said anything bad about you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_22","074_28_22","ACT","28","22","22","But we will be glad to hear from you what your views are, for, with regard to this sect, we are well aware that it is spoken against on all sides.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_23","074_28_23","ACT","28","23","23","They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the Law of Moses and from the prophets – speaking from morning until evening. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_24","074_28_24","ACT","28","24","24","Some were inclined to accept what he said; others, however, rejected it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_25","074_28_25","ACT","28","25","25","So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only – ‘True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_26","074_28_26","ACT","28","26","26","Go to this nation and say: You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, and, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_27","074_28_27","ACT","28","27","27","For the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; otherwise some day they might see with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn – and I might heal them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_28","074_28_28","ACT","28","28","28","Understand, then, that this salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_30","074_28_30","ACT","28","30","30"," For two whole years Paul stayed in a house which he rented for himself, welcoming all who came to see him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("AC28_31","074_28_31","ACT","28","31","31","proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ, with perfect fearlessness, unhindered.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_1","075_1_1","ROM","1","1","1"," From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an apostle, and has been set apart to tell God’s good news. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_2","075_1_2","ROM","1","2","2","This good news God promised long ago through his prophets in the sacred scriptures, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_3","075_1_3","ROM","1","3","3","concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_4","075_1_4","ROM","1","4","4","but, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_5","075_1_5","ROM","1","5","5","Through him we received the gift of the apostolic office, to win submission to the faith among all nations for the glory of his name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_6","075_1_6","ROM","1","6","6","And among these nations are you – you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_7","075_1_7","ROM","1","7","7","To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ’s people, may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_8","075_1_8","ROM","1","8","8","First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_9","075_1_9","ROM","1","9","9","God, to whom I offer the worship of my soul as I tell the goodness of his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you when I pray, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_10","075_1_10","ROM","1","10","10","asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_11","075_1_11","ROM","1","11","11","For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_12","075_1_12","ROM","1","12","12","or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other’s faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_13","075_1_13","ROM","1","13","13","I want you to know, my friends, that I have many times intended coming to see you – but until now I have been prevented – that I might find among you some fruit of my labours, as I have already among the other nations. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_14","075_1_14","ROM","1","14","14","I have a duty to both the Greek and the barbarian, to both the cultured and the ignorant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_15","075_1_15","ROM","1","15","15","And so, for my part, I am ready to tell the good news to you also who are in Rome. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_16","075_1_16","ROM","1","16","16","For I am not ashamed of the good news; it is the power of God which brings salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, but also to the Greek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_17","075_1_17","ROM","1","17","17","For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says – “Through faith the righteous will find life.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_18","075_1_18","ROM","1","18","18","So, too, there is a revelation from heaven of the divine wrath against every form of ungodliness and wickedness on the part of those people who, by their wicked lives, are stifling the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_19","075_1_19","ROM","1","19","19","This is so, because what can be known about God is plain to them; for God himself has made it plain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_20","075_1_20","ROM","1","20","20","For ever since the creation of the universe God’s invisible attributes – his everlasting power and divinity – are to be seen and studied in his works, so that people have no excuse; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_21","075_1_21","ROM","1","21","21","because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_22","075_1_22","ROM","1","22","22","Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_23","075_1_23","ROM","1","23","23","and they transformed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal humans, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_24","075_1_24","ROM","1","24","24","Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, until they dishonoured their own bodies; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_25","075_1_25","ROM","1","25","25","for they had substituted a lie for the truth about God, and had reverenced and worshiped created things more than the Creator, who is to be praised for ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_26","075_1_26","ROM","1","26","26","That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_27","075_1_27","ROM","1","27","27","while the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_28","075_1_28","ROM","1","28","28","Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_29","075_1_29","ROM","1","29","29","They revelled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarrelling, treachery, malice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_30","075_1_30","ROM","1","30","30","They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_31","075_1_31","ROM","1","31","31","They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM1_32","075_1_32","ROM","1","32","32","Well aware of God’s decree, that those who do such things deserve to die, not only are they guilty of them themselves, but they even applaud those who do them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_1","075_2_1","ROM","2","1","1","Therefore you have nothing to say in your own defence, whoever you are who set yourself up as a judge. In judging others you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do the very same things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_2","075_2_2","ROM","2","2","2","And we know that God’s judgment falls unerringly on those who do them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_3","075_2_3","ROM","2","3","3","You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them – do you suppose that you of all people will escape God’s judgment? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_4","075_2_4","ROM","2","4","4","Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realising that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_5","075_2_5","ROM","2","5","5","Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath, when God’s justice as a judge will be revealed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_6","075_2_6","ROM","2","6","6","for he will give to everyone what their actions deserve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_7","075_2_7","ROM","2","7","7","To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honour, and all that is imperishable, he will give immortal life; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_8","075_2_8","ROM","2","8","8","while as to those who are factious, and disobedient to truth but obedient to evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_9","075_2_9","ROM","2","9","9","will fall on every human being who persists in wrongdoing – on the Jew first, but also on the Greek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_10","075_2_10","ROM","2","10","10","But there will be glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does right – for the Jew first, but also for the Greek, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_11","075_2_11","ROM","2","11","11","since God shows no partiality. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_12","075_2_12","ROM","2","12","12","All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_13","075_2_13","ROM","2","13","13","It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_14","075_2_14","ROM","2","14","14","When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_15","075_2_15","ROM","2","15","15","for they show the demands of the Law written on their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self-defence – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_16","075_2_16","ROM","2","16","16","on the day when God passes judgment on people’s inmost lives, as the good news that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_17","075_2_17","ROM","2","17","17","But, perhaps, you bear the name of “Jew,” and are relying on Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_18","075_2_18","ROM","2","18","18","and, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_19","075_2_19","ROM","2","19","19","Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_20","075_2_20","ROM","2","20","20","and a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all knowledge and truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_21","075_2_21","ROM","2","21","21","Why, then, you teacher of others, don’t you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_22","075_2_22","ROM","2","22","22","Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_23","075_2_23","ROM","2","23","23","Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonour God by breaking the Law? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_24","075_2_24","ROM","2","24","24","For, as scripture says – “The Gentiles insult God’s name because of you”! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_25","075_2_25","ROM","2","25","25","Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_26","075_2_26","ROM","2","26","26","If, then, an uncircumcised man pays regard to the requirements of the Law, won’t he, although not circumcised, be regarded by God as if he were? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_27","075_2_27","ROM","2","27","27","Indeed, the person who, owing to his birth, remains uncircumcised, and yet scrupulously obeys the Law, will condemn you, who, for all your written Law and your circumcision, are yet a breaker of the Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_28","075_2_28","ROM","2","28","28","For a man who is only a Jew outwardly is not a real Jew; nor is outward bodily circumcision real circumcision. The real Jew is the person who is a Jew in soul; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM2_29","075_2_29","ROM","2","29","29","and the real circumcision is the circumcision of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal thing. Such a person wins praise from God, though not from people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_1","075_3_1","ROM","3","1","1","What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_2","075_3_2","ROM","3","2","2","Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God’s utterances. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_3","075_3_3","ROM","3","3","3","What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_4","075_3_4","ROM","3","4","4","God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God – “That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_5","075_3_5","ROM","3","5","5","But what if our wrongdoing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_6","075_3_6","ROM","3","6","6","Otherwise how can God judge the world? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_7","075_3_7","ROM","3","7","7","But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_8","075_3_8","ROM","3","8","8","Why should we not say – as some people slanderously assert that we do say – “Let us do evil that good may come”? The condemnation of such people is indeed just! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_9","075_3_9","ROM","3","9","9","What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_10","075_3_10","ROM","3","10","10","As scripture says – “There is not even one who is righteous, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_11","075_3_11","ROM","3","11","11","not one who understands, not one who is searching for God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_12","075_3_12","ROM","3","12","12","They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good – no, not one!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_13","075_3_13","ROM","3","13","13","“Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.” “The venom of snakes lies behind their lips,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_14","075_3_14","ROM","3","14","14","“And their mouths are full of bitter curses.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_15","075_3_15","ROM","3","15","15","“Swift are their feet to shed blood. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_16","075_3_16","ROM","3","16","16","Distress and trouble dog their steps, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_17","075_3_17","ROM","3","17","17","and the path of peace they do not know.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_18","075_3_18","ROM","3","18","18","“The fear of God is not before their eyes.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_19","075_3_19","ROM","3","19","19","Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and to bring the whole world under God’s judgment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_20","075_3_20","ROM","3","20","20","For no human being will be pronounced righteous before God as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_21","075_3_21","ROM","3","21","21","But now, quite apart from Law, the divine righteousness stands revealed, and to it the Law and the prophets bear witness – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_22","075_3_22","ROM","3","22","22","the divine righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, on all, without distinction, who believe in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_23","075_3_23","ROM","3","23","23","For all have sinned, and all fall short of God’s glorious ideal, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_24","075_3_24","ROM","3","24","24","but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_25","075_3_25","ROM","3","25","25","For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that people had previously committed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_26","075_3_26","ROM","3","26","26","as a proof, I repeat, at the present time, of his own righteousness, that he might be righteous in our eyes, and might pronounce righteous the person who takes their stand on faith in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_27","075_3_27","ROM","3","27","27","What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_28","075_3_28","ROM","3","28","28","For we conclude that a person is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_29","075_3_29","ROM","3","29","29","Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_30","075_3_30","ROM","3","30","30","Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one God, and he will pronounce those who are circumcised righteous as the result of faith, and also those who are uncircumcised on their showing the same faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM3_31","075_3_31","ROM","3","31","31","Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_1","075_4_1","ROM","4","1","1","What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_2","075_4_2","ROM","4","2","2","If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_3","075_4_3","ROM","4","3","3","For what are the words of scripture? “Abraham had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_4","075_4_4","ROM","4","4","4","Now wages are regarded as due to the person who works, not as a favour, but as a debt; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_5","075_4_5","ROM","4","5","5","while, as for the person who does not rely on their obedience, but has faith in him who can pronounce the godless righteous, their faith is regarded by God as righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_6","075_4_6","ROM","4","6","6","In precisely the same way David speaks of the blessing pronounced on the person who is regarded by God as righteous apart from actions – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_7","075_4_7","ROM","4","7","7","“Blessed are those whose wrongdoings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_8","075_4_8","ROM","4","8","8","Blessed the man whom the Lord will never regard as sinful!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_9","075_4_9","ROM","4","9","9","Is this blessing, then, pronounced on the circumcised only or on the uncircumcised as well? We say that – “Abraham’s faith was regarded by God as righteousness.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_10","075_4_10","ROM","4","10","10","Under what circumstances, then, did this take place? After his circumcision or before it? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_11","075_4_11","ROM","4","11","11","Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision – to show the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man – in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, so that they also may be regarded by God as righteous; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_12","075_4_12","ROM","4","12","12","as well as father of the circumcised – to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_13","075_4_13","ROM","4","13","13","For the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through Law, but through the righteousness due to faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_14","075_4_14","ROM","4","14","14","If those who take their stand on Law are to inherit the world, then faith is robbed of its meaning and the promise comes to nothing! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_15","075_4_15","ROM","4","15","15","Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_16","075_4_16","ROM","4","16","16","That is why everything is made to depend on faith: so that everything may be God’s gift, and in order that the fulfilment of the promise may be made certain for all Abraham’s descendants – not only for those who take their stand on the Law, but also for those who take their stand on the faith of Abraham. (He is the father of us all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_17","075_4_17","ROM","4","17","17","as scripture says – “I have made you the father of many nations.”) And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_18","075_4_18","ROM","4","18","18","With no ground for hope, Abraham, sustained by hope, put faith in God; in order that, in fulfilment of the words – “So many will your descendants be,” he might become “the father of many nations.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_19","075_4_19","ROM","4","19","19","Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_20","075_4_20","ROM","4","20","20","He was not led by want of faith to doubt God’s promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_21","075_4_21","ROM","4","21","21","On the contrary, his faith gave him strength; and he praised God, in the firm conviction that what God has promised he is also able to carry out. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_22","075_4_22","ROM","4","22","22","And therefore his faith “was regarded as righteousness.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_23","075_4_23","ROM","4","23","23","Now these words – “it was regarded as righteousness” – were not written with reference to Abraham only; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_24","075_4_24","ROM","4","24","24","but also with reference to us. Our faith, too, will be regarded by God in the same light, if we have faith in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM4_25","075_4_25","ROM","4","25","25","for Jesus was given up to death to atone for our offences, and was raised to life that we might be pronounced righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_1","075_5_1","ROM","5","1","1","Therefore, having been pronounced righteous as the result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_2","075_5_2","ROM","5","2","2","It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God’s favour in which we now stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God’s glorious ideal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_3","075_5_3","ROM","5","3","3","And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_4","075_5_4","ROM","5","4","4","for we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_5","075_5_5","ROM","5","5","5","and that hope never disappoints. For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_6","075_5_6","ROM","5","6","6","seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God’s good time, died on behalf of the godless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_7","075_5_7","ROM","5","7","7","Even for an upright person scarcely anyone will die. For a really good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_8","075_5_8","ROM","5","8","8","But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_9","075_5_9","ROM","5","9","9","Much more, then, now that we have been pronounced righteous by virtue of the shedding of his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_10","075_5_10","ROM","5","10","10","For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, will we be saved by virtue of Christ’s life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_11","075_5_11","ROM","5","11","11","And not only that, but we exult in God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have now obtained this reconciliation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_12","075_5_12","ROM","5","12","12","Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death; so, also, death spread to all humanity, because every person has sinned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_13","075_5_13","ROM","5","13","13","Even before the time of the Law there was sin in the world; but sin cannot be charged against someone where no Law exists. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_14","075_5_14","ROM","5","14","14","Yet, from Adam to Moses, death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam’s was. And Adam foreshadows the one to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_15","075_5_15","ROM","5","15","15","But there is a contrast between Adam’s offence and God’s gracious gift. For, if by reason of the offence of the one man the whole human race died, far more were the loving kindness of God, and the gift given in the loving kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ, lavished on the whole human race. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_16","075_5_16","ROM","5","16","16","There is a contrast, too, between the gift and the results of the one man’s sin. The judgment, which followed on the one man’s sin, resulted in condemnation, but God’s gracious gift, which followed on many offences, resulted in a decree of righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_17","075_5_17","ROM","5","17","17","For if, by reason of the offence of the one man, death reigned through that one man, far more will those, on whom God’s loving kindness and his gift of righteousness are lavished, find life, and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_18","075_5_18","ROM","5","18","18","Briefly then, just as a single offence resulted for all humanity in condemnation, so, too, a single decree of righteousness resulted for all humanity in that declaration of righteousness which brings life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_19","075_5_19","ROM","5","19","19","For, as through the disobedience of the one man the whole human race was rendered sinful, so, too, through the obedience of the one, the whole human race will be rendered righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_20","075_5_20","ROM","5","20","20","Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving kindness of God was lavished the more, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM5_21","075_5_21","ROM","5","21","21","in order that, just as sin had reigned in the realm of death, so, too, might loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_1","075_6_1","ROM","6","1","1","What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_2","075_6_2","ROM","6","2","2","Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_3","075_6_3","ROM","6","3","3","Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_4","075_6_4","ROM","6","4","4","Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_5","075_6_5","ROM","6","5","5","If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we will also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_6","075_6_6","ROM","6","6","6","We recognise the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_7","075_6_7","ROM","6","7","7","For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_8","075_6_8","ROM","6","8","8","And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s death, we will also share his life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_9","075_6_9","ROM","6","9","9","We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_10","075_6_10","ROM","6","10","10","For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the life that he now lives, he lives for God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_11","075_6_11","ROM","6","11","11","So let it be with you – regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_12","075_6_12","ROM","6","12","12","Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_13","075_6_13","ROM","6","13","13","Do not offer any part of your bodies to sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_14","075_6_14","ROM","6","14","14","For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_15","075_6_15","ROM","6","15","15","What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_16","075_6_16","ROM","6","16","16","Surely you know that when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey anyone, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be a service to sin which leads to death, or a service to duty which leads to righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_17","075_6_17","ROM","6","17","17","God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_18","075_6_18","ROM","6","18","18","Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_19","075_6_19","ROM","6","19","19","I can but speak as people do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of righteousness, which leads to holiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_20","075_6_20","ROM","6","20","20","While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_21","075_6_21","ROM","6","21","21","But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_22","075_6_22","ROM","6","22","22","But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM6_23","075_6_23","ROM","6","23","23","The wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_1","075_7_1","ROM","7","1","1","Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what Law means) that Law has power over a person only as long as they lives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_2","075_7_2","ROM","7","2","2","For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_3","075_7_3","ROM","7","3","3","If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_4","075_7_4","ROM","7","4","4","And so with you, my friends; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_5","075_7_5","ROM","7","5","5","When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_6","075_7_6","ROM","7","6","6","But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_7","075_7_7","ROM","7","7","7","What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say “You must not covet,” I should not know what it is to covet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_8","075_7_8","ROM","7","8","8","But sin took advantage of the commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_9","075_7_9","ROM","7","9","9","There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_10","075_7_10","ROM","7","10","10","The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_11","075_7_11","ROM","7","11","11","Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_12","075_7_12","ROM","7","12","12","And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also holy, and just, and good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_13","075_7_13","ROM","7","13","13","Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_14","075_7_14","ROM","7","14","14","We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_15","075_7_15","ROM","7","15","15","I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_16","075_7_16","ROM","7","16","16","But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_17","075_7_17","ROM","7","17","17","This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_18","075_7_18","ROM","7","18","18","I know that there is nothing good in me – I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_19","075_7_19","ROM","7","19","19","I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do – that I habitually do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_20","075_7_20","ROM","7","20","20","But, when I do the thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_21","075_7_21","ROM","7","21","21","This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_22","075_7_22","ROM","7","22","22","At heart I delight in the Law of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_23","075_7_23","ROM","7","23","23","but throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavours to make me a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_24","075_7_24","ROM","7","24","24","Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this death? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM7_25","075_7_25","ROM","7","25","25","Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_1","075_8_1","ROM","8","1","1","There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_2","075_8_2","ROM","8","2","2","for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of sin and death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_3","075_8_3","ROM","8","3","3","What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_4","075_8_4","ROM","8","4","4","so that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_5","075_8_5","ROM","8","5","5","They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_6","075_8_6","ROM","8","6","6","To be earthly-minded means death, to be spiritually minded means life and peace; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_7","075_8_7","ROM","8","7","7","because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_8","075_8_8","ROM","8","8","8","They who are earthly cannot please God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_9","075_8_9","ROM","8","9","9","You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a person has the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_10","075_8_10","ROM","8","10","10","but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life as a consequence of righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_11","075_8_11","ROM","8","11","11","And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_12","075_8_12","ROM","8","12","12","So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_13","075_8_13","ROM","8","13","13","If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_14","075_8_14","ROM","8","14","14","All who are guided by the Spirit of God are children of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_15","075_8_15","ROM","8","15","15","For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a child by adoption, which leads us to cry “Abba, our Father.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_16","075_8_16","ROM","8","16","16","The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God’s children, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_17","075_8_17","ROM","8","17","17","and if children, then heirs – heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_18","075_8_18","ROM","8","18","18","I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the glory that is to be revealed and bestowed on us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_19","075_8_19","ROM","8","19","19","All nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_20","075_8_20","ROM","8","20","20","For nature was made subject to imperfection – not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_21","075_8_21","ROM","8","21","21","yet not without the hope that some day nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_22","075_8_22","ROM","8","22","22","We know, indeed, that all nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labour to this very hour. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_23","075_8_23","ROM","8","23","23","And not nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit – we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons – the redemption of our bodies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_24","075_8_24","ROM","8","24","24","By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_25","075_8_25","ROM","8","25","25","But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_26","075_8_26","ROM","8","26","26","So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_27","075_8_27","ROM","8","27","27","Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit’s meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ’s people are in accordance with his will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_28","075_8_28","ROM","8","28","28","But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him – those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_29","075_8_29","ROM","8","29","29","For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many brothers and sisters. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_30","075_8_30","ROM","8","30","30","And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to glory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_31","075_8_31","ROM","8","31","31","What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_32","075_8_32","ROM","8","32","32","God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_33","075_8_33","ROM","8","33","33","Who will bring a charge against any of God’s people? He who pronounces them righteous is God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_34","075_8_34","ROM","8","34","34","Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! – or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_35","075_8_35","ROM","8","35","35","Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_36","075_8_36","ROM","8","36","36","Scripture says – “For your sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_37","075_8_37","ROM","8","37","37","Yet amid all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_38","075_8_38","ROM","8","38","38","For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor archangels, nor the present, nor the future, nor any powers, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM8_39","075_8_39","ROM","8","39","39","nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_1","075_9_1","ROM","9","1","1","I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_2","075_9_2","ROM","9","2","2","bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow on me and that my heart is never free from pain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_3","075_9_3","ROM","9","3","3","I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my people – my own flesh and blood. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_4","075_9_4","ROM","9","4","4","For they are Israelites, and theirs are the adoption as children, the visible presence, the covenants, the revealed Law, the Temple worship, and the promises. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_5","075_9_5","ROM","9","5","5","They are descended from the patriarchs, and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ – he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_6","075_9_6","ROM","9","6","6","Not that God’s Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_7","075_9_7","ROM","9","7","7","nor, because they are Abraham’s descendants, are they all his children; but – “It is Isaac’s children who will be called your descendants.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_8","075_9_8","ROM","9","8","8","This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God’s children, but it is the children born in fulfilment of the promise who are to be regarded as Abraham’s descendants. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_9","075_9_9","ROM","9","9","9","For these words are the words of a promise – “About this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_10","075_9_10","ROM","9","10","10","Nor is that all. There is also the case of Rebecca, when she was about to bear children to our ancestor Isaac. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_11","075_9_11","ROM","9","11","11","For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail – a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his call – Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_12","075_9_12","ROM","9","12","12","that the elder would be a servant to the younger. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_13","075_9_13","ROM","9","13","13","The words of scripture are – “I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_14","075_9_14","ROM","9","14","14","What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_15","075_9_15","ROM","9","15","15","For his words to Moses are – “I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_16","075_9_16","ROM","9","16","16","So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God’s mercy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_17","075_9_17","ROM","9","17","17","In scripture, again, it is said to Pharaoh – “It was for this purpose that I raised you to the throne, to show my power by my dealings with you, and to make my name known throughout the world.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_18","075_9_18","ROM","9","18","18","So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_19","075_9_19","ROM","9","19","19","Perhaps you will say to me – “How can anyone still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_20","075_9_20","ROM","9","20","20","I might rather ask “Who are you who are arguing with God?” Does a thing which a person has moulded say to the person who has moulded it “Why did you make me like this?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_21","075_9_21","ROM","9","21","21","Has not the potter absolute power over their clay, so that out of the same lump they make one thing for better, and another for common, use? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_22","075_9_22","ROM","9","22","22","And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_23","075_9_23","ROM","9","23","23","so as to make known his surpassing glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_24","075_9_24","ROM","9","24","24","and whom he called – even us – not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_25","075_9_25","ROM","9","25","25","This, indeed, is what he says in the book of Hosea – “Those who were not my people, I will call my people, and those who were unloved I will love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_26","075_9_26","ROM","9","26","26","And in the place where it was said to them – ‘You are not my people’, they will be called sons of the living God.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_27","075_9_27","ROM","9","27","27","And Isaiah cries aloud over Israel – “Though the sons of Israel are like the sand of the sea in number, only a remnant of them will escape! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_28","075_9_28","ROM","9","28","28","For the Lord will execute his sentence on the world, fully and without delay.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_29","075_9_29","ROM","9","29","29","It is as Isaiah foretold – “Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our people to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_30","075_9_30","ROM","9","30","30","What are we to say, then? Why, that Gentiles, who were not in search of righteousness, secured it – a righteousness which was the result of faith; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_31","075_9_31","ROM","9","31","31","while Israel, which was in search of a Law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_32","075_9_32","ROM","9","32","32","And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over the stumbling-block. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM9_33","075_9_33","ROM","9","33","33","As scripture says – “See, I place a stumbling-block in Zion – a rock which will prove a hindrance; and he who believes in him will have no cause for shame.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_1","075_10_1","ROM","10","1","1","My friends, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for my people is for their salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_2","075_10_2","ROM","10","2","2","I can testify that they are zealous for the honour of God; but they are not guided by true insight, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_3","075_10_3","ROM","10","3","3","for, in their ignorance of the divine righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the divine righteousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_4","075_10_4","ROM","10","4","4","For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by everyone who believes in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_5","075_10_5","ROM","10","5","5","For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, those who practice it will find life through it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_6","075_10_6","ROM","10","6","6","But the righteousness which results from faith finds expression in these words: “Do not say to yourself ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (which means to bring Christ down) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_7","075_10_7","ROM","10","7","7","“or ‘Who will go down into the depths below?’” (which means to bring Christ up from the dead). ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_8","075_10_8","ROM","10","8","8","No, but what does it say? “The message is near you, on your lips and in your heart” (which means “The message of faith” which we proclaim). ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_9","075_10_9","ROM","10","9","9","For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_10","075_10_10","ROM","10","10","10","For with their hearts people believe and so attain to righteousness, while with their lips they make their profession of faith and so find salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_11","075_10_11","ROM","10","11","11","As the passage of scripture says – “No one who believes in him will have any cause for shame.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_12","075_10_12","ROM","10","12","12","For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_13","075_10_13","ROM","10","13","13","For everyone who invokes the name of the Lord will be saved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_14","075_10_14","ROM","10","14","14","But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless someone proclaims him? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_15","075_10_15","ROM","10","15","15","And how is anyone to proclaim him unless they are sent as his messengers? As scripture says – “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_16","075_10_16","ROM","10","16","16","Still, it may be said, everyone did not give heed to the good news. No, for Isaiah asks – “Lord, who has believed our teaching?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_17","075_10_17","ROM","10","17","17","And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the message of Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_18","075_10_18","ROM","10","18","18","But I ask “Is it possible that people have never heard?” No, indeed, for – “Their voices spread through all the earth, and their message to the ends of the world.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_19","075_10_19","ROM","10","19","19","But again I ask “Did not the people of Israel understand?” First there is Moses, who says – “I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_20","075_10_20","ROM","10","20","20","And Isaiah says boldly – “I was found by those who were not seeking me; I made myself known to those who were not inquiring of me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM10_21","075_10_21","ROM","10","21","21","But of the people of Israel he says – “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who disobey and contradict.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_1","075_11_1","ROM","11","1","1","I ask, then, “Has God rejected his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_2","075_11_2","ROM","11","2","2","God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of scripture in the story of Elijah – how he appeals to God against Israel? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_3","075_11_3","ROM","11","3","3","“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have pulled down your altars, and I only am left; and now they are eager to take my life.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_4","075_11_4","ROM","11","4","4","But what was the divine response? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_5","075_11_5","ROM","11","5","5","And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_6","075_11_6","ROM","11","6","6","But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_7","075_11_7","ROM","11","7","7","What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_8","075_11_8","ROM","11","8","8","The rest grew callous; as scripture says – “God has given them a deadness of mind – eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear – and it is so to this very day.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_9","075_11_9","ROM","11","9","9","David, too, says – “May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them – a hindrance and a retribution; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_10","075_11_10","ROM","11","10","10","may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_11","075_11_11","ROM","11","11","11","I ask then – “Was their stumbling to result in their fall?” Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_12","075_11_12","ROM","11","12","12","And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_13","075_11_13","ROM","11","13","13","But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_14","075_11_14","ROM","11","14","14","Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_15","075_11_15","ROM","11","15","15","For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_16","075_11_16","ROM","11","16","16","If the first handful of dough is holy, so is the whole mass, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_17","075_11_17","ROM","11","17","17","Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_18","075_11_18","ROM","11","18","18","Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_19","075_11_19","ROM","11","19","19","But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_20","075_11_20","ROM","11","20","20","True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_21","075_11_21","ROM","11","21","21","For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_22","075_11_22","ROM","11","22","22","See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God – his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_23","075_11_23","ROM","11","23","23","And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RM11_24","075_11_24","ROM","11","24","24","If you were cut off from your natural stock – a wild olive – and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they – the natural branches – be grafted back into their parent tree. ");
