INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_5","086_1_5","TIT","1","5","5","My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unfinished, and appoint church elders in the various towns, as I myself directed you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_6","086_1_6","TIT","1","6","6","They are to be of irreproachable character, faithful to their partners, whose children are believers in Christ and have never been open to the charge of being wild or unruly. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_7","086_1_7","TIT","1","7","7","For a supervisor, as God’s steward, ought to be of blameless character – not arrogant or quick-tempered, not given to drunkeness, violence or shady money-making. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_8","086_1_8","TIT","1","8","8","Instead, they should be hospitable, love what is good, self-controlled, upright, people of holy life and disciplined, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_9","086_1_9","TIT","1","9","9","holding firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught – so that they may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute those who contradict it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_10","086_1_10","TIT","1","10","10","For there are many undisciplined persons who lead others astray with their nonsense, especially those of the group advocating the necessity of circumcision. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_11","086_1_11","TIT","1","11","11","They need to be kept quiet as they disrupt whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, simply to make shameful financial gain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_12","086_1_12","TIT","1","12","12","It was a Cretan – one of their own prophets – who said: “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons.” This statement is true. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_13","086_1_13","TIT","1","13","13","Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_14","086_1_14","TIT","1","14","14","and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_15","086_1_15","TIT","1","15","15","To those whose minds are pure, all things are ritually pure, but to those whose minds are tainted and unbelieving nothing is pure, as their minds and consciences are alike polluted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT1_16","086_1_16","TIT","1","16","16","They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable and disobedient and useless for any good work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_1","086_2_1","TIT","2","1","1","You however, should speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_2","086_2_2","TIT","2","2","2","Teach that the older men should be soberly clear minded, dignified and self-controlled – sound in faith, love, and patient endurance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_3","086_2_3","TIT","2","3","3","So, too, that the older women should live reverent lives, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_4","086_2_4","TIT","2","4","4","They should teach what is good, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_5","086_2_5","TIT","2","5","5","and to be self-controlled, pure-minded, to be watching over their home, to be kind, respecting the authority of their husbands, so that no one will speak badly of God’s message. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_6","086_2_6","TIT","2","6","6","In the same way with the younger men – encourage them to be self-controlled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_7","086_2_7","TIT","2","7","7","In all things, set an example of doing good. In your teaching, show integrity and seriousness – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_8","086_2_8","TIT","2","8","8","let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed when they fail to find anything bad to say about us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_9","086_2_9","TIT","2","9","9","Tell slaves to respect their owner’s authority in all circumstances, and to try their best to please them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_10","086_2_10","TIT","2","10","10","Teach them not to contradict or to pilfer, but to show such praiseworthy fidelity in everything, as to recommend the teaching about God our Saviour by all that they do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_11","086_2_11","TIT","2","11","11","For the loving kindness of God has been revealed, bringing salvation for all, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_12","086_2_12","TIT","2","12","12","leading us to renounce ungodliness and worldly desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives here in this present age, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_13","086_2_13","TIT","2","13","13","while awaiting our blessed hope – the appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour, Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_14","086_2_14","TIT","2","14","14","For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a people who should be truly his own and eager to do good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT2_15","086_2_15","TIT","2","15","15","Tell them of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone belittle you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_1","086_3_1","TIT","3","1","1","Remind them to respect and obey the rulers and authorities, to be ready for every kind of good work, to slander no one, to avoid quarrelling, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_2","086_3_2","TIT","3","2","2","to be reasonable, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit with all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_3","086_3_3","TIT","3","3","3","There was a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all kinds of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hating ourselves and hating one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_4","086_3_4","TIT","3","4","4","But, when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love for humanity appeared, he saved us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_5","086_3_5","TIT","3","5","5","not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but due to his mercy. He saved us though the washing of rebirth and renewal by the power of the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_6","086_3_6","TIT","3","6","6","which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_7","086_3_7","TIT","3","7","7","so that, having been put right with God through his grace, we become heirs to the hope of eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_8","086_3_8","TIT","3","8","8","This saying is trustworthy! And it is on these subjects that I want you to lay special emphasis, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of benefit to all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_9","086_3_9","TIT","3","9","9","But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, or with genealogies, or with quarrels, or fights about the Law. They are useless and futile. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_10","086_3_10","TIT","3","10","10","If someone is causing divisions among you then, after giving them a second warning, excuse yourself from them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_11","086_3_11","TIT","3","11","11","You can be sure that such a person has forsaken the truth and is in the wrong. They stand self-condemned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_12","086_3_12","TIT","3","12","12","As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me as quickly as possible at Nicopolis, for I have arranged to spend the winter there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_13","086_3_13","TIT","3","13","13","Do your best to help Zenas, the teacher of the Law, and Apollos, on their way, and see that they want for nothing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_14","086_3_14","TIT","3","14","14","Let all our people learn to devote themselves to doing good, so as to meet the most pressing needs, and that their lives may not be unfruitful. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("TT3_15","086_3_15","TIT","3","15","15","All who are with me here send you their greeting. Give my greeting to our friends in the faith. God bless you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_1","087_1_1","PHM","1","1","1"," From Paul, now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, a fellow follower of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_2","087_1_2","PHM","1","2","2","To our dear friend and fellow worker Philemon, to our sister Apphia, to our fellow soldier Archippus; and to the church that meets at Philemon’s house; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_3","087_1_3","PHM","1","3","3","may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_4","087_1_4","PHM","1","4","4","I always mention you in my prayers and thank God for you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_5","087_1_5","PHM","1","5","5","because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his people; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_6","087_1_6","PHM","1","6","6","and I pray that your participation in the faith may result in action, as you come to a fuller realisation of everything that is good and Christlike in us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_7","087_1_7","PHM","1","7","7","I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ’s people have been cheered, friend, by you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_8","087_1_8","PHM","1","8","8","And so, though my union with Christ enables me, with all confidence, to dictate the course that you should adopt, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_9","087_1_9","PHM","1","9","9","yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you – yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_10","087_1_10","PHM","1","10","10","I plead with you for this child of mine, Onesimus, to whom, in my prison, I have become a father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_11","087_1_11","PHM","1","11","11","Once he was of little service to you, but now he has become of great service, not only to you, but to me as well; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_12","087_1_12","PHM","1","12","12","and I am sending him back to you with this letter – though it is like tearing out of my heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_13","087_1_13","PHM","1","13","13","For my own sake I should like to keep him with me, so that, while I am in prison for the good news, he might attend to my wants on your behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_14","087_1_14","PHM","1","14","14","But I do not wish to do anything without your consent, because I want your generosity to be voluntary and not, as it were, compulsory. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_15","087_1_15","PHM","1","15","15","It may be that he was separated from you for an hour, for this reason, so that you might have him back for ever, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_16","087_1_16","PHM","1","16","16","no longer as a slave, but as something better – a dearly loved friend and follower of the Lord, especially dear to me, and how much more so to you, not only as a person, but as your fellow Christian! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_17","087_1_17","PHM","1","17","17","If, then, you count me your friend, receive him as you would me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_18","087_1_18","PHM","1","18","18","If he has caused you any loss, or owes you anything, charge it to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_19","087_1_19","PHM","1","19","19","I, Paul, put my own hand to it – I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your self. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_20","087_1_20","PHM","1","20","20","Yes, friend, let me gain something from you because of your union with the Lord. Cheer my heart by your Christlike spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_21","087_1_21","PHM","1","21","21","Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_22","087_1_22","PHM","1","22","22","Please also get a lodging ready for me, for I hope that I will be given back to you all in answer to your prayers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_23","087_1_23","PHM","1","23","23","Epaphras, who is my fellow prisoner for Christ Jesus, sends you his greeting; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_24","087_1_24","PHM","1","24","24","and Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers, send theirs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("PM1_25","087_1_25","PHM","1","25","25","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ rest on your souls.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_1","088_1_1","HEB","1","1","1"," God, who, of old, at many times and in many ways, spoke to our ancestors, by the prophets, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_2","088_1_2","HEB","1","2","2","has in these latter days spoken to us by the Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_3","088_1_3","HEB","1","3","3","For he is the radiance of the glory of God and the expression of his being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of humanity, he took his seat at the right hand of God’s Majesty on high, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_4","088_1_4","HEB","1","4","4","having shown himself as much greater than the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_5","088_1_5","HEB","1","5","5","For to which of the angels did God ever say – “You are my Son; this day I have become your Father”? or again – “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son”? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_6","088_1_6","HEB","1","6","6","And again, when God brought the firstborn into the world, he said – “Let all the angels of God bow down before him.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_7","088_1_7","HEB","1","7","7","Speaking of the angels, he said – “He makes the winds his angels and the flames of fire his servants”; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_8","088_1_8","HEB","1","8","8","while of the Son he said – “God is your throne for ever and ever; the sceptre of his kingdom is the sceptre of Justice; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_9","088_1_9","HEB","1","9","9","You love righteousness and hates iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the festal oil more abundantly than your peers.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_10","088_1_10","HEB","1","10","10","Again – “You, Lord, in the beginning did lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_11","088_1_11","HEB","1","11","11","They will perish, but you remain; as a garment they will all grow old; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_12","088_1_12","HEB","1","12","12","As a mantle you will fold them up, and as a garment they will be changed, but you are the same, and your years will know no end.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_13","088_1_13","HEB","1","13","13","To which of the angels has God ever said – “Sit you at my right hand until I put your enemies as a stool for your feet”? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB1_14","088_1_14","HEB","1","14","14","Are not all the angels spirits in the service of God, sent out to minister for the sake of those who are destined to obtain salvation? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_1","088_2_1","HEB","2","1","1","Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, so we do not drift away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_2","088_2_2","HEB","2","2","2","For, if the message which was delivered by angels had its authority confirmed, so that every offence against it, or neglect of it, met with a fitting requital, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_3","088_2_3","HEB","2","3","3","how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_4","088_2_4","HEB","2","4","4","while God himself added his testimony to it by signs, and marvels, and many different miracles, as well as by imparting the Holy Spirit as he saw fit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_5","088_2_5","HEB","2","5","5","God has not given to angels the control of that future world of which we are speaking! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_6","088_2_6","HEB","2","6","6","No; a writer has declared somewhere – “What are mere mortals that you should remember them? Or human beings that you should care for them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_7","088_2_7","HEB","2","7","7","You have made them, for a while, lower than angels; with glory and honour you have crowned them; you have set them over all that your hands have made; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_8","088_2_8","HEB","2","8","8","you have placed all things beneath their feet.” This “placing of everything” under humanity means that there was nothing which was not placed under them. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under humanity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_9","088_2_9","HEB","2","9","9","What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God’s loving kindness, be on behalf of all humanity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_10","088_2_10","HEB","2","10","10","It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many children to glory, make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_11","088_2_11","HEB","2","11","11","For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_12","088_2_12","HEB","2","12","12","He says – “I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters, in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_13","088_2_13","HEB","2","13","13","And again – “As for me, I will put my trust in God.” And yet again – “See, here am I and the children whom God gave me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_14","088_2_14","HEB","2","14","14","Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of the children, Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death – that is, the devil – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_15","088_2_15","HEB","2","15","15","and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_16","088_2_16","HEB","2","16","16","It was not, surely, to the help of the angels that Jesus came, but to the help of the descendants of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_17","088_2_17","HEB","2","17","17","And consequently it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers and sisters, in order that he might prove a merciful as well as a faithful high priest in humanity’s relations with God, for the purpose of expiating the sins of his people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB2_18","088_2_18","HEB","2","18","18","The fact that he himself suffered under temptation enables him to help those who are tempted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_1","088_3_1","HEB","3","1","1","Therefore, my Christian friends, you who, all alike, have received the call from heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our religion. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_2","088_3_2","HEB","3","2","2","See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole house of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_3","088_3_3","HEB","3","3","3","He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the house is held in greater regard than the house itself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_4","088_3_4","HEB","3","4","4","For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_5","088_3_5","HEB","3","5","5","While the faithful service of Moses in the whole house of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a message still to come, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_6","088_3_6","HEB","3","6","6","the faithfulness of Christ was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are his house – if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_7","088_3_7","HEB","3","7","7","Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says – “If today you hear God’s voice, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_8","088_3_8","HEB","3","8","8","harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_9","088_3_9","HEB","3","9","9","Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_10","088_3_10","HEB","3","10","10","Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – ‘Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways’; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_11","088_3_11","HEB","3","11","11","While in my wrath I swore – ‘They will never enter upon my rest.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_12","088_3_12","HEB","3","12","12","Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_13","088_3_13","HEB","3","13","13","Rather encourage one another daily – while there is a today – to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_14","088_3_14","HEB","3","14","14","For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_15","088_3_15","HEB","3","15","15","To use the words of scripture – “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_16","088_3_16","HEB","3","16","16","Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_17","088_3_17","HEB","3","17","17","And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_18","088_3_18","HEB","3","18","18","And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB3_19","088_3_19","HEB","3","19","19","We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_1","088_4_1","HEB","4","1","1","We must, therefore, be very careful, though there is a promise still standing that we will enter upon God’s rest, that none of you even appear to have missed it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_2","088_4_2","HEB","4","2","2","For we have had the good news told us just as they had. But the message which they heard did them no good, since they did not share the faith of those who were attentive to it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_3","088_4_3","HEB","4","3","3","Upon that rest we who have believed are now entering. As God has said – “In my wrath I swore – ‘They will never enter upon my rest;’” Although God’s work was finished at the creation of the world; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_4","088_4_4","HEB","4","4","4","for, in a passage referring to the seventh day, you will find these words – “God rested on the seventh day after all his work.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_5","088_4_5","HEB","4","5","5","On the other hand, we read in that passage – “They will never enter upon my rest.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_6","088_4_6","HEB","4","6","6","Since, then, there is still a promise that some will enter upon this rest, and since those who were first told the good news did not enter upon it, because of their disbelief, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_7","088_4_7","HEB","4","7","7","again God fixed a day. “Today,” he said, speaking after a long interval through the mouth of David, in the passage already quoted – “If today you hear God’s voice harden not your hearts.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_8","088_4_8","HEB","4","8","8","Now if Joshua had given “rest” to the people, God would not have spoken of another and later day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_9","088_4_9","HEB","4","9","9","There is, then, a Sabbath rest still awaiting God’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_10","088_4_10","HEB","4","10","10","For the person who enters upon God’s rest do themselves rest after their work, just as God did. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_11","088_4_11","HEB","4","11","11","Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_12","088_4_12","HEB","4","12","12","God’s message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way until it penetrates soul and spirit – not the joints only but the marrow – and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_13","088_4_13","HEB","4","13","13","There is no created thing that can hide itself from the sight of God. Everything is exposed and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we have to give account. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_14","088_4_14","HEB","4","14","14","We have, then, in Jesus, the Son of God, a great high priest who has passed into the highest heaven; let us, therefore, hold fast to the faith which we have professed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_15","088_4_15","HEB","4","15","15","Our high priest is not one unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but one who has in every way been tempted, exactly as we have been, but without sinning. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB4_16","088_4_16","HEB","4","16","16","Therefore, let us draw near boldly to the throne of love, to find pity and love for the hour of need. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_1","088_5_1","HEB","5","1","1","Every high priest, taken from among the people, is appointed as their representative in their relations with God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices in expiation of sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_2","088_5_2","HEB","5","2","2","And he is able to sympathise with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_3","088_5_3","HEB","5","3","3","and is therefore bound to offer sacrifices for sins, not only for the people, but equally so for himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_4","088_5_4","HEB","5","4","4","Nor does anyone take that high office on themselves, until they have been called to do so by God, as Aaron was. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_5","088_5_5","HEB","5","5","5","In the same way, even the Christ did not take the honour of the high priesthood on himself, but he was appointed by him who said to him – “You are my Son; this day I have become your Father”; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_6","088_5_6","HEB","5","6","6","and on another occasion also – “You are a priest for all time of the order of Melchizedek.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_7","088_5_7","HEB","5","7","7","Jesus, in the days of his earthly life, offered prayers and supplications, with earnest cries and with tears, to him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard because of his devout submission. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_8","088_5_8","HEB","5","8","8","Son though he was, he learned obedience from his sufferings; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_9","088_5_9","HEB","5","9","9","and, being made perfect, he became to all those who obey him the source of eternal salvation, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_10","088_5_10","HEB","5","10","10","while God himself pronounced him a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_11","088_5_11","HEB","5","11","11","Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_12","088_5_12","HEB","5","12","12","For whereas, considering the time that has elapsed, you ought to be teaching others, you still need someone to teach you the alphabet of the divine revelation, and need again to be fed with milk instead of with “solid food.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_13","088_5_13","HEB","5","13","13","For everyone who still has to take milk knows nothing of the teaching of righteousness; they are a mere infant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB5_14","088_5_14","HEB","5","14","14","But solid food is for Christians of mature faith – those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_1","088_6_1","HEB","6","1","1","Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_2","088_6_2","HEB","6","2","2","teaching concerning baptisms and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and a final judgment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_3","088_6_3","HEB","6","3","3","Yes and, with God’s help, we will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_4","088_6_4","HEB","6","4","4","For if those who were once for all brought into the light, and learned to appreciate the gift from heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_5","088_6_5","HEB","6","5","5","and learned to appreciate the beauty of the divine message, and the new powers of the coming age – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_6","088_6_6","HEB","6","6","6","if those, I say, fell away, it would be impossible to bring them again to repentance; they would be crucifying the Son of God over again for themselves, and exposing him to open contempt. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_7","088_6_7","HEB","6","7","7","Ground that drinks in the showers that from time to time fall on it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_8","088_6_8","HEB","6","8","8","but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is regarded as worthless, it is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be the fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_9","088_6_9","HEB","6","9","9","But about you, dear friends, even though we speak in this way, we are confident of better things – of things that point to your salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_10","088_6_10","HEB","6","10","10","For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his name, in sending help to your fellow Christians – as you are still doing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_11","088_6_11","HEB","6","11","11","But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_12","088_6_12","HEB","6","12","12","Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God’s promises. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_13","088_6_13","HEB","6","13","13","When God gave his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater by whom he could swear, he swore by himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_14","088_6_14","HEB","6","14","14","His words were – “I will assuredly bless you and increase your numbers.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_15","088_6_15","HEB","6","15","15","And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfilment of God’s promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_16","088_6_16","HEB","6","16","16","People, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_17","088_6_17","HEB","6","17","17","And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_18","088_6_18","HEB","6","18","18","For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false – we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_19","088_6_19","HEB","6","19","19","This hope is an anchor for our souls, secure and strong, and it reaches into the sanctuary that lies behind the curtain, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB6_20","088_6_20","HEB","6","20","20","where Jesus, our forerunner, has entered on our behalf, after being made for all time a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_1","088_7_1","HEB","7","1","1","It was this Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and gave him his blessing; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_2","088_7_2","HEB","7","2","2","and it was to him that Abraham allotted a tithe of all the spoil. The meaning of his name is “king of righteousness,” and besides that, he was also king of Salem, which means “king of peace.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_3","088_7_3","HEB","7","3","3","There is no record of his father, or mother, or lineage, nor again of any beginning of his days, or end of his life. In this he resembles the Son of God, and stands before us as a priest whose priesthood is continuous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_4","088_7_4","HEB","7","4","4","Consider, then the importance of this Melchizedek, to whom even the patriarch Abraham himself gave a tithe of the choicest spoils. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_5","088_7_5","HEB","7","5","5","Those descendants of Levi, who are from time to time appointed to the priesthood, are directed to collect tithes from the people in accordance with the Law – that is from their own kindred, although they also are descended from Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_6","088_7_6","HEB","7","6","6","But Melchizedek, although not of this lineage, received tithes from Abraham, and gave his blessing to the man who had God’s promises. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_7","088_7_7","HEB","7","7","7","Now no one can dispute that it is the superior who blesses the inferior. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_8","088_7_8","HEB","7","8","8","In the one case the tithes are received by people who are mortal; in the other case by one about whom there is the statement that his life still continues. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_9","088_7_9","HEB","7","9","9","Moreover, in a sense, even Levi, who is the receiver of the tithes, has, through Abraham, paid tithes; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_10","088_7_10","HEB","7","10","10","for Levi was still in the body of his ancestor when Melchizedek met Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_11","088_7_11","HEB","7","11","11","If, then, perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood – and it was under this priesthood that the people received the Law – why was it still necessary that a priest of a different order should appear, a priest of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_12","088_7_12","HEB","7","12","12","With the change of the priesthood a change of the Law became a necessity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_13","088_7_13","HEB","7","13","13","And he of whom all this is said belonged to quite a different tribe, no member of which has ever served at the altar. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_14","088_7_14","HEB","7","14","14","For it is plain that our Lord had sprung from the tribe of Judah, though of that tribe Moses said nothing about their being priests. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_15","088_7_15","HEB","7","15","15","All this becomes even yet plainer when we remember that a new priest has appeared, resembling Melchizedek, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_16","088_7_16","HEB","7","16","16","and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_17","088_7_17","HEB","7","17","17","for that is the meaning of the declaration – “You are for all time a priest of the order of Melchizedek.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_18","088_7_18","HEB","7","18","18","On the one hand, we have the abolition of a previous regulation as being both inefficient and useless ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_19","088_7_19","HEB","7","19","19","(for the Law never brought anything to perfection); and, on the other hand, we have the introduction of a better hope, which enables us to draw near to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_20","088_7_20","HEB","7","20","20","Then again, the appointment of this new priest was ratified by an oath, which is not so with the Levitical priests, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_21","088_7_21","HEB","7","21","21","but his appointment was ratified by an oath, when God said to him – “The Lord has sworn, and will not change, ‘You are a priest for all time.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_22","088_7_22","HEB","7","22","22","And the oath shows the corresponding superiority of the covenant of which Jesus is appointed the surety. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_23","088_7_23","HEB","7","23","23","Again, new Levitical priests are continually being appointed, because death prevents their remaining in office; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_24","088_7_24","HEB","7","24","24","but Jesus remains for all time, and therefore the priesthood that he holds will never pass to another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_25","088_7_25","HEB","7","25","25","And that is why he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, living for ever, as he does, to intercede of their behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_26","088_7_26","HEB","7","26","26","This was the high priest that we needed – holy, innocent, spotless, withdrawn from sinners, exalted above the highest heaven, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_27","088_7_27","HEB","7","27","27","one who has no need to offer sacrifices daily as those high priests have, first for their own sins, and then for those of the people. For this he did once and for all, when he offered himself as the sacrifice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB7_28","088_7_28","HEB","7","28","28","The Law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the words of God’s oath, which was later than the Law, name the Son as, for all time, the perfect priest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_1","088_8_1","HEB","8","1","1","To sum up what I have been saying: Such is the high priest that we have, one who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God’s Majesty in heaven, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_2","088_8_2","HEB","8","2","2","where he serves in the sanctuary, in that true tent set up by the Lord and not by man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_3","088_8_3","HEB","8","3","3","Every high priest is appointed for the purpose of offering gifts and sacrifices to God; it follows, therefore, that this high priest must have some offering to make. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_4","088_8_4","HEB","8","4","4","If he were, however, still on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts as the Law directs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_5","088_8_5","HEB","8","5","5","(These priests, it is true, are engaged in a service which is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly realities, as is shown by the directions given to Moses when he was about to construct the tent. “Look to it,” are the words, “that you make every part in accordance with the pattern shown you on the mountain.”) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_6","088_8_6","HEB","8","6","6","But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former covenant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_7","088_8_7","HEB","8","7","7","If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_8","088_8_8","HEB","8","8","8","But, finding fault with the people, God says – “‘A time is coming,’ says the Lord, ‘When I will ratify a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_9","088_8_9","HEB","8","9","9","Not such a covenant as I made with their ancestors on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not abide by their covenant with me, and therefore I disregarded them,’ says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_10","088_8_10","HEB","8","10","10","‘This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel after those days,’ says the Lord. ‘I will impress my laws on their minds, and will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_11","088_8_11","HEB","8","11","11","There will be no need for anyone to instruct their fellow citizen, or for a person to say to their relatives “Learn to know the Lord”; for everyone will know me, from the lowest to the highest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_12","088_8_12","HEB","8","12","12","For I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and I will no longer remember their sins.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB8_13","088_8_13","HEB","8","13","13","By speaking of a new covenant, God at once renders the former covenant obsolete; and whatever becomes obsolete and loses its force is virtually annulled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_1","088_9_1","HEB","9","1","1","It is true that even the first covenant had its regulations for divine worship, and its sanctuary – though only a material one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_2","088_9_2","HEB","9","2","2","For a tent was constructed, with an outer part which contained the stand for the lamps, and the table, and the consecrated bread. This is called the sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_3","088_9_3","HEB","9","3","3","The part of the tent behind the second curtain is called the inner sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_4","088_9_4","HEB","9","4","4","In it is the gold incense-altar, and the ark containing the covenant, completely covered with gold. In the ark is a gold casket containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets on which the covenant was written; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_5","088_9_5","HEB","9","5","5","while above it, and overshadowing the cover on which atonement was made, are the cherubim of the presence. Now is not the time to discuss these things in detail. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_6","088_9_6","HEB","9","6","6","Such, then, was the arrangement of the tent. Into the outer part priests are constantly going, in the discharge of their sacred duties; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_7","088_9_7","HEB","9","7","7","but into the inner only the high priest goes, and that but once a year, and never without taking the blood of a victim, which he offers on his own behalf, and on behalf of the errors of the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_8","088_9_8","HEB","9","8","8","By this the Holy Spirit is teaching that the way into the sanctuary was hidden, as long as the outer part of the tent still remained. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_9","088_9_9","HEB","9","9","9","For that was only a type, to continue down to the present time; and, in keeping with it, both gifts and sacrifices are offered, though incapable of satisfying the conscience of the worshiper; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_10","088_9_10","HEB","9","10","10","the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions – external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the new order. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_11","088_9_11","HEB","9","11","11","But, when Christ came, he appeared as high priest of that better system which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect tent, not made by human hands – that is to say, not a part of this present creation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_12","088_9_12","HEB","9","12","12","Nor was it with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, that he entered, once and for all, into the sanctuary, and obtained our eternal deliverance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_13","088_9_13","HEB","9","13","13","For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, purify those who have been defiled (as far as ceremonial purification goes), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_14","088_9_14","HEB","9","14","14","how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the living God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_15","088_9_15","HEB","9","15","15","And that is why he is the intermediary of a new covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offences committed under the first covenant, those who have received the call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_16","088_9_16","HEB","9","16","16","Whenever such a covenant as a will is in question, the death of the testator must of necessity be alleged. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_18","088_9_18","HEB","9","18","18","This explains why even the first covenant was not ratified without the shedding of blood. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_20","088_9_20","HEB","9","20","20","saying, as he did so – ‘This is the blood that renders valid the covenant which God has commanded to be made with you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_21","088_9_21","HEB","9","21","21","And in the same way he also sprinkled with the blood the tent and all the things that were used in public worship. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_22","088_9_22","HEB","9","22","22","Indeed, under the Law, almost everything is purified with blood; and, unless blood is shed, no forgiveness is to be obtained. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_23","088_9_23","HEB","9","23","23","While, then, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly realities to be purified by such means as these, the heavenly realities themselves required better sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_24","088_9_24","HEB","9","24","24","For it was not into a sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_25","088_9_25","HEB","9","25","25","Nor yet was it to offer himself may times, as year after year the high priest entered the sanctuary with an offering of blood – but not his own blood; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_26","088_9_26","HEB","9","26","26","for then Christ would have had to undergo death many times since the creation of the world. But now, once and for all, at the close of the age, he has appeared, in order to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_27","088_9_27","HEB","9","27","27","And, as it is ordained for people to die but once (death being followed by judgment), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB9_28","088_9_28","HEB","9","28","28","so it is with the Christ. He was offered up once and for all, to bear away the sins of many; and the second time he will appear – but without any burden of sin – to those who are waiting for him, to bring salvation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_1","088_10_1","HEB","10","1","1","The Law, though able to foreshadow the better system which was coming, never had its actual substance. Its priests, with those sacrifices which they offer continuously year after year, can never make those who come to worship perfect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_2","088_10_2","HEB","10","2","2","Otherwise, would not the offering of these sacrifices have been abandoned, as the worshipers, having been once purified, would have had their consciences clear from sins? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_3","088_10_3","HEB","10","3","3","But, on the contrary, these sacrifices recall their sins to mind year after year. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_4","088_10_4","HEB","10","4","4","For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to remove sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_5","088_10_5","HEB","10","5","5","That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared – “Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you provide for me a body; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_6","088_10_6","HEB","10","6","6","You take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_7","088_10_7","HEB","10","7","7","So I said, ‘See, I have come’ (as is written of me in the pages of the book), ‘To do your will, God.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_8","088_10_8","HEB","10","8","8","First come the words – “You do not desire, nor do you take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin” (offerings regularly made under the Law), ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_9","088_10_9","HEB","10","9","9","and then there is added – “See, I have come to do your will.” The former sacrifices are set aside to be replaced by the latter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_10","088_10_10","HEB","10","10","10","And it is in the fulfilment of the will of God that we have been purified by the sacrifice, once and for all, of the body of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_11","088_10_11","HEB","10","11","11","Every other priest stands day after day at his ministrations, and offers the same sacrifices over and over again – sacrifices that can never take sins away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_12","088_10_12","HEB","10","12","12","But, this priest, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, which should serve for all time, “took his seat at the right hand of God,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_13","088_10_13","HEB","10","13","13","and has since then been waiting “for his enemies to be put as a stool for his feet.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_14","088_10_14","HEB","10","14","14","By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being purified. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_15","088_10_15","HEB","10","15","15","We have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit. For, after saying – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_16","088_10_16","HEB","10","16","16","“‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord; ‘I will impress my laws on their hearts, and will inscribe them on their minds,’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_17","088_10_17","HEB","10","17","17","then we have – “And their sins and their iniquities I will no longer remember.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_18","088_10_18","HEB","10","18","18","And, when these are forgiven, there is no further need of an offering for sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_19","088_10_19","HEB","10","19","19","Therefore, friends, since we may enter the sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_20","088_10_20","HEB","10","20","20","by the way which he inaugurated for us – a new and living way, a way through the sanctuary curtain (that is, his human nature); ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_21","088_10_21","HEB","10","21","21","and, since we have in him “a great priest set over the house of God,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_22","088_10_22","HEB","10","22","22","let us draw near to God in all sincerity of heart and in perfect faith, with our hearts purified by the sprinkled blood from all consciousness of wrong, and with our bodies washed with pure water. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_23","088_10_23","HEB","10","23","23","Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_24","088_10_24","HEB","10","24","24","Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_25","088_10_25","HEB","10","25","25","And let us not, as some do, cease to meet together; but, on the contrary, let us encourage one another, and all the more, now that you see the day drawing near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_26","088_10_26","HEB","10","26","26","Remember, if we sin wilfully after we have gained a full knowledge of the truth, there can be no further sacrifice for sin; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_27","088_10_27","HEB","10","27","27","there is only a fearful anticipation of judgment, and a burning indignation which will destroy all opponents. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_28","088_10_28","HEB","10","28","28","When someone disregarded the Law of Moses, they were, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_29","088_10_29","HEB","10","29","29","How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the covenant valid – the blood by which they were purified – as if it were not holy, and who have outraged the Spirit of love? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_30","088_10_30","HEB","10","30","30","We know who it was that said – “It is for me to avenge, I will requite”; and again – “The Lord will judge his people.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_31","088_10_31","HEB","10","31","31","It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_32","088_10_32","HEB","10","32","32","Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_33","088_10_33","HEB","10","33","33","Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped on you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of people who were in the same position in which you had been. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_34","088_10_34","HEB","10","34","34","For you not only sympathised with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_35","088_10_35","HEB","10","35","35","Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_36","088_10_36","HEB","10","36","36","You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God’s will, you may obtain the fulfilment of his promise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_37","088_10_37","HEB","10","37","37","“For there is indeed but a very little while before he who is coming will have come, without delay; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_38","088_10_38","HEB","10","38","38","and through faith the righteous will find life, but, if anyone draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in them.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB10_39","088_10_39","HEB","10","39","39","But we do not belong to those who draw back, to their ruin, but to those who have faith, to the saving of their souls. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_1","088_11_1","HEB","11","1","1","Faith is the realisation of things hoped for – the proof of things not seen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_2","088_11_2","HEB","11","2","2","And it was for faith that the people of old were renowned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_3","088_11_3","HEB","11","3","3","Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God – so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_4","088_11_4","HEB","11","4","4","Faith made the sacrifice which Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain’s, and won him renown as a righteous man, God himself establishing his renown by accepting his gifts; and it is by the example of his faith that Abel, though dead, still speaks. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_5","088_11_5","HEB","11","5","5","Faith led to Enoch’s removal from earth, so that he might not experience death. “He could not be found because God had removed him.” For, before his removal, he was renowned as having pleased God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_6","088_11_6","HEB","11","6","6","but without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who seek for him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_7","088_11_7","HEB","11","7","7","It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows on faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_8","088_11_8","HEB","11","8","8","It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_9","088_11_9","HEB","11","9","9","It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the promised land – as in a strange country – living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_10","088_11_10","HEB","11","10","10","For he was looking for the city with the sure foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_11","088_11_11","HEB","11","11","11","Again, it was faith that enabled Sarah to conceive (though she was past the age for childbearing), because she felt sure that he who had given her the promise would not fail her. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_12","088_11_12","HEB","11","12","12","And so from one man – and that when his powers were dead – there sprang a people as numerous “as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand on the shore.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_13","088_11_13","HEB","11","13","13","All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_14","088_11_14","HEB","11","14","14","Those who speak like this show plainly that they are seeking their homeland. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_15","088_11_15","HEB","11","15","15","If they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they could have found opportunities to return. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_16","088_11_16","HEB","11","16","16","But no, they were longing for a better, a heavenly, land! And therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God; indeed he had already prepared them a city. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_17","088_11_17","HEB","11","17","17","It was faith that enabled Abraham, when put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice – he who had received the promises offering up his only son, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_18","088_11_18","HEB","11","18","18","of whom it had been said – “It is through Isaac that there will be descendants to bear your name.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_19","088_11_19","HEB","11","19","19","For he argued that God was even able to raise a man from the dead – and indeed, figuratively speaking, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_20","088_11_20","HEB","11","20","20","It was faith that enabled Isaac to bless Jacob and Esau, even with regard to the future. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_21","088_11_21","HEB","11","21","21","Faith enabled Jacob, when dying, to give his blessing to each of the sons of Joseph, and “to bow himself in worship as he leant on the top of his staff.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_22","088_11_22","HEB","11","22","22","Faith caused Joseph, when his end was near, to speak of the future migration of the Israelites, and to give instructions with regard to his bones. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_23","088_11_23","HEB","11","23","23","Faith caused the parents of Moses to hide the child for three months after his birth, for they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they would not respect the king’s order. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_24","088_11_24","HEB","11","24","24","It was faith that caused Moses, when he was grown up, to refuse the title of “son of a daughter of Pharaoh.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_25","088_11_25","HEB","11","25","25","He preferred sharing the hardships of God’s people to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_26","088_11_26","HEB","11","26","26","For he counted “the reproaches that are heaped on the Christ” of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, looking forward, as he did, to the reward awaiting him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_27","088_11_27","HEB","11","27","27","Faith caused him to leave Egypt, though undaunted by the king’s anger, for he was strengthened in his endurance by the vision of the invisible God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_28","088_11_28","HEB","11","28","28","Faith led him to institute the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the Destroyer might not touch the eldest children of the Israelites. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_29","088_11_29","HEB","11","29","29","Faith enabled the people to cross the Red Sea, as if it had been dry land, while the Egyptians, when they attempted to do so, were drowned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_30","088_11_30","HEB","11","30","30","Faith caused the walls of Jericho to fall after being encircled for seven days. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_32","088_11_32","HEB","11","32","32","Need I add anything more? Time would fail me if I attempted to relate the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, and those of David, Samuel, and the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_33","088_11_33","HEB","11","33","33","By their faith they subdued kingdoms, ruled righteously, gained the fulfilment of God’s promises, shut the mouths of lions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_34","088_11_34","HEB","11","34","34","quelled the fury of the flames, escaped the edge of the sword, found strength in the hour of weakness, displayed their prowess in war, and routed hostile armies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_35","088_11_35","HEB","11","35","35","Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_36","088_11_36","HEB","11","36","36","Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_37","088_11_37","HEB","11","37","37","They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_38","088_11_38","HEB","11","38","38","people of whom the world was not worthy – roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_39","088_11_39","HEB","11","39","39","Yet, though they all won renown by their faith, they did not obtain the final fulfilment of God’s promise; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB11_40","088_11_40","HEB","11","40","40","since God had in view some better thing for us, so that they would only reach perfection together with us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_1","088_12_1","HEB","12","1","1","Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_2","088_12_2","HEB","12","2","2","our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfect example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now “has taken his seat at the right hand” of the throne of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_3","088_12_3","HEB","12","3","3","Weigh well the example of him who had to endure such opposition from “people who were sinning against themselves,” so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_4","088_12_4","HEB","12","4","4","You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_5","088_12_5","HEB","12","5","5","and you have forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as God’s children – “My child, think not lightly of the Lord’s discipline, do not despond when he rebukes you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_6","088_12_6","HEB","12","6","6","For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_7","088_12_7","HEB","12","7","7","It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_8","088_12_8","HEB","12","8","8","If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_9","088_12_9","HEB","12","9","9","Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Should we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_10","088_12_10","HEB","12","10","10","Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_11","088_12_11","HEB","12","11","11","No discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is painful. But afterwards its fruit is seen in the peacefulness of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been trained under it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_12","088_12_12","HEB","12","12","12","Therefore “lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_13","088_12_13","HEB","12","13","13","make straight paths for your feet,” so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_14","088_12_14","HEB","12","14","14","Try earnestly to live at peace with everyone, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_15","088_12_15","HEB","12","15","15","Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, “that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,” and so poison the whole community. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_16","088_12_16","HEB","12","16","16","Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_17","088_12_17","HEB","12","17","17","For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to claim his father’s blessing, he was rejected – for he never found an opportunity to repair his error – though he begged for the blessing with tears. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_18","088_12_18","HEB","12","18","18","It is not to tangible “flaming fire” that you have drawn near, nor to “gloom, and darkness, and storm, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_19","088_12_19","HEB","12","19","19","and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.” Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_20","088_12_20","HEB","12","20","20","for they could not bear to think of the command – “If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_21","088_12_21","HEB","12","21","21","and so fearful was the sight that Moses said – “I tremble with fear.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_23","088_12_23","HEB","12","23","23","to the festal gathering and assemblage of God’s firstborn whose names are enrolled in heaven, to God the judge of all people, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained perfection, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_24","088_12_24","HEB","12","24","24","to Jesus, the intermediary of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_25","088_12_25","HEB","12","25","25","Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_26","088_12_26","HEB","12","26","26","Then his voice shook the earth, but now his declaration is – “Still once more I will cause not only the earth to tremble, but also the heavens.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_27","088_12_27","HEB","12","27","27","And those words “still once more” indicate the passing away of all that is shaken – that is, of all created things – in order that only what is unshaken may remain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_28","088_12_28","HEB","12","28","28","Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB12_29","088_12_29","HEB","12","29","29","For our God is “a consuming fire.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_1","088_13_1","HEB","13","1","1","Let your love for the Lord’s followers continue. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_2","088_13_2","HEB","13","2","2","Do not neglect to show hospitality; for, through being hospitable, people have all unawares entertained angels. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_3","088_13_3","HEB","13","3","3","Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_4","088_13_4","HEB","13","4","4","Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_5","088_13_5","HEB","13","5","5","Do not let your conduct be ruled by the love of money. Be content with what you have, for God himself has said – “I will never forsake you, nor will I ever abandon you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_6","088_13_6","HEB","13","6","6","Therefore we may say with confidence – “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can mere people do to me?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_7","088_13_7","HEB","13","7","7","Do not forget your leaders, who told you God’s message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_8","088_13_8","HEB","13","8","8","Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today – yes, and for ever! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_9","088_13_9","HEB","13","9","9","Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength on the divine help, than on regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_10","088_13_10","HEB","13","10","10","We are not without an altar; but it is one at which those who still worship in the tent have no right to eat. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_11","088_13_11","HEB","13","11","11","The bodies of those animals whose blood is brought by the high priest into the sanctuary, as an offering for sin, are burnt outside the camp. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_12","088_13_12","HEB","13","12","12","And so Jesus, also, to purify the people by his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_13","088_13_13","HEB","13","13","13","Therefore let us go out to him “outside the camp,” bearing the same reproaches as he; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_14","088_13_14","HEB","13","14","14","for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the city that is to be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_15","088_13_15","HEB","13","15","15","Through him let us offer, as our sacrifice, continual praise to God – an offering from lips that glorify his name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_16","088_13_16","HEB","13","16","16","Never forget to do kindly acts and to share what you have with others, for such sacrifices are acceptable to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_17","088_13_17","HEB","13","17","17","Obey your leaders, and submit to their control, for they are watching over your souls, since they will have to render an account, so that they may do it with joy, and not in sorrow. That would not be to your advantage. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_18","088_13_18","HEB","13","18","18","Pray for us, for we are sure that our consciences are clear, since our wish is to be occupied with what is good. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_19","088_13_19","HEB","13","19","19","And I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, so that I may be restored to you the sooner. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_20","088_13_20","HEB","13","20","20","May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, “by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable covenant, is the great shepherd of God’s Sheep,” Jesus, our Lord – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_21","088_13_21","HEB","13","21","21","may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_22","088_13_22","HEB","13","22","22","I beg you, friends, to bear with these words of advice. For I have written only very briefly to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_23","088_13_23","HEB","13","23","23","You will be glad to hear that our friend, Timothy, has been set free. If he comes here soon, we will visit you together. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_24","088_13_24","HEB","13","24","24","Give our greeting to all your leaders, and to all Christ’s people. Our friends from Italy send their greetings to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("HB13_25","088_13_25","HEB","13","25","25","May God bless you all.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_1","089_1_1","JAS","1","1","1"," James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, greets the twelve tribes that are living abroad. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_2","089_1_2","JAS","1","2","2","My friends, whatever trials you may face from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_3","089_1_3","JAS","1","3","3","knowing, as you do, that the testing of your faith develops endurance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_4","089_1_4","JAS","1","4","4","And let endurance do its work perfectly, so that you may be altogether perfect, and in no respect lacking. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_5","089_1_5","JAS","1","5","5","If any one of you lacks wisdom, they should ask wisdom from the God who gives freely to everyone without reproach, and it will be given to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_6","089_1_6","JAS","1","6","6","But they should ask with confidence, never doubting; for the person who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven here and there at the mercy of the wind – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_7","089_1_7","JAS","1","7","7","Such a person must not expect that they will receive anything from the Lord, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_8","089_1_8","JAS","1","8","8","vacillating as they are, irresolute at every turn. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_9","089_1_9","JAS","1","9","9","Let a follower in humble circumstances be proud of their exalted position, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_10","089_1_10","JAS","1","10","10","but a rich follower of their humiliation; for the rich will pass away like a wild flower. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_11","089_1_11","JAS","1","11","11","As the sun rises, and the hot wind blows, the plant withers, its flower fades, and all its beauty is gone. So is it with the rich. In the midst of their pursuits they will wither away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_12","089_1_12","JAS","1","12","12","Blessed is the person who remains firm under temptation, for, when they have stood the test, they will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_13","089_1_13","JAS","1","13","13","Let no one say, when they are tempted, ‘It is God who is tempting me!’ For God, who cannot be tempted to do wrong, does not himself tempt anyone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_14","089_1_14","JAS","1","14","14","A man is in every case tempted by their own passions – allured and enticed by them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_15","089_1_15","JAS","1","15","15","Then passion conceives and gives birth to sin, and sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_16","089_1_16","JAS","1","16","16","Do not be deceived, my dear friends. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_17","089_1_17","JAS","1","17","17","Every good thing given us, and every perfect gift, is from above, and comes down to us from the Father of the lights in the heavens, who is himself never subject to change or to eclipse. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_18","089_1_18","JAS","1","18","18","Because he so willed, he gave us life, through the message of the truth, so that we should be, as it were, a kind of first fruits of his creation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_19","089_1_19","JAS","1","19","19","Mark this, my dear friends – Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_20","089_1_20","JAS","1","20","20","for human anger does not forward the righteous purpose of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_21","089_1_21","JAS","1","21","21","Therefore, get rid of all filthiness and whatever wickedness still remains, and in a humble spirit receive that message which has been planted in your hearts and is able to save your souls. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_22","089_1_22","JAS","1","22","22","Put that message into practice, and do not merely listen to it – deceiving yourselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_23","089_1_23","JAS","1","23","23","For, when anyone listens to it and does not practice it, they are like a person looking at their own face in a mirror. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_24","089_1_24","JAS","1","24","24","They look at themselves, then go on their way, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_25","089_1_25","JAS","1","25","25","but the person who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice – that person will be blessed in what they do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_26","089_1_26","JAS","1","26","26","When a person appears to be religious, yet does not bridle their tongue, but imposes on their own conscience, that person’s religious observances are valueless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM1_27","089_1_27","JAS","1","27","27","That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this – to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_1","089_2_1","JAS","2","1","1","My friends, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with discrimination? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_2","089_2_2","JAS","2","2","2","Suppose a visitor should enter your synagogue, with gold rings and in grand clothes, and suppose a poor man should come in also, in shabby clothes, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_3","089_2_3","JAS","2","3","3","and you show more respect to the visitor who is wearing grand clothes, and say – ‘There is a good seat for you here,’ but to the poor man – ‘You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_4","089_2_4","JAS","2","4","4","Haven’t you made distinctions among yourselves, and used evil standards of judgement? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_5","089_2_5","JAS","2","5","5","Listen, my dear friends. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_6","089_2_6","JAS","2","6","6","But you – you insult the poor man! Isn’t it the rich who oppress you? Isn’t it they who drag you into law courts? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_7","089_2_7","JAS","2","7","7","Isn’t it they who malign that honourable name spoken over you at your baptism? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_8","089_2_8","JAS","2","8","8","If you keep the royal law which runs – “You must love your neighbour as you love yourself,” you are doing right; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_9","089_2_9","JAS","2","9","9","but, if you discriminate, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_10","089_2_10","JAS","2","10","10","For a person who has laid the Law, as a whole, to heart, but has failed in one particular, is accountable for breaking all its provisions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_11","089_2_11","JAS","2","11","11","He who said “You must not commit adultery” also said “You must not murder.” If, then, you commit murder but not adultery, you are still an offender against the Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_12","089_2_12","JAS","2","12","12","Therefore, speak and act as people who are to be judged by the “Law of freedom.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_13","089_2_13","JAS","2","13","13","For there will be justice without mercy for the person who has not acted mercifully. Mercy triumphs over Justice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_14","089_2_14","JAS","2","14","14","My friends, what good is it if someone claims that they have faith, but they do not prove it by actions? Can such faith save them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_15","089_2_15","JAS","2","15","15","Suppose some brother or sister should be in need of clothes and of daily bread, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_16","089_2_16","JAS","2","16","16","and one of you says to them – ‘Go, and peace be with you; keep warm and eat well!’ and yet you do not actually give them the necessities of life, what good would it be to them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_17","089_2_17","JAS","2","17","17","In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_18","089_2_18","JAS","2","18","18","Someone, indeed, may say – ‘You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action.’ ‘Then show me your faith,’ I reply, ‘apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_19","089_2_19","JAS","2","19","19","It is a part of your faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_20","089_2_20","JAS","2","20","20","Now do you really want to understand, fool, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_21","089_2_21","JAS","2","21","21","Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was he not justified by his actions after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_22","089_2_22","JAS","2","22","22","You see how, in his case, faith and actions went together; that his faith was perfected as the result of his actions; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_23","089_2_23","JAS","2","23","23","and that in this way the words of scripture came true – ‘Abraham believed God, and that was regarded by God as righteousness,’ and ‘He was called the friend of God.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_24","089_2_24","JAS","2","24","24","You see, then, that a person is justified by actions, and not by faith alone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_25","089_2_25","JAS","2","25","25","Wasn’t it the same with the prostitute, Rahab? Was she not justified by her actions, after she had welcomed the messengers and helped them escape by another road? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM2_26","089_2_26","JAS","2","26","26","Just as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_1","089_3_1","JAS","3","1","1","Not many of you should become teachers, my friends, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly than others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_2","089_3_2","JAS","3","2","2","We often make mistakes, every one of us. Anyone who does not make mistakes when speaking is indeed a perfect person, able to bridle their whole body as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_3","089_3_3","JAS","3","3","3","When we put bits into horses’ mouths to make them obey us, we change their course the rest of their bodies. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_4","089_3_4","JAS","3","4","4","Again, think of ships. Large as they are, and even when driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder and steered in whatever direction the man at the helm may determine. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_5","089_3_5","JAS","3","5","5","So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how a tiny spark may set the largest forest ablaze! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_6","089_3_6","JAS","3","6","6","And the tongue is like a spark. It is a world of unrighteousness among the parts of our body. It contaminates the whole body; it sets the whole course of our existence on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_7","089_3_7","JAS","3","7","7","For while all kinds of animals, birds and reptiles and sea creatures can be tamed and have been tamed by humans, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_8","089_3_8","JAS","3","8","8","no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_9","089_3_9","JAS","3","9","9","With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made “in God’s likeness.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_10","089_3_10","JAS","3","10","10","From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My friends, it is not right that this should be so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_11","089_3_11","JAS","3","11","11","Does a spring give both good and bad water from the same source? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_12","089_3_12","JAS","3","12","12","Can a fig tree, my friends, bear olives? Or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_13","089_3_13","JAS","3","13","13","Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? They should show that their actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_14","089_3_14","JAS","3","14","14","But if you harbour bitter envy and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or deny the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_15","089_3_15","JAS","3","15","15","That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animalistic, demonic. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_16","089_3_16","JAS","3","16","16","For where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of bad, worthless actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_17","089_3_17","JAS","3","17","17","But the wisdom from above is, before everything else, pure; then peace-loving, gentle, open to conviction, rich in compassion and good deeds, and free from partiality and insincerity. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM3_18","089_3_18","JAS","3","18","18","Justice is the harvest peacemakers will reap from seeds sown in a spirit of peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_1","089_4_1","JAS","4","1","1","What is the cause of the fighting and quarrelling that goes on among you? Isn’t it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_2","089_4_2","JAS","4","2","2","You crave, yet do not have, so you commit murder, so You covet, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_3","089_4_3","JAS","4","3","3","You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose – to spend what you get on your pleasures. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_4","089_4_4","JAS","4","4","4","Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_5","089_4_5","JAS","4","5","5","Do you suppose scripture means nothing when it says, “Envy results from the longings of the spirit which God has implanted within you?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_6","089_4_6","JAS","4","6","6","But he gives us greater grace; and that is why it says, – “God opposes the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_7","089_4_7","JAS","4","7","7","Therefore submit to God. Stand up to the devil, and he will flee from you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_8","089_4_8","JAS","4","8","8","Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_9","089_4_9","JAS","4","9","9","Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_10","089_4_10","JAS","4","10","10","Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_11","089_4_11","JAS","4","11","11","Do not disparage one another, friends. The person who disparages others, or passes judgment on them, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_12","089_4_12","JAS","4","12","12","There is only one lawgiver and judge – he who has the power both to save and to destroy. So then who are you to pass judgment on your neighbour? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_13","089_4_13","JAS","4","13","13","Listen to me, you who say “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_14","089_4_14","JAS","4","14","14","yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_15","089_4_15","JAS","4","15","15","Instead you should say “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_16","089_4_16","JAS","4","16","16","But as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM4_17","089_4_17","JAS","4","17","17","The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it – that is sin in them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_1","089_5_1","JAS","5","1","1","Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_2","089_5_2","JAS","5","2","2","Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_3","089_5_3","JAS","5","3","3","Your gold and silver are rusted; and the rust on them will be evidence against you, and will eat into your flesh. It was fire, so to speak, that you stored up for yourselves in these last days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_4","089_5_4","JAS","5","4","4","Listen! The wages you have held back from the labourers who mowed your fields are crying out against you, and the outcries of your harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_5","089_5_5","JAS","5","5","5","You have lived on earth a life of extravagance and luxury; you have indulged your fancies in a time of bloodshed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_6","089_5_6","JAS","5","6","6","You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous one! Must not God be opposed to you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_7","089_5_7","JAS","5","7","7","Be patient, then, friends, until the coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, until it has had the spring and summer rains. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_8","089_5_8","JAS","5","8","8","And you must be patient also, and not be discouraged; for the Lord’s coming is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_9","089_5_9","JAS","5","9","9","Do not make complaints against one another, friends, or judgment will be passed on you. The judge is already standing at the door! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_10","089_5_10","JAS","5","10","10","Friends, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_11","089_5_11","JAS","5","11","11","We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job’s endurance, and have seen what the Lord’s purpose was, for “the Lord is full of pity and compassion.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_12","089_5_12","JAS","5","12","12","Above all things, my friends, never take an oath, either by heaven, or by earth, or by anything else. Let your “Yes” suffice for yes, and “No” for no, so that you may escape condemnation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_13","089_5_13","JAS","5","13","13","If anyone of you is in trouble, they should pray; if anyone is happy, they should sing hymns. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_14","089_5_14","JAS","5","14","14","If anyone of you is ill, they should send for the church elders, and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_15","089_5_15","JAS","5","15","15","The prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick, and the Lord will raise them from their bed; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_16","089_5_16","JAS","5","16","16","Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good person’s fervent prayer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_17","089_5_17","JAS","5","17","17","Elijah was only human like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell on the land for three and a half years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_18","089_5_18","JAS","5","18","18","And, when he prayed again, the clouds brought rain, and the land bore crops. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_19","089_5_19","JAS","5","19","19","My friends, should one of you be led astray from the truth, and someone bring them back again, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JM5_20","089_5_20","JAS","5","20","20","be sure that the person who brings a sinner back from their mistaken ways will save that person’s soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_1","090_1_1","1PE","1","1","1"," To the people of God who are living abroad, dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_2","090_1_2","1PE","1","2","2","and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever increasing measure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_3","090_1_3","1PE","1","3","3","Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_4","090_1_4","1PE","1","4","4","given us the new life of undying hope, that promises an inheritance, imperishable, stainless, unfading, which has been reserved for you in heaven – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_5","090_1_5","1PE","1","5","5","for you who, through faith, are being guarded by the power of God, awaiting a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last days. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_6","090_1_6","1PE","1","6","6","At the thought of this you are full of exultation, though (if it has been necessary) you have suffered for the moment somewhat from various trials; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_7","090_1_7","1PE","1","7","7","that the genuineness of your faith – a thing far more precious than gold, which is perishable, yet has to be tested by fire – may win praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_8","090_1_8","1PE","1","8","8","Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_9","090_1_9","1PE","1","9","9","as you receive the reward of your faith in the salvation of your souls! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_10","090_1_10","1PE","1","10","10","It was this salvation that the prophets, who spoke long ago of the blessing intended for you, sought, and strove to comprehend; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_11","090_1_11","1PE","1","11","11","as they strove to discern what that time could be, to which the Spirit of Christ within them was pointing, when foretelling the sufferings that Christ would have to endure, and the glories that would follow. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_12","090_1_12","1PE","1","12","12","And it was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were acting as Ministers of the truths which have now been told to you, by those who, with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, have brought you the good news – truths into which even angels long to look. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_13","090_1_13","1PE","1","13","13","Therefore concentrate your minds, with the strictest self-control, and fix your hopes on the blessing that is coming for you at the appearing of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_14","090_1_14","1PE","1","14","14","Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_15","090_1_15","1PE","1","15","15","but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your call. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_16","090_1_16","1PE","1","16","16","For scripture says – “You will be holy, because I am holy.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_17","090_1_17","1PE","1","17","17","And since you call on him as “Father,” who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, let respectful awe be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay on earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_18","090_1_18","1PE","1","18","18","For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_19","090_1_19","1PE","1","19","19","but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_20","090_1_20","1PE","1","20","20","Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_21","090_1_21","1PE","1","21","21","who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honour, so that your faith and hope are now in God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_22","090_1_22","1PE","1","22","22","Now that, by your obedience to the truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_23","090_1_23","1PE","1","23","23","since your new life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the message of the Everliving God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_24","090_1_24","1PE","1","24","24","For – “All earthly life is but as grass, and all its splendour as the flower of grass. The grass fades, its flower falls, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P11_25","090_1_25","1PE","1","25","25","but the teaching of the Lord remains for ever.” And that is the teaching of the good news which has been told to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_1","090_2_1","1PE","2","1","1","Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all backbiting, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_2","090_2_2","1PE","2","2","2","like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_3","090_2_3","1PE","2","3","3","since “you have found by experience that the Lord is kind.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_4","090_2_4","1PE","2","4","4","Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes choice and precious; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_5","090_2_5","1PE","2","5","5","and, as living stones, form yourselves into a spiritual house, to be a consecrated priesthood, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_6","090_2_6","1PE","2","6","6","For there is a passage of scripture that runs – “See, I am placing in Zion a choice and precious cornerstone; and those who believe in him will have no cause for shame.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_7","090_2_7","1PE","2","7","7","It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is “a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_8","090_2_8","1PE","2","8","8","and “a stumbling-block, and a rock which will prove a hindrance.” They stumble because they do not accept the message. This was the fate destined for them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_9","090_2_9","1PE","2","9","9","But you are “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God’s own people,” entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_10","090_2_10","1PE","2","10","10","Once you were “not a people,” but now you are “God’s people”; once you “had not found mercy,” but now you “have found mercy.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_11","090_2_11","1PE","2","11","11","Dear friends, I beg you, as pilgrims and strangers on earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war on the soul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_12","090_2_12","1PE","2","12","12","Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evildoers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God “at the time when he will visit them.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_13","090_2_13","1PE","2","13","13","Submit to all human institutions for the Lord’s sake, alike to the emperor as the supreme authority, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_14","090_2_14","1PE","2","14","14","and to governors as sent by him to punish evildoers and to commend those who do right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_15","090_2_15","1PE","2","15","15","For God’s will is this – that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_16","090_2_16","1PE","2","16","16","Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_17","090_2_17","1PE","2","17","17","Show honour to everyone, love the Lord’s followers, “revere God, honour the emperor.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_18","090_2_18","1PE","2","18","18","Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_19","090_2_19","1PE","2","19","19","For this wins God’s approval when, because conscious of God’s presence, a person who is suffering unjustly bears their troubles patiently. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_20","090_2_20","1PE","2","20","20","What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_21","090_2_21","1PE","2","21","21","For it was to this that you were called! For Christ, too, suffered – on your behalf – and left you an example, that you should follow in his steps. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_22","090_2_22","1PE","2","22","22","He “never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_23","090_2_23","1PE","2","23","23","He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_24","090_2_24","1PE","2","24","24","And he “himself carried our sins” in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. “His bruising was your healing.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P12_25","090_2_25","1PE","2","25","25","Once you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_1","090_3_1","1PE","3","1","1","Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the message, they may, apart from the message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_2","090_3_2","1PE","3","2","2","as they see your pure, reverent conduct. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_3","090_3_3","1PE","3","3","3","Yours should be, not the external adornment of the arrangement of the hair, the wearing of jewellery, or the putting on of dresses, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_4","090_3_4","1PE","3","4","4","but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God’s sight. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_5","090_3_5","1PE","3","5","5","It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_6","090_3_6","1PE","3","6","6","as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_7","090_3_7","1PE","3","7","7","Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as physically weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_8","090_3_8","1PE","3","8","8","Lastly, you should all be united, sympathetic, full of love for each other, kind-hearted, humble-minded; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_9","090_3_9","1PE","3","9","9","never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called – to obtain a blessing! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_10","090_3_10","1PE","3","10","10","“The person who wants to enjoy life and see happy days – they should keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful words, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_11","090_3_11","1PE","3","11","11","they should turn from evil and do good, They should seek for peace and follow after it; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_12","090_3_12","1PE","3","12","12","For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is set against those who do wrong.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_13","090_3_13","1PE","3","13","13","Who, indeed, is there to harm you, if you prove yourselves to be eager for what is good? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_14","090_3_14","1PE","3","14","14","Even if you should suffer for righteousness, count yourselves blessed! “Do not let people terrify you, or allow yourselves to be dismayed.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_15","090_3_15","1PE","3","15","15","Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it with courtesy and respect, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_16","090_3_16","1PE","3","16","16","and keeping your consciences clear, so that, whenever you are maligned, those who vilify your good and Christian conduct may be put to shame. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_17","090_3_17","1PE","3","17","17","It is better that you should suffer, if that should be God’s will, for doing right, than for doing wrong. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_18","090_3_18","1PE","3","18","18","For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all – the good on behalf of the bad – that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering on new life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_19","090_3_19","1PE","3","19","19","And it was then that he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_20","090_3_20","1PE","3","20","20","who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_21","090_3_21","1PE","3","21","21","And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you – not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P13_22","090_3_22","1PE","3","22","22","who has gone into heaven, and is at God’s right hand, where angels and archangels and the powers of heaven now yield submission to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_1","090_4_1","1PE","4","1","1","Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_2","090_4_2","1PE","4","2","2","and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_3","090_4_3","1PE","4","3","3","Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_4","090_4_4","1PE","4","4","4","And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_5","090_4_5","1PE","4","5","5","But they will have to answer for their conduct to him who is ready to judge both the living and the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_6","090_4_6","1PE","4","6","6","For that was why the good news was told to the dead also – that, after they have been judged in the body, as people are judged, they might live in the spirit, as God lives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_7","090_4_7","1PE","4","7","7","But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, so that you may be able to pray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_8","090_4_8","1PE","4","8","8","Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for “Love throws a veil over countless sins.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_9","090_4_9","1PE","4","9","9","Never grudge hospitality to one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_10","090_4_10","1PE","4","10","10","Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_11","090_4_11","1PE","4","11","11","When anyone speaks, they should speak as one who is delivering the oracles of God. When anyone is endeavouring to serve others, they should do so in reliance on the strength which God supplies; so that in everything God may be honoured through Jesus Christ – to whom be ascribed all honour and might for ever and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_12","090_4_12","1PE","4","12","12","Dear friends, do not be astonished at the trial of fire that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_13","090_4_13","1PE","4","13","13","No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his glory, you may rejoice and exult. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_14","090_4_14","1PE","4","14","14","If you are insulted for bearing the name of Christ, count yourselves blessed; because the divine glory and the Spirit of God are resting on you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_15","090_4_15","1PE","4","15","15","I need hardly say that no one among you must suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a criminal, or for interfering in matters which do not concern Christians. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_16","090_4_16","1PE","4","16","16","But, if someone suffers as a Christian, they should not be ashamed of it; they should bring honour to God even though they bear that name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_17","090_4_17","1PE","4","17","17","For the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God’s good news? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_18","090_4_18","1PE","4","18","18","If “a good person is saved only with difficulty, what will become of the godless and the sinful?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P14_19","090_4_19","1PE","4","19","19","Therefore, I say, let those who suffer, because God wills it so, commit their lives into the hands of a faithful Creator, and persevere in doing right. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_1","090_5_1","1PE","5","1","1","As for the older ones among you, who are elders in the church, I, their fellow elder, and a witness to the sufferings of the Christ, who will also share in the glory that is to be revealed – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_2","090_5_2","1PE","5","2","2","I beg you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_3","090_5_3","1PE","5","3","3","not as lords of your charges, but as examples to your flock. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_4","090_5_4","1PE","5","4","4","Then, when the chief shepherd appears, you will win the crown of glory that never fades. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_5","090_5_5","1PE","5","5","5","Again, you younger ones should show deference to the older. And all of you should put on the badge of humility in mutual service, for “God is opposed to the proud, but gives his help to the humble.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_6","090_5_6","1PE","5","6","6","Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in his good time, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_7","090_5_7","1PE","5","7","7","laying all your anxieties on him, for he makes you his care. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_8","090_5_8","1PE","5","8","8","Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_9","090_5_9","1PE","5","9","9","Stand firm against him, strong in your faith; knowing, as you do, that the sufferings which you are undergoing are being endured to the full by the Lord’s followers throughout the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_10","090_5_10","1PE","5","10","10","God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_11","090_5_11","1PE","5","11","11","To him be ascribed dominion for ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_12","090_5_12","1PE","5","12","12","I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted friend (for so I regard him), to encourage you, and to bear my testimony that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_13","090_5_13","1PE","5","13","13","Your sister church in “Babylon” sends you greeting, and so does Mark, who is as a son to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P15_14","090_5_14","1PE","5","14","14","Greet one another with the kiss of love. May God give his peace to you all in your union with Christ.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_1","091_1_1","2PE","1","1","1"," To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_2","091_1_2","2PE","1","2","2","May blessing and peace be yours in ever increasing measure, as you advance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_3","091_1_3","2PE","1","3","3","For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_4","091_1_4","2PE","1","4","4","For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_5","091_1_5","2PE","1","5","5","Yes, and for this reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_6","091_1_6","2PE","1","6","6","knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_7","091_1_7","2PE","1","7","7","piety by mutual affection, and mutual affection by love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_8","091_1_8","2PE","1","8","8","For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_9","091_1_9","2PE","1","9","9","Surely the person who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that they have been purified from their sins of the past! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_10","091_1_10","2PE","1","10","10","Therefore, friends, do your best to put God’s call and selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_11","091_1_11","2PE","1","11","11","For in this way you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_12","091_1_12","2PE","1","12","12","I will, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the truth that you now hold. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_13","091_1_13","2PE","1","13","13","But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this “tent,” to rouse you by awakening memories of the past; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_14","091_1_14","2PE","1","14","14","for I know that the time for this “tent” of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_15","091_1_15","2PE","1","15","15","So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_16","091_1_16","2PE","1","16","16","For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_17","091_1_17","2PE","1","17","17","For he received honour and glory from God the Father, when from the glory of the Divine Majesty there were borne to his ears words such as these – “This is my dearly loved son, who brings me great joy.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_18","091_1_18","2PE","1","18","18","These were the words that we heard, borne to our ears from heaven, when we were with him on that sacred mountain. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_19","091_1_19","2PE","1","19","19","And still stronger is the assurance that we have in the teaching of the prophets; to which you will do well to pay attention (as if it were a lamp shining in a gloomy place), until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_20","091_1_20","2PE","1","20","20","But first be assured of this: There is no prophetic teaching found in scripture that can be interpreted by a person’s unaided reason; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P21_21","091_1_21","2PE","1","21","21","for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of people, but people, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_1","091_2_1","2PE","2","1","1","But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, people who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy ruin on themselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_2","091_2_2","2PE","2","2","2","There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the way of the truth to be maligned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_3","091_2_3","2PE","2","3","3","In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their sentence has not been standing idle, nor their ruin slumbering. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_4","091_2_4","2PE","2","4","4","Remember, God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them down to Tartarus, and consigned them to caverns of darkness, to be kept under guard for judgment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_5","091_2_5","2PE","2","5","5","Nor did he spare the world of old; though he preserved Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought a flood on the godless world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_6","091_2_6","2PE","2","6","6","He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, holding them up as a warning to the godless of what was in store for them; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_7","091_2_7","2PE","2","7","7","but he rescued righteous Lot, whose heart was vexed by the wanton licentiousness of his neighbours; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_8","091_2_8","2PE","2","8","8","for, seeing and hearing what he did, as he lived his righteous life among them, day after day, Lot’s righteous soul was tortured by their wicked doings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_9","091_2_9","2PE","2","9","9","The Lord, therefore, knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to keep the wicked, who are even now suffering punishment, in readiness for “the day of judgment” – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_10","091_2_10","2PE","2","10","10","especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the celestial beings, maligning them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_11","091_2_11","2PE","2","11","11","even where angels, though excelling them in strength and power, do not bring against them a malignant charge before the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_12","091_2_12","2PE","2","12","12","These people, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed – these people, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_13","091_2_13","2PE","2","13","13","suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_14","091_2_14","2PE","2","14","14","They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_15","091_2_15","2PE","2","15","15","Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrongdoing, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_16","091_2_16","2PE","2","16","16","but was rebuked for his offence. A dumb animal spoke with a human voice, and checked the prophet’s madness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_17","091_2_17","2PE","2","17","17","These people are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_18","091_2_18","2PE","2","18","18","With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of people’s lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the people who live such misguided lives. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_19","091_2_19","2PE","2","19","19","They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a person is the slave of anything to which they give way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_20","091_2_20","2PE","2","20","20","If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, people are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_21","091_2_21","2PE","2","21","21","It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy command delivered to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P22_22","091_2_22","2PE","2","22","22","In their case is seen the truth of the proverb – “A dog returns to what it has vomited” and “A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_1","091_3_1","2PE","3","1","1","This, dear friends, is my second letter to you. In both of them I have tried, by appealing to your remembrance, to arouse your better feelings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_2","091_3_2","2PE","3","2","2","I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy prophets, as well as the command of our Lord and Saviour given to you through your apostles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_3","091_3_3","2PE","3","3","3","First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_4","091_3_4","2PE","3","4","4","will come and ask scoffingly – “Where is his promised coming? Ever since our ancestors passed to their rest, everything remains just as it was when the world was first created!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_5","091_3_5","2PE","3","5","5","For they wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also – formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_6","091_3_6","2PE","3","6","6","and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_7","091_3_7","2PE","3","7","7","But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_8","091_3_8","2PE","3","8","8","But you, dear friends, must never shut your eyes to the fact that, to the Lord, one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_9","091_3_9","2PE","3","9","9","The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise, as some count slowness; but he is forbearing with you, as it is not his will that any of you should perish, but that all should be brought to repentance. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_10","091_3_10","2PE","3","10","10","The day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that day the heavens will pass away with a crash, the elements will be burnt up and dissolved, and the earth and all that is in it will be disclosed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_11","091_3_11","2PE","3","11","11","Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be – what holy and pious lives you ought to lead, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_12","091_3_12","2PE","3","12","12","while you wait for the coming of the day of God and strive to make it come soon. At its coming the heavens will be dissolved in fire, and the elements melted by heat, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_13","091_3_13","2PE","3","13","13","but we look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will have its home, in fulfilment of the promise of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_14","091_3_14","2PE","3","14","14","Therefore, dear friends, in expectation of these things, make every effort to be found by him spotless, blameless, and at peace. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_15","091_3_15","2PE","3","15","15","Regard our Lord’s forbearance as your one hope of salvation. This is what our dear friend Paul wrote to you, with the wisdom that God gave him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_16","091_3_16","2PE","3","16","16","It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own ruin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_17","091_3_17","2PE","3","17","17","You must, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("P23_18","091_3_18","2PE","3","18","18","and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_1","092_1_1","1JN","1","1","1"," We write to you about the Word of life, which has been in existence from the beginning. We write of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_2","092_1_2","1JN","1","2","2","That life was made visible, and we have seen it. We bear our testimony to it, and tell you of that eternal life which was with the Father and was made visible to us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_3","092_1_3","1JN","1","3","3","It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_4","092_1_4","1JN","1","4","4","We are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_5","092_1_5","1JN","1","5","5","This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_6","092_1_6","1JN","1","6","6","If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet continue to walk in the darkness, our words and our lives are a lie. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_7","092_1_7","1JN","1","7","7","But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_8","092_1_8","1JN","1","8","8","If we say, ‘we have no sin,’ then we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_9","092_1_9","1JN","1","9","9","If we confess our sins, he is just and may be trusted to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all wrongdoing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J11_10","092_1_10","1JN","1","10","10","If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make God a liar, and his Word is not in us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_1","092_2_1","1JN","2","1","1","My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father – Jesus Christ, the righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_2","092_2_2","1JN","2","2","2","He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_3","092_2_3","1JN","2","3","3","It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_4","092_2_4","1JN","2","4","4","Whoever says ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_5","092_2_5","1JN","2","5","5","But the person who keeps God’s word, in them the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. This is how we can be sure we are in him: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_6","092_2_6","1JN","2","6","6","whoever claims to live in him should live just as Jesus did. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_7","092_2_7","1JN","2","7","7","Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message you have already heard. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_8","092_2_8","1JN","2","8","8","Yet, in a way, it is a new command that I am writing to you – which is shown true in Christ’s life and in yours – for the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_9","092_2_9","1JN","2","9","9","The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is still in the darkness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_10","092_2_10","1JN","2","10","10","The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_11","092_2_11","1JN","2","11","11","The person who hates is in the dark. They stumble along in the darkness; they do not know where they are going because the darkness blinds them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_12","092_2_12","1JN","2","12","12","Little children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for Christ’s sake. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_13","092_2_13","1JN","2","13","13","Parents, I am writing to you because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I am writing to you because you have conquered the evil one. Children, I write to you because you have come to know the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_14","092_2_14","1JN","2","14","14","Parents, I write to you because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I write to you because you are strong, and God’s message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_15","092_2_15","1JN","2","15","15","Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_16","092_2_16","1JN","2","16","16","For all that the world can offer – the desires for physical pleasure, the enticements to the eye, the arrogance of wealth – belongs, not to the Father, but to the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_17","092_2_17","1JN","2","17","17","And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remain for ever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_18","092_2_18","1JN","2","18","18","My children, it is the last hour. You were told that an antichrist was coming; and many antichrists have already arisen. This is why we know that this is the last hour. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_19","092_2_19","1JN","2","19","19","These people come from our ranks, but they were never truly part of us – if they had been then they would have stayed with us. They left so it would be clear that none of them really belonged to us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_20","092_2_20","1JN","2","20","20","You, however, have been annointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_21","092_2_21","1JN","2","21","21","I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie can come from the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_22","092_2_22","1JN","2","22","22","Who is a liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist – one who rejects the Father and the Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_23","092_2_23","1JN","2","23","23","No one who rejects the Son has the Father; to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_24","092_2_24","1JN","2","24","24","As for you, you must let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning dwells in you, you will remain both in the Son and the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_25","092_2_25","1JN","2","25","25","And this is what he himself promised us – eternal life! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_26","092_2_26","1JN","2","26","26","In writing this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_27","092_2_27","1JN","2","27","27","As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains with you. You do not need anyone to teach you. His anointing teaches you about everything. What it teaches you is true, it is not a lie. Do what it has taught you: abide in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_28","092_2_28","1JN","2","28","28","Yes, my children, remain in him, so that when he appears our confidence doesn’t fail us, and we are not ashamed to meet him at his coming. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J12_29","092_2_29","1JN","2","29","29","Since you know he is righteous, you realise that everyone who does what is right is his child. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_1","092_3_1","1JN","3","1","1","See what great love the Father has lavished on us: he lets us be called God’s children! For that is what we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_2","092_3_2","1JN","3","2","2","Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_3","092_3_3","1JN","3","3","3","And just as he is pure, everyone who has this hope, makes and keeps themselves pure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_4","092_3_4","1JN","3","4","4","Everyone who lives sinfully is living in violation of God’s law. Sin is lawlessness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_5","092_3_5","1JN","3","5","5","You know that Christ appeared to take away our sins and that there is no sin in him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_6","092_3_6","1JN","3","6","6","No one who lives in him continues to sin; the sinner has not seen or known him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_7","092_3_7","1JN","3","7","7","My children, don’t let anyone mislead you. The person who does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_8","092_3_8","1JN","3","8","8","The person who lives in sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To undo the devil’s work is the reason the Son of God appeared. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_9","092_3_9","1JN","3","9","9","No child of God sins, because God’s nature dwells in them. They can’t live in sin, because they are God’s children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_10","092_3_10","1JN","3","10","10","By this it is made clear who are the children of God and who are the devil’s: anyone who doesn’t do what is right or doesn’t love others is not a child of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_11","092_3_11","1JN","3","11","11","For this is the message we heard from the beginning: we are to love one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_12","092_3_12","1JN","3","12","12","We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his actions were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_13","092_3_13","1JN","3","13","13","Do not be suprised, friends, if the world hates you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_14","092_3_14","1JN","3","14","14","We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love each other. The person who does not love remains in a state of death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_15","092_3_15","1JN","3","15","15","The person who hates another is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life dwelling within them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_16","092_3_16","1JN","3","16","16","This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. So we should lay down our own lives for each other. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_17","092_3_17","1JN","3","17","17","If anyone has material possessions, and sees one of our own in need, but closes their heart against that person, how can it be said that the love of God is within them? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_18","092_3_18","1JN","3","18","18","My children, our love must not be mere words or talk. It must be true and show itself in actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_19","092_3_19","1JN","3","19","19","This is how we will know we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves in God’s presence: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_20","092_3_20","1JN","3","20","20","though our conscience condemns us, God is greater than our conscience and knows everything. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_21","092_3_21","1JN","3","21","21","Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, then we approach God with confidence, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_22","092_3_22","1JN","3","22","22","and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are keeping his commands, and are doing what pleases him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_23","092_3_23","1JN","3","23","23","His command is that we should believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as Christ commanded us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J13_24","092_3_24","1JN","3","24","24","The person who keeps his commands dwells in God and God dwells in them. And we are sure he lives in us because of the Spirit he has given us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_1","092_4_1","1JN","4","1","1","Dear friends, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_2","092_4_2","1JN","4","2","2","This is the way to recognise the Spirit of God: those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as come in the flesh have God’s Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_3","092_4_3","1JN","4","3","3","while a spirit that doesn’t acknowledge Jesus isn’t from God. Instead it is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that it was coming, and it is now already in the world! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_4","092_4_4","1JN","4","4","4","You, my children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such people as these, because he who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_5","092_4_5","1JN","4","5","5","Those people belong to the world and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_6","092_4_6","1JN","4","6","6","We come from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; the person who does not come from God does not listen to us. This is how we distinguish the spirit of truth and the spirit of deception. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_7","092_4_7","1JN","4","7","7","Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_8","092_4_8","1JN","4","8","8","Those who do not love know nothing of God, for God is love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_9","092_4_9","1JN","4","9","9","This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_10","092_4_10","1JN","4","10","10","This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_11","092_4_11","1JN","4","11","11","Dear friends, since God loved us in this way, we should love one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_12","092_4_12","1JN","4","12","12","No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love reaches perfection within us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_13","092_4_13","1JN","4","13","13","We know that we live in him, and he lives in us, because he has given us a measure of his Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_14","092_4_14","1JN","4","14","14","Moreover, we have seen for ourselves and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_15","092_4_15","1JN","4","15","15","Whoever acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God lives in them, and they live in God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_16","092_4_16","1JN","4","16","16","And so we have come to know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love; and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_17","092_4_17","1JN","4","17","17","This is the way love has reached its perfection among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_18","092_4_18","1JN","4","18","18","There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. So anyone who is afraid has not reached perfection in love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_19","092_4_19","1JN","4","19","19","We love, because God first loved us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_20","092_4_20","1JN","4","20","20","If someone says “I love God,” and yet hates others, they are a liar. For the person who does not love their brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J14_21","092_4_21","1JN","4","21","21","Indeed, we have this command from Christ: Those who love God must also love each other. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_1","092_5_1","1JN","5","1","1","Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves a parent loves his child. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_2","092_5_2","1JN","5","2","2","By this we know that we love God’s children – when we love God and carry out his commands. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_3","092_5_3","1JN","5","3","3","For to love God is to do what he commands and his commands are not a burden, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_4","092_5_4","1JN","5","4","4","for whatever is born of God overcomes the world. What is the victory by which the world is overcome? Our faith! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_5","092_5_5","1JN","5","5","5","Who can overcome the world but the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_6","092_5_6","1JN","5","6","6","Jesus Christ, the one who came by water and blood – not by water only but by water and blood – and the Spirit testifies to this because the Spirit is truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_7","092_5_7","1JN","5","7","7","Indeed three testify: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_8","092_5_8","1JN","5","8","8","the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_9","092_5_9","1JN","5","9","9","We accept human testimony, surely God’s testimony is even stronger! And God’s testimony is the testimony he has given about his Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_10","092_5_10","1JN","5","10","10","The person who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within them. The person who does not believe God has made God a liar, by not believing the testimony God has given about his Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_11","092_5_11","1JN","5","11","11","And this is that testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_12","092_5_12","1JN","5","12","12","Whoever has the Son has life; whoever who doesn’t have God’s Son does not have life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_13","092_5_13","1JN","5","13","13","I have written these things to you who believe in the name of God’s Son, so that you may know that you have eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_14","092_5_14","1JN","5","14","14","We can approach him with this confidence, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_15","092_5_15","1JN","5","15","15","And if we know he hears us – whatever we ask – we know also that what we ask for is ours. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_16","092_5_16","1JN","5","16","16","If anyone sees one of our people committing some sin that is not a sin leading to death, they should ask, and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_17","092_5_17","1JN","5","17","17","All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_18","092_5_18","1JN","5","18","18","We know that those who have been born of God do not keep sinning. God protects his children and the evil one cannot get hold of them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_19","092_5_19","1JN","5","19","19","We know that we are God’s children, though the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_20","092_5_20","1JN","5","20","20","We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true God – and we are in him who is true, by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J15_21","092_5_21","1JN","5","21","21","My children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_1","093_1_1","2JN","1","1","1","From the elder, to the lady chosen by God and her children. I truly love you all, and I am not the only one but all who know the truth love you as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_2","093_1_2","2JN","1","2","2","We love you for the sake of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_3","093_1_3","2JN","1","3","3","Grace, mercy, and peace will be ours – the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son – in truth and love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_4","093_1_4","2JN","1","4","4","It was a great joy to me to find the lives of some of your children guided by the truth, in obedience to the command that we received from the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_5","093_1_5","2JN","1","5","5","And now I implore you, dear lady, let us love one another This is not a new command I am writing to you. It is the command we have had from the beginning. – Let us love one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_6","093_1_6","2JN","1","6","6","And this is love – to live in obedience to the Father’s commands. This is the command as you learned from the beginning, to live a life of love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_7","093_1_7","2JN","1","7","7","I say this because many deceivers have gone out into the world – men who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came in flesh and blood. Any such person is a deceiver and antichrist. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_8","093_1_8","2JN","1","8","8","Take care so that you do not what we have worked for but instead receive your full reward. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_9","093_1_9","2JN","1","9","9","Anyone who goes beyond and fails to live inside of the teaching of Christ does not have God. The person who lives inside that teaching – they have both the Father and the Son. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_10","093_1_10","2JN","1","10","10","If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive them into your house or even welcome them; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_11","093_1_11","2JN","1","11","11","because the person who welcomes them is sharing with them in his evil work. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_12","093_1_12","2JN","1","12","12","Though I have many other things to tell you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come and see you, and to speak with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J21_13","093_1_13","2JN","1","13","13","The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send you their greetings.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_1","094_1_1","3JN","1","1","1"," From the elder to his dear friend Gaius, whom he sincerely loves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_2","094_1_2","3JN","1","2","2","Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health – I know that all is well with your soul. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_3","094_1_3","3JN","1","3","3","For it was a great joy to me, when some followers of the Lord came and testified to your fidelity to the truth. I know that your own life is guided by the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_4","094_1_4","3JN","1","4","4","Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my children are guided by the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_5","094_1_5","3JN","1","5","5","Dear friend, you are faithful in all the things you do for other followers – even when they are strangers to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_6","094_1_6","3JN","1","6","6","They themselves have testified before the church to your love. You will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_7","094_1_7","3JN","1","7","7","For it was on behalf of Christ’s name that they set out, not accepting even one thing from the Gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_8","094_1_8","3JN","1","8","8","Therefore, we should support people like them, and so take our share in their work for the truth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_9","094_1_9","3JN","1","9","9","I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes (who loves to be the leader among them) doesn’t welcome us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_10","094_1_10","3JN","1","10","10","So if I come, I will bring up his actions in telling wicked nonsense about us. Not content with that, he not only refuses to personally welcome our friends who are followers, but actually stops those who would, and expels them from the church. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_11","094_1_11","3JN","1","11","11","Dear friend, do not follow a bad example, but a good one. The person who does what is good is from God; the person who does what is bad has never seen God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_12","094_1_12","3JN","1","12","12","Everyone has always had a good word for Demetrius, and the truth itself speaks for him. Yes, and we also add our good word, and you know that what we say is true. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_13","094_1_13","3JN","1","13","13","I have many things to tell you, but I would rather not use pen and ink. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_14","094_1_14","3JN","1","14","14","I hope to see you soon, and then we will speak face to face. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("J31_15","094_1_15","3JN","1","15","15","Peace be with you. The friends here send you their greetings. Greet each one of our friends.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_1","095_1_1","JUD","1","1","1"," To those who, having received the call, have been loved by God the Father and protected by Jesus Christ, From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_2","095_1_2","JUD","1","2","2","May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever increasing measure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_3","095_1_3","JUD","1","3","3","Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to encourage you to fight in defence of the faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_4","095_1_4","JUD","1","4","4","For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_5","095_1_5","JUD","1","5","5","Now I want to remind you – but you already know it all – that, though the Lord delivered the people from Egypt, yet he afterwards destroyed those who refused to believe in him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_6","095_1_6","JUD","1","6","6","and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the great day in everlasting chains and black darkness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_7","095_1_7","JUD","1","7","7","Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, punishment in eternal fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_8","095_1_8","JUD","1","8","8","Yet in the same way these people, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the celestial beings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_9","095_1_9","JUD","1","9","9","Yet even Michael, the archangel, when, in his dispute with the devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to charge him with maligning, but said merely “The Lord rebuke you!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_10","095_1_10","JUD","1","10","10","But these people malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_11","095_1_11","JUD","1","11","11","Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam’s love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like Korah. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_12","095_1_12","JUD","1","12","12","These are the people who are blots on your “love-feasts,” when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_13","095_1_13","JUD","1","13","13","they are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are “wandering stars,” for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_14","095_1_14","JUD","1","14","14","To these people, as to others, Enoch, the seventh in descent from Adam, declared – “See! The Lord has come with his hosts of holy ones around him, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_15","095_1_15","JUD","1","15","15","to execute judgment on all people, and to convict all godless people of all their godless acts, which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the harsh words which they have spoken against him, godless sinners that they are!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_16","095_1_16","JUD","1","16","16","These people are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words on their lips; and they flatter others for the sake of what they can get from them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_17","095_1_17","JUD","1","17","17","But you should, dear friends, recall what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_18","095_1_18","JUD","1","18","18","how they used to say to you – “As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_19","095_1_19","JUD","1","19","19","These are the people – animal and unspiritual – who cause divisions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_20","095_1_20","JUD","1","20","20","But you must, dear friends, build up your characters on the foundation of your most holy faith, pray under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_21","095_1_21","JUD","1","21","21","and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_22","095_1_22","JUD","1","22","22","To some show pity, because they are in doubt. “Drag them out of the fire,” and save them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_23","095_1_23","JUD","1","23","23","To others show pity, but with caution, hating the clothing polluted by their touch. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_24","095_1_24","JUD","1","24","24","To him who is able to guard you from falling, and to bring you into his glorious presence, blameless and rejoicing – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("JD1_25","095_1_25","JUD","1","25","25","to the one God, our Saviour, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, glory, majesty, power, and dominion, as it was before time began, is now, and will be for all time to come. Amen.");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_1","096_1_1","REV","1","1","1"," The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to make known to his servants, concerning what must shortly take place, and which he sent and revealed by his angel to his servant John, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_2","096_1_2","REV","1","2","2","who testified to the message of God and to the testimony to Jesus Christ, omitting nothing of what he had seen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_3","096_1_3","REV","1","3","3","Blessed is the one who reads, and blessed are they who listen to, the words of this prophecy, and lay to heart what is here written; for the time is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_4","096_1_4","REV","1","4","4","From John, to the seven churches which are in Roman Asia. Blessing and peace be yours from him who is, and who was, and who will be, and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_5","096_1_5","REV","1","5","5","and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of all the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_6","096_1_6","REV","1","6","6","and he made us a kingdom of priests in the service of God, his Father! – to him be ascribed glory and dominion for ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_7","096_1_7","REV","1","7","7","He is coming among the clouds! Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him and all the nations of the earth will mourn over him. So will it be. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_8","096_1_8","REV","1","8","8","“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord, the God who is, and who was, and who will be, the Almighty. p ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_9","096_1_9","REV","1","9","9","I, John, who am your brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the message of God and the testimony to Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_10","096_1_10","REV","1","10","10","I fell into a trance on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the blast of a trumpet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_11","096_1_11","REV","1","11","11","It said – “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_12","096_1_12","REV","1","12","12","I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_13","096_1_13","REV","1","13","13","and in the midst of the lamps one like a man, in a robe reaching to his feet, and with a golden sash across his breast. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_14","096_1_14","REV","1","14","14","The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_15","096_1_15","REV","1","15","15","and his feet were like brass as when molten in a furnace; his voice was like the sound of many streams, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_16","096_1_16","REV","1","16","16","in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun in the fulness of its power. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_17","096_1_17","REV","1","17","17","And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said – “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_18","096_1_18","REV","1","18","18","the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of death and of Hades. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_19","096_1_19","REV","1","19","19","Therefore write of what you have seen and of what is happening now and of what is about to take place – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV1_20","096_1_20","REV","1","20","20","the mystic meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamps are the seven churches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_1","096_2_1","REV","2","1","1","‘To the angel of the church in Ephesus write These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and walks among the seven golden lamps: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_2","096_2_2","REV","2","2","2","I know your life, your toil and endurance, and I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers. I know, too, how you tested those who declare that they are apostles, though they are not, and how you proved them false. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_3","096_2_3","REV","2","3","3","You possess endurance, and have borne much for my name, and have never grown weary. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_4","096_2_4","REV","2","4","4","But this I have against you – You have abandoned your first love. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_5","096_2_5","REV","2","5","5","Therefore remember from what you have fallen, and repent, and live the life that you lived before; or else, I will come and remove your Lamp from its place, unless you repent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_6","096_2_6","REV","2","6","6","But this is in your favour – You hate the life lived by the Nikolaitans, and I also hate it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_7","096_2_7","REV","2","7","7","Anyone with ears should hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him who conquers – to him I will give the right to eat the fruit of the Tree of life, which stands in the Paradise of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_8","096_2_8","REV","2","8","8","‘To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_9","096_2_9","REV","2","9","9","I know your persecution and your poverty – yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that comes from those who declare that they are God’s people, though they are not, but are a congregation of Satan. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_10","096_2_10","REV","2","10","10","Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_11","096_2_11","REV","2","11","11","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Those who conquer will suffer no hurt from the Second Death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_12","096_2_12","REV","2","12","12","‘To the angel of the church in Pergamus write: These are the words of him who holds the sharp two-edged sword: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_13","096_2_13","REV","2","13","13","I know where you live, where the throne of Satan stands. And yet you hold to my name, and you did not disown my faith even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death among you where Satan dwells. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_14","096_2_14","REV","2","14","14","Yet I have a few things against you – You have among you those who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_15","096_2_15","REV","2","15","15","Again you have among you those who hold in the same way to the teaching of the Nikolaitans. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_16","096_2_16","REV","2","16","16","Therefore repent, or else, I will come quickly and contend with such people with words that will cut like a sword. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_17","096_2_17","REV","2","17","17","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To those who conquer – to them I will give a share of the mystic manna, and I will give them a white stone; and on the stone will be inscribed a new name, which no one knows except the person who receives it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_18","096_2_18","REV","2","18","18","‘To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like flaming fire, and whose feet are like brass: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_19","096_2_19","REV","2","19","19","I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_20","096_2_20","REV","2","20","20","Yet I have this against you – You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a prophet, and misleads my servants by her teaching, until they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_21","096_2_21","REV","2","21","21","I gave her time to repent, but she is determined not to turn from her licentiousness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_22","096_2_22","REV","2","22","22","Therefore I am laying her on a bed of sickness, and bringing great suffering on those who are unfaithful with her, unless they repent and turn from a life like hers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_23","096_2_23","REV","2","23","23","I will also put her children to death; and all the churches will learn that I am he who looks into people’s hearts and souls; and I will give to each one of you what their life deserves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_24","096_2_24","REV","2","24","24","But I say to the rest of you at Thyatira – all who do not accept such teaching, whose who did not learn the secrets of Satan, as people call them – I am not laying on you any further burden; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_25","096_2_25","REV","2","25","25","only hold fast to what you have received, until I come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_26","096_2_26","REV","2","26","26","To those who conquer and are careful to live my life to the end – to them I will give authority over the nations, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_27","096_2_27","REV","2","27","27","and they will rule them with an iron rod, as when earthen vessels are broken in pieces (as I myself have received from my Father) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_28","096_2_28","REV","2","28","28","and I will give them the morning star. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV2_29","096_2_29","REV","2","29","29","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_1","096_3_1","REV","3","1","1","‘To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars; – I know your life, and that people say of you that you are living, though you are dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_2","096_3_2","REV","3","2","2","Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_3","096_3_3","REV","3","3","3","Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_4","096_3_4","REV","3","4","4","Yet there are some few among you at Sardis who did not soil their robes; they will walk with me, robed in white, for they are worthy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_5","096_3_5","REV","3","5","5","Those who conquer will be clothed in these white robes, and I will not strike their name out of the book of life; but I will own them before my Father, and before his angels. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_6","096_3_6","REV","3","6","6","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_7","096_3_7","REV","3","7","7","‘To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the Key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_8","096_3_8","REV","3","8","8","I know your life (see, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut), I know that, though you have but little strength, you kept my teaching in mind, and did not disown my name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_9","096_3_9","REV","3","9","9","Listen, I give some of the congregation of Satan, the people who declare that they are God’s people, though they are not, but are lying – I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will learn that I loved you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_10","096_3_10","REV","3","10","10","Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come on the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living on earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_11","096_3_11","REV","3","11","11","I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received so that no one may take your crown. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_12","096_3_12","REV","3","12","12","Those who conquer – I will make them a pillar in the Temple of my God; and never more will they leave it; and I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on them my new name. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_13","096_3_13","REV","3","13","13","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_14","096_3_14","REV","3","14","14","‘To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Unchanging One, the witness faithful and true, the beginning of the Creation of God: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_15","096_3_15","REV","3","15","15","I know your life; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. If only you were either cold or hot! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_16","096_3_16","REV","3","16","16","But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_17","096_3_17","REV","3","17","17","You say “I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_18","096_3_18","REV","3","18","18","Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been refined by fire so that you may grow rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness be hidden; and ointment to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_19","096_3_19","REV","3","19","19","All whom I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be in earnest and repent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_20","096_3_20","REV","3","20","20","I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will go in, and will feast with them, and they will feast with me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_21","096_3_21","REV","3","21","21","To those who conquer – to them I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, as I, when I conquered, took my seat beside my Father on his throne. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV3_22","096_3_22","REV","3","22","22","Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_1","096_4_1","REV","4","1","1","After this, in my vision, I saw an open door in the heavens, and the first voice that I heard was like the blast of a trumpet speaking to me. It said – “Come up here and I will show you what must take place.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_2","096_4_2","REV","4","2","2","Immediately after this I fell into a trance. There stood a throne in heaven, and on the throne was One seated. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_3","096_4_3","REV","4","3","3","He who was seated on it was in appearance like a jasper and a sardius; and round the throne there was a rainbow of the colour of an emerald. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_4","096_4_4","REV","4","4","4","And round the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these I saw twenty-four elders sitting clothed in white robes; and on their heads they had crowns of gold. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_5","096_4_5","REV","4","5","5","Out from the throne come flashes of lightning, cries, and peals of thunder! There are seven torches burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_6","096_4_6","REV","4","6","6","and in front of the throne is what seemed to be a sea of glass, resembling crystal, while within the space before the throne and round the throne are four creatures full of eyes in front and behind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_7","096_4_7","REV","4","7","7","The first creature is like a lion, the second creature like a calf, the third creature has a face like a man’s, and the fourth creature is like an eagle on the wing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_8","096_4_8","REV","4","8","8","These four creatures have each of them six wings, and all round, and within, they are full of eyes; and day and night they never cease to say – “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, our God, the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who will be.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_9","096_4_9","REV","4","9","9","And, whenever these creatures give praise and honour and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, to him who lives for ever and ever, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV4_10","096_4_10","REV","4","10","10","the twenty-four elders prostrate themselves before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever, and throw down their crowns before the throne, saying – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_1","096_5_1","REV","5","1","1","Then I saw at the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a book, with writing inside and out, and sealed with seven seals; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_2","096_5_2","REV","5","2","2","and I saw a mighty angel who was proclaiming in a loud voice – “Who is worthy to open the book and break its seals?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_3","096_5_3","REV","5","3","3","But no one either in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or look within it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_4","096_5_4","REV","5","4","4","At this I wept long, because no one could be found who was worthy to open the book or look within it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_5","096_5_5","REV","5","5","5","But one of the elders said to me – “Do not weep. The Lion conquered – the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Scion of David – and can therefore open the book with its seven seals.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_6","096_5_6","REV","5","6","6","Then, within the space between the throne and the four creatures, and in the midst of the elders, I saw, standing, a Lamb, which seemed to have been sacrificed. It had seven horns and seven eyes. (These eyes are the seven spirits of God, and they are sent into all the world.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_7","096_5_7","REV","5","7","7","The Lamb came forward; and he has taken the book from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_8","096_5_8","REV","5","8","8","And, when he had taken the book, the four creatures and the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves before the Lamb, each of them holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense. (These are the prayers of Christ’s people.) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_9","096_5_9","REV","5","9","9","And they are singing a new song – “You are worthy to take the book and break its seals, for you were sacrificed, and with your blood you did buy for God people of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_10","096_5_10","REV","5","10","10","and did make them a kingdom of priests in the service of our God, and they are reigning on the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_11","096_5_11","REV","5","11","11","Then, in my vision, I heard the voices of many angels round the throne, and of the creatures, and of the elders. In number they were ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_12","096_5_12","REV","5","12","12","and they cried in a loud voice – “Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive all power, and wealth, and wisdom, and might, and honour, and praise, and blessing.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_13","096_5_13","REV","5","13","13","And I heard every created thing in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that is in them crying – “To him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb be ascribed all blessing, and honour, and praise, and dominion for ever and ever.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV5_14","096_5_14","REV","5","14","14","And the four creatures said “Amen,” and the elders prostrated themselves and worshiped. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_1","096_6_1","REV","6","1","1","Then I saw the Lamb break one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four creatures crying with a voice like thunder – “Come.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_2","096_6_2","REV","6","2","2","And in my vision I saw a white horse. Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he went out conquering and to conquer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_3","096_6_3","REV","6","3","3","When the Lamb broke the second seal, I heard the second creature crying – “Come.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_5","096_6_5","REV","6","5","5","When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third creature crying – “Come.” And in my vision I saw a black horse. Its rider held scales in his hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_6","096_6_6","REV","6","6","6","And I heard what seemed to be a voice, coming from among the four creatures, crying – “A quart of wheat for a silver coin, and three quarts of barley for a silver coin! But do not harm the oil and the wine.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_8","096_6_8","REV","6","8","8","And in my vision I saw a grey horse. His rider’s name was Death, and Hades rode behind him; and power was given them over the fourth part of the earth, so that they might destroy with sword and famine and death, and by means of the wild Beasts of the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_9","096_6_9","REV","6","9","9","When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the sake of God’s message and for the testimony which they had borne. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_10","096_6_10","REV","6","10","10","They cried in a loud voice – “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, before you will give judgment and avenge our blood on all who are living on the earth?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV6_16","096_6_16","REV","6","16","16","and they are crying to the mountains and the rocks – “Fall on us, and hide us from the eyes of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_2","096_7_2","REV","7","2","2","And, in the east, I saw another angel, ascending, holding the seal of the living God; and he cried in a loud voice to the four angels, to whom there had been given power to harm the earth and the sea – ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_4","096_7_4","REV","7","4","4","I heard, too, the number of those who had been sealed. It was one hundred and forty-four thousand; and they were from every tribe of the Israelites. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_6","096_7_6","REV","7","6","6","from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Napthali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_7","096_7_7","REV","7","7","7","from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_8","096_7_8","REV","7","8","8","from the tribe of Zebulon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_9","096_7_9","REV","7","9","9","After this, in my vision, I saw a vast throng which no one could number, of people from every nation and of all tribes, and peoples, and languages. They stood in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, robed in white, holding palm branches in their hands. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_13","096_7_13","REV","7","13","13","Then one of the elders turned to me and said “Who are these who are robed in white? And where did they come from?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV7_17","096_7_17","REV","7","17","17","for the Lamb that stands in the space before the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to life-giving springs of water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV8_1","096_8_1","REV","8","1","1","As soon as the Lamb had broken the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for, it might be, half an hour. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV8_2","096_8_2","REV","8","2","2","Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV8_10","096_8_10","REV","8","10","10","Then the third angel blew; and there fell from the heavens a great star, burning like a torch. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV9_1","096_9_1","REV","9","1","1","Then the fifth angel blew; and I saw a star that had fallen on the earth from the heavens, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV9_18","096_9_18","REV","9","18","18","Through these three curses a third of humanity perished – because of the fire, and the smoke, and the sulphur that issued from their mouths; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_1","096_10_1","REV","10","1","1","Then I saw another mighty angel, descending from heaven. His robe was a cloud; over his head was the rainbow; his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_2","096_10_2","REV","10","2","2","in his hand he held a little book open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_3","096_10_3","REV","10","3","3","and he cried in a loud voice like the roaring of a lion. At his cry the seven peals of thunder spoke, each with its own voice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_4","096_10_4","REV","10","4","4","And, when they spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say – “Keep secret what the seven peals of thunder said, and do not write it down.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_5","096_10_5","REV","10","5","5","Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to the heavens, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_6","096_10_6","REV","10","6","6","and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, and the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, that time should cease to be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_7","096_10_7","REV","10","7","7","Moreover at the time when the seventh angel will speak, when he is ready to blow his blast, then the hidden purposes of God, of which he told the good news to his servants, the prophets, are at once fulfilled. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_8","096_10_8","REV","10","8","8","Then came the voice which I had heard from heaven. It spoke to me again, and said – “Go and take the book that is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_9","096_10_9","REV","10","9","9","So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said “Take it, and eat it. It will be bitter to your stomach, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_10","096_10_10","REV","10","10","10","I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and, while in my mouth, it was like the sweetest honey; but, when I had eaten it, it was bitter to my stomach. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV10_11","096_10_11","REV","10","11","11","And I was told – “You must prophesy again about men of many peoples, and nations, and languages, and about many kings.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_1","096_11_1","REV","11","1","1","Then I was given a measure like a rod, and a voice said to me – “Go and measure the Temple of God and the altar, and count the worshiper there. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_3","096_11_3","REV","11","3","3","Then I will give permission to my Two Witnesses, and for those twelve hundred and sixty days they will continue teaching, clothed in sackcloth.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_6","096_11_6","REV","11","6","6","These men have the power to close the heavens, so that no rain may fall during the time that they are teaching; and they have power to turn the streams into blood, and to smite the land with any curse, whenever they will. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_7","096_11_7","REV","11","7","7","As soon as they have completed their testimony, the wild Beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer and kill them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_8","096_11_8","REV","11","8","8","Their dead bodies will lie in the streets of the great city, which is mystically spoken of as “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where their Master was crucified. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_10","096_11_10","REV","11","10","10","Those who live on the earth rejoice over them and are merry, and they will send presents to one another, because these two prophets brought torments on those who live on the earth. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV11_13","096_11_13","REV","11","13","13","At that very time a great earthquake occurred. A tenth part of the city fell, and seven thousand people perished in the earthquake. Those who escaped were much terrified, and praised the God of heaven. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV12_1","096_12_1","REV","12","1","1","Then a great portent was seen in the heavens – a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV12_3","096_12_3","REV","12","3","3","Another portent also was seen in the heavens There was a great red Dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_4","096_13_4","REV","13","4","4","and men worshiped the Dragon, because he had given his dominion to the Beast; while, as they worshiped the Beast, they said – “Who can compare with the Beast? And who can fight with it?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_5","096_13_5","REV","13","5","5","The Beast was given a mouth that spoke proudly and blasphemously, and it was empowered to work its will for forty-two months. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_6","096_13_6","REV","13","6","6","It opened its mouth only to blaspheme God, to blaspheme his name and his tent – those who live in his tent in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_7","096_13_7","REV","13","7","7","It had been permitted to fight with Christ’s people and to conquer them, and it had received power over men of every tribe, and people, and language, and nation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_8","096_13_8","REV","13","8","8","All who are living on earth will worship it – all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_11","096_13_11","REV","13","11","11","Then I saw, rising out of the earth, another wild Beast. It had two horns like those of a lamb, and its voice was like a dragon’s. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV13_12","096_13_12","REV","13","12","12","It exercises all the authority of the first Beast under its eyes; and it makes the earth and all who are living on it worship that first Beast, whose mortal wound was healed. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_1","096_14_1","REV","14","1","1","Then, in my vision, I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. With him were a hundred and forty-four thousand, with his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_2","096_14_2","REV","14","2","2","And I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a loud peal of thunder; the sound that I heard was like the music of harpers playing on their harps. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_6","096_14_6","REV","14","6","6","Then I saw another angel, flying in mid-heaven. He had the good news, decreed from eternity, to announce to those who live on the earth – to men of every nation, and tribe, and language, and people; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_7","096_14_7","REV","14","7","7","and he cried in a loud voice – “Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his judgment has come) and worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_8","096_14_8","REV","14","8","8","Then a second angel followed, crying – “She has fallen! She has fallen – Babylon the Great, who has made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_9","096_14_9","REV","14","9","9","Then a third angel followed them, crying in a loud voice – “Whoever worships the Beast and its image, and receives its brand on his forehead or on his hand, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_10","096_14_10","REV","14","10","10","that person will drink the maddening wine of God that has been poured unmixed into the cup of his wrath, and they will be tortured with fire and sulphur before the eyes of the holy angels and before the eyes of the Lamb. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_14","096_14_14","REV","14","14","14","Then, in my vision, I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud there was sitting one like a man. On his head he had a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_15","096_14_15","REV","14","15","15","Then another angel came out from the Temple, crying in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud – “Take your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come; the Harvest of Earth is ready.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV14_18","096_14_18","REV","14","18","18","Then another angel came out of the altar; he had power over fire, and he called in a loud voice to the angel that had the sharp sickle – “Take your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches from the vine of Earth, for its grapes are ripe.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV15_1","096_15_1","REV","15","1","1","Then I saw another portent in the heavens – a great and marvellous portent – seven angels with the seven last curses; because with them the wrath of God is ended. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV15_3","096_15_3","REV","15","3","3","They are singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb – “Great and marvellous are your deeds, Lord, our God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are your ways, eternal King. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV15_4","096_15_4","REV","15","4","4","Who will not honour and praise your name, Lord? You alone are holy! All nations will come and worship before you, for your judgments have become manifest.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV15_6","096_15_6","REV","15","6","6","and out of it came the seven angels with the seven curses. They were adorned with precious stones, pure and bright, and had golden girdles round their breasts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV15_7","096_15_7","REV","15","7","7","One of the four creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls, filled with the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_2","096_16_2","REV","16","2","2","The first angel went and emptied his bowl on the earth; and it turned to loathsome and painful sores on all who bore the brand of the Beast and who worshiped its image. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_6","096_16_6","REV","16","6","6","for men shed the blood of Christ’s people and of the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_7","096_16_7","REV","16","7","7","And I heard the response from the altar – “Yes, Lord, our God, the Almighty, true and righteous are they judgments.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_9","096_16_9","REV","16","9","9","and men were scorched by the intense heat. They blasphemed the name of God who controlled these curses, yet they did not repent and give him praise. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_10","096_16_10","REV","16","10","10","Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl on the throne of the Beast; and darkness fell on its kingdom. Men gnawed their tongues for pain, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_11","096_16_11","REV","16","11","11","and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and because of their sores; yet they did not repent of what they had done. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_13","096_16_13","REV","16","13","13","And I saw three foul spirits, like frogs, come from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false prophet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_14","096_16_14","REV","16","14","14","They are the spirits of demons, and perform marvels; they go to kings all over the world, to collect them for the battle on the great day of Almighty God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_15","096_16_15","REV","16","15","15","(“I am coming like a thief! Happy will he be who is on the watch, and keeps his clothing at hand, so that he will not have to walk about unclothed and let men see his nakedness.”) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_16","096_16_16","REV","16","16","16","And the spirits collected the kings at the place called in Hebrew “Har-Magedon.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_17","096_16_17","REV","16","17","17","Then the seventh angel emptied his bowl on the air. (A loud voice came from the throne in the Temple; it said “All is over.”) ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_19","096_16_19","REV","16","19","19","and the great city was torn in three, and the cities of the nation fell, and God remembered Babylon the Great, and gave her the maddening wine-cup of his wrath; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_20","096_16_20","REV","16","20","20","and every island vanished, and the mountains disappeared. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV16_21","096_16_21","REV","16","21","21","Great hailstones, a pound in weight, are falling on men from the heavens. And men blasphemed God because of the curse of the hail, for it was a very terrible curse. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_1","096_17_1","REV","17","1","1","Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and spoke to me. “Come here,” he said, “and I will show you the sentence passed on that Great Harlot who is seated at the meeting of many waters, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_2","096_17_2","REV","17","2","2","and with whom all the kings of the earth have had licentious intercourse; while all who live on the earth have been make drunk by the wine of her licentiousness.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_3","096_17_3","REV","17","3","3","And he bore me away in a trance to a lonely place, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet Beast, which was covered with blasphemous names; it had seven heads and ten horns. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_5","096_17_5","REV","17","5","5","while on her forehead there was written this mystic name – “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF ALL IDOLATROUS ABOMINATIONS ON EARTH.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_6","096_17_6","REV","17","6","6","And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Christ’s people and with the blood of the martyrs for Jesus. When I saw her, I was amazed beyond measure; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_7","096_17_7","REV","17","7","7","but the angel said to me – “Why were you amazed? I will tell you the mystic meaning of the vision of this woman, and of the Beast, with the seven heads and ten horns, that carries her. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_8","096_17_8","REV","17","8","8","The Beast that you saw was, but is not, and is about to rise out of the bottomless pit, and is on its way to destruction. Those who are living on earth will be amazed – those whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world – when they see that the Beast was, but is not, and yet will come.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_9","096_17_9","REV","17","9","9","(Here there is need for the discerning mind.) The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_11","096_17_11","REV","17","11","11","So must the Beast that was, but is not. He counts as an eighth king, although he is one of the seven, and is on his way to destruction. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_12","096_17_12","REV","17","12","12","The ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received their kingdoms, but for an hour they receive the authority of kings, together with the Beast. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_14","096_17_14","REV","17","14","14","They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; so, too, will those with him who have received the call and are chosen and faithful. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_15","096_17_15","REV","17","15","15","And the angel said to me – “The waters that you saw, where the Harlot is seated, are throngs of people and men of all nations and languages. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_16","096_17_16","REV","17","16","16","The ten horns that you saw, and the Beast – they will hate the Harlot, and cause her to become deserted and strip her bare; they will eat her flesh and utterly consume her with fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_17","096_17_17","REV","17","17","17","For God has put it into their minds to carry out his purpose, in carrying out their common purpose and surrendering their kingdoms to the Beast, until God’s decrees will be executed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV17_18","096_17_18","REV","17","18","18","As for the woman whom you saw, she is the great city that holds sway over all the kings of the earth.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_2","096_18_2","REV","18","2","2","With a mighty voice he cried – ‘She has fallen! She has fallen – Babylon the Great! She has become an abode of demons, a stronghold of every wicked spirit, a stronghold of every foul and hateful bird. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_4","096_18_4","REV","18","4","4","Then I heard another voice from heaven saying – ‘Come out of her, my people, so that you may not participate in her sins, and that you may not suffer from the curses inflicted on her. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_6","096_18_6","REV","18","6","6","Pay her back the treatment with which she has treated you; yes, repay twice over what her actions deserve; in the cup which she mixed for you, mix for her as much again; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_7","096_18_7","REV","18","7","7","for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says “I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I will never know misery.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_8","096_18_8","REV","18","8","8","Therefore in one day will these curses strike her – death, misery, and famine, and she will be utterly consumed by fire; for mighty is the Lord God who condemned her.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_10","096_18_10","REV","18","10","10","while they stand at a distance, horrified at her torture, and cry – ‘Alas! Alas! Great city! Mighty city of Babylon! In a single hour your judgment fell.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_21","096_18_21","REV","18","21","21","Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, crying – ‘So will Babylon, the great city, be violently overthrown, never more to be seen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_22","096_18_22","REV","18","22","22","No more will the music of harpers, or minstrels, or flute players, or trumpeters be heard in you, no more will any worker, skilled in any art, be found in you; no more will the sound of a mill be heard in you; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_23","096_18_23","REV","18","23","23","no more will the light of a lamp shine in you; no more will the voices of groom and bride be heard in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth, for all the nations were deceived by your magical charms.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV18_24","096_18_24","REV","18","24","24","Yes, and in her was to be found the blood of the prophets and of Christ’s people, and of all who have been put to death on the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_1","096_19_1","REV","19","1","1","After this, I heard what seemed to be a great shout from a vast throng in heaven, crying – “Hallelujah! To our God belong salvation, and glory, and Power, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_2","096_19_2","REV","19","2","2","for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has passed judgment on the Great Harlot who was corrupting the earth by her licentiousness, and he has taken vengeance on her for the blood of his servants.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_3","096_19_3","REV","19","3","3","Again they cried – “Hallelujah!” And the smoke from her ruins rises for ever and ever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_4","096_19_4","REV","19","4","4","Then the twenty-four elders and the Four creatures prostrated themselves and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, crying – “Amen, Hallelujah!”; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_5","096_19_5","REV","19","5","5","and from the throne there came a voice which said – “Praise our God all you who serve him, You who worship him, both high and low.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_6","096_19_6","REV","19","6","6","Then I heard what seemed to be the shout of a vast throng, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of loud peals of thunder, crying – “Hallelujah! For the Lord is king, our God, the Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_7","096_19_7","REV","19","7","7","Let us rejoice and exalt; and we will pay him honour, for the hour for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_8","096_19_8","REV","19","8","8","And to her it has been granted to robe herself in fine linen, white and pure, for that linen is the good deeds of the people of Christ.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_9","096_19_9","REV","19","9","9","Then a voice said to me “Write – ‘Blessed are those who have been summoned to the marriage feast of the Lamb.’” And the voice said – “These words of God are true.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_10","096_19_10","REV","19","10","10","I prostrated myself at the feet of him who spoke to worship him, but he said to me – “No! I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your brothers and sisters who bear their testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For to bear testimony to Jesus needs the inspiration of the prophets.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_11","096_19_11","REV","19","11","11","Then I saw that heaven lay open. There appears a white horse; its rider is called “Faithful” and “True”; righteously does he judge and make war. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_12","096_19_12","REV","19","12","12","His eyes are flaming fires; on his head there are many diadems, and he bears a name, written, which no one knows but himself; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_13","096_19_13","REV","19","13","13","he has been clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood; and the name by which he is called is “The Word of God.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_14","096_19_14","REV","19","14","14","The armies of heaven followed him, mounted on white horses and clothed in fine linen, white and pure. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_15","096_19_15","REV","19","15","15","From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to smite the nations; and he will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the grapes in the press of the maddening wine of the wrath of Almighty God; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_16","096_19_16","REV","19","16","16","and on his robe and on his thigh he has this name written – “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_17","096_19_17","REV","19","17","17","Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He cried in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven – “Gather and come to the great feast of God, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_18","096_19_18","REV","19","18","18","to eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all free and enslaved, and of high and low.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_19","096_19_19","REV","19","19","19","Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight with him who sat on the horse and with his army. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_20","096_19_20","REV","19","20","20","The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the lake of fire – of burning sulphur. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV19_21","096_19_21","REV","19","21","21","The rest were killed by the sword which came out of the mouth of him who rode on the horse; and all the birds fed on their flesh. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_1","096_20_1","REV","20","1","1","Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_2","096_20_2","REV","20","2","2","He seized the Dragon, the primeval snake (who is the “devil” or “Satan”), and bound him in chains for a thousand years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_3","096_20_3","REV","20","3","3","He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal on it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_4","096_20_4","REV","20","4","4","Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats on them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_5","096_20_5","REV","20","5","5","(The rest of the dead were not restored to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_6","096_20_6","REV","20","6","6","Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that first resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_7","096_20_7","REV","20","7","7","When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_8","096_20_8","REV","20","8","8","and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in the four corners of the earth – Gog and Magog. He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_9","096_20_9","REV","20","9","9","They went up over the breadth of the whole earth, and surrounded the camp of Christ’s people and the city that he loves. Then fire fell from the heavens and consumed them; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_10","096_20_10","REV","20","10","10","and the devil, their deceiver, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the Beast and the false prophet already were, and they will be tortured day and night for ever and ever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_11","096_20_11","REV","20","11","11","Then I saw a great white throne, and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence; no place was left for them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_12","096_20_12","REV","20","12","12","And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the book of life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_13","096_20_13","REV","20","13","13","The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead; and they were judged, one by one, each according to his actions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_14","096_20_14","REV","20","14","14","Then Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death – the lake of fire; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV20_15","096_20_15","REV","20","15","15","and all whose names were not found written in the book of life were hurled into the lake of fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_1","096_21_1","REV","21","1","1","Then I saw new heavens and a new earth. The former heavens and the former earth had passed away; and the sea has ceased to be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_2","096_21_2","REV","21","2","2","And I saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, descending new out of heaven from God, like a bride adorned in readiness for her husband. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_3","096_21_3","REV","21","3","3","And I heard a loud voice from the throne, which said – “See! The tent of God is set up among people. God will live among them, and they will be his Peoples, and God himself will be among them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_4","096_21_4","REV","21","4","4","and he will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, nor will there be any more grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_5","096_21_5","REV","21","5","5","And he who was seated on the throne said – “See, I make all things new!” And he said – “Write this, for these words may be trusted and are true.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_6","096_21_6","REV","21","6","6","And he said to me – “They are fulfilled. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End. To those who thirst I will give of the spring of the water of life, freely. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_7","096_21_7","REV","21","7","7","Those who conquer will enter into possession of these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_8","096_21_8","REV","21","8","8","But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars – their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_9","096_21_9","REV","21","9","9","Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and were laden with the seven last curses, came and spoke to me. “Come here,” he said, “and I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_10","096_21_10","REV","21","10","10","He carried me away in a trance to a great high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, descending out of heaven from God, filled with the glory of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_11","096_21_11","REV","21","11","11","Its brilliance was like a precious stone, like a jasper, transparent as crystal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_12","096_21_12","REV","21","12","12","It had a great high wall, in which were twelve gates; and at these gates there were twelve angels, and there were names inscribed on the gates, the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_13","096_21_13","REV","21","13","13","There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_14","096_21_14","REV","21","14","14","The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, on which were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_15","096_21_15","REV","21","15","15","And the angel who was speaking to me had as a measure a gold rod, with which to measure the city and its gates and its wall. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_16","096_21_16","REV","21","16","16","The city is square; the length and the breadth are the same. The angel measured with his rod; it was twelve hundred miles; its length, and breadth, and height are equal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_17","096_21_17","REV","21","17","17","Then he measured the wall; it was two hundred and eighty-eight feet, as people measure, that is as the angel measured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_18","096_21_18","REV","21","18","18","The material of the wall of the city was jasper, and the city was built of pure gold, which shone like clear glass. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_19","096_21_19","REV","21","19","19","The foundations of the wall of the city were ornamented with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was a jasper; the second a sapphire; the third a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_20","096_21_20","REV","21","20","20","the fifth a sardonyx; the sixth a carnelian; the seventh a chrysolite; the eighth a beryl; the ninth a topaz; the tenth a chrysoprase; the eleventh a hyacinth; and the twelfth an amethyst. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_21","096_21_21","REV","21","21","21","The twelve gates were made of twelve pearls, each gate of one pearl. The street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_22","096_21_22","REV","21","22","22","And I saw no Temple there, for the Lord, our God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its Temple. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_23","096_21_23","REV","21","23","23","The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its Lamp was the Lamb. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_24","096_21_24","REV","21","24","24","The nations walk by the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_25","096_21_25","REV","21","25","25","Its gates will never be shut by day, and there will be no night there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_26","096_21_26","REV","21","26","26","And people will bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV21_27","096_21_27","REV","21","27","27","Never will any unhallowed thing enter it, nor they whose life is shameful and false, but only those whose names have been written in the Lamb’s book of life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_1","096_22_1","REV","22","1","1","And the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_2","096_22_2","REV","22","2","2","in the middle of the street of the city. On each side of the river was a Tree of life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_3","096_22_3","REV","22","3","3","Every thing that is accursed will cease to be. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within it, and his servants will worship him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_4","096_22_4","REV","22","4","4","they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_5","096_22_5","REV","22","5","5","Night will cease to be. They have no need of the light of a lamp, nor have they the light of the sun; for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_6","096_22_6","REV","22","6","6","Then the angel said to me – ‘These words may be trusted and are true. The Lord, the God that inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants what must quickly take place; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_7","096_22_7","REV","22","7","7","and they said “I will come quickly.” Blessed will he be who lays to heart the words of the prophecy contained in this book.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_8","096_22_8","REV","22","8","8","It was I, John, who heard and saw these things; and, when I heard and saw them, I prostrated myself in worship at the feet of the angel that showed them to me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_9","096_22_9","REV","22","9","9","But he said to me – ‘Forbear; I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your fellow prophets, and of all who lay to heart the words in this book. Worship God.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_10","096_22_10","REV","22","10","10","Then the angel said to me – ‘Do not keep secret the words of the prophecy contained in this book; for the time is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_11","096_22_11","REV","22","11","11","Let the wrongdoer continue to do wrong; the filthy-minded continue to be filthy; the righteous continue to act righteously; and the holy-minded continue to be holy.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_12","096_22_12","REV","22","12","12","(“I will come quickly. I bring my rewards with me, to give to each what their actions deserve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_13","096_22_13","REV","22","13","13","I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the End.”) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_14","096_22_14","REV","22","14","14","Blessed will they be who wash their robes! They will have the right to approach the Tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_15","096_22_15","REV","22","15","15","Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_16","096_22_16","REV","22","16","16","“I, Jesus, sent my angel to bear testimony to you about these things before the churches. I am the Scion and the Offspring of David, the bright star of the Morning.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_17","096_22_17","REV","22","17","17","“Come,” say the Spirit and the Bride; and all who hear, say “Come.” All who thirst, come; anyone who wants, take the water of life freely. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_18","096_22_18","REV","22","18","18","I declare to all who hear the words of the prophecy contained in this book – “If anyone adds to it, God will add to his troubles the curses described in this book; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_19","096_22_19","REV","22","19","19","and if anyone takes away any of the words in the book containing this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of life, and in the Holy City – as described in this book.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_20","096_22_20","REV","22","20","20","He whose testimony this is says – “Assuredly I will come quickly.” “Amen, come, Lord Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_Commonwealthspelling__vpl VALUES ("RV22_21","096_22_21","REV","22","21","21","May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, be with his people.");
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