INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_1","075_2_1","ROM","2","1","1"," God will severely punish non-Jewish people who habitually do evil things, because he has clearly revealed that he is angry with them. So,  when God judges people, he will not excuse any one of you Jews  to whom I am writing. You (sg) say that  God should punish non-Jews for doing evil things. But when any one of you says that, it is you yourself whom you are saying that God should punish, because you (sg) do  some of the same  evil things  that the non-Jews do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_2","075_2_2","ROM","2","2","2","We know very well that God will judge and punish fairly non-Jewish people who do such  evil things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_3","075_2_3","ROM","2","3","3","So, you who  say God should punish others for doing evil things yet you do evil things yourself, ◄you should certainly not think that you yourself will be able to escape from being punished by God!/do you think that you yourself will be able to escape from being punished by God?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_4","075_2_4","ROM","2","4","4","And you should not say, “God is acting very tolerantly and patiently toward me,  so I do not need to stop sinning DOU.” ◄You should realize that God is acting in a kind manner  toward you in order to encourage you (sg) to turn away from your sinful behavior!/Do you not realize that God is acting in a kind manner  toward you in order to encourage you (sg) to turn away from your sinful behavior?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_5","075_2_5","ROM","2","5","5","But instead, by your stubbornly refusing to turn away from your sinful behavior DOU, you are causing MET God to punish you even more severely.  He will do that at the time when he shows that he is angry and judges people fairly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_6","075_2_6","ROM","2","6","6","God will pay back everyone according to  what they deserve for what they have done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_7","075_2_7","ROM","2","7","7"," Specifically, some people, by continuing to doing good things, strive to be highly honored  by God DOU and to receive a life that will not end.  God will reward them by enabling them to live forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_8","075_2_8","ROM","2","8","8","But some people act in a selfish way and refuse to believe that  what God says is true, and they do the things that  God says are wrong.  God will punish them very severely DOU, MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_9","075_2_9","ROM","2","9","9","He will cause everyone who habitually does evil deeds to suffer greatly,  with the result that they will become severely distressed DOU. This certainly will happen to the Jews  who refuse to accept God’s message, because God gave them the privilege to be his special people, but it will also happen to the non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_10","075_2_10","ROM","2","10","10","But  God will greatly reward spiritually MET, DOU every person who habitually does good deeds. He will  certainly do this for the Jews  because God chose them as his special people, but he will also do it for the non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_11","075_2_11","ROM","2","11","11","God  will do this fairly, because people’s status does not influence him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_12","075_2_12","ROM","2","12","12","Although non-Jews do not have the laws that  God gave to Moses, all non-Jews who sin will be eternally separated from God. He will  not consider whether or not they knew the laws that he  gave to Moses. And all the  Jews who have sinned in spite of knowing the laws that  God gave to Moses will also be punished { God will also punish them}.  They will be punished for disobeying God’s laws. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_13","075_2_13","ROM","2","13","13"," It is right for them to be punished { God to punish them}  because it is not those who  merely know God’s laws whom he considers to be righteous. On the contrary, it is only those who continually have obeyed  all ◄of  God’s laws/of the laws that  God gave to Moses► ◄whom God will consider righteous/whose record of sins God will erase►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_14","075_2_14","ROM","2","14","14","Whenever the non-Jews, who do not have the laws  God gave to Moses, naturally obey those laws,  they prove that they have a law within their own minds, even though they do not have the laws  God gave to Moses. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_15","075_2_15","ROM","2","15","15","They show that they know in their own minds what God  commands in his laws MET, as each person in his very own conscience either accuses or excuses/defends himself  concerning his own behavior. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_16","075_2_16","ROM","2","16","16","God  will punish people at the time when he will judge them according to what they have thought and done. He will judge them  even for the things that they have done secretly. He will judge people by authorizing Christ Jesus  to judge them. This is  what I tell people when I preach the gospel to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_17","075_2_17","ROM","2","17","17"," Now I have something to say to any one of you  Jews to whom I am writing: You (sg) boast about yourself saying, “I am a Jew.” You (sg) trust  that God will save you because you possess the laws  that he gave to Moses. You boast that  you belong to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_18","075_2_18","ROM","2","18","18","You know what God desires. Because you have been taught { people have taught you}  God’s laws, you are able to know which things are right and to choose to do them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_19","075_2_19","ROM","2","19","19","You are certain that you  are able to show  God’s truth to non-Jews, as guides  show the road to those who are blind MET. You are certain that by what you say you can show God’s way to the non-Jews who do not understand it, as a light shows the way to  those who walk in the darkness MET, DOU. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_20","075_2_20","ROM","2","20","20"," You are certain that you can instruct/correct non-Jews, whom you consider foolish  because of their not understanding God’s message. Because you have in  God’s laws a  written expression of true knowledge HEN, you are certain that you can teach  people who, being like children, do not know  God’s truth MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_21","075_2_21","ROM","2","21","21"," Since you claim that you have all these advantages because you are a Jew, ◄it is disgusting that you who teach other people  that they should obey the laws God gave Moses do not  obey the laws that you yourself teach!/why is it that you who teach other people  that they should obey the laws God gave Moses do not  obey the laws that you yourself teach?► RHQ You who preach that people should not steal things, it is disgusting that you yourself steal things! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_22","075_2_22","ROM","2","22","22","You who command people not to have sexual relations with someone to whom they are not married, it is disgusting that you commit adultery yourself! RHQ You who detest idols, it is disgusting that you rob temples  where people worship idols! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_23","075_2_23","ROM","2","23","23","You who boast saying, “ I have God’s laws,” it is disgusting that you disobey those same laws! RHQ As a result you are insulting God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_24","075_2_24","ROM","2","24","24"," You must not be like our ancestors, about whom were written  these words in the Scriptures: “The non-Jews speak evil about God because of  the evil actions of many of you  Jews.” The non-Jews say God must be a hypocrite if he condones the behavior of people like you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_25","075_2_25","ROM","2","25","25","Any one of you who  is circumcised  to show that he belongs to God can benefit from that if he obeys the laws  God gave to Moses. But if you (sg), a circumcised person, disobey  God’s laws,  God will consider that you who are circumcised are no better  in God’s sight than  someone who is not circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_26","075_2_26","ROM","2","26","26","This means that God will certainly consider that even non-Jews who are not circumcised can become his people if they obey the things that he commanded in his laws. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_27","075_2_27","ROM","2","27","27"," If any one of you disobeys God’s laws, even though  you(sg) have the Scriptures and even though someone has circumcised you {you are circumcised}  God will punish you. And those people who are not circumcised, but who obey God’s laws,  will declare that God is right when he says that he will punish you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_28","075_2_28","ROM","2","28","28","It is not those who perform rituals  to show they are God’s people who are  true Jews, and it is not being circumcised in their bodies  that causes God to accept them MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM2_29","075_2_29","ROM","2","29","29","On the contrary, we whom  God has changed inwardly are  true Jews MTY. And  God has accepted us because we have allowed God’s Spirit to change our hearts, not because we perform rituals. Even if  other people will not praise us  for that change, God will praise us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_1","075_3_1","ROM","3","1","1"," Someone may object to this, saying, “ If being circumcised does not cause God to accept us Jews, ◄there is no advantage in being a Jew  over being a non-Jew./is there any advantage in being a Jew  over being a non-Jew?► RHQ Being circumcised does not benefit  us Jews at all!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_2","075_3_2","ROM","3","2","2"," I would reply that being Jews benefits  us in many ways HYP. First of all, it benefits us because it was to  our ancestors that God’s words,  words that contain his promises, were given {that  God gave his words,  words that contain his promises}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_3","075_3_3","ROM","3","3","3","Many  Jews did not obey God as they promised that they would. So someone might ask, “Does their not being faithful mean that God will not  bless us Jews as he promised  that he would?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_4","075_3_4","ROM","3","4","4"," I would reply, “No, it certainly does not mean that! God always does  what he has promised, even though  people do not. All those who accuse God  of not keeping his promises to us Jews are very mistaken.”  What King David wrote about God’s justly saying that he would punish him for his sins is also true of those who accuse God of not keeping his promises. What he said to God was, “So everyone must acknowledge that what you (sg) have said  about them (OR,  their sin) is true, and you will always win the case when you are accused {when  people accuse you}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_5","075_3_5","ROM","3","5","5","So if we  Jews’ being wicked PRS shows that it is right that God  does not bless us, what shall we say/conclude? Shall we conclude that it is not right for God to be angry  and punish us Jews MTY? I  should not be saying these things,  but I am speaking as ordinary humans  speak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_6","075_3_6","ROM","3","6","6","We should certainly not  conclude that God should not judge us, because if God  did not judge us Jews, ◄it would not possibly be right for him to judge  anyone in the world MTY!/how could he judge  anyone in the world?► MTY, RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_7","075_3_7","ROM","3","7","7","But  someone might object and say to me, “The fact that God truly  keeps his promises becomes very clear/evident because of my not doing  what God has commanded. But the result is that people praise God! So ◄God should no longer say that I should be punished {that  he should punish me} on account of my having sinned!/why should God still say that I should be punished {that  he should punish me} on account of my having sinned?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_8","075_3_8","ROM","3","8","8"," If what you, Paul, say is true, then ◄we might as well/it is all right for us to► do evil things in order that good things  like that will result! For example,  then people will praise God!” Some people speak evil about me by their  falsely saying that I say  such things. God will fairly/justly punish  people who say such things about me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_9","075_3_9","ROM","3","9","9"," If someone would ask, “ Shall we conclude that God will treat us  Jews more favorably  and will treat the non-Jews less  favorably RHQ?”  I would reply that we can certainly not conclude that! I have already shown you that all people, the Jews and also the non-Jews, have sinned and  so they deserve to be punished { that God will punish them} PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_10","075_3_10","ROM","3","10","10"," The following words that are written {prophets have written}  in the Scriptures support this, No person is righteous. There is not even one righteous person! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_11","075_3_11","ROM","3","11","11","There is no one who understands  how to live properly (OR,  about God). There is no one who seeks/desires  to know God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_12","075_3_12","ROM","3","12","12","Absolutely everyone has turned away MET  from God. God considers them depraved (OR, Everyone has become useless  to God). There is no one who acts righteously; no, there is not even one! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_13","075_3_13","ROM","3","13","13","What people say MTY  is foul/bad, like the smell that comes from a grave that has been {that  people have} opened MET.  By what people say MTY, they deceive people.  By what they say MTY  they injure people, just like the poison of snakes  injures people MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_14","075_3_14","ROM","3","14","14","They are continually ◄cursing/asking God to do harmful things to► others and saying ◄cruel/harsh/hateful► things MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_15","075_3_15","ROM","3","15","15","They ◄go quickly/are eager► to murder people MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_16","075_3_16","ROM","3","16","16","Wherever they go, they ruin everything and make  people miserable MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_17","075_3_17","ROM","3","17","17","They have not/never known how  to live peacefully  with other people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_18","075_3_18","ROM","3","18","18","They absolutely refuse to fear/reverence God SYN! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_19","075_3_19","ROM","3","19","19","Furthermore, we know that it is to  Jewish people,  who are required to obey  God’s laws, that Moses wrote those laws PRS.  We can infer from this that there are no  Jews or non-Jews SYN who are able to say anything  in reply to God’s saying that he will punish them for having sinned. God has declared everyone in the world MTY guilty! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_20","075_3_20","ROM","3","20","20","It is not because people have done the things that God’s laws  require that  God will ◄erase the record of their sins/declare them no longer guilty for sin►,  because no one has done those things completely. In fact, the result of  our knowing God’s laws is that we know clearly that we have sinned (OR, are sinful). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_21","075_3_21","ROM","3","21","21","But God’s ◄erasing the record of our sins/declaring us no longer guilty► does not depend on  our obeying the laws  that he gave Moses. It has now been { God has now} revealed  to us how he erases the record of our sins  by a different way. It was written about  by Moses { Moses wrote about it} in the laws PRS  God gave him, and it was also written about by the prophets {the prophets also wrote about it}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_22","075_3_22","ROM","3","22","22","God erases the record of our sins because we trust in  what Jesus Christ  has done for us. God does this for every person who trusts  in Christ, because  he considers that there is no difference  between Jews and non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_23","075_3_23","ROM","3","23","23","All people have done evil, and all people have failed to accomplish the glorious goals that God  set for them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_24","075_3_24","ROM","3","24","24","Our record of sins has been erased {God erased the record of our sins} by God acting kindly  to forgive our sins, without our doing anything to earn it. Christ Jesus accomplished this  by dying for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_25","075_3_25","ROM","3","25","25","God showed that Christ was the one who would atone for (OR, forgive) our sins  with the blood  that flowed from his body when he died. God redeems/forgives us because of our trusting  in Christ’s having died for us. God wanted to show that he acts justly.  He wanted to do that because, before Jesus came, God did not punish  everyone who sinned. So it seemed as though he was not being just. But he was overlooking people’s sins during  that time, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_26","075_3_26","ROM","3","26","26","because he is patient.  God arranged for Jesus to die for us. By doing that, God now shows that he is just, and he shows that he is justly able to erase the record of sins for everyone who trusts/believes in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_27","075_3_27","ROM","3","27","27","It is not at all RHQ because of  our obeying the laws  of Moses that God erases the record of our sins. So, ◄there is no way that we can boast  that God does that because of our obeying those laws./how can we boast  about God erasing the record of our sins because of our obeying those laws?► RHQ Instead,  it is because of our believing/trusting  in Christ that God erases the record of our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_28","075_3_28","ROM","3","28","28"," We cannot boast about that, because we conclude that the record of our sins is erased {God erases the record of our sins} because of our trusting  in Christ. God does not erase the record of our sins because of our obeying the laws  that he gave to Moses, because it is impossible for us to completely obey them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_29","075_3_29","ROM","3","29","29","◄You who are Jews certainly should not  think that you are the only ones whom God  will accept!/Do you Jews  think it is you alone whom God  will accept?► RHQ You certainly should  realize that he will accept non-Jews, too. RHQ Of course,  he will accept non-Jews also, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_30","075_3_30","ROM","3","30","30","because,  as you firmly believe, there is only one God, who will erase the record of Jews’ MTY sins if they trust  in what Christ has done, and who will similarly erase the record of non-Jews’ MTY sins if they trust  in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM3_31","075_3_31","ROM","3","31","31","So,  if someone should ask concerning the laws that God gave Moses, “By saying  that God erases the record of our sins because of our trusting  in Christ, does that mean that those laws now are useless?”,  I would reply, “Certainly not. Instead, we truly fulfill the laws  that God gave Moses.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_1","075_4_1","ROM","4","1","1","Abraham is the  revered ancestor of us  Jews. So think about what we can conclude  from what happened to Abraham about how God can erase the record of our sins. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_2","075_4_2","ROM","4","2","2","If it was because of Abraham’s doing  good things that the record of his sins was erased {that  God erased the record of his sins}, Abraham could then have been able to boast  about that to people, but he would not have  had any basis to boast to God  about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_3","075_4_3","ROM","4","3","3"," Remember that in the Scriptures it is written {someone wrote} PRS that Abraham believed what God  promised RHQ, and as a result the record of his sins was erased { God erased the record of his sins}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_4","075_4_4","ROM","4","4","4","If we receive wages for work that we do, those wages are not considered to be a gift. Instead, they  are considered to be what we have earned.  Similarly, if God erases the record of our sins because we did things to earn God’s favor, we would not consider that  God’s erasing the record of our sin was  a gift. Instead, we would consider it as what we had earned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_5","075_4_5","ROM","4","5","5","But suppose that we do not do things  to gain God’s acceptance. Suppose that we instead trust  in God, who erases the record of sins of wicked people. Then the erasing of the record of our sins because of our trusting  in Christ is considered to be a gift to us,  not something that we earned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_6","075_4_6","ROM","4","6","6","Similarly, it is as David wrote  in the Psalms about people being happy whose record of sins God has erased even though they have not done things  to earn it. David wrote: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_7","075_4_7","ROM","4","7","7"," God is pleased with people whose sins have been {whose sins  he has} forgiven, and whose sins he  has decided to forget DOU. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_8","075_4_8","ROM","4","8","8"," God causes to be happy the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_9","075_4_9","ROM","4","9","9","As for our being happy  because God has erased the record of our sins, ◄it is not something that  only we Jews  can experience./is it MTY something that  only we Jews  can experience?► RHQ  No, it is also something that non-Jews  can experience MTY.  What is written in the Scriptures, that it was because Abraham trusted  in God that the record of his sins was erased { God erased the record of his sins},  also shows that this is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_10","075_4_10","ROM","4","10","10","◄ Think about when  God erased the record of Abraham’s sins./When did  God erase the record of Abraham’s sins?► RHQ ◄Consider whether  it happened after someone circumcised  Abraham to mark him as one who belonged to God, or before someone circumcised him./ Did it happen after  Abraham was circumcised  to be marked as one who belonged to God, or before he was circumcised?► RHQ It happened before he was circumcised, not after he was circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_11","075_4_11","ROM","4","11","11"," Many years later, God commanded that Abraham  be circumcised. Abraham’s accepting that ritual simply showed  that he knew that God had accepted him.  He knew that God had erased the record of his sins because he trusted  in God while he was still,  in effect, a non-Jew because he had not been circumcised.  So we can understand that Abraham became ◄a spiritual ancestor/like an ancestor► to  all of us whose record of sins has been erased {whose sins  God has erased the record of} because we believe  in God’s promise, even though some of us are not circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_12","075_4_12","ROM","4","12","12","Likewise, Abraham is the  spiritual ancestor of all us Jews who are not merely circumcised but who, more importantly,  believe in God’s promise as our ancestor Abraham did, even before he was circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_13","075_4_13","ROM","4","13","13","God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would receive  the blessings that he promised to give to the people in the world. But when he promised that, it was not because Abraham  obeyed the laws  that God later gave to Moses. Instead, it was because Abraham believed  that God would do what he promised that he would do. As a result, God erased the record of his sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_14","075_4_14","ROM","4","14","15","If  we think that it is those who  obey God’s laws who will receive  what he has promised, it is useless  for us to trust in him. And what he promised is worthless.  Remember that it is stated in God’s law PRS  that he will punish  people who do not perfectly obey them, and remember that wherever MTY laws exist,  people disobey them LIT. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_16","075_4_16","ROM","4","16","16","So it is because  we trust  in God that we will receive the things that he has promised.  It is not because we perfectly obey God’s laws. He wants ◄to erase the record of our sins/to declare us no longer guilty► without our earning it. As a result, what God now promises, he guarantees to give to all people who are  Abraham’s spiritual descendants.  He promises to do that not only for us Jewish believers, who  have God’s laws  and trust in him as Abraham did, but also for those non-Jews who do not have God’s laws but who trust  in him as Abraham did. Abraham is the  spiritual ancestor of all of us believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_17","075_4_17","ROM","4","17","17","What is written {What  Moses wrote}  in the Scriptures about what God promised Abraham shows that this is true.  God said to him, “It is in order that you (sg) may be the ancestor of many ethnic groups that I have chosen you.” Romans 4:17b-22 God  guaranteed that he would give Abraham many descendants. Abraham confidently believed that God  would do that, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_18","075_4_18","ROM","4","18","18","even though there was no physical reason for him to hope  that he would have descendants, because he and his wife were too old to bear children. But God is the one who causes dead people to live again, and who talks about things that do not yet exist as already existing.  God said to Abraham, “You will have so many descendants that they will be  as impossible to count as the stars.” And Abraham believed that, and he believed that he would become the ancestor of many ethnic groups. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_19","075_4_19","ROM","4","19","19","He did not doubt  that God would do what he promised, even though he knew that his body was already  as incapable of begetting children as if he were dead MET because he was about 100 years old. And  even though he realized that Sarah had never been able to become pregnant IDM, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_20","075_4_20","ROM","4","20","20","he did not doubt at all that God  would do what he had promised. Instead, he trusted  in God more/very strongly, and he thanked God  for what God was going to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_21","075_4_21","ROM","4","21","21","He was also convinced {very sure} that the thing that God promised, God was able to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_22","075_4_22","ROM","4","22","22","And that is the reason that the record of his sins was erased { God erased the record of his sins}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_23","075_4_23","ROM","4","23","23","The words  in the Scriptures, “The record of his sins was erased { God erased the record of his sins},” are not only about Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_24","075_4_24","ROM","4","24","24","They were also written { They also wrote that} for us whose record of sins would be erased { God would erase}. They were written { They wrote it} for us who believe  God, the one who caused our Lord Jesus to become alive again after he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM4_25","075_4_25","ROM","4","25","25","Jesus allowed  men to execute MTY him so that  God could forgive our evil deeds. And  God caused Jesus to live again because  God wanted to show that because of the death of Jesus he was able to erase the record of our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_1","075_5_1","ROM","5","1","1","Because we trusted  in Christ, the record of our sins has been erased { God has erased the record of our sins}. So we  now have a peaceful relationship with God because of our trust in what our Lord Jesus Christ  has done for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_2","075_5_2","ROM","5","2","2","Because of  what Christ  has done, God has also enabled us to begin experiencing his continually acting toward us in ways that we do not deserve. Also, we rejoice because we are confidently expecting that God  will gladly show us how great he is. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_3","075_5_3","ROM","5","3","3","We rejoice even when we suffer  as a result of our trusting in Christ, because we know that when we are suffering, the result is that we learn to endure things  patiently. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_4","075_5_4","ROM","5","4","4","And  we know that when we endure things  patiently, the result is that  God approves  of us. And when we  know that God approves  of us, the result is that we confidently expect  that he will do great things for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_5","075_5_5","ROM","5","5","5","And we are very confident PRS that we will receive the things that we wait expectantly  for, because God loves us very much. His Holy Spirit, who has been {whom  he has} given to us,  causes us to understand how much God loves us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_6","075_5_6","ROM","5","6","6","When we were unable  to save ourselves, it was Christ who, at the time  that God chose, died on behalf of  us ungodly  people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_7","075_5_7","ROM","5","7","7","Rarely would anyone die on behalf of another person,  even if that person were righteous, although someone might be courageous enough to die on behalf of a truly good person person. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_8","075_5_8","ROM","5","8","8","Nevertheless, as for God, the way he showed us that he loves us is that Christ died on our behalf while we were still rebelling against God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_9","075_5_9","ROM","5","9","9","The record of our sins has been erased { God has erased the record of our sins} because of  what Christ accomplished when his blood MTY  flowed when he died. So it is even more certain that we will be saved by Christ {that Christ will save us} from God’s punishing us  eternally MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_10","075_5_10","ROM","5","10","10","Even when we were acting hostilely towards God, he enabled us to have a peaceful relationship with him as a result of his Son dying  for us. So it is even more certain that we will be saved {Christ will be able to save us}  from God’s punishing us MTY because Christ is alive  again and because  God has enabled us to have a peaceful relationship  with himself. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_11","075_5_11","ROM","5","11","11","And that’s not all! Now we also rejoice about  the things that God  has done for us because of our Lord Jesus Christ  dying for us and enabling us to have a peaceful relationship with God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_12","075_5_12","ROM","5","12","12"," What you can learn from what I have written so far is as follows: All people are sinful PRS, and that is the result of  Adam, the first man whom  God created, sinning long ago. Adam died PRS because he sinned. So, all people  who have lived since then die, because  it is as though all people sinned  when Adam sinned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_13","075_5_13","ROM","5","13","13"," People in MTY the world sinned before  God gave his laws  to Moses. But people are not considered  by God { God does not consider people} to be guilty for their sins if there is no law stating that what they did was sinful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_14","075_5_14","ROM","5","14","14","But  we know that from  the time when Adam  lived until  the time when Moses  lived, all people sinned, and they died  as a consequence PRS, MET. Even people who sinned differently from the way Adam  sinned, died. Adam’s sin affected  all people, just like what Christ did, the one who came later, can affect all people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_15","075_5_15","ROM","5","15","15","But  the results of God’s erasing the record of our sins as a gift to us are not like  the results of Adam’s sinning. The result of one man,  Adam, sinning was that many/all people have died. But  it is certain,  however, that many people have abundantly experienced God’s acting kindly toward them in a way they did not deserve.  It is also certain that they have experienced God’s erasing the record of their sins as the result of one man, Jesus Christ, acting kindly toward them/towards them in a way they did not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_16","075_5_16","ROM","5","16","16","And  there is another way in which God’s freely erasing the record of our sins is not like  the results of Adam’s sinning. One person,  Adam, sinned. As a result, God declared that all people deserve to be punished. Many people sinned. But what God did was that he erased the record of their sins without their earning it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_17","075_5_17","ROM","5","17","17","All people die MET, PRS because of what one man,  Adam, did. But now many of us experience that God has abundantly acted towards us in ways we did not deserve, and we experience that he has erased the record of our sins without our earning it. It is also very certain that we will rule  with Christ (OR, share  the glory of Christ’s being king),  in heaven. This will happen because of  what one man, Jesus Christ,  did for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_18","075_5_18","ROM","5","18","18","So,  because one man, Adam, disobeyed  God’s law, that resulted in all people deserving to be punished {that God punish them}. Similarly, because one man,  Jesus, acted righteously  by obeying God when he died, the result was that God is  able to erase the record of all people’s sins and  enable them to live eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_19","075_5_19","ROM","5","19","19","It was because one person,  Adam, disobeyed  God that many/all people became sinners. Similarly, it is because one person,  Jesus, obeyed  God when he died that the record of many people’s sins will be erased {that  he will erase the record of many people’s sins}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_20","075_5_20","ROM","5","20","20"," God gave PRS his laws  to Moses PRS in order that  people might realize how greatly they had sinned; but as people sinned more, God continued to act even more kindly toward them, in a way that they did not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM5_21","075_5_21","ROM","5","21","21","He did that in order that just like people everywhere inevitably sin,  which results in their dying MET, PRS, people everywhere might inevitably experience God’s acting kindly towards them in a way they do not deserve MET, PRS by erasing the record of their sins.  The result is that people can live eternally because of what Jesus Christ our Lord  did for them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_1","075_6_1","ROM","6","1","1","Someone might RHQ say  in reply to what I have written that  since God acted kindly toward us in a way we did not deserve  because we sinned, perhaps we should continue to sin in order that he may continue to act even more kindly toward us  and keep on forgiving us! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_2","075_6_2","ROM","6","2","2"," I would reply, No, certainly not! We  ought to consider that our sinful desires MET  cannot make us do what they want us to do,  just like we cannot make a corpse do what we want it to do. So it is not right that we continue to sin! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_3","075_6_3","ROM","6","3","3","When we were baptized { asked someone to baptize us} in order to show that we have a relationship with (OR, are united to) Jesus Christ, our  being baptized was to declare that it was as though we died with Christ. ◄ I want you to remember that!/Do you not know that?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_4","075_6_4","ROM","6","4","4","So, when we were baptized {someone baptized us},  it was as though we were buried with Christ.  We were baptized in order to indicate that  we would not let our sinful desires make us do what they want us to do, just like people cannot make a corpse  do what they want it to do MET. We  were baptized to signify that we would continually conduct our lives in a new way, just like Christ was caused to live again in a new way by the great  power of  God his Father. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_5","075_6_5","ROM","6","5","5","Because of our close relationship with Christ, we have  separated ourselves from the former way in which we conducted our lives, just like he  was separated from his physical life when he died MET. But God will also certainly  enable us to live in a new way, just like he enabled Christ to live again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_6","075_6_6","ROM","6","6","6","We must keep remembering that when Christ died on the cross MET,  it was as though our sinful nature  died with him. It has lost its power to make us do what it wants us to do MET. That happened in order that we would not do the sinful  things that our bodies MET, which desire to sin, want us to do, and in order that we would no longer have to sin MET, as slaves  have to do what their masters want. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_7","075_6_7","ROM","6","7","7"," We are, as it were, freed { free}  from sinful  desires MET controlling us, just like those who have died are free  from anything controlling them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_8","075_6_8","ROM","6","8","8","Since  it is as though we died with Christ, we believe that we will continue to live with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_9","075_6_9","ROM","6","9","9","We know that since  God enabled Christ to live again after he died, Christ will never die again. Nothing will ever be able to make him die again PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_10","075_6_10","ROM","6","10","10","When he died, he died once for  people who had sinned, and he will never die again; but in regard to his living  again now, he lives in order to  serve/honor God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_11","075_6_11","ROM","6","11","11","Similarly, you must consider that  it is as though you have become  unable to do what your sinful  desires MET want, as a corpse  is not able to do what anyone wants it to do. You must also consider that because of your relationship to Christ Jesus you are living  in a new way in order to  serve/honor God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_12","075_6_12","ROM","6","12","12","So, do not let the  desire to sin PRS control your bodies MET with the result that you do the sinful things that you desire to do.  Remember that your bodies will surely die,  but your spirits will never die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_13","075_6_13","ROM","6","13","13","Do not let any of your body parts do wicked things, as  you did MET  when you were spiritually dead. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who are alive spiritually. Present all your body parts to God,  to allow him to use them to  do righteous things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_14","075_6_14","ROM","6","14","14","Do not let a  desire to sin control you PRS. The laws  that God gave Moses did not enable you  to stop sinning. But  now God controls you and kindly helps you  not to sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_15","075_6_15","ROM","6","15","15"," I suppose that certain people might think about what I have just said and they might say RHQ, “ You say that the laws  God gave Moses did not  enable us to stop sinning, but that God is now treating us kindly in ways we do not deserve. ◄ That seems to mean that God permits us to continue sinning./ Does that mean that God permits us to continue sinning?► RHQ” My reply to that is no, we should certainly not continue  sinning ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_16","075_6_16","ROM","6","16","16"," Slaves have to obey  what their masters command MET  them to do. ◄I want you to remember this./Do you not know this?► RHQ Similarly, if you present yourselves to someone  in order to obey him, you will be the slaves MET of the person you obey. Similarly,  if you have yielded yourselves to do the sinful things  you desire, you are slaves of your sinful desires PRS, and you will be eternally separated from God.  If you have yielded yourselves to obey  God, you are slaves of God and you need to  live righteously. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_17","075_6_17","ROM","6","17","17","You were once slaves  to your sinful  desires. But you began to sincerely obey the new teaching MET that you were taught {that  people taught you}. I thank God for that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_18","075_6_18","ROM","6","18","18"," I also  thank God that you have been freed { that he has freed you} from  being controlled by a desire to sin, and that you have become  as though you were slaves MET to  living righteously MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_19","075_6_19","ROM","6","19","19","I am illustrating what I say  by talking about slavery because your human nature prevents you from understanding  spiritual truth easily.  In the past you willingly did the immoral and unlawful things that  your minds compelled your bodies to do MET,  just like slaves  do what their masters compel them to do. As a result, you did even more unlawful things. Now,  you need to willingly allow  your minds to compel your bodies to  act righteously MET, in order that you will behave in a holy/pure way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_20","075_6_20","ROM","6","20","20","When you were  like slaves  because your sinful desires compelled you to do sinful things MET, you were not  concerned about behaving righteously MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_21","075_6_21","ROM","6","21","21","Nevertheless,  doing those things resulted in your being separated from God, so you did not benefit at all from  doing the  sinful things that you are now ashamed of. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_22","075_6_22","ROM","6","22","22","But you have been freed { God has freed you} from  letting the desire to sin control you. You have become  as though you are MET the slaves of God. So now the result is that God has caused you to completely belong to him and, as a result, you will live eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM6_23","075_6_23","ROM","6","23","23"," What people receive for sinning  is that they are eternally separated from God. That is  like wages that  people receive MET. But what God gives us is a gift. What he gives us is that we live eternally because of  our relationship with (OR, because  we are united to) Christ Jesus our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_1","075_7_1","ROM","7","1","1","My fellow believers, you know about laws. So you certainly know (OR, I want you to remember) that people have to obey laws PRS  only while  they are alive. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_2","075_7_2","ROM","7","2","2","For example, a woman is required by the law {the law requires a woman}  to obey and be faithful to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is freed  from having to { no longer has to}  obey the law about  remaining married to her husband. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_3","075_7_3","ROM","7","3","3","Therefore, a woman will be called {people will call a woman} an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she no longer  has to obey that law. Then she will not be an adulteress if she marries another man. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_4","075_7_4","ROM","7","4","4","Likewise, my fellow believers,  just like people are free from having to obey any law after they die MET, you  and I have been freed { God has freed you  and me} from having  to obey all the Jewish rituals and laws MET.  That is because it is as though we died with Christ  when he was crucified. Now you  and I belong to someone else MET,  like a woman who marries again after her husband dies belongs to another man. Specifically, you  and I belong to  Christ, who has come back to life {whom  God has caused to live again after he died}, in order that we may live righteously IDM to  honor God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_5","075_7_5","ROM","7","5","5","When our self-directed nature  controlled us, desires  that led us to sin were acting in our bodies.  Those desires were increased because of our knowing God’s laws PRS. As a result  we did evil things IDM  that caused us to be separated from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_6","075_7_6","ROM","7","6","6","But now we are freed {free} from  having to obey all the Jewish rituals—  it is as though we have died. The result is that now we are not controlled by those rituals {those rituals do not control us now}. So we serve God, not by  having to obey those rituals, which is the old way, but in the new way, as  God’s Spirit  helps us to serve him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_7","075_7_7","ROM","7","7","7"," Someone might object, saying, “◄The laws  that God gave Moses must be evil  if our sinful desires are increased because of our knowing those laws. MTY/Are not the laws  that God gave Moses evil  if they stir up our sinful desires?►” MTY, RHQ  I would reply that they certainly are not  evil, even though our sinful desires are increased. What I would reply is that I,  for example, realized that  what I was doing was sinful only because  of what is written { Moses wrote}  in those laws. For example, I realized that coveting  is sinful only because he wrote in those laws PRS, “You must not covet.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_8","075_7_8","ROM","7","8","8","And because of what that commandment stated, my sinful  desire to have things that belong to others PRS caused me to covet in many ways.  Our desire to sin is not stimulated MET when there is no law  that prohibits our doing sinful things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_9","075_7_9","ROM","7","9","9","Formerly, when I did not  know what God’s laws  required, I used to live  without worrying about what I was doing. But when I  became aware that God commanded, “You must not covet,” I suddenly realized PRS that I was sinning, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_10","075_7_10","ROM","7","10","10","and  I realized that I was separated from God. The laws that  I thought would enable me to live  eternally as a result of my obeying them caused me  to realize that I was separated from God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_11","075_7_11","ROM","7","11","11"," My desire to sin found a way PRS to deceive me  by making me think wrongly that I could keep  on sinning and at the same time obey those laws  enough so that I would live eternally, and  thus it caused me to be separated from God PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_12","075_7_12","ROM","7","12","12","So  we conclude that the laws  that God gave to Moses are holy. What God commanded  about not coveting, along with all the other things that he commanded, is also holy, and it is just and good. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_13","075_7_13","ROM","7","13","13","So,  if someone were to object saying, “ The laws that God gave Moses, which are good, ◄resulted in my being separated from God!/did they result in my being separated from God?► RHQ”  I would reply, “Certainly they did not  do that!” But instead, those  laws, which are good, stimulated  my desire to sin. I knew that the result was that I was separated from God. And also, because I  learned what God had commanded,  I knew that what I was doing was  truly sinful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_14","075_7_14","ROM","7","14","14","We know that the laws  that God gave Moses came from God’s Spirit. But as for me, I am  influenced by my self-directed nature.  It is as though I have been forced to become a slave of  my desire to sin MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_15","075_7_15","ROM","7","15","15","The things that I do, I  often HYP do not understand. That is,  sometimes HYP it is  the good things that I want  to do that I do not do.  And sometimes HYP it is the  evil things that I detest that I do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_16","075_7_16","ROM","7","16","16","Since I  do the  evil things that I do not want  to do, I agree that the laws  of God are good. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_17","075_7_17","ROM","7","17","17","So, it is not that I do  evil things because I wish to do them. Instead,  what happens is that I do sinful things because the desire to sin  causes me to do them. The  desire to sin ◄is within/permeates► me PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_18","075_7_18","ROM","7","18","18","I know that my self-directed nature will not  let me PRS  do anything that is good. I know this because I want  to do what is good, but I do not do what is good. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_19","075_7_19","ROM","7","19","19","I do not do the good things that I want to do. Instead, it is evil things that I do not want to do that I do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_20","075_7_20","ROM","7","20","20","Because I do  evil things that I do not want to do, it is not that I do  evil things because I want to. Instead,  I do them because my self-directed nature, which permeates me PRS,  causes me to do them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_21","075_7_21","ROM","7","21","21","I find, then, that what always happens is that when I want to do what is good, there is an evil  desire present within me that PRS prevents me from doing good. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_22","075_7_22","ROM","7","22","22","With my new inner nature I like the laws of God very much. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_23","075_7_23","ROM","7","23","23","Nevertheless, I sense that there is a different force that is in ◄my body/me► PRS, SYN. It is opposed to what with my mind  I desire to do MET, and it puts me inescapably under the control of MET the sinful  desires that I have SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_24","075_7_24","ROM","7","24","24"," When I consider this, I  feel that I am a very wretched person. I want someone to set me free from the control of what my body  desires, in order that I might not be separated from God. RHQ  I also think that what I have experienced is the same as what all believers experience. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM7_25","075_7_25","ROM","7","25","25","I thank God that it is by Jesus Christ our Lord  that we can be free from the control of what our bodies desire. So,  with our minds, you and I on the one hand want to obey God’s laws.  But also,  you and I  often let our sinful  desires control us because of our self-directed nature. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_1","075_8_1","ROM","8","1","1","Because  God has erased the record of our sins because we trust in what Christ has done for us, now  God will not condemn and punish those/us who have a relationship with (OR, are united to) Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_2","075_8_2","ROM","8","2","2"," God’s Spirit causes us to live  in a new way PRS as a result of what Christ Jesus  did for us. And he has set up a way by which he frees  each of us from continually being forced to sin (OR, to obey our self-directed natures) and from being separated from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_3","075_8_3","ROM","8","3","3","What  we could not do  by trying to obey the laws  of God PRS, because our self-directed nature was too weak  to obey them, God did. He sent his own Son  into the world in order that his Son might atone for our sin. His Son came having a body (OR, human nature) that was like  the body (OR, the  human nature) of us people who sin.  By sending his Son in this way, he condemned and punished  his Son, who never sinned, instead of punishing us, who sinned MTY. He did that  by making his Son’s body  a sacrifice (OR,  by causing his Son’s body  to suffer/die) for  all our sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_4","075_8_4","ROM","8","4","4","So we can  now fulfill all that God required in his laws. We do this, not by our acting the way our sinful human nature  desires, but instead by living as  God’s Spirit  desires us to live. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_5","075_8_5","ROM","8","5","5","People who live according to what their self-directed nature  desires think about and are concerned about what their self-directed nature  desires. But people who  live according to what  God’s Spirit  desires think about and are concerned about what  God’s Spirit  desires. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_6","075_8_6","ROM","8","6","6","Those people who PRS think about and are concerned about what their self-directed nature  desires will not live eternally (OR, will be separated from God). But those people who think about and are concerned about what  God’s Spirit  desires will live  eternally and have  inner peace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_7","075_8_7","ROM","8","7","7","Let me explain this.  To the extent that people PRS think about and are concerned about what their self-directed nature  desires, they are acting contrary to God. They do not obey the laws of God. In fact, they are not even able  to obey his laws. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_8","075_8_8","ROM","8","8","8","The people who let their self-directed nature  control them cannot do what pleases God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_9","075_8_9","ROM","8","9","9","But we do not have to let our self-directed nature  control us. Instead, we can  let God’s Spirit  control us, because he lives within us. If people do not have  living in them the Spirit  who comes from Christ, they do not belong to Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_10","075_8_10","ROM","8","10","10","But since Christ  is living in you/us by his Spirit, although your/our bodies  are certain to die because you/we sin, your/our spirits are alive because God has erased the record of your/our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_11","075_8_11","ROM","8","11","11"," God caused Jesus to live again after he died. And because his Spirit lives in you/us,  God will also make your/our bodies, which  now are sure to die, live  again after you/we die. God, who caused Christ to live again after he died, will make you/us live again by  causing his Spirit, who lives within you/us,  to do it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_12","075_8_12","ROM","8","12","12","Therefore, my fellow believers, we must  live as the Spirit directs us. What we do not have to do is to live as our self-directed nature  guides us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_13","075_8_13","ROM","8","13","13","If you live the way your self-directed nature  directs, you will surely not live  eternally (OR, will surely be eternally separated from God). But if by  the power of God’s Spirit you quit doing the  sinful things that your bodies  desire MET, you will live eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_14","075_8_14","ROM","8","14","14","We who are guided by the Spirit of God {allow the Spirit of God to guide us} are God’s children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_15","075_8_15","ROM","8","15","15"," You have showed that this is true, because you received  from God a Spirit that is not one that makes you fear  God again. You are not like slaves who  fear their masters MET. On the contrary, we have received a Spirit by whose  work in our hearts God has adopted us. The Spirit now enables us to cry out  to God, “ You(sg) are my Father DOU!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_16","075_8_16","ROM","8","16","16","The Spirit himself confirms what our spirits  say, that we are God’s children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_17","075_8_17","ROM","8","17","17","Because we are  God’s children, we also will some day receive/inherit  eternal blessings/privileges. We will receive/inherit them from God, and we will  also receive/inherit  them just like Christ has  inherited them. But we must suffer  for doing good as Christ did, in order to receive splendor as he did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_18","075_8_18","ROM","8","18","18","I consider that what we suffer during the present time is not worth  paying attention to, because the future splendor/glory that will be revealed {that  God will reveal} to us  is so great. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_19","075_8_19","ROM","8","19","19","The  things that God has created are very eagerly waiting for  the time PRS, DOU when God will reveal who his  true children are. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_20","075_8_20","ROM","8","20","20"," God caused the things that he created to be unable to achieve  what he had purposed. That was not because they wanted to  be unable to do that. On the contrary,  God made them that way because he wanted them to keep confidently expecting ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_21","075_8_21","ROM","8","21","21","that the things that  he created will be freed {that  he will free the things that  he created} from their sure decay MET.  He will free them in order that  he can give them the same glory that belongs to his children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_22","075_8_22","ROM","8","22","22","We know that until now  it is as though all  things that God created have been groaning together,  and they long for that glory, just like a mother having the pains before bearing a child groans  and longs for her baby’s birth MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_23","075_8_23","ROM","8","23","23","Not only  do those things groan, but we ourselves also groan inwardly. We who have  God’s Spirit, who is like a partial gift MET we have received as we wait for  the future glory, groan inwardly. We groan while we wait eagerly for the time when we will receive our  full rights as God’s adopted children. That  will include his freeing our bodies  from the things that hinder us on earth. He will do this by giving us new bodies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_24","075_8_24","ROM","8","24","24","Ever since we were saved {since  God saved us}, we have continued to confidently expect  that future glory. If we had what we waited for, we would not  need to wait for it any longer, because those who have something, certainly do not continue to wait for it! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_25","075_8_25","ROM","8","25","25","But because we keep waiting expectantly to receive what we do not yet have, we wait for it eagerly and patiently/perseveringly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_26","075_8_26","ROM","8","26","26","Similarly, in addition to our continuing to wait for what God will give us, God’s Spirit helps us when our spirits feel weak. We do not know what is proper/necessary for us to pray. But God’s Spirit knows, and he prays for us when we groan (OR, he groans) in a way that cannot be expressed in words (OR, prays with us, groaning in a way that cannot be expressed in words). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_27","075_8_27","ROM","8","27","27","God, who examines our inner feelings, understands what his Spirit desires. What God understands is that his Spirit prays for us who belong to God exactly as God wants him to pray. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_28","075_8_28","ROM","8","28","28","And we know that to those/us who love God, he works out all things that happen  to them/us in a way that produces good  spiritual benefits  for us. He does these things for those/us whom he has chosen, because that was (OR, was according to) what he planned to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_29","075_8_29","ROM","8","29","29","God knew previously  that we would believe in him (OR,  would be saved). We are those who God also decided previously would develop a character like his Son’s character. The result of that is that Christ is like a firstborn/highest-ranking  son, and  those/we who are God’s children MET are  like MET many  younger brothers  of Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_30","075_8_30","ROM","8","30","30","And us who God decided previously  that we would become like his Son, he also summoned. And for us whom he summoned, he also erased the record of our sins. And for us whose record of sins he has erased, he also will surely give future splendor. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_31","075_8_31","ROM","8","31","31","So ◄I will tell you what we must conclude from  all these things  that God does for us./what shall we conclude from  all these things  that God does for us?► RHQ Because God  is acting on our behalf, ◄no one can win against us!/can anyone defeat us? (OR, it does not matter if anyone opposes us)!► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_32","075_8_32","ROM","8","32","32","God did not spare even his very own Son. Instead, he turned him over  to others to cruelly kill him in order that all we  who believe in him may benefit  from his dying for us. Therefore, because God did that, ◄he will also certainly give us freely everything  that we need to live for him, in addition to  giving us Christ./will he not also certainly give us freely everything  that we need to live for him, in addition to  giving us Christ?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_33","075_8_33","ROM","8","33","33","It is God himself who erases the record of our sins. So ◄no one who accuses us  before God will win against us (OR,  it does not matter if anyone tries to accuse us) whom God has chosen./is it possible that anyone who accuses us  before God will win against us (OR, does it matter if anyone tries to accuse us) whom God has chosen?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_34","075_8_34","ROM","8","34","34","It is Christ Jesus himself who pleads  with God for us, so ◄no one can condemn us (OR, say that we are still guilty for our sin)./can anyone condemn us (OR, say that we are still guilty for our sin)?► RHQ Christ died  for us, but he was also brought back to life { God also raised him from the dead}, and he is now at the place of honor  ruling with God MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_35","075_8_35","ROM","8","35","35","Absolutely no one and nothing can cause Christ to stop loving us! RHQ That could not RHQ happen  because someone caused us to have trouble DOU, or  because someone did things to harm us, or  because we did not have anything to eat, or  because we did not have enough clothes, or  because we lived in a dangerous situation, or  because someone killed us with a sword MTY (OR, murdered us). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_36","075_8_36","ROM","8","36","36"," Such things may happen to us, just like it is written { as David wrote}  that David said to God, “Because we are your (sg) people,  other people repeatedly attempt to kill us. They consider that we are  only people to be killed,  like a butcher considers that sheep are  only animals to be slaughtered MET.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_37","075_8_37","ROM","8","37","37","But even though all these bad things  may happen to us, we win a great victory/triumph  over these things because Christ, who loves us,  helps us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_38","075_8_38","ROM","8","38","38","I am absolutely certain that neither being dead (OR, being killed), nor  what happens to us while we live, nor angels, nor demons, nor present events, nor future events, nor powerful  beings/forces, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM8_39","075_8_39","ROM","8","39","39","nor  powerful beings above  the horizon or below  the horizon MTY, nor anything else that  God has created can cause God to stop loving us.  God showed us that he loves us by sending Jesus Christ our Lord  to die for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_1","075_9_1","ROM","9","1","1"," Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully  what I will now tell you. I am not lying DOU! My conscience confirms what I  say because the Holy Spirit  controls it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_2","075_9_2","ROM","9","2","2"," I tell you that I grieve very greatly and deeply DOU  about my fellow Israelites. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_3","075_9_3","ROM","9","3","3","I personally would be willing to let  God curse me  and, as a result, be separated from Christ,  if that would help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen,  to believe in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_4","075_9_4","ROM","9","4","4","We  Jews are  Israelites, God’s chosen descendants of  Jacob.  God has always considered us as his children MET. It was to our ancestors  that he used to appear gloriously  while they were in the desert. It was with them that  God made covenants  several times. It was to them  that God gave the laws  at Sinai Mountain. They were the ones  to whom God showed how they should worship him. They were the ones  to whom God promised many things,  especially that the Messiah would come from their race. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_5","075_9_5","ROM","9","5","5","It was our ancestors,  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation. And,  most importantly, it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature.  Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ, who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_6","075_9_6","ROM","9","6","6"," God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings. But  although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ, that does not  prove that God has failed  to do the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who  call themselves the people of Israel whom  God considers to be truly his people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_7","075_9_7","ROM","9","7","7","And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that  God considers to be his people. Instead,  God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children.  This agrees with what God told Abraham: “It is Isaac,  not any of your(sg) other sons, whom  I will consider  to be the true father of your descendants.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_8","075_9_8","ROM","9","8","8","That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants  of Abraham whom God  considers as his children. Instead, it is those who  believed what God promised whom  he considers to be his children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_9","075_9_9","ROM","9","9","9"," You know that what God promised  to Abraham was this: “About this time  next year Sarah  your wife will bear a son  as a result of my enabling MTY  her to do so.”  So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him (OR,  that his true descendants would come). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_10","075_9_10","ROM","9","10","10","And not only then did God show  that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again when Rebecca conceived  twins by our ancestor Isaac. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_11","075_9_11","ROM","9","11","12","Before  the twins, Jacob and Esau, were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad,  God said to Rebecca  about the twins she was to bear, “The older one shall later serve the younger one,  contrary to normal custom.”  God said this in order that  we might  clearly understand that what he purposed  for people was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s  eternal destiny does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on  God, the one who chooses them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_13","075_9_13","ROM","9","13","13","And  this teaching is ◄ supported/shown to be true►  by what is written  in the Scriptures {what  a prophet recorded}  that God said: “I favored Jacob,  the younger son. I did not favor HYP Esau,  the older son.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_14","075_9_14","ROM","9","14","14"," Someone might say, “◄Is God unjust  by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think that God is unjust  by choosing the ones he wants to choose!►” RHQ  I would reply, “ He is certainly not  unjust!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_15","075_9_15","ROM","9","15","15","God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose DOU!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_16","075_9_16","ROM","9","16","16","So  God chooses people, not because they want  God to choose them or because they try hard  to do things so that he will  accept them. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy  on undeserving ones. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_17","075_9_17","ROM","9","17","17"," Moses recorded PRS  that God had told Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you (sg) authority MTY: It was in order that I might show  by how I oppose you  how exceedingly powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere HYP would hear about me MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_18","075_9_18","ROM","9","18","18","So  we conclude that God kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones  such as Pharaoh that he wants  to make stubborn. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_19","075_9_19","ROM","9","19","19"," One of you may  object to this by saying to me, “ Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do. ◄No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?► RHQ Therefore, ◄it would not be right that God would still condemn  a person for having sinned!/why does God still condemn  a person for having sinned?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_20","075_9_20","ROM","9","20","20"," I would reply that since you (sg) are  just a human being, ◄you do not  have any right at all to criticize God!/ who are you to say that what God does is wrong?► RHQ  As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you. ◄A clay pot MET certainly would not  have a right to criticize the potter by asking PRS, “Why did you (sg) make me this way?”/Would a clay pot  have a right to criticize the potter by asking PRS, “Why did you (sg) make me this way?”► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_21","075_9_21","ROM","9","21","21","Instead, ◄the potter certainly has the right to  take some clay and from one lump  of clay make one pot that people will honor and  make another one for ordinary purposes MET./does not a potter have the right to  take some clay and from one lump  of clay make one pot that people will honor and  make another pot for ordinary purposes?► MET, RHQ  Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_22","075_9_22","ROM","9","22","22","Although God desires to show that he is angry  about sin, and  although he desires to make clear that he can powerfully  punish people who have sinned, he tolerated very patiently the people MET who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_23","075_9_23","ROM","9","23","23"," God has been patient in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully  he acts toward those MET whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might  live gloriously  in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_24","075_9_24","ROM","9","24","24","That means us whom he chose—not only  us Jews but also non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_25","075_9_25","ROM","9","25","25"," These words that Hosea wrote MTY that  God said also ◄show that God has the right/ support God’s right►  to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews MTY: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love HYP before, I love now. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_26","075_9_26","ROM","9","26","26","And  another prophet wrote: What will happen is that in the places where  God told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places  people will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_27","075_9_27","ROM","9","27","27","Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are  so many that no one can count them, like sand particles on the beach beside the ocean,  only a small part of them will be saved { God will save  only a small part of them}, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_28","075_9_28","ROM","9","28","28","because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the  people who live on  this earth, as he said that he would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_29","075_9_29","ROM","9","29","29"," Also, we can understand from what the prophet Isaiah said  that God would not save anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of  the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were SIM, DOU completely destroyed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_30","075_9_30","ROM","9","30","30","We must conclude this: RHQ Although non-Jews did not search out  a way by which God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted  in what Christ did for them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_31","075_9_31","ROM","9","31","31","But although  the people of Israel sought a basis  by which God would erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in  fulfilling the true purpose of the laws  that God gave to Moses. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_32","075_9_32","ROM","9","32","32","The reason RHQ  that they did not succeed is that they did not trust that  God would provide a way to save them. Instead, they were trying to do certain things  in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites felt disgusted about Jesus’ death, which is like the stone MET on which people stumble. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM9_33","075_9_33","ROM","9","33","33","This is what  a prophet predicted when he wrote these words that  God said about the Messiah: Listen! I am placing in Israel MTY  one who is like a stone MET on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people DOU. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_1","075_10_1","ROM","10","1","1","My fellow believers, what I deeply desire and what I pray to God earnestly for is that he will save  my own people,  the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_2","075_10_2","ROM","10","2","2","I declare truthfully about them that although they ◄zealously seek/very much want to know► God, they do not understand  how to seek/know him correctly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_3","075_10_3","ROM","10","3","3","They did not ◄submit themselves to/accept► the way that God erases the record of people’s sins. They did not  want to recognize  that way because they wanted him to do it their own way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_4","075_10_4","ROM","10","4","4","They wanted God to erase the record of their sins  as a result of their obeying his laws. But because of what Christ has done, it is no longer necessary for  people to obey the laws  God gave Moses in order for the record of their sins to be erased. Now God will erase the record of sins of everyone who trusts  in what Christ has done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_5","075_10_5","ROM","10","5","5","In regard to  the old way, Moses wrote  concerning people who obey God’s laws, “It is the people who have done  perfectly the things  that the laws require who will gain  eternal life by  doing them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_6","075_10_6","ROM","10","6","6","But those whose record of sins God has erased as a result of their believing  in Christ can say  to anyone PRS  as Moses said, “You should not critically think inwardly, ‘◄Someone will have to go up and enter heaven!/Who will go up and enter heaven?►’ RHQ” That is to say, someone will have to  go up and bring Christ down  to bring the message of salvation to us! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_7","075_10_7","ROM","10","7","7","“Or  you should not think inwardly, ‘◄Someone will have to go down and enter the place where  the spirits of dead persons are!/Who will go down and enter the place where  the spirits of dead persons are?►’ RHQ” That is to say, someone will have to  go down and bring Christ up  from there to bring the message of salvation to us. You should not say that because Christ has already come down to save us, and has already become alive after he died! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_8","075_10_8","ROM","10","8","8","But instead,  those who believe in Christ PRS can say what RHQ  Moses also said, “You (sg) can find out about  God’s message very easily. You can speak MTY about it; you can think MTY about it.” This is the message that we proclaim, that people must believe  in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_9","075_10_9","ROM","10","9","9"," This message is that if anyone of you confesses/says publicly that Jesus is Lord, and if you (sg) believe that God ◄caused him to become alive again after he died/raised him from the dead►, you will be saved { God will save you}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_10","075_10_10","ROM","10","10","10","If people believe  that Christ died and that God caused him to become alive again CHI, the result is that  God will erase the record of their sins. And  for those who state/declare publicly  that Jesus is their Lord, the result is that  God will save them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_11","075_10_11","ROM","10","11","11"," It is written { Isaiah wrote} in the Scriptures PRS  about the Messiah, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_12","075_10_12","ROM","10","12","12"," God treats Jews and non-Jews similarly. Because he is the same Lord for all people  who believe in him, he abundantly  blesses all who ask him  to save them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_13","075_10_13","ROM","10","13","13","This is  just like what the prophet Joel wrote: “All those who ask the Lord  God to save them will be saved {The Lord  God will save all those who ask him to save them}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_14","075_10_14","ROM","10","14","14"," In regard to the people of Israel rejecting the gospel, some people might object by saying, (OR,  This raises another problem about the Jews:) “◄They certainly cannot ask Christ to save them if they have not  first believed  in him!/How can they ask Christ to help/save them if they have not  first believed  in him?► RHQ And ◄they certainly cannot believe  in him if they have not heard about him!/how can they believe  in him if they have not heard about him?► RHQ And ◄they certainly cannot hear  about him if someone does not preach to them  about him!/how can they hear  about him if someone does not preach to them  about him?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_15","075_10_15","ROM","10","15","15","And those who preach to them  about Christ, ◄certainly cannot preach if they are not sent  by God {if  God does not send them}  to preach!/how can they preach if they are not sent  by God {if  God does not send them}  to preach?► RHQ  His sending messengers to them would be just like it is written {like someone wrote}  in the Scriptures, ‘The arrival MTY of those who preach the good message is wonderful!’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_16","075_10_16","ROM","10","16","16"," I would reply in this way to people who say such things: God has indeed sent people to preach the message about Christ. But not all  the people of Israel have paid attention to the good message!  It is like what Isaiah said  when he felt very discouraged, “Lord, it seems as if hardly anyone believed what they heard us (exc) preach! RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_17","075_10_17","ROM","10","17","17","So then,  I tell you that people are believing  in Christ as a result of hearing  the message about him, and people are hearing  the message as a result of  people preaching  about Christ! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_18","075_10_18","ROM","10","18","18","But  if someone were to ask, “Have not  the people of Israel heard  the message about God?”  I would reply that they certainly  have heard it! It is like  what is written in the Psalms,  People living all over the world PRS, MTY  have seen the stars, and what they indicate  about God’s character has reached people living in the most remote places in the world DOU! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_19","075_10_19","ROM","10","19","19","But  someone might ask, “ Is it true that the people of MTY Israel understood  the message about Christ?”  I would reply that certainly they understood it, but they rejected it! Remember that Moses was the first  one who warned the people of Israel about disobeying God. He told them that God said,  You consider that non-Jewish groups are not nations at all CHI. But some of them  will believe in me, and I will bless them. Then you will envy them. I will cause you to be angry with those people whom  you Jews think do not understand  my ways IRO. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_20","075_10_20","ROM","10","20","20","Remember also  what God said  very boldly to Isaiah: Non-Jews who did not ◄try to know/seek► me will surely find me DOU! I will surely reveal what I am like to those who did not ask for me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM10_21","075_10_21","ROM","10","21","21","But concerning  the people of Israel,  Isaiah tells  us that God said: For a long time I have held out my arms to people who disobeyed and rebelled against me,  in order to invite them to return to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_1","075_11_1","ROM","11","1","1","Because of that,  if anyone should ask, “Has God rejected his people  the Jews?” I would declare that he certainly has not  rejected all of us! You can realize that by remembering that I also belong to the  people of Israel. I am a descendant of Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin,  but God has not rejected me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_2","075_11_2","ROM","11","2","2","No, God has not rejected his people, whom he chose long ago  to be people whom he would bless in a special way. Remember RHQ what is written PRS in the Scriptures about Elijah when he mistakenly complained to God about  the people of Israel, saying, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_3","075_11_3","ROM","11","3","3","“Lord, they have killed  the rest of your (sg) prophets, they have destroyed your altars. I am the only one  who believes in you who remains  alive, and now they are trying to kill me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_4","075_11_4","ROM","11","4","4","God answered him like this: “ You(sg) are not the only one who believes in me! I have protected for myself  not just you, but 7,000  other men who have not worshipped  the false god Baal. ◄Remember that!/Do you not remember that?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_5","075_11_5","ROM","11","5","5","So, similarly, there is also at this time a small group  of us Jews who have become believers. God has chosen us  to become believers (OR,  his people) only because he acts kindly toward us, in ways that we do not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_6","075_11_6","ROM","11","6","6","Since it is because he acts kindly  toward those whom he chooses, it is not because they have done good things  that he has chosen them. If  God chose people because they did good deeds, then it would not be because he was acting toward them in a way that they did not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_7","075_11_7","ROM","11","7","7"," Since God chose only some people of Israel,  this is what I conclude: RHQ Most of the people of Israel did not find  the way for him to erase the record of their sins, even though some of them were earnestly looking for it. The  people of Israel whom God had chosen found it, but the rest  of them were { God} made spiritually insensitive/unresponsive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_8","075_11_8","ROM","11","8","8"," Our fellow Jews are just like the  ones about whom Isaiah wrote, God ◄caused their senses to be dull/made them unable to think clearly►. Up to this very day,  they have eyes but they cannot see  spiritually MET.  They have ears, but they cannot understand  spiritually what they hear. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_9","075_11_9","ROM","11","9","9","And  they remind me of what King David said,  when he asked God to cause his enemies’ senses to be dull MET,  Make them stupid MTY,  like animals that are caught in snares! May they  feel secure because of the things that they enjoy but which will catch them like a trap DOU, MET, with the result that you will destroy them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_10","075_11_10","ROM","11","10","10","May their ability to perceive  danger be dulled {Dull their ability to perceive spiritually} MET, with the result that they will not  become alarmed MET  when there is danger. May you cause them to carry heavy loads on their backs continually  as slaves do MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_11","075_11_11","ROM","11","11","11"," Perhaps someone will ask, “ When the Jews sinned  by not believing in Christ, did it result in their separating themselves from God  permanently?” Then I  would reply,  No, they have certainly not  separated themselves from God permanently! What is happening is that because they sinned,  God is saving non-Jews in order to cause  the Jews to envy  the way he blesses non-Jews and so ask Christ to save them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_12","075_11_12","ROM","11","12","12"," When the Jews sinned (OR, rejected Christ),  the result was that God abundantly  blessed other people in MTY the world by  offering them the opportunity to believe. And  when the Jews failed spiritually, the result was that God abundantly  blessed the non-Jews. Since that is true, think how wonderful it will be when the complete number  of the Jews whom God has chosen will believe in Christ RHQ! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_13","075_11_13","ROM","11","13","13","Now it is to you non-Jews that I am saying  what follows. I am the one who is the apostle to non-Jews, and I highly esteem this work  that God appointed me to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_14","075_11_14","ROM","11","14","14","But I also hope that  by my labors I will make my fellow Jews ◄jealous/want what you non-Jews have►,  with the result that some of them will  believe and be saved. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_15","075_11_15","ROM","11","15","15"," God has rejected  most of my fellow Jews because they refused to believe, with the result that he reconciled  many other people in the world MTY  to himself. But he will accept  my fellow Jews again when they trust in Christ! And ◄this is what the result will be./do you know what the result will be?► RHQ It will be  as though God is making them alive again after they have been dead! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_16","075_11_16","ROM","11","16","16"," Just like the whole lump  of dough will belong to God if  people offer to God MET the  bread baked from the first part  of it MET,  so the Jews will belong to God because their ancestors belonged to God. And just like the branches  of a tree will be good if the roots aregood MET,  so the descendants of our great Jewish ancestors who belonged to God will also some day belong to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_17","075_11_17","ROM","11","17","17"," God has rejected many of  the Jews MET,  like branches  of a tree are broken off { like people break off  dead branches  of a tree}. And each of you non-Jews whom God has accepted is like MET  a branch of a wild/uncultivated olive tree  that was { that someone} grafted among the branches (OR, onto one of the branches)  that were left on a cultivated olive tree.  God has caused you  to benefit from how he blessed our(exc) first Jewish ancestors, as branches benefit from the nutritious sap from the roots of a  cultivated olive tree MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_18","075_11_18","ROM","11","18","18","However, you non-Jews must not despise  the Jews whom God rejected MET,  who are like the branches that  were broken off from the tree If any of you  wants to boast  about having received blessings from God,  remember this: Branches do not nourish the roots. Instead the roots nourish  the branches MET.  Similarly, you are blessed by God because of what you  have received from the Jews! It is not what the Jews have received from you  that blesses them MET! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_19","075_11_19","ROM","11","19","19","If one of you then says, “ God rejected the Jews MET  like branches MET that are broken {that people broke} off  a tree and rejected, in order that  he might accept us non-Jews, as branches MET of a tree are grafted in { as people graft in branches of a tree},” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_20","075_11_20","ROM","11","20","20"," I would reply that this is true. However, it is because the Jews did not believe  in Christ that they were rejected MET {that  God rejected MET them}. As for you, it is  only because you believe  in Christ that  God has accepted you!  So do not  any of you become proud, but instead beware  of what could happen to you ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_21","075_11_21","ROM","11","21","21","Since God did not spare  the unbelieving Jews MET  who were like a tree’s natural branches, he will not spare any of you  if you do not  keep trusting in him! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_22","075_11_22","ROM","11","22","22","Note then, that God acts kindly, but he also acts severely. He has acted severely toward  the Jews who have stopped trusting in him. On the other hand, he acts kindly toward each of you non-Jews only if you continue  to appreciate his acting kindly  toward you. However, you will be rejected { he will reject you} if you do not  keep trusting in him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_23","075_11_23","ROM","11","23","23","And if the Jews believe  in Christ LIT, God also will reunite them to himself as branches are grafted { as people graft branches} into  a tree again, because God is able to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_24","075_11_24","ROM","11","24","24","Each of you non-Jews who were previously separated from God has benefited from the ways in which God blessed the Jews MET.  That is like taking branches that have been cut {that someone has cut} from a wild olive tree that just grew  without being planted { someone planting it} and, contrary to what people usually do, grafting them into a cultivated olive tree. So God will much more readily  receive back the Jews because they belonged to him before MET!  That will be like the original branches  that had been cut off being grafted {like grafting the original branches  that someone cut off,} back into the olive tree to which they originally belonged! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_25","075_11_25","ROM","11","25","25","My non-Jewish fellow believers, I certainly want you to understand LIT this truth that God has now revealed  about my fellow Jews who are refusing to believe. You should not proudly think  that God  now favors you more  than the Jews (OR,  that you understand God’s further plans for the Jews). Many  people of Israel will continue to be stubborn until all the non-Jews  whom God has chosen have believed in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_26","075_11_26","ROM","11","26","26","And then all HYP  the people of Israel will be saved { God will save all HYP  the people of Israel}. Then these words that are written {that  a prophet wrote}  in the Scriptures will ◄ become true/be fulfilled►: The one who sets  his people free will originate from  the place where God dwells (OR, from the Jews) MTY. Then he will remove the guilt of the Israelite people (OR, descendants of Jacob) MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_27","075_11_27","ROM","11","27","27","And  as God says, The contract that I will make with them is that I will forgive their sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_28","075_11_28","ROM","11","28","28","With regard to  the Jews rejecting the good message  about Christ, God treats them as enemies, which has benefited you non-Jews. But in regard to  their being the people whom God chose,  God still loves them because of  what he promised their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_29","075_11_29","ROM","11","29","29"," He still loves them, because he never changed his mind about the privileges/blessings he  gave to them and about his choosing  them to be his people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_30","075_11_30","ROM","11","30","30","You non-Jews once disobeyed God, but now he has acted mercifully towards you because the  Jews disobeyed him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_31","075_11_31","ROM","11","31","31","Now the Jews have disobeyed God. The result is that by the very same way in which he acted mercifully towards you, he will act mercifully towards them  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_32","075_11_32","ROM","11","32","32","God has declared and proved that all people,  both Jews and non-Jews MET, disobey ◄ him/his laws►. He has declared that because he wants to act mercifully towards us all. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_33","075_11_33","ROM","11","33","33"," I marvel how vast and great are the wise things that God  has done and what he has  always known DOU! We are completely unable to understand the things that he has decided and the ways  in which he acts toward us DOU! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_34","075_11_34","ROM","11","34","34"," I remember the Scriptures that say, ◄No one has known what the Lord thinks./Who has known what the Lord thinks?► RHQ ◄Absolutely no one has given him advice  about what he should do!/Who has advised him  about what he should do?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_35","075_11_35","ROM","11","35","35","And, ◄No one has given anything to God that  he did not previously receive from God!/Has anyone given anything to God that  he did not previously receive from God?► RHQ So God ◄is not obligated to/does not have to► pay back anything to anyone! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM11_36","075_11_36","ROM","11","36","36","God  is the one who created all things. He is also the one who  sustains all things. The reason that he created them was that  everything he created might praise him. May  all people honor him forever! ◄May it be so!/Amen!► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_1","075_12_1","ROM","12","1","1","My fellow believers, since God has acted mercifully  toward you in so many ways, I appeal to  all of you that you present yourselves SYN  to him by making yourselves like holy sacrifices MET.  Make yourselves sacrifices that he is pleased with, sacrifices that are living/alive,  not ones that are dead/killed. Since God has done so much for you/us, this is the  only appropriate way to serve him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_2","075_12_2","ROM","12","2","2","Do not let anything non-Christian determine how you should act. Instead, let God change your  way of life by making your way of thinking new, in order that you may know what he wants you to do. That is, you will know what is good, and you will know what pleases  God, and you will know how to be all that he wants you to be. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_3","075_12_3","ROM","12","3","3","Because God has kindly appointed me  to be his apostle, which I did not deserve, I say this to every one of you: Do not think about yourselves more highly than what is right for you to think! Instead, think  about yourselves in a sensible way that corresponds to the abilities that God has given you  because you trust  in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_4","075_12_4","ROM","12","4","4","Although a person has one body, it consists of many parts. All of the parts are needed for  the body, but they do not all function the same way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_5","075_12_5","ROM","12","5","5","Similarly we,  although we are many, are  united into one group because of our relationship with Christ, and we belong to one another.  So no one should act as though he is needed by God more  than others are! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_6","075_12_6","ROM","12","6","6"," Instead, since each one of us can do various things that differ according to the abilities that  God has given to us,  we should do them diligently and cheerfully! Those whom  God has enabled to speak messages from him  should speak what corresponds to what they believe  God told them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_7","075_12_7","ROM","12","7","7"," Those whom God has enabled to serve  others should do that.  Those whom God has enabled to teach  his truth should do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_8","075_12_8","ROM","12","8","8","Those  whom God has enabled to encourage/exhort  his people should do that. Those who share  their goods/money with others should do it sincerely/generously. Those who lead  the congregation should do it wholeheartedly. Those who help the needy should do it cheerfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_9","075_12_9","ROM","12","9","9","Love others sincerely! Hate what is evil! Continue to eagerly do what  God considers to be good! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_10","075_12_10","ROM","12","10","10","Love one another as members of the same family do; and, you should be ◄the first ones/eager► to honor each other! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_11","075_12_11","ROM","12","11","11","Do not be lazy.  Instead, be eager  to serve the Lord God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_12","075_12_12","ROM","12","12","12","Rejoice because you are confidently awaiting  what God will do for you! When you suffer, be patient! Keep praying and never give up! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_13","075_12_13","ROM","12","13","13","If any of God’s people lacks anything, share with them  what you have! Readily take care of  travelers who need a place to stay! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_14","075_12_14","ROM","12","14","14"," Ask God to be kind to those who ◄persecute you/cause you to suffer►  because you believe in Jesus! Ask him to be kind to them; do not  ask him to cause bad things to happen to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_15","075_12_15","ROM","12","15","15","If someone is joyful, you should rejoice also! If someone is sad, you should also be sad! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_16","075_12_16","ROM","12","16","16","Desire for others what you desire for yourselves (OR, Live harmoniously with each other)! Do not do things because you want to be  famous! Instead, be content to do  tasks that others consider that only unimportant people do (OR,  to associate with unimportant people). Do not consider yourselves wise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_17","075_12_17","ROM","12","17","17","Do not do something evil to anyone  who has done something evil to you. Act in a way that all people will recognize as good! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_18","075_12_18","ROM","12","18","18","Live peacefully with other people whenever it is possible, to the extent that you  can influence the situation. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_19","075_12_19","ROM","12","19","19"," My fellow believers whom I love, do not do something evil in return when people do something evil to you! Instead, allow  God to punish them MTY, because it is {someone has} written  in the Scriptures that the Lord  said, “‘It is my responsibility to take revenge; I am the one who will punish  people who do something something evil to you DOU,’ says the Lord.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_20","075_12_20","ROM","12","20","20","Instead of  doing something evil to those who have done something evil to you,  do as the Scriptures teach: “If your (sg) enemies are hungry, feed them! If they are thirsty, give them something to drink! By doing that, you (sg) will cause them to feel ashamed  and perhaps they will change their attitude toward you IDM.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM12_21","075_12_21","ROM","12","21","21","Do not let evil  things that others have done to you overcome you (sg) by making you do evil things to them! PRS Instead, overcome the evil  things that they have done by  doing good  deeds to them! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_1","075_13_1","ROM","13","1","1","Every believer must be subject to the authorities.  Remember that God is the only one  who gives officials their authority. Furthermore, those officials that exist are ones who have been appointed by God {God has appointed}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_2","075_13_2","ROM","13","2","2","So whoever resists the officials is resisting what God has established. Furthermore, those who resist officials will bring on themselves  from the officials the punishment  that God considers fitting. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_3","075_13_3","ROM","13","3","3","What rulers  do is not  to cause people who do good deeds to be afraid. Instead,  what they do is to cause people who do evil to be afraid. So, if any of you RHQ wants to be unafraid of officials, do what is good!  If you(sg) do good, they will commend you  instead of punishing you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_4","075_13_4","ROM","13","4","4","It is in order to serve God  by doing their work that every official exists, in order that they may benefit each of you. If any of you does what is evil, you (sg) will rightfully have reason to be afraid, because the authority that they have to punish people MTY is very real LIT! The officials exist to serve God. That is, they act as God’s agents as they punish those who do evil. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_5","075_13_5","ROM","13","5","5","So, it is necessary for you (pl) to be subject  to officials, not only because they will punish you MTY  if you disobey them, but also because you know  that you should be subject to them ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_6","075_13_6","ROM","13","6","6","It is for this reason that you also pay taxes, because the officials are ones who serve God as they continually do their work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_7","075_13_7","ROM","13","7","7","Give to all  the officials what you are supposed to give to them! Pay taxes to  those who require that you pay taxes. Pay duties  on goods to those who require that you pay those duties. Respect  those who ought to be respected. Honor  those who ought to be honored. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_8","075_13_8","ROM","13","8","8","Pay all of your debts  when you are supposed to pay them. The only thing  that is like a debt that  you should never stop paying is to love one another. Whoever loves others has fulfilled all that  God requires in his laws. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_9","075_13_9","ROM","13","9","9"," There are many things that God commanded  in his laws, such as do not commit adultery, do not murder  anyone, do not steal, and do not desire anything that belongs to someone else. But the command by which they are all summed up {that includes them all} is this: Each of you must love the people with whom you come in contact, just like you (sg) love yourself. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_10","075_13_10","ROM","13","10","10","If you love people with whom you come in contact PRS, you will not do any evil to them LIT. So, whoever loves  others fulfills all that  God’s laws  require. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_11","075_13_11","ROM","13","11","11"," Do what I have just told you, especially since you know  the significance of the time  in which we are living. You know that it is time for you to be  fully alert and active MET,  like people who have awakened from sleeping MET, because  the time when Christ will finally deliver us  from this world’s pain/sin and sorrow is near. That time ◄is closer than/was not so close► when we first believed  in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_12","075_13_12","ROM","13","12","12"," Our time to live in this world MTY  is almost ended MET,  like a night that is nearly ended. The time  when Christ will return MTY is near. So we must quit doing wicked deeds MET  such as people do in the darkness, and  we must be doing the things that will help us resist Satan/evil MET,  as soldiers who put on their armor in the daytime  get ready to resist their enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_13","075_13_13","ROM","13","13","13","We must behave properly, as though the time  when Christ will return MTY  were already here. We must not participate in drunken carousing HEN. We must not commit any kind of sexual immorality MTY, DOU. We must not quarrel. We must not be jealous  of other people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM13_14","075_13_14","ROM","13","14","14","On the contrary, you/we should  be like the Lord Jesus Christ  so that others will see that we belong to him, just as  people put on  special clothes so that others will see what group they belong to MET. You/We should stop thinking about  doing the things that your/our self-directed nature desires. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_1","075_14_1","ROM","14","1","1","Accept those who are not sure  whether God will permit them to do certain things some people think are wrong. But  when you accept them, do not argue with them about what they think/their opinions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_2","075_14_2","ROM","14","2","2","Some people believe that they may eat all  kinds of food. Others believe  that God does not want them to eat certain things, so they believe that they may not eat meat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_3","075_14_3","ROM","14","3","3","Anyone who  thinks that it is all right to eat  all kinds of food must not despise those who  think it is not  all right to eat  all kinds of food. Anyone who  thinks it is not  all right to eat  all kinds of food must not ◄condemn/say that  God will punish► those who  think that it is all right to eat  all kinds of food, because God himself has accepted those people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_4","075_14_4","ROM","14","4","4"," God is the master of us all, so ◄ he is the one who will decide whether those people have done wrong!/who are you to decide whether they have done wrong?► RHQ  Therefore, you have no right RHQ to condemn those who eat everything, because they are  also God’s servants! And just like it is the servants’ own master who accepts or condemns MTY his servants,  it is God who accepts or condemns us. And believers will be accepted  by the Lord { the Lord will accept believers}  regardless of whether they eat meat or not, because he is able to keep them  trusting in him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_5","075_14_5","ROM","14","5","5","Some people regard certain days as  holy and think that the other  days are not  holy. Other people regard all days as equally suitable for worshipping God. Each person should be fully convinced  about such matters, thinking and deciding for himself  and not for others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_6","075_14_6","ROM","14","6","6","As for those who believe that they should worship on  a certain day  of the week, it is to  honor the Lord  that they worship on that day. And as for those who  think that it is all right to eat  all kinds of food, it is to  honor the Lord  that they eat those foods, as is clear from their thanking God  for the food that they eat. As for those who abstain from  eating certain kinds of food, it is to  honor the Lord that they do not eat  those foods, and they also thank God  for the food that they do eat. So doing either of those things is not wrong in itself. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_7","075_14_7","ROM","14","7","7","None of us should live  merely to  please ourselves, and none of us  should choose when or how we will die,  merely to  please ourselves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_8","075_14_8","ROM","14","8","8","While we live, it is the Lord whom we belong to  and should be trying to please, and not just ourselves. And when we die, it is the Lord whom we should  be trying to please. So, while we live and also when we die, we should be trying to please the Lord to whom we belong,  not just ourselves, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_9","075_14_9","ROM","14","9","9","because the very purpose for which Christ died and became alive again is that he might be Lord whom all people should try to please, both of those who have already died and of those who are still living. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_10","075_14_10","ROM","14","10","10","◄It is disgraceful that you  who practice certain religious regulations say that God will punish your fellow believers  who do not practice those regulations!/Why do you  who practice certain religious regulations say God will punish your fellow believers  who do not practice such regulations?► RHQ  I say this because the time will come when all of us will stand before God in order that he will say whether or not he approves MTY  of what we have done. So you  who do not practice such regulations, ◄should not despise your fellow believers  who practice them!/why do you despise your fellow believers  who practice them?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_11","075_14_11","ROM","14","11","11"," We know this because it is written { a prophet/Isaiah wrote}  what God has said: Everyone will bow down before me! That is as  certain as the fact that I live IDM! Everyone SYN will acknowledge  that because I am God, I have the  right to judge and punish people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_12","075_14_12","ROM","14","12","12","So  it is clear that it is God who will decide  whether or not he approves of what each of us has done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_13","075_14_13","ROM","14","13","13","Since  it is God who will judge everyone, we must stop saying that  God should punish some of our fellow believers! Instead, you/we should decide that you/we will not do anything that would  be an example that might cause fellow believers to stop trusting in God DOU. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_14","075_14_14","ROM","14","14","14","I am absolutely certain DOU because of  my close relationship with (OR,  my belonging to) the Lord Jesus that there is nothing that by itself is wrong  to eat. But if people think it is wrong to eat something, then to them it is wrong to eat it.  So you should not encourage them to eat it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_15","075_14_15","ROM","14","15","15","If you  eat food MET that anyone for whom Christ died  thinks that it is wrong to eat, that person might be encouraged { you might be encouraging that person}  to do something that he believes is wrong. As a result, you might cause that fellow believer  to stop trusting in God. In that way he would be ruined spiritually just because you have stopped behaving as one who loves  others should behave! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_16","075_14_16","ROM","14","16","16","Similarly, do not  do something that you think is good if,  as a result, your fellow believer would sin and then others would speak evil  of you who say that you are Christians. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_17","075_14_17","ROM","14","17","17","Letting God rule our lives MET does not mean  that we must obey regulations about eating or drinking  something! Instead,  it means we must live righteously,  act peacefully towards others, and be joyful by  the power of the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_18","075_14_18","ROM","14","18","18","Those who serve Christ  by acting in such ways please God, and others will also respect them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_19","075_14_19","ROM","14","19","19","So we should always eagerly try to  live in a way that will cause peace  among fellow Christians, and we should try to do what will help each other to mature spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_20","075_14_20","ROM","14","20","20","Do not destroy what God has done  in the life of any believer just because of  your eating certain kinds of food MET  which that person considers wrong to eat! God permits us to eat every  kind of food. But if, by your eating  certain kinds of food, you encourage another person to sin  by doing what he believes is wrong, you are doing wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_21","075_14_21","ROM","14","21","21","It is good neither to eat meat nor to drink wine, nor  to do anything else at any time if it will cause one of your fellow believers to stop trusting in God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_22","075_14_22","ROM","14","22","22","Let God tell you  what things are right for you to do, but do not try to force others to accept what you believe. God is pleased with those who do what they know is right and as a result do not feel guilty  concerning what they have done,  because they have done only those things that they believe are right. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM14_23","075_14_23","ROM","14","23","23","But some believers are not certain  that God will approve of their eating a certain kind of food. So if they eat it,  they think that God will punish them. And they  truly will be punished { God truly will punish them}, because  they have done things that they believe  are not right. Those who do anything without being certain  that God considers it to be right are sinning. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_1","075_15_1","ROM","15","1","1","Most of us are sure  that God will not punish us for doing certain things that the laws and rituals God gave Moses said the Jews should not do. But we should be patient with those who are uncertain  about such things, and we should not let them irritate us. We should not  simply please ourselves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_2","075_15_2","ROM","15","2","2","Each of us should  do the things that please the fellow believers with whom we come in contact, and things that will benefit them.  We should do those things in order to help them mature spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_3","075_15_3","ROM","15","3","3"," We should please our fellow believers, since Christ  has set us an example. He did not  do things to please himself. On the contrary,  he tried to please God even when others insulted him. That was as it is written {as ◄ someone/the Psalmist► wrote}  in Scripture that the Messiah said to God: “When people insulted you (sg),  it was as though they were also insulting me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_4","075_15_4","ROM","15","4","4","And  you need to remember that what was written previously {what  God’s servants previously wrote}  in the Scriptures, was written { they wrote} to teach us in order that we would be patient and be encouraged by  reading/believing  what they wrote. If we do that, we can confidently expect  God to do for us all he has promised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_5","075_15_5","ROM","15","5","5","God is the one who enables us to be patient and encourages us. ◄ Ask/Pray to►  him that he would enable you  all to live harmoniously with each other, doing as Christ Jesus  did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_6","075_15_6","ROM","15","6","6","Then, as you are united in what you think and say MTY, you will praise God,  who is the heavenly father MET of our Lord Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_7","075_15_7","ROM","15","7","7","So  I say to all of you believers at Rome, accept each other.  If you do that, people will praise God  as they see you behaving like Christ. Accept each other just like Christ accepted you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_8","075_15_8","ROM","15","8","8","I want  you to remember that Christ  helped us Jews MTY by what he did, in order to show that God ◄is faithful/does what he says he will do►. That is,  his coming as our Messiah fulfilled what God promised to  our Jewish ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_9","075_15_9","ROM","15","9","9","And  by acting mercifully to them, he also caused non-Jews to praise him.  What he has done for non-Jews fulfills what is written  in the Scriptures that David said to God: “So I will praise you (sg) when I am among the non-Jews, and I will sing to you MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_10","075_15_10","ROM","15","10","10"," David also wrote, “You non-Jews, rejoice with us who are God’s people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_11","075_15_11","ROM","15","11","11"," And Moses wrote in the Scriptures, “Praise the Lord, all  you non-Jews, and may everyone praise him DOU.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_12","075_15_12","ROM","15","12","12","And Isaiah wrote  in the Scriptures, “There will be a descendant MET of  King David who will begin to rule the non-Jews. They will confidently expect him  to fulfill what he has promised.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_13","075_15_13","ROM","15","13","13","God is the one who causes you to confidently expect  him to do what he has promised. I pray/ask that he will cause you to be completely joyful and peaceful as you trust  in him. As you do that, the Holy Spirit will enable you to more and more confidently expect  to receive what God has promised you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_14","075_15_14","ROM","15","14","14","My fellow believers, I myself am  completely sure that you yourselves  have acted toward others in a completely good way. You have done that because you have known completely  all that God wants you to know HYP, and because you are able to teach each other. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_15","075_15_15","ROM","15","15","15","However, I have written to you quite frankly  in this letter about some things in order to remind you  about those things.  I have written this letter because I have been appointed by God {God has  appointed me}, which I did not deserve, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_16","075_15_16","ROM","15","16","16","in order that I would work for Jesus Christ among non-Jews.  God has appointed me to act like a priest as I  proclaim his good message in order that he will accept the non-Jews  who believe in Christ. They will be like an offering MET  to God as a result of their being dedicated  to him by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit dedicating them  to God}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_17","075_15_17","ROM","15","17","17","It follows that, because  of my relationship with (OR, because  I belong to) Christ Jesus, I am happy about  my work for God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_18","075_15_18","ROM","15","18","18","I will speak boldly only LIT about the work that Christ has enabled me to do.  I do that work in order that non-Jews might pay attention to  the message about Christ as a result of what I have said and done, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_19","075_15_19","ROM","15","19","19","specifically, by  my performing many powerful miracles DOU.  I have done those things as a result of  God’s Spirit powerfully enabling me. As a result  of doing those things, while traveling all the way around from Jerusalem to Illyricum  province, I have completed  my work of proclaiming the message about Christ  in those places. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_20","075_15_20","ROM","15","20","20","As  I proclaim that message, I am always eagerly trying to proclaim it  in places where people have not already heard about Christ. I do that in order that  as I work for God I might not  be continuing the work for him that someone else already started MET.  I do not want to be like a man who builds  a house on someone else’s foundation. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_21","075_15_21","ROM","15","21","21","On the contrary,  I teach non-Jews, so that what happens may be like what was written {the prophet Isaiah wrote}  in the Scriptures about the Messiah: “Those who did not hear about him previously will know  the truth about him. Truly, those who have not heard  about him will hear and understand  his message DOU.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_22","075_15_22","ROM","15","22","22","Because  I have attempted to preach the message about Christ in places where they have not heard about him, I have been hindered {things have hindered me} many times  from being able to visit you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_23","075_15_23","ROM","15","23","23","But now there are no more places in these regions  where people have not heard about Christ. Furthermore, for several years I have wanted to visit you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_24","075_15_24","ROM","15","24","24"," So I hope to go/come to see you. I hope to do that as soon as I am on my way to  the provinces in Spain. I hope to see you as I journey through  your area, and I hope that  by whatever you give me EUP you will help me on my journey to Spain. But before  I go there, I want to enjoy being with you for a little while, although  I would like to stay with you longer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_25","075_15_25","ROM","15","25","25","But  I cannot visit you now, because I am about to go to Jerusalem in order to take money EUP for God’s people  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_26","075_15_26","ROM","15","26","26"," The believers in Macedonia and Achaia  provinces MTY decided to contribute some  money EUP for those of God’s people in Jerusalem who are poor. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_27","075_15_27","ROM","15","27","27","They themselves decided  to do this, but truly they owe something to God’s people in Jerusalem. The non-Jewish believers benefited spiritually from Jewish believers as a result of hearing the message about Christ from them, so the non-Jews should also help the Jewish believers  in Jerusalem by giving them material things (OR, money) EUP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_28","075_15_28","ROM","15","28","28","So when I have finished this  task by safely delivering all this money MET, EUP  that the believers in Macedonia and Achaia have given, I will leave  Jerusalem and visit you  in Rome while I am on my way to Spain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_29","075_15_29","ROM","15","29","29","And I know that when I visit you, Christ will abundantly bless  us (OR, enable  me to bless  you). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_30","075_15_30","ROM","15","30","30","Because  we belong to our Lord Jesus Christ and because the Spirit  of God causes us to love  each other, I urge you  all that  you help me by fervently/intensely praying to God for me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_31","075_15_31","ROM","15","31","31"," Pray that I will be protected { that God will protect me} so that the  Jews in Judea who do not believe  the message about Christ will not harm me. Also pray that God’s people in Jerusalem will accept the money EUP that I  take to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_32","075_15_32","ROM","15","32","32","Pray these things in order that I may go/come to you if God wants me to go/come, and that I may go/come joyfully, and that then God will refresh my  spirit as a result of my visiting/being with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM15_33","075_15_33","ROM","15","33","33"," I pray that God, who  causes us to have inner peace, will be with all of you  and will help you. ◄May it be so!/Amen!► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_1","075_16_1","ROM","16","1","1"," By means of this letter I am introducing and recommending to you our fellow believer Phoebe,  who will be taking this letter to you. She is a deacon in the congregation in Cenchrea  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_2","075_16_2","ROM","16","2","2"," I request that you receive her because of her relationship with the Lord.  You should do that because those who are God’s people ought to receive  their fellow believers.  I am also requesting that you help her  by giving her EUP whatever she needs, because she has helped many people, including me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_3","075_16_3","ROM","16","3","3","Tell Priscilla and  her husband Aquila that I ◄send greetings to/am thinking fondly of► them. They worked with me for Christ Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_4","075_16_4","ROM","16","4","4","and they were even willing to die IDM in order  to save my life. It is not only I who thank them  for helping me, but the people in all HYP the non-Jewish congregations also  thank them for saving my life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_5","075_16_5","ROM","16","5","5","Also tell the congregation  that meets in their house that I ◄send my greetings to/am thinking fondly of► them. Tell my dear friend Epaenetus the same thing. He is the first man in Asia  province who  believed in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_6","075_16_6","ROM","16","6","6","Tell Mary, who has worked hard  for Christ in order to  help you, that I ◄send my greetings to/am thinking fondly of► her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_7","075_16_7","ROM","16","7","7","Tell the same thing to Andronicus and  his wife Junia (OR, and  his sister Junia) who are my fellow Jews and who were also  previously in prison with me. They are well-known/respected (OR, respected by the) apostles, and they became Christians before I did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_8","075_16_8","ROM","16","8","8","I also send my greetings to Ampliatus, who is a dear friend because of his relationship with the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_9","075_16_9","ROM","16","9","9","I also send my greetings to Urbanus, who works for Christ with us, and to my dear friend Stachys. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_10","075_16_10","ROM","16","10","10","I also send my greetings to Apelles, whom Christ has approved  because Apelles successfully endured trials. Tell the believers who  live in the house of Aristobulus that I send my greetings to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_11","075_16_11","ROM","16","11","11","Also tell Herodion, who is my fellow Jew, that I send my greetings to him. Tell the same thing to those who  live in the house of Narcissus who belong to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_12","075_16_12","ROM","16","12","12","Tell the same thing to Tryphaena and  her sister Tryphosa, who work hard for the Lord. I also send my greetings to Persis.  We all love her and she has worked very hard for the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_13","075_16_13","ROM","16","13","13","Tell Rufus, who is an outstanding Christian, that I send my greetings to him.  Tell the same thing to his mother,  who has treated me as though I  were her son MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_14","075_16_14","ROM","16","14","14","Tell Asyncritus and Phlegon and Hermes and Patrobas and Hermas and the fellow believers who  meet with them that I am sending my greetings to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_15","075_16_15","ROM","16","15","15","I also send my greetings to Philologus, to  his wife Julia (OR,  his sister Julia), to Nereus and his sister, and to Olympas, and to all God’s people who  meet with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_16","075_16_16","ROM","16","16","16","Greet one another affectionately, but in a pure way,  when you gather together. The believers in all the Christian congregations HYP  in this area ◄send their greetings to/say they are thinking fondly of► you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_17","075_16_17","ROM","16","17","17","My fellow believers, I exhort you that you beware of those people who are causing divisions among you and who cause people to turn away  from God MTY  because they teach things that are contrary to the message  about Christ that you have learned (OR, that others taught you). Keep away from such people! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_18","075_16_18","ROM","16","18","18","They do not serve our Lord Christ! On the contrary, they only want to satisfy their own desires MTY! Also, by all the eloquent things that they say DOU they deceive those people who do not realize  that their teaching is false. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_19","075_16_19","ROM","16","19","19","Believers everywhere know that you have paid attention to  the good message about Christ, with the result that I rejoice about you. But I also want you to be wise,  with the result that you do what is good. I also want you to avoid doing what is evil. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_20","075_16_20","ROM","16","20","20"," If you avoid people who teach what is false, what will  soon happen MET  will be as though God, who causes us to be peaceful, will be crushing Satan under your feet!  I pray that our Lord Jesus will continue to act kindly towards you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_21","075_16_21","ROM","16","21","21","Timothy, who works with me, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, who are my fellow Jews,  want you to know that they are ◄sending their greetings to/thinking fondly of► you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_22","075_16_22","ROM","16","22","22","I, Tertius,  one who belongs to the Lord,  also want you to know that I am ◄sending my greetings to/thinking fondly of► you.  I am writing this letter as Paul tells me what to write for him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_23","075_16_23","ROM","16","23","24","I, Paul, am staying in the house of Gaius, and the whole congregation  here meets in his house. He  also wants you to know that he is ◄sending his greetings to/thinking fondly of► you. Erastus, the treasurer of  this city, also  wants you to know that he is ◄sending his greetings to/thinking fondly of► you. Our fellow believer Quartus also ◄sends his greetings to you./says he is thinking fondly of you.► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_25","075_16_25","ROM","16","25","25","As  I proclaim  the good message about Jesus Christ,  I tell about God, the one who is able to strengthen you spiritually. I also proclaim the  truth that was not revealed {which  God did not reveal} in all previous ages/times ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_26","075_16_26","ROM","16","26","26","but which has now been {which  he has now} revealed.  I, along with others, have proclaimed what the prophets wrote  about Christ. We are doing what the eternal God commanded  us(exc)/me to do. We want  people in all ethnic groups to know Christ so that they can believe  in him and obey  him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM16_27","075_16_27","ROM","16","27","27"," I desire that by Jesus Christ enabling us, we will forever praise the one who alone is God, who alone is  truly wise. ◄May it be so!/Amen!► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_1","076_1_1","1CO","1","1","1","I, Paul,  am writing this letter. Sosthenes, our fellow believer, is with  me as I write it.  God appointed me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus because that is what God desired. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_2","076_1_2","1CO","1","2","2"," I am sending this letter to all you who are God’s believers in Corinth  city. You have been set apart  by God { God has set you apart} for himself because ◄of your close relationship with/you belong to► Christ Jesus. God has appointed you to be his people and to live in a morally pure way, just like he has appointed all the people everywhere who belong to him to live in a morally pure way. You and they have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ MTY. He is their sovereign Lord as well as the sovereign Lord of all of us (inc) who have trusted in him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_3","076_1_3","1CO","1","3","3","We (exc) desire that God, who is our  heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ, who is our sovereign Lord, will continue to act kindly toward you and cause you to experience  inner peace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_4","076_1_4","1CO","1","4","4","I very often HYP thank God for you because he has acted toward you kindly, acting in ways that you do not deserve. He has done this because of your ◄having a close relationship with/being united to► Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_5","076_1_5","1CO","1","5","5","That is,  God has HYP helped you spiritually very much because of your ◄having a close relationship with/being united to► Christ. Specifically, God has very much HYP enabled you to speak messages  that his Spirit revealed to you, and he has very much enabled you to know many things HYP that his Spirit revealed to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_6","076_1_6","1CO","1","6","6","In that way,  he confirmed to you that what we (exc) proclaimed about Christ is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_7","076_1_7","1CO","1","7","7","As a result, while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to return, within your group you truly have LIT every ability that  God’s Spirit gives  to believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_8","076_1_8","1CO","1","8","8","God will also cause you to steadfastly  trust Christ to the very end of your lives EUP. The result will be that God will not consider you guilty  of any sin when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_9","076_1_9","1CO","1","9","9","You can depend on God to do that. He is the one who chose you to become intimately associated with his Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_10","076_1_10","1CO","1","10","10","My fellow believers, by the authority of MTY our Lord Jesus Christ, I urgently appeal to all of you to agree with one another. What I mean is, stop dividing into groups. Instead, be united MET concerning what you understand  about spiritual matters,, and be united in what you decide. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_11","076_1_11","1CO","1","11","11","My fellow believers,  I urge this because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_12","076_1_12","1CO","1","12","12","That is, some of you say, “Paul is the one to whom we  are loyal,” and others say, “Peter is the one to whom we  are loyal,” and still others say, “Christ is the one to whom we  are loyal.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_13","076_1_13","1CO","1","13","13"," It is ridiculous that RHQ  you are quarreling and dividing up  into groups instead of being loyal to Christ alone. Christ certainly has not divided himself into parts and distributed those parts out  to groups of people who oppose each other! MET, RHQ I, Paul, certainly did not die on the cross for you! RHQ When you were baptized {When someone baptized you}, you certainly did not promise that you were submitting to me! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_14","076_1_14","1CO","1","14","14","I thank  God that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_15","076_1_15","1CO","1","15","15","As a result, no one  there in Corinth except those two can say, “Paul baptized me so that I would become ◄his disciple/submissive to him►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_16","076_1_16","1CO","1","16","16"," Now I remember that I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_17","076_1_17","1CO","1","17","17","Christ sent me not primarily to baptize people but to preach the good message about him. When I do that, he does not want me to use words that human philosophers  consider wise IRO. I do not want the message about  what he  accomplished when he was nailed to the cross MTY to lose its power. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_18","076_1_18","1CO","1","18","18","Those who are perishing spiritually  because they do not believe that message consider that the message  about what Christ accomplished when he was nailed to the cross MTY  is foolish. But to us who are being saved {whom  God is saving} spiritually because we believe that message, it  demonstrates that God acts powerfully  in order to save us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_19","076_1_19","1CO","1","19","19"," It is like what God said that a prophet wrote long ago,  By the things that I will do, I will show that the ideas of those who  think IRO they are wise are completely useless. I will ignore the ideas that they think are IRO so smart. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_20","076_1_20","1CO","1","20","20","So, do you know  what God thinks about what RHQ people who IRO consider themselves to be wise and scholars and philosophers say?  He does not pay attention to what they say, because RHQ he has shown clearly that what unbelievers  think is IRO wise is  not wise at all, but is really foolish. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_21","076_1_21","1CO","1","21","21","God, acting very wisely, made it impossible for unbelievers to know God by doing what they thought was IRO wise. Instead, he was happy to save those who trust  in Christ as the result of their hearing  the message that was proclaimed to them, a message that others consider to be foolish. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_22","076_1_22","1CO","1","22","22","The Jews want  people to prove, by performing miracles,  that their message is true. The non-Jews want to hear only messages consisting of talk that they consider to be very wise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_23","076_1_23","1CO","1","23","23","As for us, we proclaim  the message about what Christ  accomplished for us when he was nailed { when they nailed him} to the cross. That message offends Jews  because they do not think that the Messiah will die, and non-Jews think it is IRO a foolish message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_24","076_1_24","1CO","1","24","24","But to us whom God has chosen to belong to himself, both Jews and non-Jews, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely  by sending Christ  to die for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_25","076_1_25","1CO","1","25","25","Unbelievers may think IRO  that God was  acting foolishly  by doing that, but  the truth is that he was acting more wisely than unbelievers who  just think that IRO they are wise. And unbelievers may think that God was  acting weakly  by sending his son to die, but he was acting more powerfully than unbelievers who  just think IRO  that they act powerfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_26","076_1_26","1CO","1","26","26","My fellow believers, remember what  kind of people you were when God chose you.  Not many of you whom he chose are people whom unbelievers considered to be wise. Very few of you were considered to be important. Very few of you came from families with a high social standing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_27","076_1_27","1CO","1","27","27","Instead, it was  usually those whom unbelievers considered to be foolish whom God chose. He did that in order to shame/discredit those whom unbelievers consider IRO wise. It was  usually those  whom unbelievers considered IRO unimportant whom God chose, in order to shame/discredit those whom unbelievers consider important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_28","076_1_28","1CO","1","28","28","It was usually those who are despised and considered {whom unbelievers despise and consider} worthless whom God chose, in order to make completely ineffective  what unbelievers consider to be important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_29","076_1_29","1CO","1","29","29"," He did that in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_30","076_1_30","1CO","1","30","30","It is because of what God  has done that you ◄have a close relationship with/belong to► Christ Jesus. God  put into effect his wise  plan to save us by what Christ did for us. As a result of what Christ did, God erases the record of our sins, sets us apart for himself, and frees us from our being guilty  for our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C11_31","076_1_31","1CO","1","31","31","So, it is the Lord whom we should boast about,  not about one spiritual leader being better than another. We should do as ◄ a prophet/Jeremiah► wrote  in the Scriptures that we should do: Those who boast should boast  only about what the Lord  has done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_1","076_2_1","1CO","2","1","1","My fellow believers, when I came to you, I proclaimed to you the message that God had revealed to me. But I did not proclaim it using eloquent words that would make people think highly of me, nor did I argue in a way that unbelievers would think was very wise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_2","076_2_2","1CO","2","2","2","I did that because I decided that I would speak only about Jesus Christ. Specifically, I told you  what he accomplished for us when he was killed by being nailed { when they killed him by nailing him} to a cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_3","076_2_3","1CO","2","3","3","Furthermore, when I was with you, I felt that I was not adequate  to do what Christ wanted me to do. I was afraid  that I would not be able to do it, and because of that I was trembling very much. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_4","076_2_4","1CO","2","4","4","When I taught you and preached to you, I did not speak words that unbelievers would consider IRO wise in order to convince them that my message was true. Instead,  God’s Spirit showed that it was true by enabling me to powerfully  perform miracles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_5","076_2_5","1CO","2","5","5"," I taught and preached that way in order that you might believe  my message, not because you heard words that people  considered to be IRO wise, but  because you recognized God’s power. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_6","076_2_6","1CO","2","6","6","I do teach a message that people who are spiritually mature  consider to be wise. But I do not teach a message that unbelievers  consider to be wise. I also do not teach a message that unbelieving rulers in the world consider to be wise.  What they think about it does not matter, because  some day ◄they will lose their power/not be ruling anymore►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_7","076_2_7","1CO","2","7","7","Instead, I teach about what God planned wisely  long ago. It is something that people did not know about previously because  God did not reveal it previously. But God determined before he created the world that he would greatly benefit us by his wise plan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_8","076_2_8","1CO","2","8","8","None of those who rule this world knew that wise plan. If they had known it, they would not have nailed our wonderful Lord to the cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_9","076_2_9","1CO","2","9","9","But  we believers need to remember these words that a prophet wrote  in the Scriptures: Things that no one has ever seen, things that no one ever heard, things that no one ever thought could happen, those are the things that God has prepared for those who love him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_10","076_2_10","1CO","2","10","10","God has caused his Spirit to reveal those things to us (inc) believers. His Spirit can do that because he knows thoroughly the meaning of all things. He even knows the things about God that are very difficult to understand. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_11","076_2_11","1CO","2","11","11","Only a person himself (OR, a person’s spirit) knows what he is thinking. Similarly, only God’s Spirit knows what God is thinking. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_12","076_2_12","1CO","2","12","12","It was not the ideas that unbelievers teach that we accepted. Instead, it was the Spirit who came from God that we received, in order that we might know the things that God has freely done for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_13","076_2_13","1CO","2","13","13","Those are the things that I tell you about. As I do that, I do not tell you things that someone  whom others thought was IRO wise taught me. Instead, I tell you truths that  God’s Spirit taught  me, and I explain those spiritual truths to people whose thinking is guided by God’s Spirit (OR, I teach spiritual truths to spiritual  people). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_14","076_2_14","1CO","2","14","14","Those who are unbelievers reject the truths that  God’s Spirit teaches us (inc), because they  consider those truths to be foolish. They cannot understand them, because it is God’s Spirit who enables us to evaluate those truths correctly,  and those people do not have God’s Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_15","076_2_15","1CO","2","15","15","We who have God’s Spirit can judge correctly the  value of all truths  that the Spirit reveals, but unbelievers cannot evaluate us correctly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C12_16","076_2_16","1CO","2","16","16","As  one of our prophets wrote: No human RHQ has known what the Lord is thinking. No human RHQ is able to instruct him. But we believers are able to think about things MTY in the way that Christ thinks about them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_1","076_3_1","1CO","3","1","1","My fellow believers,  when I was with you previously, I was not able to teach you as  I would teach people who are controlled by the Holy Spirit { whom the Holy Spirit  controls}. Instead,  I had to teach you as I would teach people whom their self-directed nature controls.  I taught very simple concepts to you who had recently believed in Christ,  as a parent would speak very simple words to a baby. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_2","076_3_2","1CO","3","2","2","I did not  teach you  things that were difficult for you to understand, just like a woman does not give  her baby solid food  that the baby cannot chew and digest.  And just like a woman ◄ gives her baby milk/breast-feeds her baby►,  I taught you simple spiritual concepts, because at that time you were not able to understand difficult things. And you are still not able to understand difficult concepts, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_3","076_3_3","1CO","3","3","3","because you are still controlled by your self-directed nature. Some of you are jealous and quarreling. ◄That shows that your self-directed nature is controlling you!/Does not that prove your self-directed nature is controlling you?► RHQ It shows that  you are acting like unbelievers act. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_4","076_3_4","1CO","3","4","4","By some of you saying, “I am  loyal to Paul,” and others saying, “I am  loyal to Apollos,” ◄you show that  you are acting like unbelievers./does not it show that  you are acting like unbelievers?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_5","076_3_5","1CO","3","5","5"," So what you really ought to think about Apollos and me RHQ is that we(dl) are merely men who serve God. As a result of our  telling you the message about Christ, you trusted in him. Both of us (dl) are merely doing the work that the Lord appointed us to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_6","076_3_6","1CO","3","6","6","I was  the first one who preached God’s message to you. I was like MET someone who plants seeds.  Later, Apollos  taught you more of God’s message. That was like MET someone who waters plants  after they start to grow. But it is God who enables people to grow spiritually, just like he is the one who causes  plants to grow. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_7","076_3_7","1CO","3","7","7","So  the person who first preaches God’s message to people is not important, and the person who later teaches people more of God’s message is not important, just like MET it is not the person who plants  the seeds or the person who waters  the plants who is important. Instead, it is God, who causes plants to grow  and who causes people to grow spiritually, who is important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_8","076_3_8","1CO","3","8","8","The person  who first preaches God’s message to people and the one who later teaches them more of God’s message MET both ◄are  trying to reach the same  goal/have the same  purpose►. And  God will reward each of them according to how they served him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_9","076_3_9","1CO","3","9","9","Remember that Apollos and I are both working together for God.  You do not belong to us. Just like a field  belongs to its owner, not to those who work in it, you belong to God,  not to us who work for him. 1 Corinthians 3:9b-15 Also, a house belongs to its owner.  It does not belong to the man who built it. Similarly, God is the one to whom you belong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_10","076_3_10","1CO","3","10","10"," Just like a skilled person puts a foundation in the ground  before he builds a house, as a result of God kindly helping me MET,  I was the first one who declared the message about Christ to you. And, just like others build a house on its foundation, there were  others who later taught you more about Christ. But  just like each person who builds a house must be careful about what materials he uses to build it MET, each person  who teaches God’s truth must be careful about what he teaches. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_11","076_3_11","1CO","3","11","11","Just like people can put in  only one foundation  for a house MET,  there is only one message that we can give to people. That message is about Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_12","076_3_12","1CO","3","12","12","Furthermore, people can build a house on its foundation  with materials that are valuable and do not burn easily, such as gold, silver, and expensive jewels. Or they could build a house with materials that are not valuable and that burn easily, such as wood, hay, and straw. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_13","076_3_13","1CO","3","13","13","Later it will become clear/evident what kind of material they used to build the house.  Similarly, when people teach others God’s truth, it will later become clear  what kind of things they taught.  God will make that clear/evident at the time  when he judges us MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_14","076_3_14","1CO","3","14","14","When a fire starts burning a house, it becomes clear whether the builders used materials in their work  that will burn, or materials that will not burn. Similarly MET, when God judges us, it will be clear whether we taught others things that were long-lasting and valuable or not. If  the materials that are used to build a house  are materials that do not burn, the builder will receive a reward MET.  Similarly, if we have taught others things that are valuable and long-lasting, God will give us a reward. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_15","076_3_15","1CO","3","15","15","If  the things that we have taught are not valuable and long-lasting MET,  we will not get a reward. We will be saved { God will save us}  from hell, but  that is all that we will get. We will be like a man who escapes from a fire  without saving any of his possessions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_16","076_3_16","1CO","3","16","16","You need to remember that God  is present among you (pl) as he was present in the Temple  in Jerusalem. RHQ God’s Spirit lives within you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_17","076_3_17","1CO","3","17","17","So,  just like God will destroy anyone who tries to destroy his Temple,  he will destroy anyone who destroys the unity of a congregation. He will do that because  he has set you,  his people, apart for himself, just like he set his Temple  apart for himself. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_18","076_3_18","1CO","3","18","18","Some among you think that you are wise because unbelievers thought you were wise previously. Stop deceiving yourselves.  If you really want to be wise, by accepting what God considers to be wise you should  be willing to let unbelievers consider that you are foolish IRO. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_19","076_3_19","1CO","3","19","19","You should do that because things that unbelievers  consider to be IRO wise, God considers to be foolish.  We can learn from the Scriptures  what God says about that: Those who think that they are IRO wise, he messes up their plans by the mistakes they make! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_20","076_3_20","1CO","3","20","20","And  we can learn from these words of Scripture, The Lord considers as useless the thoughts of humans who think that they are IRO wise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_21","076_3_21","1CO","3","21","21","So, stop boasting about  how good one Christian leader is or how good another Christian leader is. All  of us(exc) exist as leaders only to help you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_22","076_3_22","1CO","3","22","22","Specifically, do not boast about me, or about Apollos, or about Peter! Everything in the world exists to  benefit you believers. Whether you live or whether you die, the things that are happening now or the things that will happen in the future, they are all to benefit you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C13_23","076_3_23","1CO","3","23","23"," You should boast about Christ,  not about your leaders, because you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_1","076_4_1","1CO","4","1","1","So, people ought to consider us apostles (OR, Apollos and me) to be  merely servants of Christ. God has given to us (exc) the work of telling others the message that God has now revealed to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_2","076_4_2","1CO","4","2","2","With respect to doing that, those who are given work are required {give others some work to do require them} to do that work faithfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_3","076_4_3","1CO","4","3","3","I am not concerned whether you or  the judges in some court decide whether I have done my work faithfully or not. I do not even judge myself  about that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_4","076_4_4","1CO","4","4","4","I do not think that I have done anything wrong, but that does not prove that I have done nothing wrong. The Lord is the one who judges me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_5","076_4_5","1CO","4","5","5","So, stop evaluating any of us (exc) before the time  when God judges everyone MTY! Do not judge us before the Lord comes. He is the one who will reveal the sinful things that people have done secretly. He will even reveal what people have thought. At that time God will praise each person as  each one of them deserves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_6","076_4_6","1CO","4","6","6","My fellow believers, I have  told you all these things as illustrations of myself and Apollos. I have done this for your sake, in order that you may learn  to live according to the saying, “Do not act contrary to what is {what they have} written  in the Scriptures.” If you follow that rule, you will not be proud of one  spiritual leader and despise another. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_7","076_4_7","1CO","4","7","7","◄No one has made any of you superior to others!/Why do any of you think that you are superior to others?► RHQ  All the abilities that you have, you received  from God. RHQ So if you received them all  from God, ◄you should not boast  thinking, “I got these abilities  from myself,  not from God!”/why do you boast  thinking, “I got these abilities  from myself,  not from God?”► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_8","076_4_8","1CO","4","8","8"," It is disgusting that you act as though IRO you have already received everything that you need spiritually. You act as though IRO you were spiritually rich (OR, you had received all  the spiritual gifts you need). You act as though IRO you had already begun to rule as kings with Christ. Well, I wish that you really were ruling  with him, in order that we apostles might also rule with you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_9","076_4_9","1CO","4","9","9","But it seems as though God has put us apostles on display,  like prisoners at the end  of the victor’s parade. We (exc) are like men who have been condemned to die, who have been put in the arena where everyone can see  the wild animals killing them. And not only people, but even angels all over the world  are watching us, as people watch those who are performing a play  in a theater. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_10","076_4_10","1CO","4","10","10","Many people consider us to be IRO fools because  we preach about Christ, but you proudly  think IRO that you are wise because ◄of your close relationship with/you belong to► Christ. Many people  consider us IRO to be unimpressive, but you  proudly think that you impress others. People respect you, but they do not respect us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_11","076_4_11","1CO","4","11","11","Up to this present time we have often been hungry. We have often been thirsty. We have ragged clothes. Often we have been beaten {others have beaten us}. We  have traveled so much that we have no regular homes to live in. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_12","076_4_12","1CO","4","12","12","We work very hard  to earn a living. When we are cursed  by people {When  people curse us}, we  ask God to bless them. When we are persecuted {When  people cause us to suffer}, we endure it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_13","076_4_13","1CO","4","13","13","When we are slandered  by people {When  people slander us}, we reply kindly to them. Up to now, unbelievers consider us to be worthless MET,  as though we were just garbage. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_14","076_4_14","1CO","4","14","14","I am writing this to you, not to make you feel ashamed, but instead to warn you as  though you were my own dear children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_15","076_4_15","1CO","4","15","15","I say that because as  an apostle of Christ Jesus I  was the first one who proclaimed the good message to you. As a result, I was the one who enabled you to have eternal life. So even if there were thousands of Christians who instruct you MET, I am the only one who became  like a father to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_16","076_4_16","1CO","4","16","16","So I urge you to  live for Christ the way I do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_17","076_4_17","1CO","4","17","17","In order to  help you do that, I have sent/will be sending Timothy to you. I love him  as though he were my son. He serves the Lord faithfully. He will remind you of the way I conduct my life  as one who ◄has a close relationship with/belongs to► the Lord. The way I conduct my life is the same as how I teach  others to live in all the congregations  to whom I have spoken. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_18","076_4_18","1CO","4","18","18","Some of you have become proud, thinking that I will not come there  to rebuke your congregation about what they are doing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_19","076_4_19","1CO","4","19","19","But if the Lord wants me to come, I will come to you soon. Then I will not  pay any attention to what those proud people say. Instead, I will find out  whether they have God’s power. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_20","076_4_20","1CO","4","20","20","Remember that God  judges whether or not we are letting him rule  our lives, not by  listening to how we talk, but  by seeing whether his power  is present ◄ among us/in our lives►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C14_21","076_4_21","1CO","4","21","21","So which do you prefer? Do you want me to come to you and punish you  because you have not changed your ways, or shall I come to you and act lovingly and gently toward you  because you have done what I told you to do? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_1","076_5_1","1CO","5","1","1"," Now I want to discuss another matter. It has been {People have} reported to me, and I believe that it is true, that some people among you have been acting in a sexually immoral way, in a way that is so bad that not even ◄pagans/people who do not know about God► act that way. People tell me that a man is living with his stepmother (OR, his father’s other wife). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_2","076_5_2","1CO","5","2","2","You should be sad about what that man is doing! He should have been expelled { You should have expelled him} from your congregation!  But you have not  done that, so ◄how can you be proud,  thinking that you are spiritually mature?/it is disgusting that you are proud,  thinking that you are spiritually mature!► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_3","076_5_3","1CO","5","3","3","As for me, I have already decided  how you should punish that man. And even though I am away from you, my spirit is with you, and you should do as I would do if I were there with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_4","076_5_4","1CO","5","4","4"," What I have decided is that when you have gathered together with the authority MTY of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is with you, and the power of our Lord Jesus  is with you, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_5","076_5_5","1CO","5","5","5","you should hand that man over to Satan. Then Satan can injure/punish his body, in order that  he will turn away from his sinful behavior and his spirit will be saved on the day when the Lord  returns MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_6","076_5_6","1CO","5","6","6","It is not good that,  while you are letting that immoral man continue to be in your congregation, you are boasting  about being spiritually mature. ◄You know that a small amount of yeast affects all the bread dough MET  into which it is put { a woman puts it}./Do you not know that a small amount of yeast affects all the bread dough MET  into which it is put?► RHQ  Similarly, one person who continues to sin will have a bad effect on all the congregation. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_7","076_5_7","1CO","5","7","7","So,  just like we Jews expel the old yeast  from our houses during the Passover celebration in order that we may have a fresh batch of dough without yeast in it MET,  you must expel such evil people from your congregation. Do  that so that you can truly be holy people, as  I know that you really are. Remember that Christ was sacrificed {sacrificed himself}  so that God could spare us from being punished for our sins, just like the Jews sacrificed lambs during the  first Passover celebration  so that God would spare their firstborn sons from being killed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_8","076_5_8","1CO","5","8","8","So let us celebrate  the fact that God has freed us from being punished us for our sins MET,  just like the Jews in  later years celebrated Passover  to celebrate God freeing them from being slaves in Egypt. They made sure that there was no old yeast in the dough.  They ate bread that had no yeast in it.  Similarly,  we should make sure that there are no people in our congregations MET  who act maliciously  toward others or  act wickedly. Instead,  make sure MET  that all those in our congregations are ones who act sincerely and  speak truthfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_9","076_5_9","1CO","5","9","9","In the previous letter that I wrote to you, I said that you should not associate with sexually immoral people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_10","076_5_10","1CO","5","10","10","I did not mean that you should not associate with unbelievers who are immoral, or who desire things that belong to others, or who ◄forcefully seize things that belong to others/are swindlers►, or who worship idols. You would have to leave this world  to avoid all people like that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_11","076_5_11","1CO","5","11","11","But now  I am stating clearly that when I wrote, I  meant that you should not associate with those who say that they are fellow believers, if they are sexually immoral or if they desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or worship idols, or slander others, or become drunk. You should not associate with people like that, and you should not even eat with them! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_12","076_5_12","1CO","5","12","12","It is certainly not RHQ my business to judge people who are not believers and who do not belong to Christian congregations. But it certainly is RHQ your business to judge those who are in  your congregation! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C15_13","076_5_13","1CO","5","13","13","God is the one who will judge those who are not believers.  Do as the Scriptures command: “Expel the wicked person from your midst!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_1","076_6_1","1CO","6","1","1"," Now another matter: When any of you believers accuses another believer about some matter, he takes that matter to judges who are not believers,  for them to decide the case, instead of asking God’s people  to decide it. ◄That is disgusting!/Why do you do that?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_2","076_6_2","1CO","6","2","2"," I want you to know that  we who are God’s people will  some day judge those who are unbelievers. RHQ So, since you will be judging unbelievers, you certainly are capable of judging between believers who disagree on small matters! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_3","076_6_3","1CO","6","3","3","◄You should keep in mind that we will even judge angels!/Do you not know that we will even judge angels?► RHQ So we certainly should be able to judge about  matters that relate to how we conduct our lives here on earth! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_4","076_6_4","1CO","6","4","4","Therefore, when you believers have a dispute, you should certainly not choose as judges  to decide your case people whom the congregation cannot respect  because those judges are not believers! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_5","076_6_5","1CO","6","5","5","I am saying this to make you ashamed. Surely there is someone among you who is wise enough to judge disputes between believers! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_6","076_6_6","1CO","6","6","6","But instead, some believers  among you accuse other believers in a legal court. And what is worse, you let the cases be judged by unbelievers {unbelievers judge the cases}! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_7","076_6_7","1CO","6","7","7","The fact that you have any lawsuits among you  shows that you have completely failed  as Christians (OR,  allowed Satan to defeat you). You should  allow other believers to wrong you  without taking them to court!! RHQ You should not accuse them when  they cheat you! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_8","076_6_8","1CO","6","8","8","But  what is happening is that some of you are cheating others and doing wrong to them.  That is bad. But you are doing that to fellow believers,  and that is worse! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_9","076_6_9","1CO","6","9","9","◄You should keep in mind that wicked people will not become  members of the group over whom God will rule./Do you not know that wicked people will not become  members of the group over whom God will rule?► RHQ Do not be deceived {Do not deceive yourselves}  by thinking wrongly about these matters. People who are sexually immoral, or who worship idols, or who ◄commit adultery/have sex with someone to whom they are not married►, or who happily allow others to commit homosexual acts with them, or who take the initiative in committing homosexual acts, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_10","076_6_10","1CO","6","10","10","or who are thieves, or who desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or who are drunkards, or who slander others, or who are swindlers, will not enter the place where God rules. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_11","076_6_11","1CO","6","11","11","Some of you previously did things like that. But  God has freed/cleansed you MET  from your sinful behavior.  He has set you apart for himself.  He has erased the record of your sins  because you trusted MTY in the Lord Jesus Christ and because of what the Spirit of our God  has done for you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_12","076_6_12","1CO","6","12","12"," Some of you may say, “God allows us to do anything  that he does not forbid.” But  I would reply, “ That is true, but not everything that God permits us to do helps us.”  Yes, as some of you say, God permits us to do anything  that he does not forbid. But as for me, I will not let anything make me  its slave; that is, I will not do anything that will gain control over me in such a way that I will not be able to stop doing it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_13","076_6_13","1CO","6","13","13"," Some of you may also say, “Food is just for  us to put in the stomach, and the stomach is just for  us to put food  in. And since God will do away with food and stomachs  when he gives us our new bodies, what we do with our bodies sexually does not affect us any more than eating food does.” But what you have concluded is wrong, because the Lord does not  want us to use our bodies to do sexually immoral things. Instead, the Lord  wants us to use our bodies in ways that please him. Also, the Lord  wants us to do what is good for our bodies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_14","076_6_14","1CO","6","14","14","God, by his power, caused the Lord  Jesus to live again after he died, and he will cause us to live again after we die,  which shows that he is very concerned about our bodies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_15","076_6_15","1CO","6","15","15","You should keep in mind that your bodies belong to Christ. RHQ So, should I  or any other believer RHQ take our body, which belongs to Christ, and join it sexually to a prostitute? No, certainly not! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_16","076_6_16","1CO","6","16","16","When a man has sexual relations EUP with a prostitute,  it is as though their two bodies become one body. ◄You should never forget that!/Do you not know that?► RHQ What  Moses wrote  about people who join together sexually is, “The two of them will become  as though they are one body.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_17","076_6_17","1CO","6","17","17","But anyone who is united {who joins himself} to the Lord becomes one with him spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_18","076_6_18","1CO","6","18","18","Always ◄run away from/avoid► committing sexually immoral acts. Other sins that people commit do not affect their bodies, but those who commit sexually immoral acts sin against their own bodies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_19","076_6_19","1CO","6","19","19","◄Keep in mind that your bodies are  like MET temples of the Holy Spirit./Do you not know that your bodies are  like MET temples of the Holy Spirit?► RHQ The Spirit, whom God gave you, lives within you. You do not belong to yourselves. You belong to God, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C16_20","076_6_20","1CO","6","20","20"," because when his Son died for you it was as though MET  God paid a price for you. So honor God by  how you use your bodies! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_1","076_7_1","1CO","7","1","1","Now  I will reply to the things that you wrote to me about. It is good for people not to get married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_2","076_7_2","1CO","7","2","2","But because many people are committing sexual immorality,  which God detests, every man should have his own wife  with whom he can have sexual relations, and every woman should have her own husband  with whom she can have sexual relations. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_3","076_7_3","1CO","7","3","3","Every man must continue having sexual relations EUP with his wife, and every woman must continue having sexual relations with her husband. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_4","076_7_4","1CO","7","4","4","A man’s wife does not have the right over her own body  to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with her husband. Instead, her husband also has a right  to decide about that. Similarly, a woman’s husband does not have the right over his own body  to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with his wife. Instead, his wife also has a right  to decide about that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_5","076_7_5","1CO","7","5","5","You may refuse  to have sexual relations with each other EUP only if you both first agree to do that for a short time, in order that you may both have more time to pray. Then after that, begin having sexual relations again EUP in order that Satan will not be able to persuade you  to have sex with someone else because you are unable to control your sexual desires. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_6","076_7_6","1CO","7","6","6","I am telling you these things to say that  God allows  you to get married, but he does not say that you must  get married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_7","076_7_7","1CO","7","7","7","I myself wish that all people would stay  unmarried/single, as I am. But God has enabled each person to live in ways that seem right for them. He has enabled some people to  live without getting married, and he has enabled other people to  get married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_8","076_7_8","1CO","7","8","8","Now I want to say this to you unmarried people and to you whose spouses have died: It would be good for you to remain  unmarried as I am. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_9","076_7_9","1CO","7","9","9","But if you cannot control your  sexual desires EUP, you should get married. It is better to be married  so that you can satisfy your sexual desires with your spouse than to constantly have a strong desire EUP  for sexual relations. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_10","076_7_10","1CO","7","10","10","And now I will give a command for believers who are married. This is not a command from me alone; it also comes from the Lord Jesus. You married women must not ◄separate from/divorce► your husbands! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_11","076_7_11","1CO","7","11","11","But if any of you do that, you must remain unmarried, or else you should be reconciled with your husband  and live with him again. Similarly, men must not ◄separate from/divorce► their wives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_12","076_7_12","1CO","7","12","12","Now I say this to the rest of you,  to those who became believers after they were married. This is what I  am saying, not what the Lord  has commanded. If someone has a wife who is not a believer, if she is willing to keep living with him, he must not divorce her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_13","076_7_13","1CO","7","13","13","Similarly, if a woman has a husband who is not a believer, if he is willing to keep living with her, she must not divorce him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_14","076_7_14","1CO","7","14","14"," I say that because God has set apart every woman’s unbelieving husband  for himself because of his wife  being a believer, and God has set apart every man’s unbelieving wife  for himself because of her husband  being a believer. If that were not true,  God would consider their children unacceptable. But, the fact is that  God does consider them acceptable to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_15","076_7_15","1CO","7","15","15","However, if a woman’s husband who is not a believer or a man’s wife who is not a believer wants to leave, let  him or her do so. The husband or wife who is a believer should not force the other one to stay. God has chosen us in order that we may live peacefully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_16","076_7_16","1CO","7","16","16"," You women believers should allow your unbelieving spouses to leave you if they want to, because there is no way that you can be sure that God will save your husband if you stay together RHQ (OR, perhaps God will save your husband if you stay together.) Similarly, you men  who are believers, there is no way that you can be sure that God will save your wives if you stay together RHQ (OR, perhaps God will save your wives if you stay together.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_17","076_7_17","1CO","7","17","17","However, each person should continue in the status that the Lord gave him, the status that he had when the Lord called him  to belong to him. That is the rule that I tell people in all the congregations  where I speak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_18","076_7_18","1CO","7","18","18","If a man had already been circumcised RHQ when he became a Christian, he should not  try to pretend that he is not circumcised. If a man had not been circumcised RHQ before he became a Christian, he should not become circumcised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_19","076_7_19","1CO","7","19","19"," You should not try to change your status that way, because it means nothing  to God whether someone is circumcised or not. What is important is that we obey what God has commanded. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_20","076_7_20","1CO","7","20","20"," Generally, each person should remain in the status that he had when he became a Christian. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_21","076_7_21","1CO","7","21","21","If one of you was a slave when you (sg) became a Christian RHQ, do not be concerned about it. However, if you get an opportunity to be free, do  what you need to do to become free. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_22","076_7_22","1CO","7","22","22"," Do not worry about your previously being a slave, because those who were slaves before they became Christians, the Lord has freed them  from Satan’s control. Similarly, those who were not slaves before they became Christians,  it is as though MET they are Christ’s slaves  because they must do what he tells them to do MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_23","076_7_23","1CO","7","23","23","Christ paid a price to buy you  when he died for you. So do not  act as if you are evil people’s slaves  by doing the evil things that they tell you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_24","076_7_24","1CO","7","24","24","My fellow believers,  I repeat that in general each believer, being in fellowship with God, should continue in the status that he had before he became a Christian. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_25","076_7_25","1CO","7","25","25","Now  I will answer your question about women who have never married. There is nothing that the Lord has commanded me  to write about them, but I am writing this to tell you what I think  is best, because the Lord  Jesus has mercifully enabled me to  say what is reliable. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_26","076_7_26","1CO","7","26","26","There are a lot of distressing events happening now (OR, that will soon happen), so I think that it is better for people to remain in the marital status that they now have. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_27","076_7_27","1CO","7","27","27","If any of you  men are married RHQ, do not try to divorce your wife. If any of you are unmarried RHQ, do not seek a wife. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_28","076_7_28","1CO","7","28","28","But if  any of you  men get married, you have not committed a sin  by doing that. Likewise, if an unmarried woman gets married, she has not committed a sin  by doing that. However, those who get married will have many troubles,  so I am urging you to remain unmarried in order that you may not experience  such troubles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_29","076_7_29","1CO","7","29","29","My fellow believers, this is what I mean: There is not much time left  before Christ returns. So, from now on those men who are married should  devote themselves to serving the Lord as much as they would if they were not married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_30","076_7_30","1CO","7","30","30","Those who are sad should  devote themselves to serving the Lord as much as they would if they were not sad. Those who are rejoicing  should devote themselves to serving the Lord as much as they would if they were not joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_31","076_7_31","1CO","7","31","31","Those who are buying things should  devote themselves to serving the Lord as much as they would if they did not possess those things. Because this world as it exists now will soon be gone, those who are actively involved in the affairs of this life  should not devote all their time to be involved in those things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_32","076_7_32","1CO","7","32","32"," Another reason why I  encourage you to remain unmarried is that I desire that none of you be anxious  about the everyday affairs of this life. Unmarried men are  able to be primarily concerned about serving the Lord Jesus and trying to please him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_33","076_7_33","1CO","7","33","33","But married men are  often greatly concerned about the affairs of this life. Specifically, they are concerned about pleasing their wives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_34","076_7_34","1CO","7","34","34","So their thinking is divided. Unmarried women are  able to be concerned about serving the Lord. They want to set apart their minds and their bodies for serving the Lord. But married women are  often concerned about the affairs of this life. Specifically, they are concerned about how to please their husbands. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_35","076_7_35","1CO","7","35","35","I am telling you this for your own good. I am not saying it in order to restrict you. Instead, I am saying it in order that you may do what is proper and be able to serve the Lord without being distracted {things distracting you}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_36","076_7_36","1CO","7","36","36"," Some of you men have asked about your unmarried daughters.  I suggest that if any man thinks that he may be treating his daughter unfairly  by keeping her from marrying, and if it is already past  the right time for her to get married, and if he thinks that she ought to be married, he should do what he wants to do. He should let her get married. He will not be sinning  by doing that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_37","076_7_37","1CO","7","37","37","But if a man feels absolutely sure  that it is better that his daughter not get married, and if nothing is forcing  her to get married, and if he is free to do what he decides to do on the matter, if he decides that his daughter should not get married, he is doing what is right in  keeping her from marrying. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_38","076_7_38","1CO","7","38","38","So any man who decides that his daughter should get married is doing what is good, but if he decides that she should not get married, he is doing something even better. (OR,  Some of you men have asked about the women to whom you are engaged to marry. If any man thinks that he may be treating that woman unfairly  by not marrying her, and if it is already past  the right time for her to get married, and if he wants to marry her very much, he should do what he wants to do. He should marry her. He will not be sinning  by doing that. But if a man feels absolutely sure  that it is better for him not to get married, and if nothing is forcing  them to get married, if he is free to make his own decision on the matter, if he decides not to get married, he is doing what is right. So any man who decides that he should get married to the woman he is engaged to is doing what is good, but if he decides that he should not get married, he is doing something even better.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_39","076_7_39","1CO","7","39","39","Women must remain married to their husbands while their husbands are still alive. But if a woman’s husband dies, she is free to marry any  unmarried man whom she wants to marry, but he must belong to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C17_40","076_7_40","1CO","7","40","40","However, I think that she will be happier if she does not marry again. And I believe that the Spirit of God is directing me  as I say that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_1","076_8_1","1CO","8","1","1","Now  I will answer what you asked about  us believers eating meat that has been sacrificed to idols.  We know what some of you say, that God has enabled all of us  to know  the truth about things such as idols. But often we become proud because we say that we know  all those things. But instead of being proud about what we know, we should show that we love  our fellow believers by helping them to become spiritually mature. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_2","076_8_2","1CO","8","2","2","Those who think that they thoroughly know something do not yet know it as they should. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_3","076_8_3","1CO","8","3","3","But as for those who love God, they know that they belong to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_4","076_8_4","1CO","8","4","4","So  I will tell you about eating meat that people have sacrificed to idols. We know that it is true,  as you say, that idols are not really alive. We also know that there is only one real God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_5","076_8_5","1CO","8","5","5","It is true that there are gods whom people think live in the heavens or whom they think live on earth. Truly, there are many beings that  people call gods, and whom  they call lords. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_6","076_8_6","1CO","8","6","6","But for us believers there is only one real God. He is  our heavenly Father who created everything. He is the one whom we  worship and serve. Also, for us believers Jesus Christ is the one and only Lord. He is the one whom  God caused to create everything. It is because of what he  has done for us on the cross that we have  spiritual life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_7","076_8_7","1CO","8","7","7","Nevertheless, some people do not understand  that idols are not really alive. In the past, some among you who are believers now were accustomed to believing that idols  were really alive. As a result, when they eat such meat  now, they still think that it was sacrificed to an idol  that is alive. They are not sure  that God allows believers to eat meat that has been offered to idols. So,  when they eat such meat, they think that they have sinned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_8","076_8_8","1CO","8","8","8","But God will not think more highly about us  if we eat certain foods, or if we do not eat  certain foods. That is, we are not more acceptable to God if we do not eat certain foods, nor are we more acceptable to him if we eat those foods. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_9","076_8_9","1CO","8","9","9","However, be sure that you do not do anything that God allows you to do, if by doing that you would encourage any of  your fellow believers to do something that they are not sure  God allows them to do. As a result, you would be causing them to sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_10","076_8_10","1CO","8","10","10","For example, you know  that idols are not really alive. Suppose that in a temple  where they worship idols you eat  food that has been sacrificed to idols. Suppose that someone who is not sure whether God allows us to eat that food sees you eating it.  You would be encouraging him to eat it, too. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_11","076_8_11","1CO","8","11","11","As a result, you who know that  idols are not really alive, might cause that fellow believer, one for whom Christ died, ◄to be ruined spiritually/to stop believing  in Christ►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_12","076_8_12","1CO","8","12","12","By sinning against your fellow believer by causing him to do something that he thinks God does not allow us to do,  it is as though you are sinning against Christ himself! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C18_13","076_8_13","1CO","8","13","13","So if  I, Paul, think that by eating a certain food I might cause a fellow believer to be ruined spiritually, I will never eat such food again. I do not want to cause any fellow believer ◄to be ruined spiritually/to stop believing in Christ►.  And you should ◄ do as I do/imitate my example►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_1","076_9_1","1CO","9","1","1","I am certainly free  to do all the things that God allows me to do. RHQ I am an apostle. RHQ  You certainly  know that I have seen Jesus our Lord. RHQ It is a result of my work that you  have believed in the Lord  Jesus. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_2","076_9_2","1CO","9","2","2","And even though other people may think that I am not an apostle, you certainly should know that I am an apostle.  Remember that your having become Christians MET  as a result of my telling you about the Lord ◄confirms/shows that it is true► that I am an apostle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_3","076_9_3","1CO","9","3","3","In order to defend myself, this  is what I say to those who criticize me  by claiming that I do not act like an apostle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_4","076_9_4","1CO","9","4","4","As for Barnabas and me, we certainly have the right  as apostles to receive  from you and other congregations food and drink  for our work. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_5","076_9_5","1CO","9","5","5"," We have the same right  that the other apostles and the Lord Jesus’  younger brothers and  especially Peter have. They all take along a wife who is a believer  when they travel various places in order to tell people about Christ. And they have a right that the people whom they work among will support their wives, too. So Barnabas and I certainly have those same rights. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_6","076_9_6","1CO","9","6","6","It would be ridiculous to think that Barnabas and I are the only apostles who must work to earn money to pay our expenses  while we are doing God’s work! RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_7","076_9_7","1CO","9","7","7","Soldiers certainly do not pay their own wages. RHQ Those who plant a vineyard would certainly eat some of the grapes  when they become ripe. RHQ Those who care for sheep would certainly drink the milk from those sheep. RHQ  Similarly, those who tell others about Christ certainly have a right to receive ◄financial help/food►  from the people to whom they preach. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_8","076_9_8","1CO","9","8","8","I am saying that, not only because people think that it is right. RHQ  No, I am RHQ saying it because it is what  God said in the laws  that he gave to Moses. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_9","076_9_9","1CO","9","9","9","Moses wrote in one of those laws, “While an ox is threshing  grain, you must not tie its mouth shut  so that it cannot eat the grain.” ◄God was not only concerned about oxen  when he gave that law./Was God  only concerned about oxen  when he gave that law?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_10","076_9_10","1CO","9","10","10"," No, he was RHQ concerned about us, also! Yes,  God caused Moses to write those words  because he is concerned about us! Those who plow the ground confidently expect  to eat some of the crop  that grows. Those who thresh grain confidently expect  to eat some of the grain that they thresh. Similarly, we who proclaim the message about Christ have the right to confidently expect to receive financial help for our work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_11","076_9_11","1CO","9","11","11","And because we have proclaimed God’s message to you, we certainly have the right to receive from you the things that we need for our bodies MET! MET, RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_12","076_9_12","1CO","9","12","12","Since other people  who preached to you had that right, certainly Barnabas and I have the same right. RHQ However, neither of us insisted  that you give us the things that we have a right  to receive from you. Instead, we were willing to endure anything in order that we not hinder  anyone from believing the message about Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_13","076_9_13","1CO","9","13","13","You should keep in mind that  the priests and servants in the Temple eat  some of the food that people bring to the Temple. RHQ Specifically, the priests who work at the altar eat some of  the food that the people bring to sacrifice on the altar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_14","076_9_14","1CO","9","14","14","So the Lord has commanded that those who proclaim the good message  about him should receive from  those who hear that message what they need to live on. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_15","076_9_15","1CO","9","15","15","However, I have not requested that you  give me those things that I have a right  to receive from you. Furthermore, I am writing this to you, not in order to request you to begin  giving me financial help now. I would rather die than to  receive help from you. I do not want anyone to prevent me from boasting  about my proclaiming God’s message to you without receiving financial help from you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_16","076_9_16","1CO","9","16","16","When I proclaim the message about Christ, I cannot boast  about doing it, because Christ has commanded me  to do it. I would be very miserable (OR,  I am afraid that God would punish me) if I did not proclaim that message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_17","076_9_17","1CO","9","17","17","If I had decided by myself to proclaim it,  God would reward me. But I did not decide by myself to do that. I am simply doing the work that  God entrusted to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_18","076_9_18","1CO","9","18","18","So perhaps you wonder what my reward is. RHQ  I will tell you. When I proclaim the good message  about Christ, I do not ask people for financial help. It  makes me very happy not to ask for help, and being happy is the reward I get. I do not want to use the rights that I have  when I proclaim the gospel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_19","076_9_19","1CO","9","19","19","I am not obligated to do what anyone else thinks that I should do. Nevertheless, when I have been with any group of people, I have made myself  do what they believed that I should do, just like a slave does what his master wants him to do. I have done that in order that I might convince more people  to trust in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_20","076_9_20","1CO","9","20","20","Specifically, when I was with fellow Jews, I did the things that Jews  think that people should do. I did that in order that I might convince some of them  to trust in Christ. Although I am now not obligated to obey the Jewish laws and rituals, when I was with those who believe that they are obligated to obey those laws, I did the things that they  think that people should do. I did that in order to convince some of them  to trust in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_21","076_9_21","1CO","9","21","21","When I was with ◄non-Jews/those who do not know those laws►, I did the things that non-Jews  think that people should do, in order that I might convince some of them  to trust in Christ. I do not mean that I disobey God’s laws. No, I obey the things that Christ commanded us to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_22","076_9_22","1CO","9","22","22","When I was with those who doubt  whether God will permit them to do certain things that others ◄disapprove of/think it is not right to do►, I  avoided doing those things, in order that I might convince some of them  to trust in Christ. In summary, I have done all the things  that the people I have been with think that others should do, in order that by every possible means I might convince some of them  to trust in Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_23","076_9_23","1CO","9","23","23","I do all these things in order that  more people will believe the message about Christ, and in order that I, along with other believers, may receive the good things  that God promises to give us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_24","076_9_24","1CO","9","24","24","When people run in a race, they all run, but only one of them wins the race and as a result gets a prize. You certainly know that RHQ. So,  just like runners  exert themselves fully to win a race MET,  you should exert yourselves fully to do the things that God wants you to do, in order that you may receive the reward  that God wants to give you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_25","076_9_25","1CO","9","25","25","All athletes exercise their bodies strenuously in many ways. They do that in order to receive a wreath  as a reward to wear on their heads. Those wreaths fade, but we will receive a reward that will last forever LIT. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_26","076_9_26","1CO","9","26","26","For that reason, I  try hard to please God MET,  like a runner who runs toward the goal LIT. I  try hard to accomplish what God wants me to accomplish, like a boxer tries hard to hit his opponent, not to miss hitting him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C19_27","076_9_27","1CO","9","27","27","I beat my body  to make it do what I want it to do MET,  as slaves  obey their masters, in order that, after I have proclaimed  God’s message to others, he will not  say that I do not deserve to receive a reward. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_1","076_10_1","1CO","10","1","1","My fellow believers, I want to remind you about our(exc)  Jewish ancestors. They were all under the cloud  by which God miraculously led them and protected them when they left Egypt with Moses. All those ancestors crossed the  Red Sea  after God miraculously made the water separate so that they could walk through it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_2","076_10_2","1CO","10","2","2","God caused all of them to begin to live under the authority of MTY Moses  when they walked under that cloud and  walked through the Red Sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_3","076_10_3","1CO","10","3","3","All  those ancestors of ours ate the same food that God miraculously  provided. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_4","076_10_4","1CO","10","4","4","They all drank water that  God miraculously  provided. That is, they all drank water that God miraculously made come out of the rock. That rock was  a symbol of MET Christ, who went with them.  So we conclude that God helped all of those people in many ways. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_5","076_10_5","1CO","10","5","5","However,  we also conclude that God was angry LIT with most of those people  because they sinned against him. He caused almost all of them to die, and as a result their bodies were scattered in the desert. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_6","076_10_6","1CO","10","6","6","Those things  that happened long ago became examples to teach us  the following things: We should not desire to  do evil things as those people desired to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_7","076_10_7","1CO","10","7","7","We should not worship idols as many of those people did.  Remember that Moses wrote, “The people sat down. They ate and drank  to honor the golden calf that they had just made. Then they got up to dance immorally.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_8","076_10_8","1CO","10","8","8","We should not have sexual relations with someone to whom we are not married, as many of them did. As a result, God  punished them by causing 23,000 people to die in  only one day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_9","076_10_9","1CO","10","9","9","We should not try to see how much we can sin without the Lord punishing us. Some of them did that, and as a result they died because  poisonous snakes  bit them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_10","076_10_10","1CO","10","10","10","We should not complain  about what God does. Some of them did that, and as a result an angel destroyed them.  So God will certainly punish us if we sin like they did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_11","076_10_11","1CO","10","11","11","All those things  that happened to our ancestors long ago are examples for us.  Moses wrote those things to warn us  who are living at this time which is near the end. We are the people for whom God has done  the things that he decided to do in the previous periods of time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_12","076_10_12","1CO","10","12","12","So  I say this to all those who confidently  think that they will always steadfastly continue to  believe what God said and will never disobey what he commanded: Be careful that you (sg) do not sin  when you are tempted. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_13","076_10_13","1CO","10","13","13"," Remember that your desires to sin are the same desires that other people have. But when you are tempted to sin, you can trust God  to help you. He will not permit you to be tempted {anything to tempt you} more than you are able to resist. Instead, when you are tempted {things tempt you}, he will also provide a way  for you to endure it  without sinning. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_14","076_10_14","1CO","10","14","14","So,  I say to you people whom I love,  avoid worshipping idols  just like you would run away from  anything that is dangerous. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_15","076_10_15","1CO","10","15","15","It is to people who  think that they are wise that I write. So, you, as wise people, judge whether what I am writing  is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_16","076_10_16","1CO","10","16","16"," During the Lord’s Supper, after we ask God to bless ◄the  wine/the  juice►  in the cup, we give thanks for it  and drink it. By doing that, we certainly are RHQ sharing in what Christ  did for us when his blood  flowed from his body when he died. During the Lord’s Supper, when we break the bread  and eat it, we are certainly sharing in MTY what Christ  did for us when his body  suffered for us on the cross. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_17","076_10_17","1CO","10","17","17","Because it is one loaf of bread that we  break and eat during the Lord’s Supper, it symbolizes that we who are many are one group, because we all eat from the one loaf. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_18","076_10_18","1CO","10","18","18","Consider  what happens when the Israeli people  eat the food that the priests sacrifice on the altar  outside the Temple. They participate in  what the priests do at MTY the altar. RHQ  Similarly, if you eat food that non-believers have offered to an idol in a temple, you are participating in their worship of the idol there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_19","076_10_19","1CO","10","19","19","By saying that,  I do not mean that offering food to an idol makes it anything  more than just ordinary food RHQ. I do not mean that an idol is anything  more than just an idol. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_20","076_10_20","1CO","10","20","20","No! Instead, I mean that what people sacrifice  to idols, they are sacrificing to demons, not to God. So,  if you eat food that has been sacrificed to idols, you are participating in worshipping the demons that the idols represent. And I do not want you to participate in worshipping demons! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_21","076_10_21","1CO","10","21","21","When you drink the  grape juice/wine in MTY the cup  at the Lord’s Supper, you cannot participate in the  blessings that the Lord  Jesus brought to us and at the same time drink the  wine in the MTY cup that people offer to demons! When you eat at the Lord’s table, you cannot participate in the blessings the Lord provided MTY when he died for us and at the same time participate in the things that represent demons  by eating food that has been sacrificed to idols ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_22","076_10_22","1CO","10","22","22"," If you participate in honoring demons in that way, you will certainly make the Lord very angry RHQ! ◄Remember that you are certainly not stronger than he is./Do you think that you are stronger than he is?► RHQ  Certainly not, so you will not escape his punishing you if you honor demons in that way! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_23","076_10_23","1CO","10","23","23"," Some people say, “ God permits believers to do anything.” But  I say that not everything that people do benefits  those who do it! Yes, some people say, “God permits believers to do all things.” But not everything that people do helps them to become spiritually mature. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_24","076_10_24","1CO","10","24","24","No one should try to benefit  only himself. Instead, each person should try to benefit other people spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_25","076_10_25","1CO","10","25","25"," This is what you should do: Eat any  food that is sold {that people sell} in the market. Do not ask questions  to find out if that food has been offered { someone offered that food}  to idols, just because you think it would be wrong  to eat such food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_26","076_10_26","1CO","10","26","26"," Remember that the Psalmist wrote, “Everything on the earth belongs to  the Lord  God because he created it!”  So, food that has been offered to idols belongs to the Lord, not to the idols, and you may eat it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_27","076_10_27","1CO","10","27","27","If a non-believer invites you to a meal, go if you want to, and eat any food that is set {that  he sets} before you. Do not ask  whether it was offered to idols, just because you think that it would be wrong  to eat such food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_28","076_10_28","1CO","10","28","28","But if someone says to you, “This is food that was sacrificed  to an idol,” do not eat it, for the sake of the person who told that to you, and also because someone there may think that it is wrong  to eat such food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_29","076_10_29","1CO","10","29","29","I do not mean that you  should be concerned about whether it is all right to eat such food. What I mean is that you should be concerned about others who may think that it is wrong to eat such food. Since I know that I ◄am free/have the right►  to eat such food without God punishing me, no one should RHQ say that what I am doing is wrong just because he himself thinks that it is wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_30","076_10_30","1CO","10","30","30","If I thank  God for the food when I eat  food that has been offered to an idol, no one should criticize me for eating food for which I have thanked God RHQ! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_31","076_10_31","1CO","10","31","31","So  I say to you in conclusion, when you eat  food, or drink  something, or do anything else, do everything in order that  people will praise God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_32","076_10_32","1CO","10","32","32","Do not do anything that would hinder Jews or Greeks  from becoming believers, and do not do things that would encourage members of God’s congregations to sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C110_33","076_10_33","1CO","10","33","33"," Do as I do. I try to please everyone in every way. I do this by not seeking to benefit myself. Instead, I try to benefit many others, in order that they may be saved {that  God may save them}  from the guilt of their sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_1","076_11_1","1CO","11","1","1"," Follow my example, just like I  try to follow Christ’s example. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_2","076_11_2","1CO","11","2","2","I praise you because you remember all the things  that I taught you and because you follow the instructions that I gave you. You have done just like I told you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_3","076_11_3","1CO","11","3","3"," Now, I want you to know that the one who has authority over MTY every man is Christ, and the ones who have authority over women are men (OR, their husbands), and the one who has authority over Christ is God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_4","076_11_4","1CO","11","4","4"," So if any man  wears a covering over his head when he prays or speaks a message God gave him, he disgraces himself SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_5","076_11_5","1CO","11","5","5","Also, if any woman does not wear a covering over her head when she prays or speaks a message that God gave her, she disgraces herself (OR, she dishonors her husband). That would be acting like SIM  women who are ashamed because their heads have been shaved. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_6","076_11_6","1CO","11","6","6","So, if women do not wear coverings over their heads  when they pray or speak messages that God gave them, they should let someone shave their heads  so that they will be ashamed. But since women are ashamed if someone cuts their hair  short or shaves off their hair, they should wear coverings over their heads  when they pray or speak messages that God gave them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_7","076_11_7","1CO","11","7","7","Men should not wear coverings over their heads  when they pray or speak messages that God gave them, because they represent what God is like MET and they show how great God is. But women show how great men (OR, their husbands) are. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_8","076_11_8","1CO","11","8","8"," Remember that God intends that men have authority over women. We know that because  God did not make  the first man,  Adam, from the  first woman,  Eve. Instead, he made that woman  from a bone that he took from the man. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_9","076_11_9","1CO","11","9","9","Also,  God did not create  the first man  to help the woman. Instead,  he created the woman  to help the man. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_10","076_11_10","1CO","11","10","10","For that reason, women should wear something  to cover their heads  as a symbol of their being under their husbands’ MTY authority. They should also  cover their heads so that the angels  will see that and rejoice. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_11","076_11_11","1CO","11","11","12","However, remember that  even though God created the first woman from  the first man, all other men  have been born from women. So men cannot be independent of women, nor can women be independent of men. But all things,  including men and women, come from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_13","076_11_13","1CO","11","13","13","Consider this for yourselves: Is it proper for RHQ women to pray to God while they do not have coverings over their heads? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_14","076_11_14","1CO","11","14","14","◄Everyone senses that it is disgraceful for men to have long hair./Doesn’t everyone sense that it is disgraceful for men to have long hair?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_15","076_11_15","1CO","11","15","15","But it is very delightful if women have long hair, because  God gave them long hair to be like a  beautiful covering  for their heads. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_16","076_11_16","1CO","11","16","16","But whoever wants to argue  with me about my saying that women should have a covering over their heads when they pray or speak a message from God should consider the fact that we apostles do not  permit any other custom, and the  other congregations of God do not have any other custom. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_17","076_11_17","1CO","11","17","17","Now I want to tell you  about some other things. I do not praise you about them, because whenever you believers meet together, good  things do not happen. Instead, bad things  happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_18","076_11_18","1CO","11","18","18","First of all, people have told me that when you gather together as a group  to worship God, you divide into groups  that are hostile to each other. To some extent I believe that is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_19","076_11_19","1CO","11","19","19","It seems that you must divide into  groups that despise each other in order that it might be clear/evident which people among you  God approves of! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_20","076_11_20","1CO","11","20","20","When you gather together, you IRO eat the meal  that you say is to remember the death of the Lord  Jesus for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_21","076_11_21","1CO","11","21","21","But  what happens when you eat is that each person eats his own meal before  he thinks about sharing his food with anyone else. As a result,  when the meal is over, some people are  still hungry and others are drunk!  So it is not a meal that honors the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_22","076_11_22","1CO","11","22","22","◄ You act as though you do not have your own houses in which you can eat and drink  whatever you want to!/Do you not have your own houses in which you can eat and drink  whatever you want to?► RHQ Do you not realize RHQ  that by acting selfishly in this way, it is God’s people whom you are despising, and it is the poor people  in your group whom you are treating as though they were not important? What shall I say to you about that RHQ? Do  you expect me to praise you  about what you do RHQ? I certainly will not praise you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_23","076_11_23","1CO","11","23","23","The Lord taught me these things that I also taught you: During the night that Jesus was betrayed { Judas enabled  the enemies of the Lord Jesus to seize him}, he took some bread. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_24","076_11_24","1CO","11","24","24","After he thanked God for it, he broke it into pieces.  Then he gave it to his disciples and said, “This bread  represents MET (OR, is) my body, that  I am about to sacrifice for you. Eat bread in this  way again and again to remember my  offering myself as a sacrifice for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_25","076_11_25","1CO","11","25","25","Similarly, after they ate their meal, he took a cup MTY  of wine. He  thanked God for it. Then he gave it to his disciples, saying, “ The wine in MTY this cup  represents MET (OR, is) my blood  that will flow from my body ◄ to put into effect/to establish► the new agreement  that God is making with people. Whenever you drink wine in this way, do it to remember that  my blood flowed for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_26","076_11_26","1CO","11","26","26"," Remember that until the Lord  Jesus returns  to the earth, whenever you eat the  bread that represents his body and drink the wine MTY  that represents his blood, you are telling other people that he died  for you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_27","076_11_27","1CO","11","27","27","So, those who eat that bread and drink that wine MTY in a way that is not proper  for those who belong to the Lord are guilty of  acting in a way that is contrary to what our  Lord intended when he offered his body  as a sacrifice and his blood  flowed when he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_28","076_11_28","1CO","11","28","28","Before any believer eats that bread and drinks that wine MTY, he should think carefully about  what he is doing, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_29","076_11_29","1CO","11","29","29","because if anyone eats  the bread that represents Christ’s body and drinks  the wine that represents his blood without recognizing that all God’s  people should be united, God will punish him  for doing that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_30","076_11_30","1CO","11","30","30","Many people in your group are weak and sick, and several have died EUP because of  the way they acted when they ate that bread and drank that wine. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_31","076_11_31","1CO","11","31","31","If we would think carefully about what we  are doing,  God would not judge  and punish us  like that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_32","076_11_32","1CO","11","32","32","But when the Lord judges  and punishes us  for acting wrongly, he disciplines us  to correct us, in order that he will not  need to punish us when he punishes  the people who do not trust in Christ MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_33","076_11_33","1CO","11","33","33","So, my fellow believers, when you gather together to eat  food to remember the Lord’s dying for you, wait until everyone  has arrived so that you can find out who does not have enough food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C111_34","076_11_34","1CO","11","34","34","Those who are so hungry  that they cannot wait to eat until everyone else has arrived should eat in their own homes  first, in order that when you gather together God will not judge  and punish them for ◄ being inconsiderate of/not being concerned about►  others. And when I come  to Corinth I will give you instructions about other matters  concerning the Lord’s Supper. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_1","076_12_1","1CO","12","1","1","Now, my fellow believers,  I will answer your questions about the things God’s Spirit enables believers to do. I want you to know clearly LIT  about these things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_2","076_12_2","1CO","12","2","2","You know that before you became Christians, various things led you to  worship idols, which are unable to tell you  any of God’s message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_3","076_12_3","1CO","12","3","3","So  the first thing that I will tell you now is that it is not the Spirit of God who would cause anyone to say, “Jesus deserved to die,” and that the Holy Spirit is the only one who can enable anyone to say, “Jesus is  truly the Lord.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_4","076_12_4","1CO","12","4","4","There are various things  that God’s Spirit enables  various believers to do, but it is that same Spirit  who enables us to do them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_5","076_12_5","1CO","12","5","5","There are many different ways to serve  the Lord, but it is the same Lord  whom we all are serving. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_6","076_12_6","1CO","12","6","6"," We believers have the power to do various  tasks, but it is the same God who gives all of us the power  to do these things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_7","076_12_7","1CO","12","7","7"," God’s Spirit gives his power to each believer in order to benefit all the other believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_8","076_12_8","1CO","12","8","8","To some, the Spirit gives the ability to speak very wise messages. To others, the same Spirit gives the ability to know  things that he reveals to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_9","076_12_9","1CO","12","9","9","To others, the same Spirit gives the ability to believe  that God will work miracles. To others, the Spirit gives the ability to heal  sick people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_10","076_12_10","1CO","12","10","10","To others, he gives the power  to perform miracles. To others, he gives the ability to speak messages that come directly from God. To others, he gives the ability to tell  if a message is really from God or not. To others he gives the ability to speak messages in languages MTY  that they have not learned. To others, he gives the ability to tell the meaning of those messages MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_11","076_12_11","1CO","12","11","11","It is the same Spirit who gives all these abilities. He gives whatever abilities he wants to give, to whatever person he wants to give them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_12","076_12_12","1CO","12","12","12","Although a person’s body has many parts, all the parts form just one body DOU. It is like that  with those who belong to Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_13","076_12_13","1CO","12","13","13","When we were baptized {When people baptized us}, the one  Holy Spirit caused us to become one group  of believers. It does not matter whether we are Jews or non-Jews. It does not matter whether we are slaves or not slaves.  When we believed in Christ, the one Spirit came to live MET within all of us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_14","076_12_14","1CO","12","14","14"," Our bodies do not have only one part. They have many parts  with various functions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_15","076_12_15","1CO","12","15","15","If our foot could  talk and say  to us, “Because I am not  your hand, I am not a part of  your body,” it would still be a part of  our body. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_16","076_12_16","1CO","12","16","16","If our ear could  talk and say, “Because I am not  your eye, I am not a part of your body,” it would still be a part of our body. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_17","076_12_17","1CO","12","17","17","If our body were only an eye, ◄we would not be able to hear./how could we hear?► RHQ If our body were only an ear, ◄we would not be able to smell  anything!/how could we smell  anything?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_18","076_12_18","1CO","12","18","18","But the truth is that God has put all the parts of our bodies together exactly as he wanted to put them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_19","076_12_19","1CO","12","19","19","If  our body had only one part, it would not be a body. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_20","076_12_20","1CO","12","20","20","But the truth is that there are many parts  in our body, but it is still only one body. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_21","076_12_21","1CO","12","21","21","That is why if our eye  could talk, it should never say to our hand, “I do not need you!” And if our head  could talk, it should not say to our feet, “I do not need you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_22","076_12_22","1CO","12","22","22","Instead, the parts of our body that seem to be weaker are the ones that are absolutely necessary. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_23","076_12_23","1CO","12","23","23","And the parts that we do not think highly of are the parts that we clothe carefully. And we protect carefully those parts that we do not show to people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_24","076_12_24","1CO","12","24","24","The parts that are  all right to show people, we do not need to protect. Instead, God, who has put all the parts of our bodies together, causes us to care for in a special way the parts that we think are less important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_25","076_12_25","1CO","12","25","25","He does that in order that all the parts of our body will work together harmoniously LIT, and so that all the parts will care for all the other parts equally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_26","076_12_26","1CO","12","26","26","If one part of our body hurts,  it is as though all the parts of our body are hurting. If we pay special attention to one part of our body,  it is as though all the parts of our body feel pleasure MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_27","076_12_27","1CO","12","27","27"," Everything I have just said about how the parts of our bodies relate to each other applies to how all of you who belong to Christ  should relate to each other. Each of you belongs to him,  but you have not all been given the same abilities and work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_28","076_12_28","1CO","12","28","28","God has placed apostles in our congregations. Apostles are first  in rank. Next  in rank are those who speak messages which come directly from God. Next  in rank are those who teach  spiritual truth. Then there are those who have the power to work miracles, those who have the ability to heal  sick people, those who have the ability to help  others, those who have the ability to govern  the affairs of the congregation, and those who have the ability to speak  messages in languages MTY  that they have not learned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_29","076_12_29","1CO","12","29","29","Certainly not all believers are apostles. RHQ They all do not have the ability to speak messages that come directly from God. RHQ They do not all have the ability to teach  spiritual truth. RHQ They do not all have the power to work miracles. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_30","076_12_30","1CO","12","30","30","They do not all have the ability to heal people. RHQ They do not all have the ability to speak  messages in languages MTY  they have not learned. RHQ They do not all have the ability to tell others the meaning of those messages. RHQ  Certainly not! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C112_31","076_12_31","1CO","12","31","31","But you should eagerly desire to have  the abilities that will help other believers the most (OR,  the abilities that God considers to be the most important). But now I will tell you the best way  to use the abilities that God’s Spirit has given you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_1","076_13_1","1CO","13","1","1","Supposing we could speak  all the various languages MTY that people  in the world speak and even speak  the language that angels  speak. If we did not love  others, speaking those languages would be  as useless as beating a brass gong or clanging cymbals  together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_2","076_13_2","1CO","13","2","2","Supposing we had the ability to speak messages that come directly from God, and we could understand the plans that he has not yet revealed  to others, and we could know everything  about everything, and we believed in God so strongly that we could  do impossible things like causing mountains to move. If we did not love  others, God would consider all that to be worthless. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_3","076_13_3","1CO","13","3","3","And supposing we would give everything that we own to poor people, and would let others kill us in order that we could boast about  sacrificing our own bodies. If we did not love  others, we would not get any reward  from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_4","076_13_4","1CO","13","4","4","Those who PRS truly love  others act patiently and kindly toward them. Those who PRS truly love  others are not jealous of them, they do not boast  about what they themselves have done, and are not proud. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_5","076_13_5","1CO","13","5","5","Those who PRS truly love  others do not act in disgraceful/disrespectful ways towards them. They do not ◄act selfishly/think only of themselves and what they want►. They do not quickly become angry. They do not keep remembering the bad things  that others have done to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_6","076_13_6","1CO","13","6","6","Those who PRS truly love  others do not rejoice when  people do evil things, but they do rejoice when  people act righteously. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_7","076_13_7","1CO","13","7","7","Those who truly love  others patiently put up with the faults of others. They do not quickly assume  that others have done something bad. They confidently expect  that others will act righteously. They patiently endure  all their own troubles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_8","076_13_8","1CO","13","8","8","We should never PRS let anything stop us from continuing to love  others. As for the ability to speak messages that come directly from God, some day that will come to an end. As for the ability to speak languages MTY  that we have not learned, that will  also come to an end some day. And as for the ability to know things that God reveals to us, that will come to an end some day  because it will not be necessary anymore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_9","076_13_9","1CO","13","9","9","God does not reveal everything to us, and we cannot know everything that he knows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_10","076_13_10","1CO","13","10","10","But when everything is perfect  after Christ returns, things which are not perfect  now,  such as the abilities which God’s Spirit gives us, will ◄disappear/come to an end►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_11","076_13_11","1CO","13","11","11","When we were children, we talked like children talk, we thought like children think, we reasoned like children reason. But when we grew up, we got rid of our childish ways MET.  Similarly,  you need to get rid of your childish thinking about the abilities that the Spirit has given you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_12","076_13_12","1CO","13","12","12","In this life we do not understand everything fully. It is like MET looking at something indirectly by seeing it in a mirror. But  when we get to heaven MTY, we will  understand everything clearly. It will be like talking to someone face-to-face. Now we know only part  of everything that God wants us to know. Then we will know everything completely, just like  God knows us completely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C113_13","076_13_13","1CO","13","13","13","So now there are three things  that we must continue  to do: To trust  in God, to confidently expect  to receive what he will give us, and to love  others. But the greatest of those three things is loving  others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_1","076_14_1","1CO","14","1","1","You must want to love others more  than you want anything else. But you should  also eagerly desire the abilities that  God’s Spirit  gives to believers. And you should desire most of all to have the ability to speak messages that come directly from God MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_2","076_14_2","1CO","14","2","3"," I say that because those who speak messages that come directly from God  are speaking in languages that they and the other believers in the congregation know, and so they are able to strengthen them spiritually and to encourage and comfort them. But those who speak in languages MTY  that they have not learned are not speaking to people. Instead, they are  only speaking to God. No one understands them. By  the power/guidance of God’s Spirit (OR, From within  their own spirit) they speak things that others do not know. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_4","076_14_4","1CO","14","4","4","Those who speak in languages  that they have not learned are receiving a blessing for themselves, but those who speak messages that come directly from God are giving a blessing to  all the believers in the congregation  because they are speaking in a language that the congregation knows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_5","076_14_5","1CO","14","5","5","I would like you all to have the ability to speak in languages MTY  you have not learned. But I would like even more for you to have the ability to speak messages that come directly from God. People can speak messages in a language that they have not learned, but if there is no one there who can explain the meaning, that situation is not as helpful to the congregation as speaking messages that come directly from God  in the language that the congregation knows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_6","076_14_6","1CO","14","6","6","My fellow believers, suppose I came and spoke to you in a language that none of you knows  and I did not explain the meaning of what I told you. Even if I told you something that God had revealed to me, or told you some message that had come directly from him, or taught you something that you needed to know, ◄that certainly would not help you!/how would that help you?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_7","076_14_7","1CO","14","7","7"," It is like lifeless  musical instruments, like flutes and harps for example. When they are played, if the notes are not played {if  those playing those instruments do not play the notes} clearly, no one will know what tune is being played {what tune they are playing}. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_8","076_14_8","1CO","14","8","8","If someone playing the trumpet  wants to signal that the soldiers should prepare to fight a battle,  the soldiers certainly will not get ready if  the call to battle is not played {he does not play  the call to battle} clearly. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_9","076_14_9","1CO","14","9","9","It is the same with you! If you do not speak words that other people can understand, ◄no one will know what you are saying./how will anyone know what you are saying?► RHQ  It will be as though you are just speaking to the air! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_10","076_14_10","1CO","14","10","10","There are many different languages in the world, and all of them convey meaning LIT  to the people who know those languages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_11","076_14_11","1CO","14","11","11","But if we do not understand the language that others are speaking,  it will be as though they are foreigners to us, and we will be foreigners to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_12","076_14_12","1CO","14","12","12","So  I say this to you: Because you are eager to have the abilities that God’s Spirit gives, earnestly desire those abilities that will do the most to help  all the believers in the congregation. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_13","076_14_13","1CO","14","13","13","So, those who have the ability to speak in languages MTY  that they have not learned should pray that  God will give them the ability to explain the meaning of what they say. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_14","076_14_14","1CO","14","14","14","If they pray in a language MTY  that they have not learned, their spirits are praying, but they are not using their minds. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_15","076_14_15","1CO","14","15","15","So I will tell you RHQ what we should do.  At times we may pray,  using only our spirits,  in languages we have not learned. And at other times we should pray using our minds,  thinking about the words that we are praying. Similarly, at times we may sing using only our spirits, using languages that we have not learned, and at other times we should sing using our minds,  thinking about the words that we are singing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_16","076_14_16","1CO","14","16","16","Suppose that any one of you praises God (OR, thanks God for what he has done), using only your (sg) spirit  and not using your mind. Maybe some people  will be present who do not know about  the abilities that God’s Spirit gives to believers. Because they do not know what you are saying, after you thank God, they will not RHQ know when to say “Amen!/I agree!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_17","076_14_17","1CO","14","17","17","You may be thanking God very well, but you are not helping them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_18","076_14_18","1CO","14","18","18","I thank God that I speak in languages MTY  that I have not learned more than any of you do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_19","076_14_19","1CO","14","19","19","But during a worship service,  in order that others will understand what I am saying, I would prefer to speak five words using my mind, in order that I may teach others, rather than to speak 10,000 words in a language MTY  that is not understood by the congregation. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_20","076_14_20","1CO","14","20","20","My fellow believers, stop being like little children in the way that you think  about these abilities that God’s Spirit gives. Instead, think about them in a mature way. If you really want to be like little children, do as few wicked things as babies do! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_21","076_14_21","1CO","14","21","21"," When the Jews long ago refused to obey God, he warned them about what would happen when he allowed their enemies to punish them. In the Scriptures it is written { the prophet Isaiah wrote} what the Lord  God said  about that,  They didn’t listen to prophets speaking their own language, so I will send people from foreign  lands to attack my people. Those foreigners will speak languages that my people do not know DOU.  In that way, I will warn my people, but they will still not pay attention to what I say. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_22","076_14_22","1CO","14","22","22","If we speak in languages MTY  that we have not learned, unbelievers  who are there will realize that the Spirit of God is truly among us. That will warn them  that they need to fear God. But believers do not  need such a warning. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_23","076_14_23","1CO","14","23","23","Suppose during the worship service everyone started to speak in languages MTY  that they have not learned. If unbelievers or people who do not know  about the abilities that God’s Spirit gives to believers come in  and hear that, they will surely think that you are crazy. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_24","076_14_24","1CO","14","24","24","But if an unbeliever or someone who does not know  about those abilities comes in while all of you believers are  one by one speaking messages that come directly from God, everything that you  say will show that person that he is a sinner and that  God will punish him  if he does not turn from his sinful behavior. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_25","076_14_25","1CO","14","25","25","He will realize that  God knows the evil things that he has done that, things that other people do not know. Then he will kneel down and worship God and say, “God is truly among you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_26","076_14_26","1CO","14","26","26","So, my fellow believers, I will tell you RHQ what I think that you should be doing. When you come together  to worship God, some of you may have a hymn to sing. Others may have something to teach  the congregation. Others may have  something to say that God has revealed to them. Others may give messages in languages  that they have not learned. Others will explain the meaning of those messages. Make sure that all of these things that you do will make the congregation become more mature spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_27","076_14_27","1CO","14","27","27"," It is all right if two people, or at the most three people, speak in languages MTY  that they have not learned. But they must speak one at a time, and someone must explain the meaning of what the others have said. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_28","076_14_28","1CO","14","28","28","If  those who want to speak in a language that they have not learned realize that there is no one  there who will be able to explain the meaning  of what they will say, they should not speak in that language during the meeting. Instead, they should speak to God by themselves,  somewhere else. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_29","076_14_29","1CO","14","29","29"," During a meeting, two or three people should speak messages that come directly from God, and others who are there should think carefully about what those people have said. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_30","076_14_30","1CO","14","30","30","If someone receives a new message directly from God while someone else is speaking, the one who is speaking should stop speaking  and let the other person tell what God has revealed to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_31","076_14_31","1CO","14","31","31","You can all, one by one, speak messages that have come directly from God, in order that you can teach others and all be encouraged {encourage everyone}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_32","076_14_32","1CO","14","32","32","Those who speak messages that come directly from God are in control of their own spirits,  so they can wait for their turn to speak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_33","076_14_33","1CO","14","33","33","Remember that God does not desire that things be done in a disorderly way  during your worship services. Instead, he desires that everything be done in an orderly way. Just like it happens in all the other congregations of believers, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_34","076_14_34","1CO","14","34","34","the women should not be permitted {do not permit the women}  to interrupt the meeting by asking  questions. They must keep quiet. They must be subject  to their husbands. What Moses wrote PRS  about how God created the first two people suggests  that the women should do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_35","076_14_35","1CO","14","35","35","If they want to know  more about something  that a speaker said, they should ask their husbands when they get home, for it is disgraceful for women to interrupt a service by asking  such questions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_36","076_14_36","1CO","14","36","36"," If you do not agree with these things that I have been telling you, remember that RHQ the message from God did not first come from you  people in Corinth. Also, you are not RHQ the only ones who have heard it!  Many others have heard it and accepted it, so you should not act as though you are the only believers who have heard the message from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_37","076_14_37","1CO","14","37","37","Those of you who think that you have the ability to speak messages that come directly from God, or think that you have some other ability  that God’s Spirit gives, should realize that the things that I have written about in this letter are things that the Lord has commanded. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_38","076_14_38","1CO","14","38","38","But if they are not willing to accept  my authority,  God will not accept them (OR, they will not be accepted  by the congregation). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_39","076_14_39","1CO","14","39","39","So, my fellow believers, be eager to speak messages that come directly from God, and do not prevent anyone from speaking in a language  that he has not learned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C114_40","076_14_40","1CO","14","40","40","But make sure  that everything that you do  during the worship services is done in a proper and orderly way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_1","076_15_1","1CO","15","1","1","Now, my fellow believers, I want to remind you about the message about Christ that I preached to you. It is the message that you received and that you have continued to trust firmly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_2","076_15_2","1CO","15","2","2","If you keep on firmly  believing this message that I preached to you, you will be saved { God will save you}. If you do not continue to believe it, your believing  in Christ was ◄all for nothing/useless►! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_3","076_15_3","1CO","15","3","3","The most important part of the message that I received  from the Lord Jesus, and that I told you, was this: Christ died to  take away the guilt of our sins, as the Scriptures  said that he would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_4","076_15_4","1CO","15","4","4","His  dead body was buried {They buried his  body}. On the third day  after that,  God caused him to become alive again, as the Scriptures  said would happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_5","076_15_5","1CO","15","5","5","After that, Christ was seen by {appeared to} Peter. Then he appeared to  eleven of the original twelve apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_6","076_15_6","1CO","15","6","6","Later he was seen by {appeared to} more than 500 of our fellow believers. Most of those are still living, but some of them have died EUP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_7","076_15_7","1CO","15","7","7","Then he was seen by {appeared  to}  his younger brother James,  who became the leader of the congregation in Jerusalem. Then he appeared to all of the apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_8","076_15_8","1CO","15","8","8","Finally, he was seen by {appeared to} me, but I became an apostle in a way that was very unusual MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_9","076_15_9","1CO","15","9","9","The fact is, I  consider that I am the least important of the apostles. I do not deserve to be an apostle, because I ◄persecuted God’s groups of believers/caused God’s groups of believers to suffer►  everywhere I went. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_10","076_15_10","1CO","15","10","10","But it is because God acted kindly toward me in ways that I did not deserve that I became what I am now. And his acting kindly toward me produced a great result LIT, which is that I worked harder  for Christ than all the other apostles. But it was not that I  was working with my own ability. Instead, God was helping me in a way I did not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_11","076_15_11","1CO","15","11","11","So it does not matter whether it was I  who was preaching or whether it was the other apostles who were preaching. We all preached  the same message, and that message is what you believed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_12","076_15_12","1CO","15","12","12","So now  let me ask you this: Since  we have all preached to you that Christ was raised again {that  God caused Christ to become alive} after he died, ◄no one among you should be saying that  God will not cause believers to become alive again after they die!/why do some of you say that  God will not cause believers to become alive again after they die?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_13","076_15_13","1CO","15","13","13","If  it is true that God will not cause anyone to become alive again, that situation would mean that Christ was not raised from the dead { he did not cause Christ to become alive again}! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_14","076_15_14","1CO","15","14","14","And if Christ was not raised from the dead {if  God did not cause Christ to become alive again}, then what we preached to you was useless, and your believing  in Christ is useless. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_15","076_15_15","1CO","15","15","15"," If it is true that no one will be raised from the dead { that God will not cause anyone to become alive again after he dies}, we (exc) have been guilty of lying to you about God, because we told you that God caused Christ to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_16","076_15_16","1CO","15","16","16","But if it were really true that no one who has died will be raised {that  God will not cause anyone who has died to become alive} again, then Christ was not raised { he did not cause Christ to become alive} again either! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_17","076_15_17","1CO","15","17","17","If it were true that Christ was not raised {that  God did not cause Christ to become alive} again after he died, you have believed in Christ for nothing,  because God will still  punish you for MTY your sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_18","076_15_18","1CO","15","18","18","And those people who died EUP  while they were trusting in Christ will go to hell. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_19","076_15_19","1CO","15","19","19","In this life  many of us have suffered much for Christ because we confidently expect  that he will reward us in heaven. If we have confidently expected this in vain, people should pity us more than they pity anyone else! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_20","076_15_20","1CO","15","20","20","But  the truth is that Christ has been raised from the dead {that  God has caused Christ to live again after he had died}, and ◄that guarantees/because of that, it is certain► MET that he will also cause those believers who have died EUP to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_21","076_15_21","1CO","15","21","21","What one man,  Adam, did affects us all. We all die. Similarly, what one man—Christ—did affects us(inc) all: God will cause  all believers to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_22","076_15_22","1CO","15","22","22","Because of what Adam did, all  of us who are descended from him die. Similarly, because of what  Christ did, all of us who have a close relationship with him will be brought back to life { God will make alive all of us who have a close relationship with Christ}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_23","076_15_23","1CO","15","23","23","But we must all take our turn.  God raised Christ first MET. And when Christ returns,  God will cause those who belong to Christ to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_24","076_15_24","1CO","15","24","24","Then, after Christ has destroyed all DOU the evil powers that oppose God,  the world will end. Then Christ will give to God, his Father, his kingdom to completely rule over it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_25","076_15_25","1CO","15","25","25","You must realize that Christ must rule  here on earth until he has completely defeated MTY all his enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_26","076_15_26","1CO","15","26","26","The last thing that  he will get rid of is death.  But he certainly will get rid of death, which is like an enemy  to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_27","076_15_27","1CO","15","27","27"," In the Scriptures the Psalmist wrote that God will cause everything to be under Christ’s  authority MTY. But it is clear that the word ‘everything’ here does not include God, because God is the one who will cause everything to be under Christ’s  authority MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_28","076_15_28","1CO","15","28","28","After everything is put under  the authority of God’s Son, then Christ will put himself completely under  the authority of God, the one who gave him that authority. Then God will be completely in control of everything IDM, everywhere. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_29","076_15_29","1CO","15","29","29"," Now think about this: Some among you are being baptized (OR, are baptizing people) on behalf of those who died  before someone baptized them (OR, who died  before they became believers). If,  as some people say, believers will not be raised  from the dead { God will not cause believers to become alive again}, ◄what is the value in those people doing that?/there is no value in those people doing that!► RHQ If  God will not cause any believers to become alive again, it is senseless to be baptized {baptize anyone} on behalf of someone who has died. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_30","076_15_30","1CO","15","30","30","Furthermore,  if God will not cause us believers to become alive again, it is RHQ very foolish for me and the other apostles to be constantly  putting ourselves in danger  because we tell people the gospel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_31","076_15_31","1CO","15","31","31","My fellow believers, every day I  am in danger of being killed {people killing me}! That is as true as it is that I am pleased with you because of your close relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_32","076_15_32","1CO","15","32","32"," If God will not cause us believers to become alive again after we die, ◄I will receive no benefit at all  from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly in Ephesus  city./what will I gain  from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly in Ephesus  city?► RHQ They were  fighting me like wild beasts! If we believers will not be raised  from the dead {If  God will not cause us believers to live again}, we might as well say  as people often say: “Tomorrow we are going to die, so we might as well enjoy now everything that we can. We might as well feast and get drunk!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_33","076_15_33","1CO","15","33","33","Do not let  yourselves be deceived by those who say that God will not cause believers to live again {Do not let  people who say that God will not cause believers to live again deceive you}. If you associate with evil people  who say such things, they will ◄influence you to do evil things/destroy your good moral way of living►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_34","076_15_34","1CO","15","34","34","Start thinking correctly again  about these matters, as you should, and  stop your sinful behavior which has resulted from your wrong thinking.  I say that because  it seems that some among you do not know God, and as a result they  are thinking wrongly. I say that to make you ashamed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_35","076_15_35","1CO","15","35","35","But some of you are asking, “How will dead people be raised {How will  God cause dead people to become alive} again? What kind of bodies will they have?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_36","076_15_36","1CO","15","36","36"," Anyone who asks such questions is foolish. You  know that a seed that is planted in the ground must completely change its form MET before it sprouts. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_37","076_15_37","1CO","15","37","37","A seed, such as a wheat seed, is very different from the plant that sprouts from it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_38","076_15_38","1CO","15","38","38","God gives everything that lives the form that he desires. He gives each seed its own form. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_39","076_15_39","1CO","15","39","39"," Similarly, people, animals, birds, and fish all have flesh, but each one has a different kind of flesh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_40","076_15_40","1CO","15","40","40","Also, there are angelic beings in heaven (OR, stars and planets in the sky), and there are people with bodies on the earth. The angelic beings (OR, stars and planets) are beautiful in one way, and people on earth are beautiful in a different way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_41","076_15_41","1CO","15","41","41","The sun is bright in one way, and the moon is bright in a different way, and the stars are bright in a different way. And even the various stars are different from each other in how bright they are. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_42","076_15_42","1CO","15","42","42","And it is the same way  with our bodies. The bodies that we will have when God causes us to live again after we die  will not be the same as the bodies that we have now MET.  The bodies that we have now will die and decay.  The new bodies that we will have will never die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_43","076_15_43","1CO","15","43","43","We despise  the bodies that we have now, before we die. But our  new bodies will be glorious. The  bodies that we have before we die are weak. But our new bodies will be strong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_44","076_15_44","1CO","15","44","44","The bodies that we have before we die are natural bodies. But  our new bodies will be ones that  God’s Spirit ◄ controls/gives us►. Just like there are natural bodies, there are bodies that  God’s Spirit  completely controls (OR, makes alive). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_45","076_15_45","1CO","15","45","45"," In the Scriptures it is written {we read} that  when the first man, Adam,  was created, he became a living human being. Christ later also became a human being. But  he is different from Adam, because he became a person who gives us  spiritual life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_46","076_15_46","1CO","15","46","46","But our bodies that God’s Spirit ◄will completely control/will give us► are not the first bodies that we have. We have our natural bodies first. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_47","076_15_47","1CO","15","47","47","The first man,  Adam, was created { God created the first man, Adam} from the dust of the earth. But Christ, the one who came later, came from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_48","076_15_48","1CO","15","48","48","Everyone on earth  has a body like the first man on the earth had. And in heaven,  everyone will have a body like Christ, the man who came from heaven, has. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_49","076_15_49","1CO","15","49","49","And just like  God gave us bodies like the first man on earth had, so we believers will have bodies like Christ has, who is now in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_50","076_15_50","1CO","15","50","50","My fellow believers, I want you to know that we (inc) SYN cannot go  to heaven, where God rules  over everything, with our physical bodies, because our bodies  cannot last forever. They will die and decay. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_51","076_15_51","1CO","15","51","51","But I will tell you something that  God has not revealed  before:  Some of us believers will not die EUP. However, all of us will be changed { God will change all of us}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_52","076_15_52","1CO","15","52","52"," It will happen suddenly, as  fast as someone can blink his eye MET, when  we hear the sound of God’s trumpet for the last time. When we hear that trumpet, all  the believers who have died will come back to life and will have bodies that are changed {that  God has changed}, bodies that will never decay. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_53","076_15_53","1CO","15","53","53","And the  bodies of us who are alive at that time will  also be changed {And  God will  also change the  bodies of us who are alive at that time}. These bodies of ours that die and decay must be transformed into  new bodies that will never die;  it will be like someone MET getting rid of  his old clothes and putting on  new ones. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_54","076_15_54","1CO","15","54","54","When that happens, what is written {what ◄ a prophet/Isaiah► wrote}  in the Scriptures will come true/happen:  God will completely get rid of MET death. Our dying will no longer have any power to defeat us; ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_55","076_15_55","1CO","15","55","55","Death APO will not win a victory over us. Death will not be able to hurt us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_56","076_15_56","1CO","15","56","56","It is because we sin MET  that we die, and it is because we have God’s laws that we  know that we have sinned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_57","076_15_57","1CO","15","57","57","But because of what our Lord Jesus Christ  has done, he enables us to be free  from having to obey God’s laws to be saved and to be free of being afraid to die. We should thank God for that! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C115_58","076_15_58","1CO","15","58","58","So, my fellow believers whom I love, continue to hold strongly to  the things that you believe. Do not let anything cause you to doubt them. Always be doing enthusiastically the work that the Lord  gives you. And remember that the work that you do for the Lord is never ◄in vain/useless►,  as it would be if God will not cause us to live again after we die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_1","076_16_1","1CO","16","1","1","Now  I will reply to another question that you asked. You asked about the  money you are collecting  to send to God’s people  in Jerusalem. Do what I told the congregations in Galatia to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_2","076_16_2","1CO","16","2","2","Every Sunday each of you should set aside  at home some funds EUP  for this purpose, in proportion to how much  God has prospered you. Then you should save it up, so that when I arrive there, you will not need to collect  any more money. Choose some men whom you approve of, to take this money to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_3","076_16_3","1CO","16","3","3","Then, when I arrive, I will write letters stating that you have authorized these men to take the funds there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_4","076_16_4","1CO","16","4","4","And if  you (OR,  I) think that it is appropriate, I will go with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_5","076_16_5","1CO","16","5","5","Now I plan to travel through Macedonia  province. I  plan to come to visit you, but I want to go through Macedonia first. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_6","076_16_6","1CO","16","6","6","Perhaps I will stay with you for a short while, or I may stay with you for the whole winter, in order that you yourselves can provide some of the things  that I will need EUP for my next trip. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_7","076_16_7","1CO","16","7","7","I do not want to see you just for a short time and then continue my trip. I am hoping to stay with you for a while, if the Lord  Jesus allows me to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_8","076_16_8","1CO","16","8","8","But I will stay  here in Ephesus  city until  after the Pentecost  festival. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_9","076_16_9","1CO","16","9","9"," I want to do that because  God has given me a great opportunity MET  to proclaim his good message here.  As a result of my work here, God is producing great results. I also want to stay here because there are many people here who oppose  my work, and I need to refute them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_10","076_16_10","1CO","16","10","10","When Timothy arrives  there in Corinth, treat him respectfully LIT, because he is working for the Lord just as I am. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_11","076_16_11","1CO","16","11","11","Do not let anyone despise him. And when he leaves there, give him some of the things that he needs  for his trip EUP  here, and also  ask God to bless him. I am waiting for him to come, along with the other fellow believers  who have been traveling with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_12","076_16_12","1CO","16","12","12"," You also asked about our fellow believer, Apollos. I urged him strongly that he should go back to you with the three fellow believers  who came here from Corinth. He was not at all willing to go  now, but he will go later, when he has an opportunity. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_13","076_16_13","1CO","16","13","13","Be on guard  against anything that would hinder you spiritually. You have believed  the true message; continue believing it firmly. Be courageous. Keep strong  in your relationship with God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_14","076_16_14","1CO","16","14","14","Act in a loving  way in everything that  you do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_15","076_16_15","1CO","16","15","15","You know that Stephanas and his family were the first ones  there in Achaia  province to believe in Christ IDM. They have devoted themselves to helping God’s people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_16","076_16_16","1CO","16","16","16","My fellow believers, I urge you to submit yourselves to them and to people like them who do  God’s work and who work hard. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_17","076_16_17","1CO","16","17","17","I was glad when Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus arrived here  from Corinth, because  they did things for me that you were not able to do  because you were not with me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_18","076_16_18","1CO","16","18","18","They comforted and encouraged me SYN, and  I expect that this news from me will do the same for you. You should honor  them, and you should also honor others like them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_19","076_16_19","1CO","16","19","19","The congregations  here in Asia  province ◄send their greetings to/say that they are thinking fondly of► you. Aquila and  his wife Priscilla and the congregation that meets in their house ◄send their warm greetings to/say that they are thinking fondly of► you because both they and you belong to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_20","076_16_20","1CO","16","20","20","All your fellow believers  here ◄send their greetings to/say that they are thinking of► you. Greet each other affectionately, as fellow believers  should. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_21","076_16_21","1CO","16","21","21","Now I, Paul, having taken the pen from the hand of my secretary, write with my own hand to say that I am thinking fondly of you/to give you my greetings. I do this to show you that this letter really comes from me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_22","076_16_22","1CO","16","22","22","◄I pray that God will/May God► curse/cause bad things to happen to ◄anyone who does not love the Lord Jesus. I pray that our Lord will come soon/May our Lord come soon►! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_23","076_16_23","1CO","16","23","23","I pray that our Lord Jesus will/May our Lord Jesus ◄continue to act toward you all kindly/in ways that you do not deserve.► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C116_24","076_16_24","1CO","16","24","24","I love all of you who have a close relationship with Christ Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_1","077_1_1","2CO","1","1","1"," I, Paul, who  write this letter to you, became an apostle of Christ Jesus because God chose me for that.  Timothy, our fellow believer,  is with me. I am sending this letter to you who are God’s people in the congregations in Corinth  city. I want the believers who live in  other places in Achaia  province to also read this letter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_2","077_1_2","2CO","1","2","2"," We(exc) desire that you will  experience God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ  acting kindly toward you and causing you to have  inner peace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_3","077_1_3","2CO","1","3","3"," We should praise God, who is the father of our (inc) Lord Jesus Christ. He always pities us and helps us  because he is like MET a father to us  and we are like his children. He always encourages us (inc). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_4","077_1_4","2CO","1","4","4","He has encouraged us (exc) whenever we suffered hardships. As a result, we (exc) are able to encourage others whenever they suffer hardships, just as/just like God has encouraged us (exc). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_5","077_1_5","2CO","1","5","5","It is true that just like Christ suffered, we  who serve him also continually suffer  because we belong to him. But also, because we  belong to Christ, God greatly strengthens us ◄just as/just like►  God strengthened him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_6","077_1_6","2CO","1","6","6","So, whenever we (exc) experience sufferings, we  learn how to encourage you  when you experience sufferings. As a result, you will become more and more the kind of people God wants you to be. Whenever  God strengthens us (exc) when we are suffering, he does that in order that you  may see how he makes us strong when we are suffering. Then, as God encourages  you in that way, you will learn to continue patiently  trusting him when you suffer as we do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_7","077_1_7","2CO","1","7","7","As a result, we (exc) strongly expect that because you suffer just as/just like we do,  God will encourage you ◄just as/just like►  he encourages us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_8","077_1_8","2CO","1","8","8"," Our fellow believers, we (exc) want you to know LIT about the trouble that we suffered in Asia  province. That trouble was so very great that it was much more than we were able to endure. As a result, we (exc) thought that we would certainly die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_9","077_1_9","2CO","1","9","9","Indeed, we felt  like a person feels when he has heard a judge say, “I condemn you to die/be executed MET.” But  God allowed us to think that we were going to die so that we would not ◄rely on/trust in► our own  strength. He wanted us instead  to rely only on his  strength, because he is the one who  has power even to make those who have died live  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_10","077_1_10","2CO","1","10","10","And  even though we (exc) were  in terrible danger and were about to die, God rescued us. And he will continue to rescue us  whenever we are in trouble. We confidently expect that he will continue to rescue us  time after time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_11","077_1_11","2CO","1","11","11"," And we are also relying on you to help us by praying for us (exc).  If many people pray for us, many people will also thank  God when  he kindly answers those many prayers  and delivers us from danger. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_12","077_1_12","2CO","1","12","12","I am happy  to say that I have behaved toward all people MTY in an honest and sincere way. My conscience assures me  that this is true. Especially, I have behaved toward you  honestly and sincerely because that is what God wants us to do. As I have done that,  my thoughts have not been the thoughts that unbelieving people MTY  think are wise. Instead,  I have behaved toward people only as God wants me to, depending on God to help me in ways that I do not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_13","077_1_13","2CO","1","13","13"," I say that because  in all my letters to you I have always written LIT clearly in a way that you can easily and completely understand  when you read them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_14","077_1_14","2CO","1","14","14"," Previously some of you, but not all of you, have completely understood  that I am always honest and sincere with you. But I confidently expect that  soon you will all be fully convinced  about that. Then when the Lord Jesus MTY  returns, you will all be able to say that you are pleased with me, just like I will  be able to say that I am pleased with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_15","077_1_15","2CO","1","15","16","It was because I felt sure  that all of you were pleased with me that I was planning to visit you on my way from  here to Macedonia  province. I also planned to visit you again on my way back from there, so that I could  spend time with you twice, and be able to help you more, and I was hoping that you would  give me things that I needed EUP for my journey to Judea  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_17","077_1_17","2CO","1","17","17","So then, even though I  changed my mind later and did not do what I  first planned to do,  it was not because I did not have an important reason for changing my plans. Surely you do not  really think that I decide what I am going to do like people who do not know God do! RHQ I am  not like that. I am not  a person who says  to people, “Yes,  certainly I will do that,” and then  for no good reason changes his mind and says, “No,  I will not do it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_18","077_1_18","2CO","1","18","18","Just as surely as God always does what he says  he will do, it is true that I have never said, “Yes,  I will do this” when I  really meant “No.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_19","077_1_19","2CO","1","19","19"," I follow the example of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. When I, along with Silas and Timothy, taught you  about Christ, we told you that he was not  someone who said that he would do  something and  then did not  do it. Jesus Christ never  said to anyone, “Yes,  I will do what you desire,” and  then did not  do it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_20","077_1_20","2CO","1","20","20"," We(inc) know that is true, because everything that God promised to do  for his people, he has done completely by  sending Christ  to save us. That is why we say, “Yes, it is true!  God has done everything that he promised to do!” And we praise him for that! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_21","077_1_21","2CO","1","21","21","Now it is only God himself who causes us (exc), as well as you, to keep on believing strongly in Christ. God is the one who chose us (inc) to belong to him and to have a close relationship with Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_22","077_1_22","2CO","1","22","22","He also sent his Holy Spirit into our (inc) lives to mark us as belonging to himself MET. Also, since he has sent his Spirit to live in us (inc),  he wants us to know by this that he guarantees MET  to give us every other ◄ blessing/good thing►  that he has promised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_23","077_1_23","2CO","1","23","23","So now  I will tell you why I changed my mind and did not visit you as I intended to do: God himself knows  that what I am telling you is true. The reason that I did not return to Corinth was so that I might not have to  speak to you severely about the wrong that you had done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C21_24","077_1_24","2CO","1","24","24","It is not that Silas, Timothy and I want to boss you  and tell you that you must believe only what we say.  Not at all! On the contrary, we (exc) are working as partners  with you in order to make you happy.  We do not try to force you to believe everything that we believe, because we are sure that you are continuing to trust  the Lord Jesus Christ and that you are remaining firmly committed to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_1","077_2_1","2CO","2","1","1","Anyway, I definitely decided that I would not come to visit you again  now. If I had come, I would have spoken severely to you again, and I would have made you unhappy as I did the last time  I visited you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_2","077_2_2","2CO","2","2","2"," And if I make you unhappy, I will have made unhappy  the only people who can cheer me up, so ◄there will be none of you to cheer me up!/who would cheer me up?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_3","077_2_3","2CO","2","3","3","So,  instead of going to visit you at that time, I wrote a letter  and sent it to you. I wrote it the way I did so that  you would know what you should do. Then when I come to visit you, you will not make me unhappy when you should be causing me to rejoice. I was quite sure that all of you  would do what I told you to do in that letter, and because of that I would be happy and you would be happy, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_4","077_2_4","2CO","2","4","4","I wrote to you  the way I did because I felt very troubled and distressed about you. I was even crying very much as I wrote.  My purpose in writing was not in order to make you feel bad, but, instead, in order that you might know how deeply/much I love you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_5","077_2_5","2CO","2","5","5"," Now I want to write about the man who caused all this anguish.  What he did was very wrong, but I know that it has caused you much more sorrow than it has caused me, because  what he did has affected all of you  to some extent. I say, “to some extent,”  because I do not want to say that he has done more harm  than he really has done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_6","077_2_6","2CO","2","6","6"," Since he has now stopped sinning in that way, the punishment that nearly all of you  decided was right for him has continued long enough. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_7","077_2_7","2CO","2","7","7","So now, instead  of punishing him any longer, you need to forgive him and deal kindly with him.  If you do not forgive him, he may become so sad that he will begin to  think that you will never forgive him (OR, will stop believing in Christ). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_8","077_2_8","2CO","2","8","8","For those reasons, I beg you to  forgive him and accept him into your group again, and by doing that assure him that you truly love him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_9","077_2_9","2CO","2","9","9"," I feel sure that you will do as I ask, because when I wrote  severely to you  before, I did it to test you by finding out whether or not you really would do everything  that I, as your apostle, asked you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_10","077_2_10","2CO","2","10","10","So  since you obeyed what I told you before, I feel sure that now you will obey what I am writing in this letter and forgive the man, as I have done, because I indeed have forgiven him for the wrong thing that he did. Anything he needed me to forgive him for, I have forgiven, and Christ knows  that I have forgiven him sincerely. I have done that mainly to help you  so that you and I will again have fellowship with each other, and that you will accept him into your group again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_11","077_2_11","2CO","2","11","11"," I want you to forgive him so that Satan will not be able to take advantage of  the problems among us  and make the situation worse. We know very well LIT that Satan is always planning to  cause problems among us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_12","077_2_12","2CO","2","12","12"," I will continue by telling you what I did after I wrote to you from Ephesus city. I went to Troas  city in order to  tell people the message  about Christ.  When I arrived there, I found  many people who had been prepared by the Lord  Jesus MET  to listen to what I told them about him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_13","077_2_13","2CO","2","13","13","But because my fellow believer Titus had not  arrived with a report from you, I still felt very anxious and concerned  about you. So,  after spending only a short time at Troas, I said goodbye to  the believers who were there and came  here to Macedonia  province to find Titus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_14","077_2_14","2CO","2","14","14","However,  before I tell you any more about that, I  want to thank God  for what he is doing. As a great leader of fighting men causes all his prisoners to take part in his victory parade MET, God leads us  who are his workers to always be victorious  over Satan because of our(exc) close relationship with Christ. God causes people to come to know Jesus Christ as a result of our (exc) teaching his message. That message is like MET the smell of perfume. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_15","077_2_15","2CO","2","15","15"," When we(exc) tell God’s message about Christ, it  spreads out among people like the smell of perfume.  Those who believe the message that we tell them are saved { Jesus Christ saves them}  from the guilt of their sin. But those who reject that message will be separated from God  forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_16","077_2_16","2CO","2","16","16","To those who  are on the way to hell, our message is like MET a foul smell  because it is about dying and being separated from God forever. But, to those  on the way to heaven, the message that we teach is like a pure fragrant smell,  because we tell them that they will live  forever with God. As we think about that, we think ◄no one is able  to do such important work  for God!/how can anyone be able  to do such important work  for God?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C22_17","077_2_17","2CO","2","17","17"," But perhaps God considers us(exc) able, because we do not work/act like so many  others whom you know. They teach God’s message in a way that  they think people will like, and they think that people will pay them for teaching that way. We (exc) certainly do not do that. On the contrary,  as servants of Christ, and knowing that God is watching us (exc), we teach sincerely  the message that God sent us to proclaim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_1","077_3_1","2CO","3","1","1"," As I write these things about myself, I am RHQ not  doing it to boast about how good I am,  as some of you say I do. Some people always carry letters with them that tell how well they work,  that other people have  written. But I do not RHQ need  to bring letters like that  when I come to you. Nor do I need to ask you  to write letters like that  for me when I go to other congregations. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_2","077_3_2","2CO","3","2","2","You yourselves are MET  like a letter that recommends my work  for God to everyone. People see  how Christ changed your  lives when you believed the message that I taught you. Everyone  who knows you can see  the result of my work for God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_3","077_3_3","2CO","3","3","3","You are MET  like a letter that Christ himself  has written that says good things about  my work for God in your lives. You show  people by the way you now conduct your lives that God has changed your lives as a result of my work  among you. People did not  find out about you by reading  a letter that was written to them on paper with  pen and ink. Instead,  they saw how the Spirit of the all-powerful God  has changed your lives. Nor  did people find out about you by reading a letter that was carved on stone slabs  like the stone slabs that God gave to Moses. Instead,  it was the change that God’s Spirit made in your lives MET  that they saw. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_4","077_3_4","2CO","3","4","4","I  can very confidently  write these things about the work that Silas, Timothy, and I did among you, because God knows that what I write is true. We(exc) are true workers for God  because of what Christ  has done for us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_5","077_3_5","2CO","3","5","5","We (exc), by ourselves, do not have the ability  to do this work. None of us apostles can say, “ I have changed the lives of these people.” God is the one  who has given us this ability. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_6","077_3_6","2CO","3","6","6","He is the one who enables us (exc) to be his messengers.  He has enabled us to tell people the message about the new agreement  that he is making with them. This is not a  message about obeying all the written laws  of his old agreement that he made with the Jewish people. Instead,  it is a message about God giving us his Spirit.  Previously, God condemned people to be separated from him forever  if they did not obey his laws. But by  God’s new agreement his Spirit enables people to live  eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_7","077_3_7","2CO","3","7","7"," Moses taught  the people that if they did not obey God’s laws completely they would be separated from God forever.  God  wrote  his laws on stone slabs. Then he gave them to Moses to teach them to the people. Although God’s laws condemned the people  to die,  when Moses brought those laws down from Sinai Mountain, God caused Moses’ face to shine Moses’ face to shine radiantly  to show the people that these laws were God’s laws. It shone. so brightly that the people of Israel could not keep looking at Moses’ face.  They had to look away. But the brightness was slowly fading away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_8","077_3_8","2CO","3","8","8"," So,  since God showed in such a wonderful way that those laws that condemned the people to die were from him, surely when we (exc) teach  people about how God’s Spirit will  change their lives,  God will show in an even more wonderful way  that it is  his message. RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_9","077_3_9","2CO","3","9","9","The message  that Moses taught them was wonderful, but when people heard that message,  they realized that they were sinners and that God would punish them. But God’s message that we (exc) teach is a much more wonderful message. We teach people that God will ◄erase the record of/declare people no longer guilty for►  the sinful things that they have done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_10","077_3_10","2CO","3","10","10"," The truth is that, although the work of teaching the people to obey God’s laws was once important, it is not as important now, because  the work of teaching people that God will forgive them and enable them to live to please him is far more important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_11","077_3_11","2CO","3","11","11","Furthermore,  the message that Moses taught was not a lasting message, just like the brightness on his face was not lasting and soon faded away. But  when God gives his Spirit to people, the wonderful work that  God’s Spirit does in their lives is much greater  because it lasts forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_12","077_3_12","2CO","3","12","12","We (exc) know that the message that we teach is a  much more wonderful message than the message that Moses taught. So we  can preach boldly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_13","077_3_13","2CO","3","13","13","We do not  need to put a veil over our faces when we teach people, as Moses did. Moses put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not see that the radiance  on his face soon faded away.  Similarly, the glory of the old agreement has also faded away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_14","077_3_14","2CO","3","14","14","But the Israelis stubbornly refused to  understand that the old agreement would end. Even now, when they read the old agreement,  they still do not realize that it has ended. It is as if MET that same veil  that Moses put on his face is now over their  minds, keeping them from understanding God’s true message. They will  understand that message only when  they come to trust in Christ. Then  it will be as though God has removed the veil. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_15","077_3_15","2CO","3","15","15"," Throughout all these years, even until now, when  the Israelis read what Moses  write, it is as though a veil is covering their minds. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_16","077_3_16","2CO","3","16","16","But when any of them believes in the Lord  Jesus,  God removes that veil from them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_17","077_3_17","2CO","3","17","17"," It is by the power of his Spirit that the Lord  works in our lives, and the Lord’s Spirit has set us free  from trying to obey all the rules and rituals that God gave Moses. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C23_18","077_3_18","2CO","3","18","18"," It is as though God has removed the veil from our faces MET. We realize how awesome Jesus is. As we realize that, we are continually being changed { the Holy Spirit is continually changing us} to become more and more like Jesus,  so that people can see, more and more, how awesome  Jesus is. It is the Spirit of the Lord who does  this. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_1","077_4_1","2CO","4","1","1","So, because God has acted so kindly  toward me, enabling  me to teach this great  message to people, I never get  so discouraged  that I stop teaching it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_2","077_4_2","2CO","4","2","2","And I have determined that we (exc) will be honest LIT in everything that we do. We will not  do anything that would cause us to be ashamed  if people found out about it. We never try to deceive  you with clever arguments, as some other people do. We never  try to deceive you by changing God’s message,  as those same people do. Instead, we always teach  people only the truth  about Christ, and we teach it clearly. Knowing that God is watching what we do, we  teach his message in an honest way, with the result that no one can  accuse us (exc) of being deceitful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_3","077_4_3","2CO","4","3","3","And if,  as some of you say, some people are not able to understand the message  that we teach about Christ, it is not because we do not teach it clearly. It is because those people  do not want to believe it. They are going to perish eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_4","077_4_4","2CO","4","4","4"," Satan, who is the one  who rules this world, controls the thoughts of those unbelievers. He prevents them from understanding the message about how wonderful Christ is.  They are not able to understand that Jesus is like God  in every way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_5","077_4_5","2CO","4","5","5","That is why,  when we(exc) teach people, we do not boast about ourselves,  as some people say that we do. Instead,  we teach you that Jesus Christ is our Lord. We ourselves are  only your servants.  We want to honor and obey Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_6","077_4_6","2CO","4","6","6","When God  created the world, he commanded the light to shine  where there was nothing but darkness. He is the one who has  made his message about Jesus to be like MET a light shining into our (inc) minds.  God has done that  for all of us who believe in Jesus. He has done that so that we will understand that when people saw Christ, they saw how awesome God himself was. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_7","077_4_7","2CO","4","7","7"," This work that God has given to us (exc) is MET  like a very valuable treasure. But we who have that treasure  are as weak as fragile MET clay pots.  God has planned it like that in order that  people will know that the power  that changes lives is God’s power, and not any power of our own. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_8","077_4_8","2CO","4","8","8","We are continually oppressed { People continually oppress us} in many ways, but  we have not been prevented { God has not  allowed them to prevent us}  from teaching the message about Jesus Christ. We often do not know what to do  in difficult situations, but we never say, “God has abandoned us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_9","077_4_9","2CO","4","9","9"," We are frequently persecuted { People frequently cause us to suffer}, but  God never abandons us.  Sometimes we are badly wounded { people badly wound us}, but  God does not  allow us  to be killed { them to kill us}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_10","077_4_10","2CO","4","10","10"," Wherever we(exc) go, we continually  realize that because people killed Jesus,  people may kill us  for teaching his message. But we are willing to go on living this way in order that  people will know that Jesus is alive and  that he is directing us SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_11","077_4_11","2CO","4","11","11"," So, although we are  still alive, we always realize that we may be killed {that  people some day may kill us} because  we teach about Jesus.  God allows us to suffer in order that  people will see that Jesus is alive and that he is  strengthening our bodies that are some day going to die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_12","077_4_12","2CO","4","12","12","So  I conclude that although we apostles are constantly  suffering and may soon die,  the result of that is that all of you  have now received eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_13","077_4_13","2CO","4","13","13","We are not discouraged. We are like  the person who wrote  in the Scriptures, “ God, I trusted  in you and so I continue speaking  your message.” We (exc) also trust  in God, so we continue speaking  his message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_14","077_4_14","2CO","4","14","14"," We do this because we (exc) know that  although people might kill us, God, who caused the Lord Jesus to live again after he died, will also cause us (exc) to live again  after we die. God will do this because we belong to Jesus.  And then God will bring us (exc), together with you, to be with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_15","077_4_15","2CO","4","15","15"," So I say that all these things  that we(exc) suffer happen in order to help you.  We have suffered all this in order that more and more people,  as a result of hearing that God will kindly/freely  forgive their sins, will thank  him and praise him. Then they will greatly honor him  and worship him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_16","077_4_16","2CO","4","16","16","So,  because we know that as a result of our suffering many people will honor God, we (exc) never get so discouraged  that we stop teaching his message. Although our bodies are getting weaker,  God encourages us every day and strengthens us spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_17","077_4_17","2CO","4","17","17"," I know that all these troubles that  happen to us in this life are not significant and will not last forever.  When we think of the glorious things  that God is preparing for us  to enjoy forever  in heaven, all  our suffering now is not important. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C24_18","077_4_18","2CO","4","18","18","That is why we say, “We will not continue thinking about  all the suffering that we are experiencing now. Even though  we cannot see  all the things that God has prepared for us in heaven, those are what we should be thinking about.”  That is how we should think, because  all these troubles that  we(exc) have  now will last only a short time. But what  we will have in heaven, what  we cannot see  now, will last forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_1","077_5_1","2CO","5","1","1","We know that  these bodies we live in  here in this world are like MET tents.  They are like temporary living/dwelling places.  So we should not be concerned about what happens to our bodies. We know that if we are killed {if  someone kills us}, God will give us  permanent living places. Those permanent living places MET will not be houses that people have made. They  will be new bodies in which we will live forever in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_2","077_5_2","2CO","5","2","2"," While we are here on earth, we suffer. We often groan because we desire  to go to heaven  where God will give us our new  bodies MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_3","077_5_3","2CO","5","3","3","When  God gives us(inc) our new bodies MET, our  spirits will have LIT, MET bodies to live in  that will last forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_4","077_5_4","2CO","5","4","4"," It is true that while we are still living in these bodies MET  that do not last forever, we often groan DOU  because we desire to be free from them. We are not longing to be without a body. Instead,  we groan because we desire to receive our new bodies MET in heaven. We long for this to happen so that these bodies that are going to die some day will suddenly be changed  into bodies that will live  forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_5","077_5_5","2CO","5","5","5","It is God himself who has prepared us to  receive these  new bodies. He is also the one who has guaranteed/assured us (inc) that this will happen. He has guaranteed it by sending his Spirit  to live inside us now. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_6","077_5_6","2CO","5","6","6","So,  because God’s Spirit lives in us, we are always confident  that God will give us new bodies. We know that as long as we have bodies here on  earth, we are not yet  living together with the Lord  Jesus in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_7","077_5_7","2CO","5","7","7","While we (exc) live  here, we do not have our  new bodies, but we are trusting  that God will give them to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_8","077_5_8","2CO","5","8","8"," As I said, we (exc) are confident  that he will give us new bodies. We (exc) would much prefer to leave these bodies  which we have now, and be with the Lord  Jesus in our home in  heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_9","077_5_9","2CO","5","9","9","Because of all that, we always want to please  Jesus in everything that we do. Whether we (exc) are  still living here  in these bodies or whether we have  left them and are living in our home  in heaven, we want to please him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_10","077_5_10","2CO","5","10","10"," And we need to try hard to do that because each one of us believers must stand before Christ  to be judged  by him { when he will judge  his people}.  At that time he will  reward each one of us according to what we have done  while we lived in this world in these bodies.  He will reward us according to whether we have done good things or whether we have done evil things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_11","077_5_11","2CO","5","11","11","It makes me fearful  to think that some day I will stand before the Lord for him to judge me. So I  do everything that I can to convince people  that they should believe (OR,  that I teach sincerely)  God’s message. God knows very well  how I conduct my life and what I teach, and I really believe that you know it, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_12","077_5_12","2CO","5","12","12","Once again  I say, as I write this, I am not just  trying to make you think well/highly of me,  as some people will probably say that I am. Instead, I am  telling you in this letter why you have good reason  to tell those who criticize me that you think highly of me.  I am telling you this so that you will know what to say to those  teachers of false doctrine among you. They are proud  of what they have done, instead of  making sure that they  are right with God and being pleased with that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_13","077_5_13","2CO","5","13","13"," Some of them say that after God has enabled me to see visions, I  talk like a crazy person. If  that is so, I want you to realize that I talk that way in order to please God. On the other hand, if  you think that I  speak and act wisely,  that is good. I want you to know that I do speak and act wisely in order to  help you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_14","077_5_14","2CO","5","14","14"," I speak and act the way I do because the love that Christ  has for people influences me  in everything that I say and do. When Christ died,  he suffered the punishment for  the sins of all people. So, we should all  think of ourselves as having died with him,  being as unresponsive to sinful desires as MET a corpse is. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_15","077_5_15","2CO","5","15","15","When  Christ died for the everyone, he died in order that  we believers who are alive now should not conduct our lives in a way that will just  please ourselves. Instead,  we should conduct our lives in a way that will please Christ,  because he is the one who died for us and was brought back to life {whom  God raised} again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_16","077_5_16","2CO","5","16","16","So,  because I realize how much Christ loves everyone, I no longer think about people in the way that those who do not believe  in Christ think about  them. Before I  was a believer, I thought about Christ in the way that other non-believers did. But I do not think of him that way anymore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_17","077_5_17","2CO","5","17","17","The fact is that God makes every one  of us who  trusts in Christ to be completely different  than we were before. Our old  way of conducting our lives is gone. We now have a  completely new way of conducting our lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_18","077_5_18","2CO","5","18","18","This  complete change in our lives is all something that God  does. It is God who made it possible for us to have a peaceful relationship with him.  He was able to do that because of what Christ  did for us. Now God  has sent me, and those  who work with me, to tell  people that they can have a peaceful relationship with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_19","077_5_19","2CO","5","19","19","That is,  he sent us(exc) to tell them that when Christ  died, God was  making it possible for everyone MTY in the world to have a peaceful relationship with him. He no longer keeps a record of the sinful things that  we believers have done. The message that  God has given to us  to tell people is how we can have a peaceful relationship with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_20","077_5_20","2CO","5","20","20","So, it is I and my companions who are Christ’s representatives  in this world. When we tell people the message about Christ, it is God himself who is pleading with them by means of what we  say. So, as true representatives of Christ, we plead with you:  Believe God’s true message about Christ in order that you may be reconciled to {have a peaceful relationship with} him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C25_21","077_5_21","2CO","5","21","21"," You must believe that even though Jesus never sinned, God  punished him for all the sinful things  that people do, just as  if Jesus had done those sinful things himself. And because of our close relationship with Christ, God has erased the record of our sins/declared us no longer guilty for our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_1","077_6_1","2CO","6","1","1"," Therefore, because I am working together with God  himself, I say this to you very strongly: God has  already kindly  forgiven you because Christ died for you, so do not now  say “It does not matter  if I live just to please myself.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_2","077_6_2","2CO","6","2","2","For God said  long ago in the Scriptures: When it is the right time  for me to help you,  you will ask me to help you, and I will hear you. Then I will  send a Savior to help you.  So listen to what I am telling you: God  has sent his Savior, so now is the time when  God is ready to save  people from the guilt of their sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_3","077_6_3","2CO","6","3","3","Neither I nor the men  working with me do anything that would hinder people from trusting in Christ, and so we cannot be accused {no one can accuse  us}  of not serving  God properly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_4","077_6_4","2CO","6","4","4","Instead, in everything  that we(exc) say and do, we show  people that we serve God faithfully. We patiently endure  all the things that happen to us. People cause us many troubles and, as a result, we are anxious  and often do not know what to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_5","077_6_5","2CO","6","5","5","Sometimes we have been beaten  and bound {People have beaten  us and tied us}  with chains in prison.  Angry mobs have attacked us,  wanting to kill us. We have continued working  for God until we had no more strength to work. We have had many sleepless nights, and we have  often been without food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_6","077_6_6","2CO","6","6","6"," All that we think about and all that we do is pure  in God’s sight. Knowing  how God wants us to conduct our lives, we do what pleases him. We are patient  with those who oppose us. We are kind  to everyone. We depend on the Holy Spirit  to help us. We love people sincerely  as God wants us to love them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_7","077_6_7","2CO","6","7","7","We faithfully teach  the true message  about Christ, and God  gives us his power  as we teach it. Like soldiers using weapons MET  in a battle, we, by  living righteously,  defend God’s message and refute those who attack it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_8","077_6_8","2CO","6","8","8"," We serve God faithfully, whether  people praise us (exc) or  whether they despise us, whether  people say bad things  about us(exc) or  whether they say good things  about us. We keep teaching the truth,  even though some people say that we are deceiving  people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_9","077_6_9","2CO","6","9","9"," Some people know  well that we are true servants of God, and yet others, who know us, refuse to  believe that. People have often tried to kill us (inc), yet we are still alive. We have  often been beaten, but we have not been killed { People have often beaten us (exc), but  they have not killed us}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_10","077_6_10","2CO","6","10","10","Although we (exc) are often very sad  because people have rejected our message, we are always joyful  because of all that God has done for us. Even though we (exc) are poor, we make  it possible for many people to be spiritually rich. It is true that  in this world we (exc) have nothing  valuable HYP, but  because we belong to God’s family, all  that God has belongs to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_11","077_6_11","2CO","6","11","11","You  fellow believers in Corinth,  I have been completely honest with you.  I have told you exactly how we(exc) feel about you, that we love you very much IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_12","077_6_12","2CO","6","12","12","We are not treating you as though we do not love you, but you are treating us as though you do not love us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_13","077_6_13","2CO","6","13","13","In return  for our loving you, will you not love  us IDM just as  much as we love you? I am writing  to you as if you were my own children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_14","077_6_14","2CO","6","14","14","Do not ◄team up/have a close relationship► with anyone who does not trust  in Christ. I say this because we who  trust in Christ and do what is right should not RHQ  want to do things with wicked people. Or  to say it in another way, just like light and darkness never join together, so  those who belong to Christ and those who belong to Satan should never join together RHQ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_15","077_6_15","2CO","6","15","15","There is no RHQ agreement of any kind between Christ and Satan.  So, believers have no RHQ common  spiritual interests with unbelievers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_16","077_6_16","2CO","6","16","16"," Just as no one would  dare to bring idols into the Temple  in Jerusalem, believers should never RHQ join with those who worship idols.  I say that because MET  the Holy Spirit is in us, and so we are  like the Temple of the all-powerful God.  It is as God himself said  in the Scriptures: I will live in  my people. I will always be with/helping them.  They will say to me, “You are our God,” and  I will say to them, “You are my people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_17","077_6_17","2CO","6","17","17"," In another place in the Scriptures we read that the Lord said: Get away from those who do evil things; keep yourselves separated from them. Do  nothing sinful that would make you unacceptable to me. Then I will welcome you  as members of my family. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C26_18","077_6_18","2CO","6","18","18"," The Lord also said: I will  care for you as MET a loving father  cares for his children, and  it will be as though you are my own sons and daughters. I, the all-powerful Lord, am saying this  to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_1","077_7_1","2CO","7","1","1","My friends, whom I love, because  God has promised  to accept us(inc) as his children, we (inc) must stop doing anything that is sinful. We must not do sinful things with our bodies, and we must not  think sinful thoughts.  Because we greatly revere God, we must strive to  live a completely pure life. By doing that we will become the kind of people that he wants us to be. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_2","077_7_2","2CO","7","2","2","So, as I just wrote, I want you to love me (OR, us IDM  who are true apostles of Christ). I/we (exc) have never done anything wrong to any of you. I/we have not done anything to harm any one of you spiritually or financially. And I/we have not tried to get money from  you ◄for myself/for ourselves►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_3","077_7_3","2CO","7","3","3"," It is true that some people among you have said that I have done such things. Nevertheless, I am not trying to make you all feel ashamed because, as I wrote before, I will continue to love you all very much IDM, whether I live with you or die with you. I am very confident about you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_4","077_7_4","2CO","7","4","4","I am very pleased with you. You have greatly encouraged me, so that I am now very joyful in spite of all the hardships that I have endured. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_5","077_7_5","2CO","7","5","5","Now  I will write more about what I was saying about Titus. When I  left Troas and came  here to Macedonia  province, I still did not get any rest. Everywhere we (exc) went,  people were constantly causing us trouble.  And not only were people  constantly causing us trouble, but I was greatly concerned  about you all. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_6","077_7_6","2CO","7","6","6","But God, who always encourages his people when they are discouraged, encouraged us by  sending Titus back to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_7","077_7_7","2CO","7","7","7","I was encouraged by  seeing Titus,  but when I heard how you had encouraged him, that encouraged me even more. He told me how much you wanted  to see me. He told me that you were very sorry  that you had made me so unhappy. He also told me that you are very eager for me  to continue to serve as your apostle. When Titus told me those things, I was very, very happy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_8","077_7_8","2CO","7","8","8","Even though what  I wrote in my letter ◄distressed you/made you sad►, I am not sorry  that I wrote it. For a while I was sorry that I had written it,  because I knew that it would distress you. Now Titus has also told me that it did distress you  when you read it, but you were distressed only for a short time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_9","077_7_9","2CO","7","9","9"," So now I am happy  that I wrote it. I am not happy that you were distressed {that  I distressed you}, but  I am happy because, when you became distressed, you felt sorry for what you had done and  you asked God to forgive you. What I mean is that you felt sorry in the way that God wanted you to feel sorry, so my making you feel sorry did not harm you at all. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_10","077_7_10","2CO","7","10","10"," The fact is that when God causes  us to feel truly sorry for having sinned and we turn from our sinful behavior, then God saves us  and will not punish us for the sinful things that we have done. And no one is ever sorry about that.  However, the people who do not trust  in God MTY may be sorry  for the sinful things that they have done. But  if they do not turn from their sinful behavior and ask God to forgive them, they will remain separated from him forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_11","077_7_11","2CO","7","11","11","But  think about what happened when you read my letter: God caused you to be truly sorry  for what you had done. You eagerly  wanted to do what was right, and you wanted to show  God (OR,  me) that you had done the right thing. You were angry  about what had happened, and you were worried  that God would punish you if the situation continued. You also wanted me  to visit you to encourage and help you. You wanted me to know  that you really do accept me as your apostle, and that you punished the man who had sinned, as I told you to do. By doing all of those things, you have shown  me that you have done what is right in this matter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_12","077_7_12","2CO","7","12","12","So, even though I wrote that  severe letter to you, I did not  write it just so that  you would punish the man who had done what was wrong. Also, I  did not write it for the benefit of the person whom  he had wronged. Instead,  I wrote it so that, when you  read the letter, God would enable you to realize how much you really do respect  my authority. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_13","077_7_13","2CO","7","13","13","So,  because you listened to me and did what I asked you to do, ◄I was/we (exc) were all► encouraged. Not only ◄was I/were we► encouraged, but ◄I was/we (exc) were►  also very happy to see how happy Titus was  when he arrived here. He told me/us that he did not need to worry anymore, because  he saw that you all  had a good attitude toward me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_14","077_7_14","2CO","7","14","14","I had told Titus that I was pleased about you. And I did not need to be ashamed  for feeling that way about you, because you did what I knew that you would do. Just like everything that I have taught you  and written to you has been the truth, the good things that I told Titus about you were also true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_15","077_7_15","2CO","7","15","15","Now he happily remembers how you all  were willing to do  what I asked you to do. He is  also happy about the way you treated him with great respect.  When he thinks about those things,  it makes him love you even more  than he did when he was with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C27_16","077_7_16","2CO","7","16","16"," As for me, I am very happy  because now I am certain that I can depend on you  to do what you know God wants you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_1","077_8_1","2CO","8","1","1","Now, my fellow believers, I want to tell you  what happened because of God’s  acting kindly  in the lives of  the believers in the congregations  here in Macedonia  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_2","077_8_2","2CO","8","2","2","Even though  the non-believers here have been causing the believers to suffer severely, the believers are always very joyful.  Although they are very poor,  they gave very generously  to help other believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_3","077_8_3","2CO","8","3","3"," I know that this is true, because I have seen for myself that they not only gave  money EUP that they were able  to give, they gave  so much money that they did not even keep enough  to buy what they needed for themselves. Without anyone telling them  to share their possessions, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_4","077_8_4","2CO","8","4","4","they themselves kept requesting us to let them participate in what  other believers are doing in  sending a gift of money to EUP God’s people  in Judea province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_5","077_8_5","2CO","8","5","5","I thought  that they would give only a little of their money, but they did much  more than that. First, they told the Lord  Jesus that they wanted to do  what pleases him. After that, they told me that they wanted to do  whatever I thought was good for them to do, because they were sure that would be what God  wanted them to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_6","077_8_6","2CO","8","6","6","So, because Titus was the one who  helped you to begin  gathering the money EUP, MTY for your gift, I urged him to also  help you finish  collecting the rest of your generous and loving gift. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_7","077_8_7","2CO","8","7","7","You are doing very well in so many  other ways.  God’s Spirit enables you to believe that  God will  do miracles. His Spirit has given you the ability to tell  God’s message to others. His Spirit makes you able to know things that he reveals to you. You eagerly  want to help people, and you love us (exc) very much.  So now, try to also do well in getting your generous  gift of money EUP  ready to send to the believers in Judea province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_8","077_8_8","2CO","8","8","8","I am not commanding you  to do this. But  because I have seen how believers in other  places are eager  to help other believers who do not have ◄ what they need/enough to live on►, I want you similarly to show that you love others sincerely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_9","077_8_9","2CO","8","9","9","You already know  how much our Lord Jesus  did for you that you did not deserve. Everything  in heaven belonged to him. But in order to benefit you,  he left all of those things behind and became a human being. Here on earth he had very few possessions  of his own. But because he became poor like that, he is  able to cause you (pl) to become spiritually rich. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_10","077_8_10","2CO","8","10","10","So,  as you think of our Lord’s example, I will tell you what I think that you should do in this matter  of giving money. As you know, last year, because you desired  to give money to help God’s people in Judea province, you began  collecting money EUP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_11","077_8_11","2CO","8","11","11","So now you should finish  collecting the money EUP that you began  to gather. In that way,  everyone will know that you are just as ready to finish  collecting this gift as you were to begin collecting it. Give what you are able to give. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_12","077_8_12","2CO","8","12","12"," Keep in mind that if you really want to  give something to help others, whatever any one of you is  able to give will be pleasing  to God. God does not expect his people to give more than they can afford to give. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_13","077_8_13","2CO","8","13","13","I do not mean that  you should give so much to help others that you yourselves do not have what you need. No, what I want is that  both you and others will have what  you need. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_14","077_8_14","2CO","8","14","14","Right now, when you have ◄more  than you need/plenty► and  the believers in Judea do not have ◄enough/all that they need►,  with your gift you will enable them to have enough. Maybe some day when you do not have ◄enough/all that you need► and they have more than they need, they will  be able to help you. Then everyone will have enough (OR, In that way each will share alike). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_15","077_8_15","2CO","8","15","15"," If that happens, the result will be like it is written { like someone/Moses wrote}  in the Scriptures about the time when God provided manna for his people, If someone gathered a lot  of manna, he still did not have more than he needed,  because he gave some to someone who did not have enough. And those who gathered only a little  manna still had all that they needed LIT,  because others who gathered more than they needed gave some manna to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_16","077_8_16","2CO","8","16","16"," So now I am sending Titus to visit you again. God has caused him to be just as eager  to help you prepare your gift as I am. I thank God for that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_17","077_8_17","2CO","8","17","17"," He is going there, not only because we urged him to go, but because he himself is very eager  to visit you again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_18","077_8_18","2CO","8","18","18","I am sending with Titus another believer  whom you know well. All the groups of believers  in this area think highly of him because he has  faithfully taught the good message  about Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_19","077_8_19","2CO","8","19","19","Not only that, but he was appointed by the congregations  in this area {the congregations  in this area appointed him} to  go to Jerusalem with us (exc). He  will go with us  when we take the generous gift of money EUP  to the believers in Jerusalem. We are taking this gift to honor the Lord  Jesus and to show them that we all  very much want to  help them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_20","077_8_20","2CO","8","20","20"," The believers have given money EUP generously. So,  by sending that fellow believer along with Titus to take the money  to Jerusalem, we are trying to make sure that no one will be able to accuse us (exc) of taking some of the money for ourselves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_21","077_8_21","2CO","8","21","21"," I say that because we (exc) want to make sure that the Lord  God will see that what we (exc) do is right, and other people will see it, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_22","077_8_22","2CO","8","22","22","Furthermore, there is also another believer  here whom we are sending  to you along with the two men  whom I have just mentioned. Many times I have seen his good work  for the Lord, and I know that he is eager  to serve the Lord. Now, because he knows for sure that you  want to give this gift the same as other believers do, he is even more eager than he was before  to go with the two other men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_23","077_8_23","2CO","8","23","23","As for Titus,  I have chosen him because he is my partner, and he has worked faithfully with me  to help you. As for the other two men, the congregations  in this area are sending them as their messengers. These two men honor Christ  by everything they do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C28_24","077_8_24","2CO","8","24","24","So then, show them that you truly love  others, and  in that way help other congregations to understand  why we (exc) are always saying such good things about you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_1","077_9_1","2CO","9","1","1","Now  I want to write more about the gift  of money EUP that  you and other believers are preparing to send to the believers  in Judea province. I do not  really need to  continue writing to you about it, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_2","077_9_2","2CO","9","2","2","because I already know that you really want to help them. In fact, I have been boasting  about you, telling the believers here in Macedonia  province that  you people in Achaia  province have been ready to help, since last year. As a result, because you are very eager to help  the believers in Judea province, you have made most of  the believers here in Macedonia province also want to give  a gift. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_3","077_9_3","2CO","9","3","3","However, I am sending Titus and the other two believers in order that  they will be able to help you finish collecting the money. Then when I and others arrive later, the people with me will see for themselves that the things that I have been boasting about you are true LIT.  I want you  to have your gift ready  for us(exc) to take to Jerusalem, just like I have been telling others that you were ready. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_4","077_9_4","2CO","9","4","4","When I come, if any of  the believers from Macedonia come with me,  I do not want them to find that your gift is MTY, EUP not ready. If that were  to happen, I would be very ashamed, and you yourselves would be even more ashamed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_5","077_9_5","2CO","9","5","5","So that is why I felt that it was necessary to urge these  three believers to go  and visit you before I  come. In that way, they would be able to help you finish collecting the generous gift EUP that had been promised by you {you had said you would give}.  If you do that, not only will the gift be ready  by the time that we arrive, but everyone will see that you have given because you really want to give, and not because anyone has forced you to give. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_6","077_9_6","2CO","9","6","6","Do not forget this: “ A farmer who sows only a few  seeds will not gather/reap a large  harvest, but the one who sows a lot  of seeds will gather/reap a large  harvest MET.”  Similarly, if you give just a little to help others, God will give you only a few blessings. But if you give willingly and cheerfully to help people, you will receive in return many blessings from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_7","077_9_7","2CO","9","7","7","Each of you should decide how much you (sg) should give,  and then give that amount. You (sg) should not  be thinking to yourself, “ I really do not want to give this money.”  And you(sg) should not give  just because someone tells  you to give. Instead, you should give willingly and cheerfully, because God loves those who give cheerfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_8","077_9_8","2CO","9","8","8","Moreover, God can enable you to  give to others cheerfully. If you give that way, God will  in return give you many good blessings. He will do that so that at all times you will always have everything that you need. Indeed, you will have even more  than you need. As a result, you will be able to do many more good things  to help others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_9","077_9_9","2CO","9","9","9"," Those who give willingly and cheerfully will be rewarded like the man about whom it is written { about whom ◄someone/the Psalmist► wrote} in the Scriptures, He generously  helps others,  he gives to those who are poor.  God will remember the good things that he did,  and reward him with good things forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_10","077_9_10","2CO","9","10","10"," God always gives seeds to farmers to plant, and also gives them food to eat.  So, similarly, God will always make it possible for you to have enough money MET, so that you will be able more and more to generously  help those who are needy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_11","077_9_11","2CO","9","11","11"," God will  give you many blessings in many different ways as a result of your generously  helping others. Furthermore,  the generous  gift that you are getting ready for us (exc) to take to the believers in Judea province will cause  many people to thank God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_12","077_9_12","2CO","9","12","12"," Also remember that when you give money to EUP help God’s people, you not only give them what they need, but also,  because of that,  many people will thank God very much  for you and for what you have done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_13","077_9_13","2CO","9","13","13","As a result of your giving  money to help others, they will praise God, not only because you have believed the good message about Christ, but also because you have  generously given some of your possessions so that they and other believers will all have ◄ enough/their needs supplied►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_14","077_9_14","2CO","9","14","14","Also, when they pray for you,  asking God to bless you, they will remember how grateful they are IDM that God  caused you to give very willingly and cheerfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C29_15","077_9_15","2CO","9","15","15"," Finally, we should all thank God  because he gave us the greatest gift of all when he sent his Son to save/rescue us(inc) ◄ from the guilt of our sin/from being punished for our sin►. That is a gift too wonderful for anyone to be able to tell about completely! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_1","077_10_1","2CO","10","1","1","Now I myself, Paul, appeal to you in a gentle and humble way, like Christ  would. Certain people among you have falsely accused me by saying, “When  Paul is with you, he is humble  and speaks gently to you, but when he is away from you,  in the letters he writes to you he threatens  to punish you.”  Those people claim that I do not have authority over you as an apostle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_2","077_10_2","2CO","10","2","2","I strongly plead with you, “ Please do not listen to people who say things like that!”  I strongly plead with you not to listen to them, so that when I am there  with you I will not  need to speak severely  to you in the same severe way as I  plan to speak to those people who think that I behave like people who are not believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_3","077_10_3","2CO","10","3","3"," Remember that although I am  human like everyone else in the world, I do not fight  against those who oppose me in the way that people who are not believers fight those who oppose them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_4","077_10_4","2CO","10","4","4"," I will tell you what I mean by that: Just like soldiers use various weapons  to fight their enemies MET,  I ◄ fight against/oppose►  those who oppose God’s message, but I do it in a different way. I do not  use human arguments and clever/sweet talk, like unbelievers do. Instead,  I fight against my opponents with the powerful means that God  has given me. With that power  I destroy their arguments against God’s message and against me, just like soldiers destroy MET the fortresses  of their enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_5","077_10_5","2CO","10","5","5"," Specifically, I show that the  human arguments that they use to deceive  people are completely wrong. When they  proudly say things that keep other people from knowing God,  I show them that they are completely wrong. I also enable people to change their ways of thinking so that they think about everything as Christ  wants them to think. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_6","077_10_6","2CO","10","6","6","I am also ready to discipline everyone  among you who has not obeyed  the things that Christ taught. I will do this as soon as you  who truly want to obey Christ show me that you are  going to obey him completely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_7","077_10_7","2CO","10","7","7"," I want you to understand what is happening among you. There are certain  people there who are telling you that they know for sure that they are Christ’s  representatives and that I am not. Those people should realize that I  represent Christ as much as they do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_8","077_10_8","2CO","10","8","8"," I say that because the authority that the Lord gave me  as his apostle is to help you to become mature believers, not to cause you to stop  trusting in Christ. So even if I were to boast a little more than I have  already done (OR, proudly talk a little more than I have  already talked about the authority the Lord gave me  as his apostle),  no one would be able to make me ashamed  by proving that Jesus has not given me that authority. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_9","077_10_9","2CO","10","9","9","I do not intend to make you afraid of me by the letters that I  write to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_10","077_10_10","2CO","10","10","10"," I say that because some people are saying, “ When Paul writes letters, he says severe things  in order to make you obey him, but when he is here with you,  people look at him and say he is weak, and he certainly is not a skillful speaker.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_11","077_10_11","2CO","10","11","11","The  people who say such things should think carefully about this: The kind of  severe person that  you think me to be when you read my letters is exactly the kind of person I will be when I come.  I will do what I wrote that I would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_12","077_10_12","2CO","10","12","12"," Those who oppose me tell others how good they are.  If they really were superior to me IRO, I would not be so bold as to say that I  was equal to them, or to compare myself with them.  But they are not superior to me. They make up their own standards  about what God’s servants should be like, and then they look at their own  conduct and decide  whether or not they meet those standards. By doing that, they show that they are foolish. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_13","077_10_13","2CO","10","13","13","But as for me, I will not boast about  working among people living in areas outside of the areas  that God sent/assigned me to work in. But  it is right for me to say that  I have worked in the areas that God assigned to me.  And since those areas include the one where you live, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_14","077_10_14","2CO","10","14","14"," when I talk about working among you, I am not boasting  about working in an area where God did not give me the right to work. What those who oppose me say about my not having authority as an apostle to you might be true if I had not already come all the way to your area.  But that is not true, because I was the one who first brought the message about Christ to you.  I came to Corinth before they did! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_15","077_10_15","2CO","10","15","15","Also,  my opponents boast about work that others have done  as if it were their own work. It is improper for them to do that, but I do not do as they do. I confidently expect that as you trust more and more  in the gospel that I preach, you will more and more  agree that God has given me the right to work  as Christ’s representative among you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_16","077_10_16","2CO","10","16","16","Then I will be able to go to places beyond where you  are. I will be able to tell the good message about Christ  to people in areas where no one has yet gone to tell that message. And  I will be able to talk about the work I myself have done in that area, instead of boasting about work that someone else has already done  as if it were my work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_17","077_10_17","2CO","10","17","17"," I try to do according to what someone/Jeremiah wrote in the Scriptures, If anyone wants to boast  about something, he should boast  only about what the Lord  God has done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C210_18","077_10_18","2CO","10","18","18"," You can realize, then, that it is not those who ◄praise themselves/tell you what great things they have done►,  as my opponents do, whom you should accept  as apostles. Instead, you  should accept as true apostles only those whom the Lord commends. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_1","077_11_1","2CO","11","1","1"," But now, because my opponents are saying that Christ sent them to you as his representatives and that he did not send me, please be patient with me, too,  while I say a few things  that may sound as if IRO  I am praising myself, like a foolish person  would do. You have been ◄ putting up with/tolerating►  those who teach what is false; now then, ◄put up with/tolerate► me  too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_2","077_11_2","2CO","11","2","2","I really do care about  what happens to you, just as God cares about  what happens to you. Just like a father wants his daughter to be sexually pure when he presents her to the man she will marry MET, I  want you to belong to Christ  alone and to no other. I want to present you  to him as people who remain faithful to him  only, and who have not believed the deceitful message of those who are teaching what is false. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_3","077_11_3","2CO","11","3","3","However, just like  Satan, when he cunningly  appeared as a snake, deceived Eve  and caused her to disobey the Lord God, I am concerned that  those teachers will cause you to think wrongly so that you will no longer  be faithful to Christ alone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_4","077_11_4","2CO","11","4","4"," I say that because some people have come among you who are teaching  their own thoughts about Jesus. They  are saying about him things that are  entirely different from what I taught you.  They are urging you to receive a  powerful spirit who  would come to live in you, but it is not the same  Spirit that you received  from God when you believed in Christ. They preach  what they call a good message, and you accept  their message, even though it is not the same as the good message about Christ that you heard from me. And you have gladly accepted them and their message! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_5","077_11_5","2CO","11","5","5","I consider that LIT none of those  men, even though they think of themselves as being IRO extra-special apostles, are in any way greater than I am. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_6","077_11_6","2CO","11","6","6"," I admit that I am not an eloquent speaker, but I do know  God’s message. I have made that clear to you by everything  that I have done among you and by everything that I have taught you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_7","077_11_7","2CO","11","7","7"," I refused to accept money from you as pay for teaching you God’s message about Christ. ◄It is ridiculous for you to think that what I did was wrong!/Was that wrong?► RHQ  I know that by teaching you without pay, I made myself seem IRO unimportant to you.  But I did it to honor you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_8","077_11_8","2CO","11","8","8"," Some people might say that it was as though IRO I was robbing other congregations because I accepted money from them in order that I might work among you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_9","077_11_9","2CO","11","9","9","Furthermore, when I was  there with you and had no  money to buy the things that I needed, I did not cause any  of you ◄ to have difficulties by my depending on you/by asking you for money/support►, because our (inc) fellow believers who came from  here in Macedonia  province brought enough  money for me to buy everything that I needed. So I have not caused you any difficulty at all  by asking you for money, and I never will  ask you for money EUP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_10","077_11_10","2CO","11","10","10"," And as  sure as you know that everything that Christ says is true,  you can be sure that what I say  to you now is true. Wherever I go there in Achaia  province,  I do not let you believers pay me for doing God’s work among you. And no one will be able to prevent me from boasting  about that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_11","077_11_11","2CO","11","11","11","No one should wrongly RHQ think that it is because I do not love you that  I do not take pay from you. God knows  that you truly/really are very dear to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_12","077_11_12","2CO","11","12","12","There are  some men there among you who would like to be able to say boastfully that they  work among you just as I do. So, in order to make it impossible IDM  for them to say that, I have  refused to accept pay from you, and I will continue doing that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_13","077_11_13","2CO","11","13","13","Those men are lying  when they say that they are apostles. They work deceitfully.  Even though they say that they work for God, they are working only for themselves. They try to make people think that Christ  sent them as his apostles,  but they do not truly represent him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_14","077_11_14","2CO","11","14","14","I am not surprised  that they act like that, because Satan himself causes people to think  that he has come as a shining messenger  from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_15","077_11_15","2CO","11","15","15","So it should not surprise  you if these men, who  really serve  Satan, do good things in order to make you think they  serve God. Some day God will  punish them according to what they deserve because of the  evil things that they do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_16","077_11_16","2CO","11","16","16","I say again: I do not want any of you to think that my  boasting about myself is like foolish  people boast. But even if anyone  thinks that I am boasting about myself like a foolish person boasts, listen to what I  have to say anyway, just like you listen to those false apostles. They really  speak foolishly! Listen to me while I also boast a little. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_17","077_11_17","2CO","11","17","17","About the things that I am  going to tell you, boasting confidently  about myself, surely you know that they are not the kind of things that the Lord  Jesus would say. Instead,  I will speak as a foolish  person would speak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_18","077_11_18","2CO","11","18","18","Because many among you are boasting  about their own work, as unbelievers do, I will also boast  about myself and my work MTY, IRO. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_19","077_11_19","2CO","11","19","19"," I am sure that you, who think that you are so wise, will accept what I say because you gladly  accept the false teachers and the foolish things  that they say. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_20","077_11_20","2CO","11","20","20","When people  treat you as if they were your bosses, you gladly submit  to them. You think that it is all right when others force you to provide for their needs. You think that it is all right  when people take control over you, when they boast about themselves,  or when they insult you by slapping you in the face. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_21","077_11_21","2CO","11","21","21","I agree that I was not bold enough to treat you in such ways.  Ha! Do you think that IRO I should feel ashamed  because I did not do that? So now, talking like a person who does not have any sense, I will boldly tell you  some things about myself, just like those false apostles tell you things about themselves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_22","077_11_22","2CO","11","22","22","Do  they tell you that they are Hebrews  and can speak the Hebrew language? Well, I can say the same thing  about myself. Do they  tell you that they belong  to God’s people, the nation of Israel? Well, I can say the same thing  about myself.  Do they tell you that they are descendants of  our great ancestor Abraham? Well, he is my ancestor, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_23","077_11_23","2CO","11","23","23"," Do they tell you how much work they have done for Christ? Now I am talking like a crazy person talks EUP. Well, I work for Christ much more  than they do. I have been in prison many more times  than they have. Many times I have been beaten { people have beaten me} very severely  because I believe in and obey Christ. Many times I almost died  because of serving Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_24","077_11_24","2CO","11","24","24","On five occasions Jewish religious leaders beat me 39 times with a whip. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_25","077_11_25","2CO","11","25","25","On three occasions I was beaten {Roman officials beat me} with wooden sticks. On one occasion  a large crowd of people threw stones at me  to kill me. On three occasions the ship  that I was traveling on was wrecked  and sank. On one of those occasions I was floating in the water a night and a day  before I was rescued. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_26","077_11_26","2CO","11","26","26","As I have often traveled to other places,  I have often risked losing my life. For example, sometimes I have been in danger  crossing rivers.  I have been in danger  traveling in places where there were bandits.  At times I have been in danger among people of my own nation,  the Jews, and  at other times I been in danger among those who are not Jews.  I have been in danger in cities, and I have been in dangerous situations in barren areas. I have been in dangerous situations  when I was traveling in ships.  I have been in danger among people who falsely  claim to be fellow believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_27","077_11_27","2CO","11","27","27","I have worked very hard DOU  to earn ◄ a living/what I need►, and often I did not sleep. At times I was hungry and thirsty, and at times I did not have enough time to eat. Sometimes I was cold  because I did not have enough clothes  to wear. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_28","077_11_28","2CO","11","28","28","In addition to all that, I am constantly and deeply concerned about all the congregations  that I have helped to begin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_29","077_11_29","2CO","11","29","29"," Every time that I hear about fellow believers RHQ who are not strong spiritually, I sympathize with them  and try to help them. Every time that I learn about a fellow believer RHQ who causes  another believer to do something wrong, that makes me very angry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_30","077_11_30","2CO","11","30","30","Because  it seems that it is necessary for me to  continue boasting  about myself, I will boast about things that  caused some people to think of me as being weak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_31","077_11_31","2CO","11","31","31","God, who is the Father of our (inc) Lord Jesus, and who is the one  whom we should praise forever, knows that I am not lying  about this. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_32","077_11_32","2CO","11","32","32"," One time when I was in Damascus  city, the governor whom King Aretas  had appointed to rule  part of his area, told his soldiers to guard  the gates of the city so that they could seize me  if I tried to leave the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C211_33","077_11_33","2CO","11","33","33","But  my friends helped me to escape  by putting me in a large basket and lowering me  to the ground by a rope through an opening in the  city wall.  That was really humiliating! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_1","077_12_1","2CO","12","1","1"," It seems that I must go on boasting  about myself. Although  I do not  think that my telling you about this will help  you to accept me as Christ’s representative to you, I  will say this anyway. I will tell you about visions that the Lord  gave a certain man and about things that he supernaturally revealed  to that man. I will tell you this because some of the people among you boast that it was in visions that they received the things that they teach. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_2","077_12_2","2CO","12","2","2","The man that I will tell you about is one  who believes in Christ. Fourteen years ago he was taken { Christ took him} up into the third heaven,  the highest heaven, the place where God is. I do not know whether he went there  in his physical body or whether he was outside of his body  at that time and only his spirit went. Only God really knows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_3","077_12_3","2CO","12","3","4","But he was  suddenly taken {Christ suddenly took him} up to  a place called Paradise,  that wonderful place where God lives. I repeat that I do not know whether his body  went there or only his spirit. Only God knows  that. While he was there, God told him some things that he does not allow  human beings to tell  others about. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_5","077_12_5","2CO","12","5","5","I will proudly talk about that man. However, I will not be boasting  as I say that I  am the one who saw and heard those wonderful things. I will talk only about the things that  cause others to think of me as a weak  human being like everyone else. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_6","077_12_6","2CO","12","6","6","But even if I should choose to boast  to you about such wonderful things that happened to me, I would not be  speaking like a fool, because I would be telling you the truth. But I will not  talk proudly about such things, because I do not want any of you to think highly of me  because of the things that have happened to me. Instead,  I want you to decide what kind of person I am by the way you see me  acting and by what you hear me teach. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_7","077_12_7","2CO","12","7","7","In order that I might not become proud because of those many wonderful things  that Christ revealed to me,  God permitted Satan to send a messenger  to humble me (OR, to  make me sick).  What that messenger did to me was painful, like MET a thorn pricking my body. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_8","077_12_8","2CO","12","8","8","Three times I prayed to the Lord about it, begging him to take this away from me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_9","077_12_9","2CO","12","9","9","But he said to me, “ No, I will not take this away from you. Instead, I will kindly help you, and that will be all that you need, because it is  when you are weak that I  can best  work powerfully  to help you.” So, because of  what the Lord said to me, I will very gladly boast about  the things that make me  seem weak, so that  people may realize that it is Christ who gives me power  to serve him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_10","077_12_10","2CO","12","10","10","For that reason,  whenever I am weak, or  when people insult me,  or when I have to endure hardships, or  when I am persecuted { people cause me to suffer}, or  when I am in situations that distress me, I am content because  I am serving Christ.  I can say that because at any time when I myself am weak, that is the  very time when  Christ powerfully  helps me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_11","077_12_11","2CO","12","11","11","It has been foolish for me  to talk about myself like this, but it is you who forced me to do it. Truly  if the Lord would not help me, I would be worthless,  as my opponents say that I am. But none of the men whom you  wrongfully think IRO are great apostles are greater in any way than I am. So it would have been right/proper for you to say good things about me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_12","077_12_12","2CO","12","12","12"," You should have done that, because when I was with you  I repeatedly did the things that showed you that  I am truly an apostle, such as performing many DOU miracles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_13","077_12_13","2CO","12","13","13","And I have  certainly treated you as well as  I treated the other congregations  that I helped to start. Or do you think that by not asking you  to pay me for my work, I was not treating you as well as I treated the other congregations? ◄It is foolish for you to  think that IRO  it was wrong for me not  to ask for pay from you for my work, and therefore I should ask you to forgive me for that!/Do you  think that it was wrong for me not  to ask for pay from you for my work, and therefore I should ask you to forgive me for that?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_14","077_12_14","2CO","12","14","14","Now listen to me! It is time for me to come to you for a third  visit. When I come, I  still will not insist that you  pay me for my work, because I do not want  any of your  money EUP! What I want is for you MTY  to love and appreciate me. It is not  normally the duty of children to save  money to provide for the needs of their parents. Instead, it  is the duty of parents to  provide for their children MET. In the same way,  it is not your duty to provide for me. Instead, it is my duty to provide spiritual help for you because you are my spiritual children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_15","077_12_15","2CO","12","15","15","So, for my part,  as a good parent would do, I will be very happy to use everything that I have, and do everything that I possibly can,  in order to help you. And because I love you very much, ◄I will be very disappointed if  you do not love me a little bit, too./will  you not love me a little bit, too?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_16","077_12_16","2CO","12","16","16"," You all know that I did not depend on you  to provide for my needs. However,  there are some who accuse me, saying that IRO I was very clever and got money from you by tricking you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_17","077_12_17","2CO","12","17","17","But did I ever do that? No! I never RHQ asked any of the men whom I sent to you  to get money from you  and bring it to me ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_18","077_12_18","2CO","12","18","18","Titus went  and visited you because I urged him to do so. I also sent the other believer,  whom you know, to go with Titus.  You know that Titus did not RHQ trick  you in order to get money from you. And you certainly know that he and I have always RHQ acted in exactly the same  honest way towards you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_19","077_12_19","2CO","12","19","19","While  you have been reading this letter, if you have been thinking that I have  just been  saying these things to defend myself  against those who accuse me, you are wrong. I have been saying  these things honestly, knowing that God is listening  to me. I also speak as one who has a close relationship with Christ. Everything that I do and  everything that I say is to  help you whom I love ◄to grow spiritually/ to become spiritually mature►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_20","077_12_20","2CO","12","20","20"," I have written this way to you because I worry that when I come  to visit you, I will see that  some of you are  not conducting your lives the way that I want you  to. If that is so,  when I get there you will see that I will have  to act in a  very severe way toward you, and I am sure that you do not want that. Specifically, I am afraid that  some of you may be quarreling, or that you are being jealous  of each other, or that you quickly get very angry  with them, or that you are acting selfishly, or that  some of you are saying bad things about others, or that you are ◄spreading false rumors/saying false things► about each other, or that you are acting proudly, or that you are  doing things in a disorderly manner. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C212_21","077_12_21","2CO","12","21","21"," I ◄ feel anxious/am concerned►  about you. I worry that when I visit you again, God, the one whom I  serve, will make me feel ashamed of you  when I see that you  still are not conducting your lives as believers should. Then I will feel very sad about  some of you who were sinning previously and have not stopped your sinful behavior.  Some of you may still have impure  thoughts. Some of you may be having sexual intercourse with those to whom you are not married.  And some of you may be doing other shameful things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_1","077_13_1","2CO","13","1","1"," In the Scriptures it is stated that when one person accuses  another of wrongdoing, you must not believe his accusation  right away.  First, you must listen to at least two or three people who actually saw what happened.  So keep in mind that this will be the third time that I will visit you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_2","077_13_2","2CO","13","2","2","When I visited you the second time, I warned you  that I was going to punish all the wrongdoers among you.  And now I am  warning you again while I am still away  from you. When I visit you this third time, I will punish those who were sinning  at the time when I visited you before  and who are still sinning, and I will  punish the others  who have been sinning since then, if they have not stopped their sinful behavior. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_3","077_13_3","2CO","13","3","3","Because you have demanded that I prove to you that Christ is speaking  to you when I  speak to you, I will show you that I speak to you as his apostle. Christ does not approve of your sinful behavior. On the contrary, he will powerfully  discipline you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_4","077_13_4","2CO","13","4","4"," It is true that Christ  seemed to be weak when he was crucified {when  people killed him by nailing him to the cross}. But  it is also true that he  now lives because God  worked powerfully  to bring him back to life. Similarly, as I  serve God, I also am a weak human  being as Christ was. But I also  have a close relationship with Christ  who is now alive again. And with his  authority I will use God’s power  to discipline you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_5","077_13_5","2CO","13","5","5","Each of you should ask yourself: “ Do I believe  God’s message about Christ?” Each of you should  examine yourselves to make sure that you truly do  believe in Christ  and so truly belong to him, and that  his Spirit lives in you (pl). When you examine yourselves  in that way, I am sure that you will RHQ say  to me, “Yes, of course we  belong to Christ.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_6","077_13_6","2CO","13","6","6","I am  also certain that you will know that I  belong to Christ, just like you do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_7","077_13_7","2CO","13","7","7","But  because I do not want to have to punish you, I am praying to God that he will help you not to do anything evil  that would cause me to have to punish you. I pray this, not in order that when people  who say that I am not your apostle realize  that my ministry among you has been very successful, they will have to agree that I do have authority from Christ. Instead,  I pray this because I want you to do what is right, even though that might mean that  my opponents would think that I do not have authority from Christ,  since I would not have an opportunity to show my authority to discipline you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_8","077_13_8","2CO","13","8","8"," If you do what is right, I will not discipline you,  because it would not  be right for me to do that if you are conducting your lives the way you should, like God’s true  message says that you should. What God asks me to do is to help people to know and obey his true  message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_9","077_13_9","2CO","13","9","9","I am happy  whenever you are strongly  trusting and obeying Christ, and because of that I do not have to use my authority to discipline you. It does not matter to me if that makes people think that I do not have any authority. Truly, what I am praying for is that  God will  help you to completely change your conduct. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_10","077_13_10","2CO","13","10","10","That is why I am writing these things while I am still away from you.  What I want is that when I visit you,  you will already be conducting your lives as God wants you to, and so I will not have to  discipline you severely, as the  Lord Jesus Christ gave me the authority to do. The authority that I have from the Lord is to help you to become spiritually mature believers, not to cause you to stop  trusting in him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_11","077_13_11","2CO","13","11","11","Finally, my fellow believers,  I say to you, be joyful. Completely  change how you conduct your lives, and do what I have urged you  to do. Be united in what you think  about the matters about which I have written to you. Live peacefully  with each other. If you do those things, God, who enables you to love  each other and be peaceful, will bless MTY you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_12","077_13_12","2CO","13","12","12","Greet each other affectionately as  fellow members of God’s family  should. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_13","077_13_13","2CO","13","13","13","All God’s people  here send you greetings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("C213_14","077_13_14","2CO","13","14","14"," I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will act kindly  toward all of you, in ways that you do not deserve, that God will  show all of you how much he loves you, and that the Holy Spirit  will cause you to have good fellowship  with him and with each other. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_1","078_1_1","GAL","1","1","1"," I, Paul,  write this letter to you. I remind you that I am an apostle. That is not because a group of people  appointed me, nor because a human being  sent me to be an apostle. Instead, Jesus Christ and God  our heavenly Father, who caused Jesus to become alive again after he died, have  appointed and sent  me to be an apostle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_2","078_1_2","GAL","1","2","2","All the fellow believers  who are here with me  approve of this message that I am writing. I am sending this letter to the congregations that  are in Galatia  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_3","078_1_3","GAL","1","3","3"," I pray that God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ will kindly  help you and enable  you to have inner peace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_4","078_1_4","GAL","1","4","4","Christ offered himself  as a sacrifice in order that  he might remove the guilt for our sins. He did that in order that he might enable us to not  do the evil things that people who do not know him do.  He did this because God, who is our Father, wanted it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_5","078_1_5","GAL","1","5","5"," I pray that people will praise God forever. ◄May it be so!/Amen!► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_6","078_1_6","GAL","1","6","6","I am very disappointed IRO that so soon  after you trusted in Christ you have turned away from  God. He chose you in order that  you might have what Christ freely/kindly gives. I am also disappointed that so soon you are believing a different  message which some say is “good news.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_7","078_1_7","GAL","1","7","7","Their message is not a true message.  What is happening is that certain persons are confusing your  minds. They are desiring to change the good message ◄that Christ  revealed/about Christ►  and are creating another message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_8","078_1_8","GAL","1","8","8","But even if we (exc) apostles or an angel from heaven would tell you a message that is different from the good message that we told you  before, I  appeal to God that  he punish such a person  forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_9","078_1_9","GAL","1","9","9","As I told you previously, so now I tell you this once more: Someone is telling you  what he says is a good message, but it is a message that is different from  the good message that I gave you. So I  appeal to God that  he severely punish that person. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_10","078_1_10","GAL","1","10","10"," I said that because RHQ I do not desire that people approve me,  contrary to what some have said about me. It is God whom I desire to approve me.  Specifically, I do not say and do RHQ things just to please people. If it were still people whom I was trying to please, then I would not be one who  willingly and completely serves Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_11","078_1_11","GAL","1","11","11","My fellow believers, I want you to know that the message about Christ that I proclaim to people is not one that some person  created/thought up. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_12","078_1_12","GAL","1","12","12","I did not receive this message from a human  messenger, and no  human being taught it to me. Instead, Jesus Christ revealed it to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_13","078_1_13","GAL","1","13","13","People have told you how I used to behave when  I practiced the Jewish religion. They told you that I continually did very harmful things to the groups of believers that God  established, and they told you that I tried to get rid of those people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_14","078_1_14","GAL","1","14","14","I practiced the Jewish religion more thoroughly than many  other Jews who were my age practiced it. I much more enthusiastically tried to get others to obey the traditions that my ancestors  kept. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_15","078_1_15","GAL","1","15","15","Nevertheless, before I was born,  God ◄set me apart/selected me►. He chose me  to live eternally, something that I did not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_16","078_1_16","GAL","1","16","16","He wanted me to know that Jesus is ◄his Son/the man who is also God►, so that I would tell others the message about him in regions where non-Jews live. But I did not immediately go to any human beings SYN in order to gain  an understanding of that message. I received it directly from Christ!! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_17","078_1_17","GAL","1","17","17","I did not  immediately leave Damascus and go to Jerusalem  for that purpose to those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away to Arabia  region, a desert area. Later I returned once more to Damascus  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_18","078_1_18","GAL","1","18","18","Then three years after  God revealed this good message to me, I went up to Jerusalem in order that I might meet Peter. But I stayed with him for  only 15 days,  which was not long enough for him to teach me thoroughly about Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_19","078_1_19","GAL","1","19","19","I also saw James, the brother of our Lord  Jesus and the leader of the believers there, but I did not see any other apostle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_20","078_1_20","GAL","1","20","20","God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true LIT! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_21","078_1_21","GAL","1","21","21","After  I left Jerusalem, I went to  the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_22","078_1_22","GAL","1","22","22"," At that time, people in the Christian congregations that are in Judea  province still had not met me SYN personally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_23","078_1_23","GAL","1","23","23","They only heard  others say about me repeatedly, “ Paul, the one who was formerly doing harmful things to us, is now telling the  same message which we believe and which formerly he was trying ◄to destroy/to cause people to stop believing►!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL1_24","078_1_24","GAL","1","24","24","And they praised God because of  what had happened to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_1","078_2_1","GAL","2","1","1","After 14 years passed, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas. I took Titus also. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_2","078_2_2","GAL","2","2","2","But  I tell you that I went up there because of what God revealed to me.  It was not because someone there asked me to come. I told people what was the good message that I was preaching in regions where non-Jews live. But I talked privately to those whom your new teachers highly respect. I did that in order that what I was doing and what I had done MET might not become useless MET  as a result of people rejecting my message because they thought that I was teaching something that was not true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_3","078_2_3","GAL","2","3","3","But  even though the leaders of the believers usually insisted that when non-Jews trusted in Christ someone must circumcise them, they did not even insist that Titus be circumcised, even though he was a Greek man who was with me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_4","078_2_4","GAL","2","4","4"," I talked to them privately because some people  successfully pretended that they were fellow believers and associated with the true believers. They did that in order that they might observe closely what we do because we are free  from having to obey all the Jewish laws and rituals because of our close relationship with Christ Jesus MET. Those people wanted to make us  like slaves MET  of those rituals by convincing us that we cannot trust Christ solely but that we must also obey all the Jewish rituals. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_5","078_2_5","GAL","2","5","5","But not even briefly did we (exc) do what they wanted  about circumcision. We(exc) resisted them in order that the truth of the message about Christ might continue to  benefit you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_6","078_2_6","GAL","2","6","6","The  leaders in Jerusalem, whom your new teachers respect, did not add anything to what I preach.  And I would add that what status those leaders had did not influence me, because God does not favor certain/important persons IDM more than others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_7","078_2_7","GAL","2","7","7","Instead of those leaders adding to the message that I tell people, they understood that I had been given the good message {God had given the good message to me} so that I might proclaim it to the non-Jews MTY, just like  God had given the good message to Peter so that he might tell it to those who are Jews MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_8","078_2_8","GAL","2","8","8","That is, just like  God had empowered/authorized Peter in order that he might be an apostle  to bring God’s message to the Jews MTY, he also had empowered/authorized me in order that I might be an apostle to  bring his message to the non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_9","078_2_9","GAL","2","9","9","And  those leaders knew that God had kindly given to me this special work. So James, Peter, and John, the ones whom your new teachers  respect because they are leaders MET  of the believers, shook hands with us IDM  to show that they agreed that Barnabas and I are serving the Lord just like they are, and that we are preaching the same message that they are preaching. They also agreed that we (exc) are the ones whom God was sending to  tell his message to non-Jews, but that God is sending them to  tell his message to Jews MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_10","078_2_10","GAL","2","10","10","They merely urged that we (exc) still remember to help the poor  fellow believers who live in Jerusalem. That is exactly what I have been eager to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_11","078_2_11","GAL","2","11","11","But  later while I was at Antioch  city, after Peter came there, I told him directly SYN that what he was doing was wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_12","078_2_12","GAL","2","12","12"," This is what happened:  Peter went to Antioch and started eating regularly with non-Jewish believers there. Later there were certain  Jewish believers who came  to Antioch who claimed that James,  the leader of the congregations in Jerusalem, had sent them. But when  those certain men came, Peter gradually quit  eating with the non-Jewish believers and would not associate with them. He was afraid that the Jewish believers from Jerusalem would criticize him for associating with non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_13","078_2_13","GAL","2","13","13","Also, the other Jewish believers who were in Antioch SYN acted ◄insincerely/in a way that they knew was not right► along with  Peter. The result was that they convinced even Barnabas to  stop associating with the non-Jewish believers! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_14","078_2_14","GAL","2","14","14","But when I realized that they were not acting according to the truth of the message about Christ,  when all  the fellow believers there were present, I told Peter  the following: “Although you (sg) are a Jew,  you often conduct yourself like non-Jews  do by disregarding Jewish laws about food. When you are among non-Jews, you (sg) do not customarily conduct yourself at all like Jews  do. So, ◄now it is wrong that you (sg) are causing non-Jews  to think that they must obey all the Jewish rituals and customs!/why are you (sg) causing non-Jews  to think that they must obey all the Jewish rituals and customs?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_15","078_2_15","GAL","2","15","15","Some of us believers were born as Jews. We (exc) were not born as non-Jews.  We Jews have always considered non-Jews to be ‘sinners’  because they do not obey the Jewish rituals and laws. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("GL2_16","078_2_16","GAL","2","16","16","But we (exc) now know that it is not because some person obeys the laws  that God gave to Moses that  God erases the record of that person’s sins.  God erases the record of a person’s sins only if that person trusts in what Jesus Christ has done. Even we (exc) Jews trusted Christ Jesus. We (exc) did that in order that  God would erase the record of our sins because of our trusting Christ, and not because of our obeying the laws  that God gave to Moses. God has said that he will  never erase the record of people’s sins just because of their obeying those laws. ");
