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05-DEU/01.usfm

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 \v 31 and also in the wilderness, where you have seen how Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.'
 
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-\v 32 But in this thing you did not believe Yahweh your God,
-\v 33 who went before you on the way to find a place for you to make camp; he went in fire by night to show you the way you should go, and in a cloud by day.
+\v 32 Yet in spite of this word you did not believe Yahweh your God,
+\v 33 who went before you on the way to find a place for you to make camp, in fire by night and in a cloud by day.
 
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05-DEU/02.usfm

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 \v 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness. For these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing."'
  
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-\v 8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, from Elath and from Ezion Geber.
-\p And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
+\v 8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, from Elath and from Ezion Geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
  
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 \v 9 Yahweh said to me, 'Do not trouble Moab, and do not fight with them in battle. For I will not give you his land for your own possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot, for their possession.'
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 \v 22 This Yahweh also did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them, and the descendants of Esau succeeded them and have lived in their place even until today.
  
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-\v 23 And the Awites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
+\v 23 And the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
  
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 \v 24 "'Now rise up, go on your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon; look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and fight with him in battle.

05-DEU/20.usfm

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 \v 5 The officers must speak to the people and say, 'What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man dedicates it.
  
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-\v 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man uses its fruit.
-\v 7 What man is there who is engaged to marry a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go and return to his house so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.'
+\v 6 Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go home, so he will not die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
+\v 7 What man is there who is engaged to marry a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go home so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.'
  
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 \v 8 The officers must speak further to the people and say, 'What man is there who is fearful or fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, so that his brother's heart does not melt like his own heart.'

06-JOS/13.usfm

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 \v 2 This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites,
-\v 3 (from Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and northward to the border of Ekron, which is considered property of the Canaanites; the five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron—the territory of the Awites).
+\v 3 (from Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and northward to the border of Ekron, which is considered property of the Canaanites; the five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron—the territory of the Avvites).
 
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 \v 4 In the south, there are still all the lands of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;

60-JAS/01.usfm

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 \v 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," because God is not tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.
 
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-\v 14 But each person is tempted by his own evil desire, which drags him away and entices him.
-\v 15 Then after the evil desire conceives, it gives birth to sin. And after the sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. 
+\v 14 But each person is tempted by his own desire, which drags him away and entices him.
+\v 15 Then after the desire conceives, it gives birth to sin. And after the sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. 
 \v 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
 
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60-JAS/02.usfm

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-\v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but if he has no works? That faith cannot save him, can it?
+\v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but if he has no works? Can that faith save him?
 \v 15 Suppose that a brother or sister is badly clothed and lacks food for the day.
 \v 16 Suppose that one of you says to them, "Go in peace, stay warm and be filled." If you do not give them the things necessary for the body, what good is that?
 \v 17 In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

60-JAS/03.usfm

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 \v 10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not happen.
 
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-\v 11 A spring does not pour out from its opening both sweet and bitter water, does it?
-\v 12 A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, can it? Or a grapevine, figs? Neither can salty water produce sweet water. 
+\v 11 Does a spring pour out from its opening both sweet and bitter water?
+\v 12 Does a fig tree, my brothers, make olives? Or a grapevine, figs? Neither can salty water produce sweet water. 
 
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60-JAS/04.usfm

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-\v 1 Where do quarrels and disputes among you come from? Do they not come from your evil desires that fight among your members?
+\v 1 Where do quarrels and disputes among you come from? Do they not come from your desires that fight among your members?
 \v 2 You desire, and you do not have. You kill and covet, and you are not able to obtain. You fight and quarrel. You do not possess because you do not ask.
-\v 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask badly, in order that you may use it for your evil desires.
+\v 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask badly, in order that you may use it for your desires.
 
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 \v 4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility against God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

61-1PE/01.usfm

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 \v 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreigners of the dispersion, the chosen ones, throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
-\v 2 This is according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. It is by the sanctifying of the Spirit for obedience and for the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace be to you, and may your peace increase.
+\v 2 This is according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace be to you, and may your peace increase.
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 \v 11 They searched to know about whom and when the Spirit of Christ in them was speaking to them. This was happening as he was telling them in advance about the sufferings of Christ and the glorious things after that.
-\v 12 It was revealed to the prophets that they were not serving themselves, but you. This is what they were doing in regard to the things told to you by those by means of the Holy Spirit, who was sent from heaven. These are things that even angels desire to be revealed.
+\v 12 It was revealed to the them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told to you by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look. 
 
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61-1PE/02.usfm

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 \v 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile back. When he suffered, he did not threaten back, but he gave himself to the one who judges justly.
 
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-\v 24 He himself carried our sins in his body to the tree, so that we might have no more part in sin, and so that we might live for righteousness. By his bruises you have been healed.
+\v 24 He himself carried our sins in his body to the tree, so that we would have no more part in sin, and so that we would live for righteousness. By his bruises you have been healed.
 \v 25 All of you had been wandering away like lost sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
 
 

61-1PE/03.usfm

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-\v 1 In this way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands. Do this so that, even if some men are disobedient to the word, through their wives' behavior they may be won without a word. 
+\v 1 In this way, you who are wives should submit to your own husbands. Do this so even if some men are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word, through their wives' behavior. 
 \v 2 For they will have seen your sincere behavior with respect.
 
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61-1PE/04.usfm

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 \v 2 As a result, such a person, for the rest of his time in the flesh, no longer lives for men's desires, but for God's will.
 
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-\v 3 For enough time has passed to do what the Gentiles want to do—sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, wild parties, and disgusting acts of idolatry.
+\v 3 For enough time has passed to do what the Gentiles want to do—sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousings, wild parties, and disgusting acts of idolatry.
 \v 4 They think it is strange that you do not join with them in these floods of dissipation, so they speak evil about you.
 \v 5 They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
 \v 6 For this purpose the gospel was preached also to the dead, so that, although they have been judged in the flesh as humans, they may live as God in the spirit.
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 \v 10 As each one of you has received a gift, use it to serve one another. Do this as good stewards of God's many free gifts.
-\v 11 If anyone speaks, let it be like the oracles of God. If anyone serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Do these things so that in all ways God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. May there be to Jesus Christ glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
+\v 11 If anyone speaks, let it be like the oracles of God. If anyone serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Do these things so that in all ways God would be glorified through Jesus Christ. May there be to Jesus Christ glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
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-\v 12 Beloved, do not regard as strange the testing in the fire that has happened to you, as if something unusual were happening to you.
+\v 12 Beloved, do not regard as strange the testing in the fire that has happened to you, as if something strange were happening to you.
 \v 13 Instead, however much you experience the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that you may also rejoice and be glad at the revealing of his glory.
 \v 14 If you are insulted for Christ's name, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God is resting on you.
 

61-1PE/05.usfm

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 \v 7 Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
 
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-\v 8 Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion is stalking around, looking for someone to devour.
-\v 9 Stand against him. Be strong in your faith. You know that the same sufferings are being accomplished among your brotherhood in the world.
+\v 8 Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, is stalking around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
+\v 9 Stand against him. Be strong in your faith. You know that your community of believers that in the world is enduring the same sufferings.
 
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 \v 10 After you suffer for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect you, establish you, and strengthen you.