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46-ROM/09.usfm

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 \q "I will call my people who were not my people,
 \q and her beloved who was not beloved.
 \q
-\v 26 And it will be that where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
+\v 26 Then it will be that where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
 \q there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
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 \v 27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel were as the sand of the sea, it will be a remnant that will be saved.
-\v 28 For the Lord will carry out his word on the earth, soon and completely.
+\v 28 For the Lord will carry out his word on the earth, soon and completely,
-\v 29 And it is as Isaiah said before,
+\v 29 and it is as Isaiah said before,
 \q "If the Lord of hosts had not left descendants behind for us,
 \q we would have become like Sodom,
 \q and have been made like Gomorrah.

46-ROM/10.usfm

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 \v 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the law: "The man who does the righteousness of the law will live by this righteousness."
 
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-\v 6 But the righteousness that comes from faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down).
+\v 6 But the righteousness that comes from faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);
-\v 7 And do not say, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead ones.)
+\v 7 and do not say, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead ones.)
 
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 \v 8 But what does it say?
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ That is the word of faith, which we proclaim.
 \v 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
 
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-\v 14 How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher?
+\v 14 How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? How can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? How can they hear without a preacher?
-\v 15 And how can they preach, unless they are sent?—As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim glad tidings of good things!"
+\v 15 Then how can they preach, unless they are sent?—As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim glad tidings of good things!"
 
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@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ That is the word of faith, which we proclaim.
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-\v 20 And Isaiah is very bold and says,
+\v 20 Then Isaiah was very bold when he says,
 \q "I was found by those who did not seek me.
 \q I appeared to those who did not ask for me."
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-\v 21 But to Israel he says, "All the day long I reached out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."
+\v 21 But to Israel he says, "All the day long I reached out my hands to a disobedient and stubborn people."
 
 
 

46-ROM/11.usfm

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 \v 8 It is just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of dullness, eyes so that they should not see, and ears so that they should not hear, to this very day."
 
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-\v 9 And David says,
+\v 9 Then David says,
 \q "Let their table be made a net, a trap,
 \q a stumbling block, and retaliation against them.
 \q
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 \v 12 Now if their failure is the riches of the world, and if their loss is the riches of the Gentiles, how much greater will their completion be?
 
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-\v 13 And now I am speaking to you Gentiles. As long as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry.
+\v 13 But now I am speaking to you Gentiles, and as long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry.
 \v 14 Perhaps I will provoke to jealousy those who are of my own flesh. Perhaps we will save some of them.
 
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 \v 22 Look at, then, the kind actions and the severity of God. On the one hand, severity came on the Jews who fell. But on the other hand, God's kindness comes on you, if you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
 
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-\v 23 And also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, they will be grafted back in. For God is able to graft them in again.
+\v 23 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.
 \v 24 For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive tree, how much more will these Jews, who are the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree?
 
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@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
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 \v 26 Thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written:
 \q "Out of Zion will come the Deliverer.
-\q He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
+\q He will remove ungodliness from Jacob,
 \q
-\v 27 And this will be my covenant with them,
+\v 27 and this will be my covenant with them,
 \q when I will take away their sins."
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46-ROM/13.usfm

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 \c 13
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-\v 1 Let every soul be obedient to higher authorities, for there is no authority unless it comes from God. And the authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
+\v 1 Let every soul be obedient to higher authorities, for there is no authority unless it comes from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
 \v 2 Therefore he who resists that authority opposes the command of God; and those who oppose it will receive judgment on themselves.
 
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@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@
 \v 12 The night has advanced, and the day has come near. Let us therefore put aside the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
 
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-\v 13 Let us walk appropriately, as in the day, not in wild celebrations or drunkenness. And let us not walk in sexual immorality or in uncontrolled lust, and not in strife or jealousy.
+\v 13 Let us walk appropriately, as in the day, not in wild celebrations or drunkenness; and let us not walk in sexual immorality or in uncontrolled lust, and not in strife or jealousy.
-\v 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
+\v 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its lusts.

46-ROM/14.usfm

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 \v 2 One person has faith to eat anything, another who is weak eats only vegetables.
 
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-\v 3 May the one who eats everything not despise the one who does not eat everything. And may the one who does not eat everything not judge the other who eats everything. For God has received him.
+\v 3 May the one who eats everything not despise the one who does not; and may the one who does not eat everything not judge the other who eats everything. For God has accepted him.
 \v 4 Who are you, you who judge a servant belonging to someone else? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. But he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
 
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47-1CO/03.usfm

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 \v 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as to fleshly people, as to babes in Christ.
-\v 2 I fed you milk and not meat, for you were not ready for meat. And even now you are not ready.
+\v 2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and even now you are not yet ready.
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 \v 3 For you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife exist among you, are you not living according to the flesh, and are you not walking by human standards?
 \v 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another says, "I follow Apollos," are you not living as human beings?

47-1CO/06.usfm

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 \c 6
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 \v 1 When one of you has a dispute with another, does he dare to go to the civil court before an unbelieving judge, rather than before the believers?
-\v 2 Do you not know that the believers will judge the world? And if you will judge the world, are you not able to settle unimportant matters?
+\v 2 Do you not know that the believers will judge the world? If then, you will judge the world, are you not able to settle matters of little importance?
 \v 3 Do you not know that we will judge the angels? How much more, then, can we judge matters of this life?
 
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