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 \v 20 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms,
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 \q 'Let his field be made desolate,
-\q and do not let even one person live there';
+\q2 and do not let even one person live there';
 \q 'Let someone else take his position of leadership.'
 
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 \v 16 But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
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 \v 17 'It will be in the last days,' God says,
-\q 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
+\q2 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
 \q Your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
-\q your young men will see visions,
-\q and your old men will dream dreams.
+\q2 your young men will see visions,
+\q2 and your old men will dream dreams.
 
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-\v 18 Surely on my servants and my female servants in those days
-\q I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
+\v 18 Surely on my servants
+\q2 and my female servants in those days
+\q2 I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
 \q
 \v 19 I will show wonders in the sky above
-\q and signs on the earth below,
-\q blood, fire, and vapor of smoke.
+\q2 and signs on the earth below,
+\q2 blood, fire, and vapor of smoke.
 
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 \v 20 The sun will be turned to darkness
-\q and the moon to blood
-\q before the great and remarkable day of the Lord comes.
+\q2 and the moon to blood
+\q before the great and remarkable
+\q2 day of the Lord comes.
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-\v 21 It will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
+\v 21 It will be that everyone who calls
+\q2 on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
 
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 \v 25 For David says about him,
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 \q 'I saw the Lord always before my face,
-\q for he is beside my right hand so that I should not be moved.
+\q for he is beside my right hand
+\q2 so that I should not be moved.
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-\v 26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced.
+\v 26 Therefore my heart was glad
+\q2 and my tongue rejoiced.
 \q Also, my flesh will live in hope.
 
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-\v 27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
-\q neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
+\v 27 For you will not abandon
+\q2 my soul to Hades,
+\q neither will you allow
+\q2 your Holy One to see decay.
 \q
-\v 28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
-\q you will make me full of gladness with your face.'
+\v 28 You have made known to m
+\q2 the ways of life;
+\q you will make me
+\q2 full of gladness with your face.'
 
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 \v 29 Brothers, it is proper for me to speak to you confidently about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
 \v 30 Therefore, he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of the fruit of his loins on his throne.
-\v 31 He saw what was to happen in the future and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,
-\q that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
+\v 31 He saw what was to happen in the future and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see \v \v decay.
 
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 \v 34 For David did not ascend to the heaven, but he says,
-\q 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand
+\q 'The Lord said to my Lord,
+\q2 "Sit at my right hand
 \q
-\v 35 until I make your enemies the footstool for your feet."'
+\v 35 until I make your enemies
+\q2 the footstool for your feet."'
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 \v 36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel certainly know that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
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 \v 23 After they were set free, Peter and John came to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
 \v 24 When they heard it, they raised their voices with one purpose to God and said, "Lord, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.
 \v 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David,
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+\p
 \q 'Why did the Gentile nations rage,
-\q and the peoples imagine useless things?'
+\q2 and the peoples imagine useless things?'
 
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+\q
 \v 26 You said,
-\q 'The kings of the earth set themselves together,
-\q and the rulers gathered together
-\q against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
+\q2 'The kings of the earth set themselves together,
+\q2 and the rulers gathered together
+\q2 against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
 
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 \v 41 So they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced because of the work of their hands.
 \v 42 But God turned and gave them up to worship the stars in the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
-\q 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices 
-\q during the forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?
 
+\p
+\q 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices 
+\q2 during the forty years in the wilderness,
+\q2 house of Israel?
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 \v 43 You accepted the tabernacle of Molech
-\q and the star of the god Rephan,
+\q2 and the star of the god Rephan,
 \q and the images that you made to worship them:
-\q and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'
+\q2 and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'
 
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 \v 47 But it was Solomon who built the house for God.
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 \v 48 "However, the Most High does not live in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,
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+\p
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-\v 49 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool for my feet.
+\v 49 'Heaven is my throne,
+\q2 and the earth is the footstool for my feet.
 \q What kind of house can you build for me? says the Lord,
-\q or what is the place for my rest?
+\q2 or what is the place for my rest?
 \q
 \v 50 Did my hand not make all these things?'
 
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 \v 32 Now the passage of the scripture which the Ethiopian was reading was this,
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 \q "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
-\q and like a lamb before his shearer is silent,
-\q so he did not open his mouth.
+\q2 and like a lamb before his shearer is silent,
+\q2 so he did not open his mouth.
 \q
 \v 33 In his humiliation justice was taken away from him.
-\q Who can give a full account of his descendants?
+\q2 Who can give a full account of his descendants?
 \q For his life was taken from the earth."
 
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 \v 32 So we tell you the good news: The promise that came to our fathers
 \v 33 God has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:
-\q 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'
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+\q 'You are my Son,
+\q2 today I have become your Father.'
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 \v 34 As to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has spoken in this way:
-\q 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.'
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+\q 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings
+\q2 promised to David.'
 
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 \v 35 This is why he also says in another Psalm,
-\q 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'
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+\q 'You will not allow your Holy One
+\q2 to see decay.'
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 \v 36 For when David had served the purpose of God in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was laid with his fathers and his body experienced decay.
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 \v 40 So then be careful that the thing the prophets spoke about does not happen to you:
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-\v 41 'Look, you despisers, and be astonished and then perish;  
+\v 41 'Look, you despisers,
+\q2 and be astonished and then perish;  
 \q For I am doing a work in your days,  
-\q a work that you would never believe, even if someone announces it to you.'"
+\q2 a work that you would never believe,
+\q2 even if someone announces it to you.'"
 
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 \v 46 But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing you push it away from yourselves and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, see, we will turn to the Gentiles.
 \v 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,
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 \q 'I have appointed you as a light for the Gentiles,
-\q that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
+\q2 that you should bring salvation
+\q2 to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
 
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 \v 15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,
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 \v 16 'After these things I will return,
-\q and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;
-\q I will set up and restore its ruins again,
+\q2 and I will build again the tabernacle of David,
+\q2 which has fallen down;
+\q I will set up and restore
+\q2 its ruins again,
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 \v 17 so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
-\q including all the Gentiles called by my name.'
+\q2 including all the Gentiles called by my name.'
 \q
-\v 18 This is what the Lord says, who has done these things that have been known from ancient times. \f + \ft There are some copies of the ancient Greek text that have a slightly different meaning, \fqa This is what the Lord says, to whom are known all his deeds from ancient times \fqa* . \f*
+\v 18 This is what the Lord says,
+\q2 who has done these things
+\q2 that have been known from ancient times. \f + \ft There are some copies of the ancient Greek text that have a slightly different meaning, \fqa This is what the Lord says, to whom are known all his deeds from ancient times \fqa* . \f*
 
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 \v 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, who were leaders of the brothers, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.
-\v 23 They wrote this with their hands, "From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings!
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+\q
+\v 23 They wrote this with their hands,
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+\q "From the apostles and elders, your brothers,
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+\q to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:
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+\q Greetings!
 
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-\v 24 Because we have heard that certain men have gone out from us, with no orders from us, and have disturbed you with words that upset your souls,
-\v 25 it seemed good to us, who have come to one mind, to choose men and to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
+\q
+\v 24 Because we have heard that certain men have gone out from us, with no orders from us,
+\q and have disturbed you with words that upset your souls, 
+\q 25 it seemed good to us, who have come to one mind, to choose men
+\q and to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
+\q
 \v 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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-\v 27 Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will report to you the same things in their own words.
-\v 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
-\v 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Farewell."
+\q 27 Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will report to you the same things in their own words.
+\q 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
+\q 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. 
+\q If you avoid these things, you will do well.
+\q Farewell."
 
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 \v 25 Then he wrote a letter like this:
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-\q1
+\q
+\v 26 "Claudius Lysias
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-\v 26 "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent Governor Felix, greetings.
+\q to the most excellent Governor Felix,
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-\v 27 This man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with soldiers and rescued him, since I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
+\q Greetings.
+\p
+\q
+\v 27 This man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them
+\q with soldiers and rescued him, since I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
 
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 \v 28 I wanted to know why they accused him, so I took him down to their council.
-\v 29 I learned that he was being accused about questions concerning their own law, but that there was no accusation against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
-\v 30 Then it was reported to me that there was a plot against the man, so I immediately sent him to you and instructed his accusers also to bring their charges against him in your presence. Farewell."
+\q
+\v 29 I learned that he was being accused about questions concerning their own law,
+\q but that there was no accusation against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
+\q
+\v 30 Then it was reported to me that there was a plot against the man, so I immediately sent him to you
+\q and instructed his accusers also to bring their charges against him in your presence. Farewell."
 
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 \v 25 When they did not agree with one another, they left after Paul had spoken this one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke well through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers.
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 \v 26 He said, 'Go to this people and say,  
-\q "Hearing you will hear, but you will never understand;  
-\q seeing, you will see, but you will never know.
+\q2 "Hearing you will hear, but you will never understand;  
+\q2 seeing, you will see, but you will never know.
 
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 \v 27 For the heart of this people has become dull,
-\q and with their ears they hardly hear,
-\q and they have shut their eyes.
+\q2 and with their ears they hardly hear,
+\q2 and they have shut their eyes.
 \q Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
-\q and hear with their ears,
-\q and understand with their heart and turn again,
-\q and I would heal them."'
+\q2 and hear with their ears,
+\q2 and understand with their heart and turn again,
+\q2 and I would heal them."'
 
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