From 3a7d17fee668f1b5a8c5ccdbc838e71a2872333b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hmw3 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:40:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Lowercasing mid-sentence "Scriptur" --- 41-MAT/04.usfm | 8 ++++---- 41-MAT/05.usfm | 2 +- 41-MAT/12.usfm | 4 ++-- 41-MAT/19.usfm | 2 +- 41-MAT/21.usfm | 6 +++--- 41-MAT/22.usfm | 10 +++++----- 41-MAT/23.usfm | 2 +- 41-MAT/26.usfm | 8 ++++---- 42-MRK/09.usfm | 2 +- 42-MRK/11.usfm | 2 +- 42-MRK/12.usfm | 4 ++-- 42-MRK/14.usfm | 4 ++-- 43-LUK/21.usfm | 2 +- 43-LUK/24.usfm | 6 +++--- 44-JHN/05.usfm | 2 +- 44-JHN/06.usfm | 2 +- 44-JHN/07.usfm | 6 +++--- 44-JHN/10.usfm | 4 ++-- 44-JHN/12.usfm | 4 ++-- 44-JHN/13.usfm | 2 +- 44-JHN/17.usfm | 2 +- 44-JHN/19.usfm | 6 +++--- 44-JHN/20.usfm | 2 +- 45-ACT/04.usfm | 2 +- 45-ACT/08.usfm | 4 ++-- 45-ACT/09.usfm | 2 +- 45-ACT/13.usfm | 2 +- 45-ACT/17.usfm | 6 +++--- 45-ACT/18.usfm | 4 ++-- 47-1CO/01.usfm | 4 ++-- 47-1CO/02.usfm | 2 +- 47-1CO/03.usfm | 4 ++-- 47-1CO/05.usfm | 2 +- 47-1CO/06.usfm | 2 +- 47-1CO/14.usfm | 4 ++-- 47-1CO/15.usfm | 10 +++++----- 48-2CO/04.usfm | 2 +- 48-2CO/06.usfm | 2 +- 48-2CO/08.usfm | 2 +- 48-2CO/09.usfm | 2 +- 48-2CO/10.usfm | 2 +- 49-GAL/04.usfm | 2 +- 50-EPH/05.usfm | 2 +- 50-EPH/06.usfm | 2 +- 55-1TI/05.usfm | 2 +- 56-2TI/03.usfm | 4 ++-- 59-HEB/01.usfm | 10 +++++----- 59-HEB/02.usfm | 6 +++--- 59-HEB/03.usfm | 4 ++-- 59-HEB/04.usfm | 2 +- 59-HEB/05.usfm | 6 +++--- 59-HEB/07.usfm | 10 +++++----- 59-HEB/10.usfm | 4 ++-- 60-JAS/02.usfm | 4 ++-- 60-JAS/04.usfm | 2 +- 61-1PE/01.usfm | 2 +- 61-1PE/02.usfm | 8 ++++---- 61-1PE/04.usfm | 2 +- 62-2PE/01.usfm | 2 +- 62-2PE/03.usfm | 2 +- 60 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-) diff --git a/41-MAT/04.usfm b/41-MAT/04.usfm index 4367b6da..7487b200 100644 --- a/41-MAT/04.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/04.usfm @@ -6,22 +6,22 @@ \v 1 Then God's Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness for the devil to tempt him. \v 2 After he had not eaten food day and night for forty days, he was hungry. \v 3 Satan, the tempter, came to him and said, "If you are really the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread for yourself!" -\v 4 But Jesus said to him, "No! I will not do this, because God has said in the Scriptures, 'For people to truly live, they must have more than food; they must listen to every word that God has spoken.'" +\v 4 But Jesus said to him, "No! I will not do this, because God has said in the scriptures, 'For people to truly live, they must have more than food; they must listen to every word that God has spoken.'" \s5 \v 5 Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the city that was especially for God. He set him on the highest part of the temple -\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt, because God has said in the Scriptures, +\v 6 and said to him, "If you are truly the Son of God, jump down to the ground. You will, of course, not be hurt, because God has said in the scriptures, \q 'God will command his angels to protect you. \q They will lift you up in their hands when you are falling, \q and they will keep you from even hitting your foot on a stone.'" \s5 -\v 7 But Jesus said, "No! I will not jump down, because God has also said in the Scriptures, 'Do not try to make your God prove who he is.'" +\v 7 But Jesus said, "No! I will not jump down, because God has also said in the scriptures, 'Do not try to make your God prove who he is.'" \v 8 Then the devil took him on top of a very high mountain. There he showed him all the nations in the world and the magnificent things in those nations. \v 9 Then he said to him, "I will let you rule all these nations and give you the magnificent things in them if you bow down and worship me." \s5 -\v 10 But Jesus said to him, "No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! God has said in the Scriptures, 'It is to the Lord your God whom you must bow down, and you must worship only him!'" +\v 10 But Jesus said to him, "No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! God has said in the scriptures, 'It is to the Lord your God whom you must bow down, and you must worship only him!'" \v 11 Then the devil went away, and at that moment, angels came to Jesus and took care of him. \s5 diff --git a/41-MAT/05.usfm b/41-MAT/05.usfm index b5778496..16dfcf76 100644 --- a/41-MAT/05.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/05.usfm @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 31 "God has said in the Scriptures, 'If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.' +\v 31 "God has said in the scriptures, 'If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.' \v 32 But now listen to what I say to you: a man may divorce his wife only if she has committed adultery. If a man divorces his wife for any other reason, she commits adultery if she marries someone else. And the man who marries her also commits adultery." diff --git a/41-MAT/12.usfm b/41-MAT/12.usfm index c23adc00..718aa359 100644 --- a/41-MAT/12.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/12.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ \v 2 Some Pharisees saw them doing that, so they said to Jesus, "Look! Your disciples are doing work on our day of rest. The law does not allow that!" \s5 -\v 3 But Jesus answered, "It is written in the Scriptures what our ancestor King David did when he and the men with him were hungry. You have read about that, but you do not think about what it means! +\v 3 But Jesus answered, "It is written in the scriptures what our ancestor King David did when he and the men with him were hungry. You have read about that, but you do not think about what it means! \v 4 David entered the Sacred Tent where they worshiped God and asked for some food. The high priest gave him the bread that had been on display before God. But according to the law of Moses, only priests were permitted to eat that bread, but David and the men who were with him ate it. And God did not consider that what they did was wrong! \s5 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \v 6 Let me tell you what this means: I have come to you, and I am more important than the temple, so what I teach is more important for you to obey than what our ancestors said about the Sabbath day. \s5 -\v 7 You should think about these words of God in the Scriptures: 'I want you to act mercifully toward people, and not just offer sacrifices.' If you understood what that means, you would not condemn my disciples, who have done no wrong. +\v 7 You should think about these words of God in the scriptures: 'I want you to act mercifully toward people, and not just offer sacrifices.' If you understood what that means, you would not condemn my disciples, who have done no wrong. \v 8 I am the Son of Man, and I have the authority to tell people what they can do on the Sabbath day." diff --git a/41-MAT/19.usfm b/41-MAT/19.usfm index dd7f0d72..6b2c1711 100644 --- a/41-MAT/19.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/19.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 3 Some Pharisees approached him and said to him, "Does our Jewish law permit a man to divorce his wife for any reason whatever?" They asked that in order to be able to debate with him. -\v 4 Jesus said to them, "You have read the Scriptures, so you should know that at the time when God first created people, 'He made one man, and he made one woman.' +\v 4 Jesus said to them, "You have read the scriptures, so you should know that at the time when God first created people, 'He made one man, and he made one woman.' \s5 \v 5 That explains why God said, 'When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers. Instead, the two of them must live together, and they will become so closely united that they are like one person.' diff --git a/41-MAT/21.usfm b/41-MAT/21.usfm index 2850d92d..3435266d 100644 --- a/41-MAT/21.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/21.usfm @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ and sat on the cloaks. \s5 \p \v 12 Then Jesus went into the temple courtyard and chased out all of those who were buying and selling things there. He also overturned the tables of those who were changing Roman coins for temple tax money, and he overturned the seats of those who were selling pigeons for sacrifices. -\v 13 Then he said to them, "A prophet wrote in the Scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a place where people pray to me,' but you people have made it into a place where robbers gather!" +\v 13 Then he said to them, "A prophet wrote in the scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a place where people pray to me,' but you people have made it into a place where robbers gather!" \p \v 14 After that, many blind people and lame people came to Jesus in the temple in order that he would heal them, and he did so. \s5 \v 15 The high priests and the men who taught the people the Jewish laws saw the marvelous deeds that Jesus did. They also saw the children shouting in the temple, "We praise the Christ, the descendant of King David!" They were indignant because they did not believe that Jesus was the Christ. -\v 16 They thought that Jesus should not be allowing the children to say that, so they asked him, "How can you tolerate this? Do you hear what these children are shouting?" Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, I hear them, but if you remembered what you have read in the Scriptures about children praising me, you would know that God is pleased with them. The psalmist wrote, saying to God, 'You have taught infants and other children to praise you perfectly.'" +\v 16 They thought that Jesus should not be allowing the children to say that, so they asked him, "How can you tolerate this? Do you hear what these children are shouting?" Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, I hear them, but if you remembered what you have read in the scriptures about children praising me, you would know that God is pleased with them. The psalmist wrote, saying to God, 'You have taught infants and other children to praise you perfectly.'" \p \v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany, and they stayed there that night. @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ and sat on the cloaks. \v 41 The people replied, "He will thoroughly destroy those wicked men! Then he will rent the vineyard to others. They will give him his share of the grapes when they are ripe." \s5 -\v 42 Jesus said to them, "That is right, so you need to think carefully about these words that you have read in the Scriptures: +\v 42 Jesus said to them, "That is right, so you need to think carefully about these words that you have read in the scriptures: \q 'The men who were building a large building rejected a certain stone. But others put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone of the building. The Lord has done this, and we marvel as we look at it.' \s5 diff --git a/41-MAT/22.usfm b/41-MAT/22.usfm index 3e2f3aca..bfab1426 100644 --- a/41-MAT/22.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/22.usfm @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 23 During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are a Jewish group who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die. They wanted to ask Jesus a question. -\v 24 They said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote in the Scriptures, 'If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man's widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.' +\v 24 They said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote in the scriptures, 'If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man's widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.' \s5 \v 25 Well, there were seven boys in a family living near us. The oldest one married someone. He and his wife did not have any children, and he died. So the second brother married the widow. But he also died without having a child. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ \v 28 So, at the time when God will raise people from the dead, which of the seven brothers do you think will be her husband? Keep in mind that they had all been married to her." \s5 -\v 29 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the Scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again. +\v 29 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again. \v 30 The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry. \s5 @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ \v 36 "Teacher, which commandment in the laws that God gave Moses is the most important?" \s5 -\v 37 Jesus quoted the Scriptures as he replied, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your inner being. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.' +\v 37 Jesus quoted the scriptures as he replied, "'You must love the Lord your God with all your inner being. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.' \v 38 That is the most important commandment in the laws that God gave Moses. \s5 \v 39 The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: 'You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.' -\v 40 These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the Scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote." +\v 40 These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote." @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ \s5 \v 43 Jesus said to them, "If the Christ is King David's descendant, then David should not have called him 'Lord' when David was saying what the Holy Spirit told him to say. -\v 44 David wrote this in the Scriptures about the Christ: 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me on my right, where I will greatly honor you, while I put your enemies under your feet."' +\v 44 David wrote this in the scriptures about the Christ: 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me on my right, where I will greatly honor you, while I put your enemies under your feet."' \s5 \v 45 So, since King David called the Christ 'my Lord,' the Christ cannot be just someone descended from David! He must be much greater than David!" diff --git a/41-MAT/23.usfm b/41-MAT/23.usfm index ef2b2bcd..3d413fe0 100644 --- a/41-MAT/23.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/23.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \s5 \v 4 They require you to obey many rules that are difficult to obey. But they themselves do not help anyone obey those rules. It is as if they were tying up very heavy loads and putting them on your shoulders for you to carry. But they will not even move one finger to help you carry them. -\v 5 Whatever they do, they do those things so that other people will see them and admire them. For example, they make extra wide the tiny boxes containing portions of Scripture that they wear on their arms. They enlarge the tassels on their robes to make others think that they honor God. +\v 5 Whatever they do, they do those things so that other people will see them and admire them. For example, they make extra wide the tiny boxes containing portions of scripture that they wear on their arms. They enlarge the tassels on their robes to make others think that they honor God. \s5 \v 6 They want other people to honor them. For example, at dinners they sit in the seats where the most important people sit. In the synagogues they want to sit in the same kind of places. diff --git a/41-MAT/26.usfm b/41-MAT/26.usfm index c1e21fae..c46ec323 100644 --- a/41-MAT/26.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/26.usfm @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ \s5 \v 23 He replied, "The one who will enable my enemies to arrest me is the one of you who is dipping bread into the sauce in the dish along with me. -\v 24 It is certain that I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what the Scriptures say about me. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who enables my enemies to arrest me! It would be better for that man if he had never been born!" +\v 24 It is certain that I, the Son of Man, will die, because that is what the scriptures say about me. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who enables my enemies to arrest me! It would be better for that man if he had never been born!" \v 25 Then Judas, the one who was going to betray him, said, "Teacher, surely it is not I!" Jesus replied, "Yes, you are the one." @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ \p -\v 31 On the way, Jesus told them, "This night all of you will desert me because of what will happen to me! This is certain to happen because these words that God said are written in the Scriptures: +\v 31 On the way, Jesus told them, "This night all of you will desert me because of what will happen to me! This is certain to happen because these words that God said are written in the scriptures: \q 'I will cause men to kill the shepherd, \q and they will scatter all the sheep.' \v 32 But after I have died and become alive again, I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there." @@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ \v 51 Suddenly, one of the men who was with Jesus pulled his sword out of its sheath. He struck the servant of the high priest to kill him, but only cut off his ear. \v 52 Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its sheath! All those who try to kill others with a sword--someone else will kill them with a sword! \v 53 Do you think that if I asked my Father, he would not immediately send more than twelve armies of angels to help me? -\v 54 But if I did that, what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about what will happen to the Messiah would not be fulfilled." +\v 54 But if I did that, what the prophets have written in the scriptures about what will happen to the Messiah would not be fulfilled." \s5 \p \v 55 At that time Jesus said to the crowd that was seizing him, "It is ridiculous that you have come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a bandit! Day after day I sat in the temple courtyard, teaching the people. Why did you not arrest me then? -\v 56 But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me." Then all of the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away. +\v 56 But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the scriptures about me." Then all of the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away. diff --git a/42-MRK/09.usfm b/42-MRK/09.usfm index 27381815..f078e89f 100644 --- a/42-MRK/09.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/09.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 11 They asked Jesus, "Why do the men who teach the our laws say that Elijah must come back to the earth before the Messiah comes to earth?" -\v 12-13 Jesus answered them, "It is true that God promised to send Elijah to come first to put everything as it should be. But Elijah has already come, and our leaders treated him very badly, just like they wanted to do, as prophets long ago had said they would. But I also want you to consider what is written in the Scriptures about me, the Son of Man. They say that I would suffer much and that people would reject me." +\v 12-13 Jesus answered them, "It is true that God promised to send Elijah to come first to put everything as it should be. But Elijah has already come, and our leaders treated him very badly, just like they wanted to do, as prophets long ago had said they would. But I also want you to consider what is written in the scriptures about me, the Son of Man. They say that I would suffer much and that people would reject me." diff --git a/42-MRK/11.usfm b/42-MRK/11.usfm index 237388cd..16a28f58 100644 --- a/42-MRK/11.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/11.usfm @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ \v 16 He would not allow anyone who was carrying anything to sell to go through the temple area. \s5 -\v 17 Then as he taught those people, he said to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a house where people from all nations can pray,' but you bandits have made it like a cave where robbers hide." +\v 17 Then as he taught those people, he said to them, "It is written in the scriptures that God said, 'I want my house to be a house where people from all nations can pray,' but you bandits have made it like a cave where robbers hide." \v 18 The chief priests and the men who taught the Jewish laws later heard about what he had done. They were planning how they might kill him, but they feared him because they realized that the crowd was amazed at what he was teaching. \v 19 Every evening Jesus and his disciples would leave the city. diff --git a/42-MRK/12.usfm b/42-MRK/12.usfm index 86cb42ed..fd4273d5 100644 --- a/42-MRK/12.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/12.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ \v 9 So do you know what the owner of the vineyard will do? He will come kill those evil men who were taking care of his vineyard. Then he will arrange for other people to take care of it. \s5 -\v 10 Now think carefully about these words, which you have read in the Scriptures: +\v 10 Now think carefully about these words, which you have read in the scriptures: \p "The men who were building the building refused to use a certain stone. But the Lord has put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone in the building! \v 11 The Lord has done this, and we marvel as we look at it." \p @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ \v 23 Now on the day when people will become alive again after they die, whose wife will that woman be? Keep in mind that she had been married to all seven brothers!" \s5 -\v 24 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong. You do not know what they wrote in the Scriptures about this. You also do not understand God's power to make people alive again. +\v 24 Jesus replied to them, "You are certainly wrong. You do not know what they wrote in the scriptures about this. You also do not understand God's power to make people alive again. \v 25 That woman will not be the wife of any of those brothers, because when people become alive again, instead of men having wives and women having husbands, they will be like the angels in heaven. Angels do not marry. \s5 diff --git a/42-MRK/14.usfm b/42-MRK/14.usfm index bb4fef58..aa28a64d 100644 --- a/42-MRK/14.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/14.usfm @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ \p -\v 27 While they were on their way, Jesus said to them, "They wrote in the Scriptures that God said about me, 'I will kill the shepherd and scatter his sheep.' Those words will come true. You will leave me and run away. +\v 27 While they were on their way, Jesus said to them, "They wrote in the scriptures that God said about me, 'I will kill the shepherd and scatter his sheep.' Those words will come true. You will leave me and run away. \s5 \v 28 But after God makes me alive again, I will go ahead of you to the district of Galilee and meet you there." @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ \s5 \v 47 But one of the disciples who was standing nearby drew his sword. He struck the servant of the high priest with it, but he only cut off his ear. -\v 48-49 Jesus said to them, "It is ridiculous that you come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber! Day after day I was with you in the temple courtyard teaching the people! Why did you not arrest me then? But this is happening so that what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me may come true." +\v 48-49 Jesus said to them, "It is ridiculous that you come here to seize me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber! Day after day I was with you in the temple courtyard teaching the people! Why did you not arrest me then? But this is happening so that what the prophets have written in the scriptures about me may come true." \p diff --git a/43-LUK/21.usfm b/43-LUK/21.usfm index cd8cb555..d5417d3d 100644 --- a/43-LUK/21.usfm +++ b/43-LUK/21.usfm @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ \p \v 20 "When you see armies surround Jerusalem, then you will know that they will soon destroy this city. \v 21 At that time those of you who are in the region of Judea must flee to the mountains. And those of you who are in this city must leave. Those of you who are in the nearby countryside must not come into the city. -\v 22 For this will be the time when God will punish this city; when he does, the words in the Scriptures will come true. +\v 22 For this will be the time when God will punish this city; when he does, the words in the scriptures will come true. \s5 \v 23 How terrible it will be for the pregnant women and those nursing their babies in those days, because there will be great suffering in the land, and its people will suffer enormously because God will be angry with them. diff --git a/43-LUK/24.usfm b/43-LUK/24.usfm index 5a9d094d..cad001ca 100644 --- a/43-LUK/24.usfm +++ b/43-LUK/24.usfm @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ \s5 \v 25 He said to them, "You two foolish men! You are so slow to believe all that the prophets have written about the Messiah! \v 26 You should certainly have known that it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven!" -\v 27 Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the Scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote. +\v 27 Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote. \s5 \p @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ \s5 \v 30 When they sat down to eat, he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it and gave some pieces to them. \v 31 And then God enabled them to recognize him. But immediately he disappeared! -\v 32 They said to each other, "While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us to understand the Scriptures, we started thinking that something very, very good was going to happen, although we did not know what. We should not stay here; we should go tell others what happened!" +\v 32 They said to each other, "While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us to understand the scriptures, we started thinking that something very, very good was going to happen, although we did not know what. We should not stay here; we should go tell others what happened!" \s5 \v 33 So they left immediately and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven apostles and others who had gathered together with them. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ \v 44 Then he said to them, "I will repeat what I told you while I was with you: Everything that was written about me by Moses and the other prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled!" \s5 -\v 45 Then he enabled them to understand the things that had been written about him in the Scriptures. +\v 45 Then he enabled them to understand the things that had been written about him in the scriptures. \v 46 He said to them, "This is what they wrote: That Jesus the Christ would suffer and die, but on the third day after that he would become alive again. \v 47 They also wrote that those who believed in him must preach everywhere that people should turn from committing sin to God, for him to forgive their sins. Christ's followers should preach that message because God sent them to do so. They wrote that they should start preaching it in Jerusalem and then go and preach it to all people groups. diff --git a/44-JHN/05.usfm b/44-JHN/05.usfm index 8fb5a5dc..8d5b3a01 100644 --- a/44-JHN/05.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/05.usfm @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ \v 38 The proof that you do not have his word living in you is that you do not trust me, the one he sent. \s5 -\v 39 You carefully study the Scriptures because you think that by studying them you will find eternal life, and those Scriptures tell about me. +\v 39 You carefully study the scriptures because you think that by studying them you will find eternal life, and those scriptures tell about me. \v 40 Yet still you refuse to come to me in order that you might receive everlasting life from me. \s5 diff --git a/44-JHN/06.usfm b/44-JHN/06.usfm index 625be906..7e1b0268 100644 --- a/44-JHN/06.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/06.usfm @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ \s5 \v 30 So they said to him, "Then perform another miracle to prove who you are so that we can see it and believe that you came from God. What will you do for us? -\v 31 Our ancestors ate manna, just as the Scriptures say: 'God gave them bread out of the heavens to eat.'" +\v 31 Our ancestors ate manna, just as the scriptures say: 'God gave them bread out of the heavens to eat.'" \s5 \p \v 32 Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: It was not Moses who gave your ancestors that bread from heaven. No, it was my Father, the same one who is giving you the true bread from heaven. diff --git a/44-JHN/07.usfm b/44-JHN/07.usfm index c0ab2b22..32c84481 100644 --- a/44-JHN/07.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/07.usfm @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 37 So on the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood up cried out with a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink." -\v 38 Whoever trusts in me, as the Scripture said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" +\v 38 Whoever trusts in me, as the scripture said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" \s5 \v 39 He said this about the Spirit, whom the Father was going to give to those who trusted in him. God had not yet sent the Spirit to live within those who trusted him because Jesus had not yet finished his work, that work which would bring great honor to God by saving his people through his death. @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ \p \v 40 When some of the crowd heard those words, they said, "This truly is the Prophet that we were expecting." \v 41 Others said, "The Christ cannot come from Galilee. -\v 42 Do not the Scriptures say that Christ must come through the descendants of David and that he must be born in Bethlehem, the village that was David's home?" +\v 42 Do not the scriptures say that Christ must come through the descendants of David and that he must be born in Bethlehem, the village that was David's home?" \s5 \v 43 So there was a division of opinion about Jesus. @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ \p \v 50 Then Nicodemus spoke. (He was the one who had gone to see Jesus at night to speak with him, and he was one of the Pharisees.) He said to them, \v 51 "Our Jewish law does not permit us to condemn a man before we have listened to him. First, we give him a hearing, and we must learn about what he has done." -\v 52 They replied to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search carefully and read what is written in the Scriptures! You will find that no prophet comes from Galilee." +\v 52 They replied to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search carefully and read what is written in the scriptures! You will find that no prophet comes from Galilee." \s5 \p diff --git a/44-JHN/10.usfm b/44-JHN/10.usfm index 313be0c4..08da14eb 100644 --- a/44-JHN/10.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/10.usfm @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ \v 33 The Jewish opponents replied, "We are wanting to take your life, not because you did any good work, but because you, just a man, are insulting God and are making yourself God!" \s5 -\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In the Scriptures it is written what God said to the rulers whom he had appointed: 'I have said that you are like gods (with great honor and with power over many).' -\v 35 God said that to those leaders when he appointed them. No one objected to that, and nothing that is in Scripture can be shown to be false. +\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In the scriptures it is written what God said to the rulers whom he had appointed: 'I have said that you are like gods (with great honor and with power over many).' +\v 35 God said that to those leaders when he appointed them. No one objected to that, and nothing that is in scripture can be shown to be false. \v 36 I am the one whom my Father chose to send here into this world. So why are you angry with me for saying that I am equal with God when I said, 'I am the Son of God'? \s5 diff --git a/44-JHN/12.usfm b/44-JHN/12.usfm index 64344772..6d323485 100644 --- a/44-JHN/12.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/12.usfm @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ \v 13 So they cut branches from palm trees and went out to welcome him as he came into the city. They were shouting, "Hosanna! Praise God! God bless the One who comes in the Name of the Lord! Welcome, King of Israel!" \s5 -\v 14 When Jesus came near to Jerusalem, he found a young donkey and sat on it, riding into the city. By doing this, he fulfilled what had been written in Scripture: +\v 14 When Jesus came near to Jerusalem, he found a young donkey and sat on it, riding into the city. By doing this, he fulfilled what had been written in scripture: \q \v 15 "Do not be afraid, you who live in Jerusalem. \q Look! Your King is coming. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 34 Someone in the crowd answered him, "We understand from the Scriptures that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say that the Son of Man will die? Who is this 'Son of Man'?" +\v 34 Someone in the crowd answered him, "We understand from the scriptures that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say that the Son of Man will die? Who is this 'Son of Man'?" \v 35 Jesus answered, "My light will shine on you for just a little longer. Walk in the light while you have my light, or the darkness will overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are going! \v 36 Trust in that light while you have the light; then you will belong to the light. diff --git a/44-JHN/13.usfm b/44-JHN/13.usfm index 8c823cad..2554f9e5 100644 --- a/44-JHN/13.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/13.usfm @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \p -\v 18 I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in Scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.' +\v 18 I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.' \s5 \p diff --git a/44-JHN/17.usfm b/44-JHN/17.usfm index c1e111fb..cc50705d 100644 --- a/44-JHN/17.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/17.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ \v 11 I am not staying in the world any longer. However, they are staying in the world. I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe; keep them belonging to yourself by the same power that you gave to me so that they may be united together, just as we are. \s5 -\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe and watched over them by your own power. Not one of them was lost, except the one whom you had destined for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold long ago. +\v 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe and watched over them by your own power. Not one of them was lost, except the one whom you had destined for destruction, as the scriptures foretold long ago. \p \v 13 Now I am coming to you, Father. I have said these things while I am here in the world so that I may give them my complete joy. \v 14 I have spoken your messages to them, and those who are part of this world hate your people because they do not belong to this world. diff --git a/44-JHN/19.usfm b/44-JHN/19.usfm index 46b3b244..6719de72 100644 --- a/44-JHN/19.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/19.usfm @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the Scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!" +\v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!" \v 29 A jar of sour wine stood there, so they took a short branch from a hyssop plant and put a sponge on it, and they dipped in the sour wine and held it up to Jesus' mouth. \v 30 After Jesus drank the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and died. @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ \v 35 The one who saw this bears witness—his testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth—so that you may put your trust in Jesus. \s5 -\v 36 These things happened in order to fulfill what was written in Scripture: "No one will break any of his bones." +\v 36 These things happened in order to fulfill what was written in scripture: "No one will break any of his bones." \p -\v 37 And they fulfilled another Scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.' +\v 37 And they fulfilled another scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.' diff --git a/44-JHN/20.usfm b/44-JHN/20.usfm index cd81088b..afa5c1ed 100644 --- a/44-JHN/20.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/20.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ \s5 \v 8 Then the other disciple also went inside; he saw these things and began to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. -\v 9 They still did not understand the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. +\v 9 They still did not understand the scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. \p diff --git a/45-ACT/04.usfm b/45-ACT/04.usfm index 3b4e5076..b49c23cc 100644 --- a/45-ACT/04.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/04.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the one of whom the Scriptures speak: +\v 11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the one of whom the scriptures speak: \q "The stone that the builders threw away has become the most important stone in the building." \v 12 Only Jesus can save us, for God has given no other man in the world to us who can save us from the guilt of our sins!" diff --git a/45-ACT/08.usfm b/45-ACT/08.usfm index 47a7355a..91b1b46a 100644 --- a/45-ACT/08.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/08.usfm @@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ \v 31 He answered Philip, "No! I cannot possibly understand it if there is no one to explain it to me!" Then the man said to Philip, "Please come up and sit beside me." \s5 -\v 32 The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He was silent like a sheep when people lead it away to kill it. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off, he does not speak. +\v 32 The part of the scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He was silent like a sheep when people lead it away to kill it. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off, he does not speak. \q \v 33 He will be humiliated and not receive justice. No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will be killed." \s5 \p \v 34 The official asked Philip concerning these words that he was reading, "Tell me, who was the prophet writing about? Was he writing about himself or about someone else?" -\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that Scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus. +\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus. \s5 diff --git a/45-ACT/09.usfm b/45-ACT/09.usfm index 465cd602..a8462ec5 100644 --- a/45-ACT/09.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/09.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ \p \v 20 Right away he began to preach about Jesus in the Jewish synagogues. He told them that Jesus is the Son of God. \v 21 All the people who heard him preach were amazed. Some of them were saying, "We can hardly believe that this is the same man who pursued the believers in Jerusalem and who has come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests in Jerusalem!" -\v 22 But God enabled Saul to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think how to disprove what he said. +\v 22 But God enabled Saul to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving from the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think how to disprove what he said. \s5 diff --git a/45-ACT/13.usfm b/45-ACT/13.usfm index dfe94aab..9a030833 100644 --- a/45-ACT/13.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/13.usfm @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ \s5 \v 46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said to those Jewish leaders, "We had to speak the message from God about Jesus to you Jews first before we proclaim it to non-Jews, because God commanded us to do that. But you are rejecting God's message. By doing that, you have shown that you are not worthy of eternal life. Therefore, we are leaving you, and now we will go to the non-Jewish people to tell them the message from God. -\v 47 We are doing this also because the Lord God has commanded us to do it. He said in the Scriptures, +\v 47 We are doing this also because the Lord God has commanded us to do it. He said in the scriptures, \q 'I have chosen you to reveal things about me to non-Jewish people that will be like a light to them. I have chosen you to tell people everywhere in the world the message that I want to save them.'" \s5 diff --git a/45-ACT/17.usfm b/45-ACT/17.usfm index 2e7d97db..5aa7db53 100644 --- a/45-ACT/17.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/17.usfm @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ \p \v 1 They traveled through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to the city of Thessalonica. There was a Jewish meeting place there. -\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the Scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ. +\v 2 On the sabbath Paul went to the meeting place as he usually did. For three weeks he went there on each sabbath day. He spoke to the people about how the scriptures said that Jesus would be the Christ. \s5 -\v 3 He showed from the Scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Messiah would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would." +\v 3 He showed from the scriptures that the prophets wrote that the Messiah would have to die and come alive again. He said, "This man Jesus is the Christ. He died and became alive again, just like the prophets said he would." \v 4 Some of the Jews there believed what Paul had said and began to meet with Paul and Silas. There were also many non-Jewish people and important women who worshiped God who also believed the message about Jesus, and they also began to meet with Paul and Silas. \s5 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ \p \v 10 So that same night, the believers sent Paul and Silas out of Thessalonica to the town of Berea. When Paul and Silas arrived there, they went to the Jewish meeting place. -\v 11 Most of the Jews in Thessalonica had not been willing to listen to God's message, but the Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened closely to the message about Jesus. Every day they read the Scriptures for themselves to find out if what Paul said about Jesus was true. +\v 11 Most of the Jews in Thessalonica had not been willing to listen to God's message, but the Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened closely to the message about Jesus. Every day they read the scriptures for themselves to find out if what Paul said about Jesus was true. \v 12 Because of Paul's teaching, many of the Jewish people believed in Jesus, and also some of the important non-Jewish women and many non-Jewish men believed in him. \s5 diff --git a/45-ACT/18.usfm b/45-ACT/18.usfm index b49db86b..bb623faf 100644 --- a/45-ACT/18.usfm +++ b/45-ACT/18.usfm @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ \p -\v 24 While Paul was going through Galatia and Phrygia, a Jewish man named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was from the city of Alexandria and spoke very well about the Scriptures. +\v 24 While Paul was going through Galatia and Phrygia, a Jewish man named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was from the city of Alexandria and spoke very well about the scriptures. \v 25 Other believers had taught Apollos how the Lord Jesus wanted people to live, and he enthusiastically taught those things to the people. However, he was not teaching everything about Jesus, because he only knew about the baptism of John the Baptizer. \v 26 Apollos went to the Jewish meeting place, and he told the people there about the things that he had learned. When Priscilla and Aquila heard what he taught, they asked him to come to their home where they taught him more about Jesus. @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ \p \v 27 When Apollos decided that he would like to go to the region of Achaia, the believers in Ephesus told him that it would be good for him to do that. So they wrote a letter to the believers in Achaia saying that they should welcome Apollos. After he got there, he helped those whom God had kindly enabled to believe in Jesus. -\v 28 Apollos was talking very powerfully with the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened. By reading from the Scriptures, he was able to show them that Jesus was the Messiah. +\v 28 Apollos was talking very powerfully with the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened. By reading from the scriptures, he was able to show them that Jesus was the Messiah. diff --git a/47-1CO/01.usfm b/47-1CO/01.usfm index 82b45fbb..4ecda303 100644 --- a/47-1CO/01.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/01.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 18 For those who are dead to the things of God cannot know him. Christ died for them on the cross, but this message is pointless to them. However, for those of us whom God has rescued and brought to life, this message allows God to powerfully work in us. -\v 19 A prophet wrote in the Scriptures: +\v 19 A prophet wrote in the scriptures: \p \q "The wisdom of those who think they are wise, \q I will destroy, @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ \s5 \v 30 Because of what God has done, you are now joined to Christ Jesus, who has made clear to us how wise God is, he has put us right with God, he has set us apart for God, and he has rescued us and brought us to safety. -\v 31 So, as the Scriptures say: +\v 31 So, as the scriptures say: \q "The one who praises himself should praise himself only in what the Lord has done for him." \m diff --git a/47-1CO/02.usfm b/47-1CO/02.usfm index e09b6af5..a83cfc11 100644 --- a/47-1CO/02.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/02.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ \s5 \v 8 None of those who rule this world knew about God's wise plans. If they had understood them, they never would have nailed the Lord to the cross, but they should have honored Christ instead. -\v 9 But in the Scriptures it says: +\v 9 But in the scriptures it says: \q "Things that no one has seen, \q no one has heard, \q no one could imagine, diff --git a/47-1CO/03.usfm b/47-1CO/03.usfm index 3f9f3b95..5b40bfb3 100644 --- a/47-1CO/03.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/03.usfm @@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ \s5 \p \v 18 Be on guard that you do not deceive yourself. If any of you thinks he has great wisdom that unbelievers will admire, he should be careful. He would be far better off if he leaves alone all the things that unbelievers want, even if they consider him to be a fool for doing so. When he leaves those things alone, he will begin to learn what is true wisdom. -\v 19 What the world considers to be great wisdom, is really foolishness to God. For Scripture says, +\v 19 What the world considers to be great wisdom, is really foolishness to God. For scripture says, \q "God catches the wise in their own foolish plans." \m -\v 20 And again Scripture teaches, +\v 20 And again scripture teaches, \q "The Lord overhears all the planning of the wise, and he knows that in the end, they will lose everything." \m diff --git a/47-1CO/05.usfm b/47-1CO/05.usfm index 97692d73..49e712c2 100644 --- a/47-1CO/05.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/05.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ \s5 \v 11 Instead, I mean that you are not to be close friends with a fellow believer who is living in sexual immorality. We must include other sins, such as greed, or idolatry, or one who is abusive in the way he talks to others, or a drunkard, or a swindler. You must not even eat with these people who claim to trust in Christ, yet they do these terrible things. \v 12 For I have no obligation to judge those who are outside the church of Christ. Your duty is to judge the those who are in it. -\v 13 God is the one who will judge those who are outside the church. The Scriptures command us, +\v 13 God is the one who will judge those who are outside the church. The scriptures command us, \q "You must take away the evil person who is among you!" \m diff --git a/47-1CO/06.usfm b/47-1CO/06.usfm index c444ef01..5da572c6 100644 --- a/47-1CO/06.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/06.usfm @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \v 15 You should know that your bodies are joined to Christ. Should you take away that which is a part of Christ and join it together with a prostitute? Never! \s5 -\v 16 You understand that anyone who sleeps with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the Scriptures say about marriage: "The two will become one." +\v 16 You understand that anyone who sleeps with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the scriptures say about marriage: "The two will become one." \v 17 And those who are joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. diff --git a/47-1CO/14.usfm b/47-1CO/14.usfm index f11334bd..83a6c702 100644 --- a/47-1CO/14.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/14.usfm @@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ \s5 \p -\v 26 Brothers and sisters, it should be this way when you worship God together. Each of you should come with a psalm to sing, or something to teach from the Scriptures, or something that God has told you, or with a message in a language that God has given, or with an interpretation of such a message. Everything you do together should encourage each other, for you are Christ's church. +\v 26 Brothers and sisters, it should be this way when you worship God together. Each of you should come with a psalm to sing, or something to teach from the scriptures, or something that God has told you, or with a message in a language that God has given, or with an interpretation of such a message. Everything you do together should encourage each other, for you are Christ's church. \v 27 If there are any who wish to speak a message in a language from God, there should be no more than two or three such persons. They should speak one at a time, and someone should interpret the messages. \v 28 However, if there is no one able to interpret those messages, then those who speak in languages from God should keep silent and speak only to God. \s5 \p -\v 29 If there are any who want to speak a message from God, there should be only two or three such persons; and everyone else should judge those messages according to what the Scriptures say. +\v 29 If there are any who want to speak a message from God, there should be only two or three such persons; and everyone else should judge those messages according to what the scriptures say. \v 30 But if God allows someone seated in the assembly to understand a message, then the one speaking the message should stop speaking. In this way, all the believers can listen to the meaning of the message. \s5 diff --git a/47-1CO/15.usfm b/47-1CO/15.usfm index 94b0849d..3ab47a16 100644 --- a/47-1CO/15.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/15.usfm @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ \s5 \p -\v 3 For I have passed on to you what others first told me, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scripture foretold he would; -\v 4 also that they buried him, and that God raised him to life on the third day, all in conformity with what the Scriptures said would happen. +\v 3 For I have passed on to you what others first told me, that Christ died for our sins, as the scripture foretold he would; +\v 4 also that they buried him, and that God raised him to life on the third day, all in conformity with what the scriptures said would happen. \s5 \v 5 Then Christ appeared to Cephas (known as Peter), and then he appeared to the rest of the apostles. @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ \v 26 The final enemy that God will destroy is death itself. \s5 -\v 27 For the Scriptures say, "God has placed everything under his feet," that is, Christ's feet. But it is clear that this does not include God himself. +\v 27 For the scriptures say, "God has placed everything under his feet," that is, Christ's feet. But it is clear that this does not include God himself. \v 28 After God has placed all things into Christ's power, then the Son, also, will place himself in the power of God the Father, so that God may be the same in relation to everyone and everything. \s5 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 45 So the Scriptures say, "The first man, Adam, was a living being who gave his children and descendants life." But Christ, the second Adam, gave people God's power to live forever. +\v 45 So the scriptures say, "The first man, Adam, was a living being who gave his children and descendants life." But Christ, the second Adam, gave people God's power to live forever. \v 46 What belongs to the earth came first, the natural, and then came what belongs to God, that is the spiritual. \s5 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ \s5 -\v 54 When this happens, then it will come true, what the Scriptures say: +\v 54 When this happens, then it will come true, what the scriptures say: \q "God has totally defeated death." \q1 \v 55 "Death will never win again! diff --git a/48-2CO/04.usfm b/48-2CO/04.usfm index 801e12f6..d109a2ec 100644 --- a/48-2CO/04.usfm +++ b/48-2CO/04.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 13 We trust in God, just as the Scriptures say: "I trust in God; this is why I speak." We also trust in God, and we also speak about what he has done for us. +\v 13 We trust in God, just as the scriptures say: "I trust in God; this is why I speak." We also trust in God, and we also speak about what he has done for us. \v 14 We know that God, who raised up the Lord Jesus from the dead, will also raise us up from the dead with him, and that Jesus will take us along with you, and take us to be where God is. \v 15 All that I have suffered is to help you, so that more and more people can know how God loves them freely, and so that they may praise him more and more. diff --git a/48-2CO/06.usfm b/48-2CO/06.usfm index 722d2887..744b6149 100644 --- a/48-2CO/06.usfm +++ b/48-2CO/06.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 17 The Scriptures therefore say: +\v 17 The scriptures therefore say: \q "Come out from among the unbelievers \q1 and be separate from them," says the Lord, \q "Do not handle anything that makes you filthy and unable to worship me; diff --git a/48-2CO/08.usfm b/48-2CO/08.usfm index 48bd821e..c2dd771b 100644 --- a/48-2CO/08.usfm +++ b/48-2CO/08.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ \s5 \v 13 We are not taxing you because we do not want others to have to support themselves. But it is fair for you to help them. \v 14 You have more than you need at this time; what you have left over will be enough for them, too. In the future, they will have more than they need, and perhaps then, they will be able to help you. That is fair for everyone. -\v 15 This is like the Scriptures say: +\v 15 This is like the scriptures say: \q "The one who had much did not have anything left to share; \q1 but the one who had only a little did not need anything more." \m diff --git a/48-2CO/09.usfm b/48-2CO/09.usfm index cfe9d779..2a637a43 100644 --- a/48-2CO/09.usfm +++ b/48-2CO/09.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ \s5 \v 8 God can give you all kinds of gifts more and more, so that you will always have what you yourselves need, and also enough to do good things with. -\v 9 As it is written in the Scriptures: +\v 9 As it is written in the scriptures: \q "He gives good things to people everywhere, \q and he gives to the poor what they need. \q He does these things forever. diff --git a/48-2CO/10.usfm b/48-2CO/10.usfm index ede729bf..732f8963 100644 --- a/48-2CO/10.usfm +++ b/48-2CO/10.usfm @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ \v 16 We hope for this, in order that we may share the good news with people beyond where you live. We will not take credit for work that any other servants of God are doing, in their own regions where they serve him. \s5 -\v 17 The Scriptures say, +\v 17 The scriptures say, \q "Let the one who is proud, be proud of the Lord." \m \v 18 When a person praises himself for what he has done, God does not reward him for doing that. Instead, he rewards those of whom he approves. diff --git a/49-GAL/04.usfm b/49-GAL/04.usfm index e11e4870..62ee256d 100644 --- a/49-GAL/04.usfm +++ b/49-GAL/04.usfm @@ -70,5 +70,5 @@ \v 29 But long ago Abraham's son Ishmael, who was born naturally, caused trouble for Abraham's son Isaac, who was born because the Holy Spirit made it happen. It is the same way now the people who are slaves to God's law persecute those of us who trust in what Christ has promised to give us. \s5 -\v 30 But these are the words in the Scriptures: "The son of the woman who was not a slave will inherit what his father owns. The slave boy will inherit nothing. So send away from this place the female slave and her son!" +\v 30 But these are the words in the scriptures: "The son of the woman who was not a slave will inherit what his father owns. The slave boy will inherit nothing. So send away from this place the female slave and her son!" \v 31 My fellow believers, our ancestor is not a slave woman; instead, our ancestor is the free woman! diff --git a/50-EPH/05.usfm b/50-EPH/05.usfm index 77deb31f..b16a8d4d 100644 --- a/50-EPH/05.usfm +++ b/50-EPH/05.usfm @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ \v 28 Each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. When men love their wives, it is as though they loved themselves, \v 29-30 because no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers in his worldwide assembly. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him. \s5 -\v 31 The Scriptures say this about people who marry, +\v 31 The scriptures say this about people who marry, \q "When a man and a woman marry, they should permanently leave their fathers and mothers. They should be joined as husband and wife, and the two of them will become as though they were one person." \p \v 32 It is difficult to understand the meaning of these things that God has now revealed, but I am telling you about Christ's love for his worldwide assembly of believers. diff --git a/50-EPH/06.usfm b/50-EPH/06.usfm index 2302e21f..537ed56c 100644 --- a/50-EPH/06.usfm +++ b/50-EPH/06.usfm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ \c 6 \p \v 1 You children, because you belong to the Lord Jesus, obey your parents, because it is right for you to do that. -\v 2 God commanded in the Scriptures, +\v 2 God commanded in the scriptures, \p "Greatly respect your father and mother." That is the first law that God commanded in which he also promised something. He promised, \p diff --git a/55-1TI/05.usfm b/55-1TI/05.usfm index dcc8112f..5b786c09 100644 --- a/55-1TI/05.usfm +++ b/55-1TI/05.usfm @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ \p \v 17 Let the believers give double honor to the elders who lead them well, and especially to the elders who preach and teach God's Word. -\v 18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out," and "The laborer deserves to get his pay." +\v 18 For the scripture says, "You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out," and "The laborer deserves to get his pay." \s5 \p diff --git a/56-2TI/03.usfm b/56-2TI/03.usfm index 64105f31..ad79bcac 100644 --- a/56-2TI/03.usfm +++ b/56-2TI/03.usfm @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ \s5 \v 14 But as for you, keep on doing the things that you have learned to do, and the things that you have come to believe are right. Remember me, because I am the one who taught you these things. -\v 15 Remember also that even when you were a young child, you learned what God says in the Scriptures. These can teach you how Christ Jesus saves us, when we trust in him. +\v 15 Remember also that even when you were a young child, you learned what God says in the scriptures. These can teach you how Christ Jesus saves us, when we trust in him. \s5 -\v 16 All the Scriptures come from God's Spirit, so we should read them in order to teach the truth about God. We should also read them in order to persuade people to believe the truth. Also to correct people when they sin. Also to teach people how to do what is right. +\v 16 All the scriptures come from God's Spirit, so we should read them in order to teach the truth about God. We should also read them in order to persuade people to believe the truth. Also to correct people when they sin. Also to teach people how to do what is right. \v 17 We should do these things so that God can train every believer and give him what he needs in order to do every kind of good thing. diff --git a/59-HEB/01.usfm b/59-HEB/01.usfm index 55d82a5e..12cc3971 100644 --- a/59-HEB/01.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/01.usfm @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ \s5 \p \v 4 God has made his Son to be so much more important than the angels, that he has far more honor and authority than they do. -\v 5 In the Scriptures no one ever reported that God said to any angel what he said to his Son: +\v 5 In the scriptures no one ever reported that God said to any angel what he said to his Son: \q "You are my Son! \q Today I have declared to all that I am your Father!" -\p And he said in another Scripture passage, +\p And he said in another scripture passage, \q "I will be his Father, \q and he will be my Son." @@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ \v 6 When God brought his honored Son, his only Son, into the world, he commanded: \q "All my angels must worship him." \p -\v 7 And in the Scriptures it is written about the angels: +\v 7 And in the scriptures it is written about the angels: \q "God has made his angels to be spirits who serve him with power like flames of fire." \s5 \p -\v 8 But in the Scriptures, it is also written about God's Son: +\v 8 But in the scriptures, it is also written about God's Son: \q "You who are God will rule forever, \q and you will reign justly over your kingdom. \q @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 10 We also know that his Son is superior to angels because in the Scriptures it is written about God's Son, +\v 10 We also know that his Son is superior to angels because in the scriptures it is written about God's Son, \q "Lord, it was you who created the earth in the beginning. \q You also made the rest of the universe, the stars and everything in the sky. \q diff --git a/59-HEB/02.usfm b/59-HEB/02.usfm index 4bf73d66..9ba3428c 100644 --- a/59-HEB/02.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/02.usfm @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 5 God has not put the angels in charge of the new world he will make, but instead, he is putting Christ in charge of it. -\v 6 Someone solemnly spoke to God about this somewhere in the Scriptures, saying, +\v 6 Someone solemnly spoke to God about this somewhere in the scriptures, saying, \q "No human being is worthy enough for you to think about him! \q No human is worthy enough for you to care for him! \q @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ Some manuscripts add: \s5 \p -\v 13 And a prophet wrote in another Scripture passage what Christ said about God: +\v 13 And a prophet wrote in another scripture passage what Christ said about God: \q "I will trust him." -\p And in another Scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children, +\p And in another scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children, \q "I and the children whom God has given me are here." diff --git a/59-HEB/03.usfm b/59-HEB/03.usfm index b33f8a42..99e7dd1b 100644 --- a/59-HEB/03.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/03.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 7 The Holy Spirit caused the Psalmist to write these words in the Scriptures to the Israelites: +\v 7 The Holy Spirit caused the Psalmist to write these words in the scriptures to the Israelites: \q "Now, when you hear God speak to you, \v 8 do not stubbornly disobey him, as your ancestors did when they rebelled against him in the wilderness. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \s5 \v 14 We are now joined to Christ if we continue to seriously and confidently trust in him, from the time we first trusted in him to the time when we die. -\v 15 The Psalmist wrote in the Scripture that God said, +\v 15 The Psalmist wrote in the scripture that God said, \q "Now, when you hear me speaking to you, do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors did when they rebelled against me." diff --git a/59-HEB/04.usfm b/59-HEB/04.usfm index 23ef858f..eb282815 100644 --- a/59-HEB/04.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/04.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ \v 3 We who have believed in Christ are able to enter the place of rest because God said, \q "Because I was angry with the people of Israel, I solemnly declared, 'They will not enter the land where I would let them rest.'" \p God said this even though his plans had been finished from the time he created the world. -\v 4 What was written in the Scriptures about the seventh day after he had spent six days creating the world, shows that this is true: +\v 4 What was written in the scriptures about the seventh day after he had spent six days creating the world, shows that this is true: \q "Then, on the seventh day, God rested from his work of creating everything." \p \v 5 But note again what God said about the Israelites in the passage that I quoted previously: diff --git a/59-HEB/05.usfm b/59-HEB/05.usfm index 51a603bc..2a4532d9 100644 --- a/59-HEB/05.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/05.usfm @@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ \s5 \v 4 But no one can honor himself by deciding to become the high priest. Instead, God chose each man to become a high priest, as he chose Aaron to be the first high priest. -\v 5 Similarly, Christ also did not honor himself by becoming high priest. Instead, God the Father appointed him by saying to him what the Psalmist wrote in the Scriptures: +\v 5 Similarly, Christ also did not honor himself by becoming high priest. Instead, God the Father appointed him by saying to him what the Psalmist wrote in the scriptures: \q "You are my son! Today I have declared that I am your father!" \s5 \p -\v 6 And he also said to Christ what the psalmist wrote in another Scripture passage: +\v 6 And he also said to Christ what the psalmist wrote in another scripture passage: \q "You are a priest eternally just like Melchizedek was a priest." \s5 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ \v 11 Although there is much to say to you about how Christ resembles Melchizedek, this is hard for me to explain to you because you understand things so slowly. \s5 -\v 12 You became Christians long ago. So by now you should be teaching God's truths to others. But you still need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of the words of God from the Scriptures, starting from the beginning. You need those basic truths like babies need milk. You are not ready to learn more difficult things, things that are like the solid food that mature people need. +\v 12 You became Christians long ago. So by now you should be teaching God's truths to others. But you still need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of the words of God from the scriptures, starting from the beginning. You need those basic truths like babies need milk. You are not ready to learn more difficult things, things that are like the solid food that mature people need. \v 13 Remember that those who are still learning these elementary truths do not understand what God says about becoming righteous. Neither do they yet know right from wrong. They are just like babies who need milk! \v 14 But the more difficult spiritual truth is for people who know God better, just like solid food is for people who are adults. They can tell the difference between what is good and what is evil, because they have trained themselves by learning what is right and what is wrong. diff --git a/59-HEB/07.usfm b/59-HEB/07.usfm index ead6a1ba..4d75e8b2 100644 --- a/59-HEB/07.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/07.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \p \v 1 Now I will say more about this man Melchizedek. He was the king of the city of Salem and was also a priest of God, who rules the universe. He met Abraham and his men who were returning home from defeating the armies of the four kings. Melchizedek blessed Abraham. \v 2 Then Abraham gave to him one tenth of all the things he took after winning the battle. Now Melchizedek's name means first, "king who rules righteously," and, since Salem means "peace," his name also means "the king who rules peacefully." -\v 3 The Scriptures provide us with no record of Melchizedek's father, mother, or ancestors; nor do the Scriptures tell us when he was born or when he died. It is as if he continues to be a priest forever. In this way, he is a little like the Son of God. +\v 3 The scriptures provide us with no record of Melchizedek's father, mother, or ancestors; nor do the scriptures tell us when he was born or when he died. It is as if he continues to be a priest forever. In this way, he is a little like the Son of God. @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ \s5 \v 7 Now everyone knows that the more important people bless the less important people, just as Melchizedek blessed Abraham. So we know that Melchizedek was greater than Abraham. -\v 8 In the case of the priests who are descendants of Levi, they are all men who will die one day, but even they received tithes. However, in the case of Melchizedek, who received a tenth of everything from Abraham—it is as if God testified that Melchizedek keeps on living, since Scripture does not speak about him dying. +\v 8 In the case of the priests who are descendants of Levi, they are all men who will die one day, but even they received tithes. However, in the case of Melchizedek, who received a tenth of everything from Abraham—it is as if God testified that Melchizedek keeps on living, since scripture does not speak about him dying. \v 9 And it was as though Levi himself, and all the priests descended from him—those who received tithes from the people—paid tithes to Melchizedek because their ancestor Abraham paid tithes to him. When Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek it was as though Levi and all the priests descended from him acknowledged that Melchizedek was greater Abraham. \v 10 This is true because we can say that Levi and his descendants were still in Abraham's body when Melchizedek met Abraham. @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ \s5 \v 13 Jesus, the one about whom I am saying these things, is not a descendant of Levi. Instead, he came from the tribe of Judah, which never gave any person who served as priest. -\v 14 The Scriptures clearly state this. And in fact, Moses never said that any of Judah's descendants would become priests. +\v 14 The scriptures clearly state this. And in fact, Moses never said that any of Judah's descendants would become priests. \s5 \v 15 Furthermore, we know that the priests descended from Levi were inadequate, since it is even more obvious that another priest has appeared who is like Melchizedek. \v 16 This priest is Jesus; he became a priest, but not because he fulfilled what God's law required about being a descendant of Levi. Instead, he has the kind of power that came from a life that nothing can destroy. -\v 17 We know this since God confirmed it in the Scripture passage in which he said to his Son, +\v 17 We know this since God confirmed it in the scripture passage in which he said to his Son, \q "You are a priest eternally, just like Melchizedek was a priest." \s5 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 20 Furthermore, when God appointed Christ as a priest, he solemnly declared it. When God appointed former priests, he did not do this. -\v 21 But when he appointed Christ to be a priest, it was by these words that the Psalmist wrote in Scripture: +\v 21 But when he appointed Christ to be a priest, it was by these words that the Psalmist wrote in scripture: \q "The Lord has solemnly declared \q —and he will not change his mind: \q 'You will be a priest forever!'" diff --git a/59-HEB/10.usfm b/59-HEB/10.usfm index 40fdd233..34331089 100644 --- a/59-HEB/10.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/10.usfm @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ \q \v 7 Because of this, I said, 'My God, listen! \q I have come here in order to do what you want me to do, -\q just as they have written about me in the Scriptures.'" +\q just as they have written about me in the scriptures.'" \s5 \p @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ \s5 \v 35 So do not become discouraged when they cause you to suffer, because if you continue to trust in God, he will greatly reward you. \v 36 You must patiently continue to trust in him in order that, because of your doing what God wants you to do, he will give you what he has promised. -\v 37 A prophet wrote in the Scriptures that God said about the Messiah: +\v 37 A prophet wrote in the scriptures that God said about the Messiah: \q "In just a short time the one I promised would come will surely come; \q he will not delay coming. \q diff --git a/60-JAS/02.usfm b/60-JAS/02.usfm index c05c2109..6fb07d8f 100644 --- a/60-JAS/02.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/02.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \v 7 And they are the ones who speak evil against the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who is worthy of praise, to whom you belong! \s5 -\v 8 Jesus our King has commanded you in the Scriptures that each of you must love other people like you love yourself. If you love others, you do what is right. +\v 8 Jesus our King has commanded you in the scriptures that each of you must love other people like you love yourself. If you love others, you do what is right. \v 9 But if you honor some people more than others, you are doing wrong. And because you do not do what God commanded us to do, he condemns you because you disobey his laws. \s5 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ \v 22 In this way, Abraham trusted in God and obeyed him. When he obeyed him, he finished doing what he was trusting God for. -\v 23 And so it happened as it is written in the Scriptures, "Because Abraham truly trusted in God, God viewed him as someone who did the right thing." God also said about Abraham, "He is my friend." +\v 23 And so it happened as it is written in the scriptures, "Because Abraham truly trusted in God, God viewed him as someone who did the right thing." God also said about Abraham, "He is my friend." \v 24 From the example of Abraham you can realize that it is because people do good deeds that God considers them to be righteous, and not only because they trust in him. \s5 diff --git a/60-JAS/04.usfm b/60-JAS/04.usfm index 7916a4bb..76583075 100644 --- a/60-JAS/04.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/04.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ \v 5 Surely you do not think that it is for no reason that God told us in the scriptures that the Spirit he placed in us yearns for us to live our lives in ways that please him. \s5 -\v 6 But God is powerful and very kind to us, and he wants very much to help us stop sinning. That is why the Scripture says, "God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble." +\v 6 But God is powerful and very kind to us, and he wants very much to help us stop sinning. That is why the scripture says, "God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble." \p \v 7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and as a result he will run away from you. diff --git a/61-1PE/01.usfm b/61-1PE/01.usfm index d34900c0..f22b39fc 100644 --- a/61-1PE/01.usfm +++ b/61-1PE/01.usfm @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ God is allowing you to be tested, as precious metals are tested to see if they a \s5 \v 15 Instead, just like God, the one who chose you to belong to him, is holy, you also must be holy in everything that you do. -\v 16 Be holy, because it is written in the Scriptures that God said, "You must be holy because I am holy." +\v 16 Be holy, because it is written in the scriptures that God said, "You must be holy because I am holy." \p \v 17 God is the one who judges what each one does, and he does this very fairly. Since you call him 'Father,' behave in a right way while you are living here on earth. You are like people whom others have driven from their homes, because you are living away from heaven, your true home. diff --git a/61-1PE/02.usfm b/61-1PE/02.usfm index 0c2d4946..3b948544 100644 --- a/61-1PE/02.usfm +++ b/61-1PE/02.usfm @@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ \v 5 And like men build houses with stones, God is joining you together like a building in which his Spirit lives. He is doing this in order that you—like the priests who offer sacrifices at the altar, might do things that please God because Jesus Christ has died for you. \s5 -\v 6 What the Scriptures say show us that this is true: "I am placing in Jerusalem someone who is like a very valuable stone, the most important stone in the building, and those who believe in him will never become ashamed." +\v 6 What the scriptures say show us that this is true: "I am placing in Jerusalem someone who is like a very valuable stone, the most important stone in the building, and those who believe in him will never become ashamed." \s5 \p -\v 7 Therefore, God will honor you who believe in Jesus. But those who refuse to believe in him are like the builders that the Scriptures talk about: +\v 7 Therefore, God will honor you who believe in Jesus. But those who refuse to believe in him are like the builders that the scriptures talk about: "The stone that the builders rejected has become the most important stone in the building." \p -\v 8 It is also written in the Scriptures: +\v 8 It is also written in the scriptures: \q "He will be like a stone that causes people to stumble, \q and like a rock that people trip over. \p Just as people are injured when they stumble over a rock, @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 9 But you are people whom God has chosen to belong to him. You are a group that worship God like priests, and you rule with God like kings. You are a people group that belongs to God, so that you might proclaim the wonderful things he has done. He has called you from your former ways, when you were ignorant of his truth, and he has made you understand the marvelous true things about him. -\v 10 What the Scriptures say is true about you: +\v 10 What the scriptures say is true about you: \q "Formerly, you were no people group at all, \q But now you are God's people group. \q At one time God had not acted mercifully toward you, diff --git a/61-1PE/04.usfm b/61-1PE/04.usfm index 6523fdf7..788b0c73 100644 --- a/61-1PE/04.usfm +++ b/61-1PE/04.usfm @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ \s5 \v 17 I say this, because it is now time for God to begin judging people, and first he will judge those who belong to him. Since he will judge us believers first, think about the terrible things that will happen to those who do not obey the good news that comes from him! -\v 18 That will be as it is written in the Scriptures: +\v 18 That will be as it is written in the scriptures: \q "Many righteous people will have to suffer many difficult trials before going to heaven. \q So ungodly and sinful people will surely have to suffer much severe punishment from God!" \p diff --git a/62-2PE/01.usfm b/62-2PE/01.usfm index 8aa5e52b..45acde67 100644 --- a/62-2PE/01.usfm +++ b/62-2PE/01.usfm @@ -39,5 +39,5 @@ \s5 \v 19 In this way, because of what we saw, we are even more sure that what the prophets wrote about Christ long ago is completely reliable. You should pay attention to what they wrote, because it lets you know whether what we taught you is true or false, like a lamp that is shining in a dark place helps people see where they are going. You should pay attention to what they wrote until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back and enables you to know God fully. At that point, it will be like when the day dawns and the morning star rises, and we can see it clearly. -\v 20 It is important that you realize that no prophet could interpret by himself the meaning of what they wrote in the Scriptures without the help of God's Spirit, +\v 20 It is important that you realize that no prophet could interpret by himself the meaning of what they wrote in the scriptures without the help of God's Spirit, \v 21 because no human beings decided to make those prophecies. On the contrary, those who spoke messages from God did so the Holy Spirit helped them do it. Therefore the Spirit must also help us understand what they mean. diff --git a/62-2PE/03.usfm b/62-2PE/03.usfm index cc6e0529..0a53c1a4 100644 --- a/62-2PE/03.usfm +++ b/62-2PE/03.usfm @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ \p \v 14 Therefore, dear friends, because you are waiting for these things to happen, do all that you can to conduct your lives in a way that honors God, in order that Christ may see that you do not sin and that you are living peacefully with each other. \v 15 And think about this: Our Lord Jesus Christ is patient because he wants to save people. Our dear brother Paul also wrote wise words to you about these same matters, because God enabled him to understand these events. -\v 16 In the letters that Paul wrote there are certain things that are difficult for people to understand. People who know nothing about God and who speak at random interpret these things wrongly, as they also interpret the other parts of the Scriptures wrongly. The result is that they they will lead God to punish them. +\v 16 In the letters that Paul wrote there are certain things that are difficult for people to understand. People who know nothing about God and who speak at random interpret these things wrongly, as they also interpret the other parts of the scriptures wrongly. The result is that they they will lead God to punish them. \s5 \v 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know about these false teachers, guard against them. Do not let these wicked people deceive you by telling you things that are wrong. Do not let them to persuade you to doubt what you now firmly believe.