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. . . let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us:

Golden Text Psalms 90:17 let (to :)

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 21 Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul. 1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. 2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;

shew forth his salvation from day to day. 3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. 4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: 6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 7 Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength. 8 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:

Responsive Reading Psalms 103:1, 2, 21, 22; 96:1–4 (to :), 6–9 (to :)

SECTION ONE: Your identity comes from God. Page 2

SECTION TWO: Identity unveiled, revealed through reflection. Page 3

SECTION THREE: Soul gives you dominion and freedom. Page 4

SECTION FOUR: You’re pure. Page 5

SECTION FIVE: Soul heals. Page 6

SECTION SIX: Soul is immortal, and so are you! Page 7

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1 | Psalms 27:4

ne thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the

Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

2 | Job 23:13 he

he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

3 | Psalms 147:4, 5, 8, 20 Praise

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepar-eth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 20 Praise ye the Lord.

4 | Psalms 139:14

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

5 | Ecclesiastes 3:11 (to :)

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time:

1 | 466:20–23

Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. 21 There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be

Mankind redeemed

rendered in the plural.

2 | 281:14

The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is 15 infinite individuality, which supplies all form and come- liness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things.

3 | 70:12

12 The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal. The questions are: What are God’s identities?

Real and unreal identity

15 What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed?

4 | 477:20 Identity

Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the re- 21 flection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not

Reflection of Spirit

24 in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to Spirit.

5 | 516:9–13

9 God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and 12 permanence. Love, redolent with unselfish-

Love imparts beauty

ness, bathes all in beauty and light.

6 | 247:21

21 Beauty is a thing of life, which dwells forever in the eternal Mind and re-

The divine loveliness

flects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, 24 outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with 27 starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness.

7 | 477:26 (only)

Man is the expression of Soul.

What a beautiful

view!

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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.Psalm 139:14—New International Version

Beauty is all around you. Take a look!

telleth: countssignifies: meansDeity: Godcomeliness: attractiveness; loveliness; beautydivinity: the nature of Godredolent: sweet-smelling; fragrant


the first tables or tablets with the command-ments written on them (see Exodus 24:12), but Moses broke them (32:15–19) when he

discovered that the Hebrews had begun worshipping other gods (32:1–6) after God led them out of Egypt.

GOD GAVE MOSES

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Man is the reflection of Soul. He is the direct opposite of material sensation, and there is but one Ego. We 1 run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply Mind into minds and suppose error to be mind, then mind 3 to be in matter and matter to be a lawgiver, unintelligence to act like intelligence, and mor-

Philosophical blunders

tality to be the matrix of immortality.

9 | 250:12

12 Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God.

10 | 477:9–13 To

9 To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea of 12 God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions.

Material body never

God’s idea

11 | 247:31

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure 1 in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

12 | 527:4

Man is God’s reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete.

6 | Psalms 67:1 (to 2nd ;), 2

God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; 2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

7 | Exodus 33:11 (to 1st .)

nd the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speak-

eth unto his friend.

8 | Exodus 34:1, 29–32, 35 (to :)

And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testi- mony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone:

9 | Psalms 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Descending Mount Sinai

from a peak of 7,500 ft (2,286 m).

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You can learn more about “Ego” and “reflection” in Unity of Good p. 48:12 by Mary Baker Eddy.

wist: knewnigh: nearmatrix: place where something develops

erring: false; mistakencultivation: refinement; improvement

Do you think of God as a friend? Do you talk with Her, friend to friend?

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310 | Psalms 66:16

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

11 | Jeremiah 1:6–9

hen said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,

and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 9 Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

12 | Romans 10:8 The (to :), 15 How beautiful

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: 15 How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

13 | I Peter 4:11 (to 1st .)

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.

13 | 307:25–26 The

The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things.

14 | 89:14–24

If one believes that he cannot be an orator with- 15 out study or a superinduced condition, the body responds to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before was eloquent. 18 Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, and the power of expressing them. Spirit, 21 God, is heard when the senses are silent. We

Scientific improvisation

are all capable of more than we do. The influence or action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phe- 24 nomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.

15 | 85:2

It is the illumination of 3 the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the ca- pacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the 6 divine Mind.

16 | 322:3–9

3 When understanding changes the standpoints of life and intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over 6 sense, and we shall perceive Christianity, or

Standpoints changed

Truth, in its divine Principle. This must be the climax before harmonious and immortal man is obtained and his 9 capabilities revealed.

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JEREMIAHwas a priest and prophet who preached during the reigns of King Josiah and his son Jehoiakim in Judah. Jeremiah prophesied

both about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews’ exile from Judah, and about their later return and rebuild-ing of the city.

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How have you experienced the “action of Soul”?

Paul, who wrote the letter to the Romans, is quoting Deuteronomy 30:14 and Isaiah 52:7.

minister: serve; helporator: public speaker; lecturersuperinduced: added-on

mute: unable to speakeloquent: articulate; speaking clearly, easily, and persuasivelyimprovisation: performing or inventing in the moment without preparation; ad-libbingfervor: intensity; passionate enthusiasmuntutored: untrained; not formally educated

I preach the gospel of peace and bring

good tidings!

Jeremooyah

He’s a good speaker.

Hey—I’m not afraid. God is telling

me what to say! If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things

God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever . . . I Peter 4:11 (in part)—New International Version



417 | 311:7–9, 13–25, 28

Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no element of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No, 9 he can only lose a sense material.

Evil is destroyed by the sense of good. Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense 15 and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spiritual truth. This state of error is the mortal

Soul impeccable

18 dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. So long as we believe that soul can sin or that immortal Soul is in 21 mortal body, we can never understand the Science of being. When humanity does understand this Science, it will become the law of Life to man, — even the higher law 24 of Soul, which prevails over material sense through harmony and immortality.

Matter, sin, and mortality lose all supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as 30 mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelligence. But the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by these phases of mortality.

18 | 260:28–7

If we array thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal 30 nature. If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, 1 we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action. Look away from the body into Truth and Love, 3 the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and

Thoughts are things

immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the endur- ing, the good, and the true, and you will bring these 6 into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.

19 | 76:22–26

The sinless joy, — the perfect harmony and immortality of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness 24 without a single bodily pleasure or pain, — constitutes the only veritable, indestructible

Immaterial pleasure

man, whose being is spiritual.

garments: clothingraiment: clothingarray: dress; clothevestures: clothing

14 | Leviticus 26:2 I am, 11, 12

I am the Lord. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

15 | Psalms 119:174–176

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

16 | Zechariah 1:13

nd the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

17 | Zechariah 3:1, 2 (to ;), 3–5

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. 4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.

18 | Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth her- self with her jewels.

evil

Joshua

Nothing false

allowed

mortal vestures

Lose the

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EVIL :

Lookin’ good!

robe of righteousness

I spoke up and said, “Also put a clean priestly turban on his head.” Then they dressed him in priestly clothes and put the

turban on him, while the LORD’s angel stood there watching.

Zechariah 3:5—Contemporary English Version

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is about the time after the Jews’ exile and is concerned with the building of the second temple.

The first eight chapters were probably written by the prophet Zechariah around 520 BC. Chapters 9–14 were probably written later by one or more people using Zechariah’s name.

THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH Books

Bibleof the

(Yeshua, in Hebrew) means “God saves,” and so it was and is a common name. Joshua is the name of the man who was the leader of the

Hebrews after Moses, and the Book of Joshua is named after him. The Joshua mentioned in this passage is a priest and a descendant of Moses’s brother Aaron. The most familiar per-son with this name became known by the Greek form, Iesous, which came into English as Jesus.

THE NAME JOSHUA

With the sense of good, you’re prepared for the destruction of evil!

proportionably: in a corresponding measureoccupancy: presenceveritable: real; true; genuine



519 | Psalms 96:1, 2, 9 (to :)

O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. 2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day. 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:

20 | Mark 1:14 Jesus, 15, 34 (to ;)

esus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils;

21 | Mark 10:46–52 as

as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging. 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. 48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me. 49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. 50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. 51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. 52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

20 | 210:11, 28

Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever 12 manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the 15 divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical 18 process.

To

Matter mindless

mortal sense, sin and suffering are real, but immortal 30 sense includes no evil nor pestilence. Because immortal sense has no error of sense, it has no sense of error; there- fore it is without a destructive element.

21 | 214:26

How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on 27 the retina may end the power of light and lens! But the real sight or sense is not lost. Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul,

The senses of Soul

30 and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the body as matter has no sensation of its own, and there is no oblivion for Soul and its faculties. Spirit’s senses are with- 1 out pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide from them the harmony of all things and the might and 3 permanence of Truth.

22 | 395:6–10

6 Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the corporeal 9 senses and to assert its claims over mortal-

Divine authority

ity and disease.

23 | 135:12–15

12 This is “the beauty of holiness,” that when Truth heals the sick, it casts out evils, and when Truth casts out the evil called disease, it heals the 15 sick.

Fear and sickness identical

24 | 316:20–21

Christ presents the indestructible man, whom Spirit cre- 21 ates, constitutes, and governs.

Jericho today

pestilence: deadly disease; evil influencetransient: temporary; brief; fleetingoblivion: extinction; state of being forgottenfaculties: functions; abilities

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was the road or the way. It was a thorough-fare for walkers, donkeys, carts pushed by people or pulled by donkeys, and so on. It

was well travelled and would have had people on it as long as there was daylight.

THE HIGHWAY

In Jesus’s day, a beggar’s life in the prosperous city of Jericho, with its balmy winter weather, was not quite as hard as it was elsewhere in the Middle East.

BARRY H

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THE BIBLE Section SCIENCE and HEALTH with Key to the Scriptures | Mary Baker Eddy625 | 306:7–8 The, 13

The immortality of Soul makes man immortal.

If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for a period and then are separated as by a law of divorce to 15 be brought together again at some uncertain future time and in a manner unknown, — and this is the general religious opinion of mankind, — we are left without a 18 rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be separated for an instant from God, if man reflects God. Thus Science proves man’s existence to be intact.

26 | 543:5

The image of Spirit cannot be effaced, since it 6 is the idea of Truth and changes not, but becomes more beautifully apparent at error’s demise.

27 | 246:5–6, 11

The perfect and immortal are the eternal 6 likeness of their Maker.

The radiant sun of virtue and truth 12 coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, un- dimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and material, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of 15 Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright and imperishable glories.

28 | 247:10–12, 13–15

Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as 12 mortal belief. Im-

Eternal beauty

mortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its 15 own, — the radiance of Soul.

29 | 335:22

Only by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain the eternal unfolding of Life as 24 immortality brought to light.

22 | Psalms 71:1 (to :), 3, 5 thou, 9 (to ;), 14 I will, 16, 17, 21

n thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: 3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. 5 thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; 14 I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

23 | Psalms 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

24 | Psalms 66:8, 9

O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

25 | Zechariah 9:17 how (to !)

how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!

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Some thoughts have more to do with mortality than immortality. Which ones are worth putting off, and which ones are worth keeping?

KEEP:

I’ve lost the false sense of mootality and gained the true

sense of immootality.

DISCARD:habitation: home; dwellingresort: go to for help; turn tohitherto: until nowsuffereth: allowsrational: sensible; reasonableeffaced: erased; deleted; destroyeddemise: death; endingenraptured: full of joyimperishable: everlasting; indestructible

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wo years ago, I starred in my high school’s spring production of Crazy for You as Bobby Child, the rich banker who meets the

girl of his dreams and falls madly in love. As opening night approached, the rehearsals went longer and longer, and although I felt more and more prepared for the role, I started to feel nervous about performing. This feeling of nervousness persisted through the rehearsals, and strengthened as opening night got closer and closer.

I tried to calm my nerves with what must have been a thousand different thoughts. “It’ll be all right, Stephen!” I told myself. I felt I had the right motives for perform-ing—not to show off or feed my own ego, but to express God as Soul and bring joy to the audience. “You’ve done the work,” I reminded myself. “The performance is just the demonstration; the fulfillment of all the hard work and dedication you’ve put in.” I also tried to remember that God is the one performing, as Jesus pointed out when he remarked, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19). I needed to get myself out of the way and simply let God’s goodness shine through me.

But no matter how many times I reminded myself that there was nothing to be scared of, I didn’t feel consoled. On opening night, in the last hour before

the performance, my heart was beating so fast I could swear I felt it in my throat.

Eventually, I’d had enough. I went to a quiet space in the back of the men’s dress-ing room, sat down, and just opened

my mind to the all-knowing Mind. In a few seconds, the thought came to me: “Be still, and know that I am God.” Even though I’d heard that quote—part of Psalms 46:10—many times before, that night I experienced it in a new way. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I rec-ognized that all I needed to do was just be still and clear my mind of all the men-tal static that was preventing me from thinking straight, and to mentally affirm God’s omnipotence and control over the whole situation. And as soon as I did that, the healing, the change in thought, hap-pened instantaneously.

Then, it was time! The curtain opened, the lights went up, and before I knew it, I was out performing, singing my heart out in front of hundreds of people. The rest of the musical went just as smoothly as the first scene did. I left the theater

that night feeling exhilarated and so blessed. I am so grateful for this demonstration of the effective-ness of God’s power—even in what seems like the simplest things.

All I needed to do was just

be still and affirm God’s omnipotence and control.

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Revised Standard Version: Scriptural quotations marked Revised Standard Version are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The following dynamically equivalent translations are used for In Other Words. These translations attempt to convey the thoughts expressed in the text in common, everyday English.Good News Translation: Scriptural quotations marked Good News Translation are taken from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version—Second Edition Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.

New English Bible: Scriptural quotations marked New English Bible are taken from the New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970.

New International Reader’s Version: Scriptural quotations marked New International Reader’s Version are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Reader’s Version®. Copyright 1996, 1998 by Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Used by permission.

New Living Translation: Scriptural quotations marked New Living Translation are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

The following paraphrases are used for In Other Words. These are not literal translations, rather they attempt to present to modern readers the text’s tone, rhythm, and ideas as its earliest audiences might have experienced it.The Living Bible: Scriptural quotations marked The Living Bible are taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

The Message: Scriptural quotations marked The Message are taken from The Message, copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

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