Clearing out the ISSUES.

29-JOL.usfm

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 \v 11 Hurry and come,
 \q all you nearby nations,
 \q gather yourselves together there.
-\p
+\p Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.
-'Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.'
 
 
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43-LUK.usfm

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-\v 1 Many have tried to set in order a narrative about those matters that have been fulfilled among us, 
+\v 1 Many have taken on the work of putting together an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 
-\v 2 just as they handed them to us, who from the beginning have been eyewitnesses and servants of the message.
+\v 2 like the accounts that were passed down to us by those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and servants of the word.
-\v 3 So to me also it seemed good—having accurately investigated the course of all these things from the beginning—to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus.
+\v 3 So it seemed good to me also, because I have accurately investigated everything from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
-\v 4 This is so that you might know the truth about the things that you were taught.
+\v 4 so that you might know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
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 \v 5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zechariah, from the division of Abijah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 \v 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb.
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 \v 16 Many of the people of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.
-\v 17 He will go before the face of the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah. He will do this to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, so that the disobedient will walk in the wisdom of the just—to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."
+\v 17 He will go before the face of the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."
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 \v 18 Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I know this? For I am an old man and my wife is very old."
@@ -137,10 +137,11 @@
 \v 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us 
 \q in the house of his servant David,
 \q
-\v 70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who were in ancient times.
+\v 70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago),
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-\v 71 He will bring salvation from our enemies
+\v 71 salvation from our enemies
 \q and from the hand of all who hate us.
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 \v 72 He will do this to show mercy to our fathers 

48-2CO.usfm

@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@
 \v 18 I will be a Father to you,
 \q and you will be my sons and daughters,"
 \m says the Lord Almighty.
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@@ -289,6 +290,7 @@
 \v 13 It is by this that we are encouraged.
 \p In addition to our own comfort, we also rejoiced even more because of Titus' joy, because his spirit was refreshed by all of you.
 \v 14 For if I boasted to him about you, I was not embarrassed. On the contrary, just as everything we said to you was true, our boasting about you to Titus proved to be true.
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 \v 15 His affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of all of you, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
 \v 16 I rejoice because I have complete confidence in you.

57-TIT.usfm

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-\v 1 But you, say what fits with faithful instruction.
+\v 1 But you, speak what fits with faithful instruction.
-\v 2 Older men must be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.
+\v 2 Teach older men to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.
 
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-\v 3 Older women likewise should always present themselves as reverent, not slanderers or being slaves to much wine, but teaching what is good.
+\v 3 Teach older women likewise to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or being slaves to much wine, but to be teachers of what is good.
 \v 4 in order to train the younger women to sensibly love their own husbands and children.
 \v 5 They should train them to be sensible, pure, good housekeepers, and obedient to their own husbands. They should do these things so that God's word may not be insulted.
 

65-3JN.usfm

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 \v 9 I wrote something to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not receive us.
-\v 10 So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church. 
+\v 10 So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. Not satisfied with that, he not only refused to welcome the brothers himself, but he also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church. 
 
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 \v 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.