COL.json

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    "- Open English Translation—Readers’ Version (OET-RV) v0.1.55"
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    "UTF-8\n"
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   "content": [
    "ESFM v0.6 COL\n"
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    "WORDTABLE OET-LV_NT_word_table.tsv\n"
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    "Colossians\n"
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    "Colossians\n"
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   "content": [
    "Colossians\n"
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   "content": [
    "Col.\n"
   ]
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  {
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   "content": [
    "Paul’s letter to the believers in\n"
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    "Colossae\n"
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  {
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   "content": [
    "Introduction\n"
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  {
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   "marker": "ip",
   "content": [
    "This letter of Paul was written to the believers in Colossae, a town in Asia Minor (also called Anatolia, now part of modern Turkey) that’s almost 500km overland east of Ephesus. Paul had not yet visited Colossae, but he was very concerned for them and he had sent helpers from Ephesus.\n"
   ]
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  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "ip",
   "content": [
    "Paul had heard that there were false teachers influencing the believers there in Colossae. They taught that if a person wants to be saved and wants to deepen their faith in God, it’s not sufficient to have faith in the messiah because they said that it’s necessary to obey other restrictions and customs as well as worshipping angels.\n"
   ]
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  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "ip",
   "content": [
    "So Paul wrote to the believers there in Colossae and explained the truth concerning Yeshua the messiah. He told them that it’s Yeshua who made everything around us, therefore he’s greater than the angels and other unseen powers. He also saw the godliness of his father, and there’s no other source of life for believers other than him. So then it’s necessary that the believers don’t follow human customs and traditions, but rather, it’s necessary that they simply follow the messiah.\n"
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   "content": [
    "It should be noted here that this letter, like most of the scriptures, was dictated to a scribe (See 2 Thess 3:17), so it was an oral letter, quite different from our modern letters which we edit with word-processing software, adding a word back in a previous sentence, combining two short sentences, or breaking an over-long sentence. Oral letters tend to contain a lot of ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "it",
     "content": [
      "run-on sentences"
     ]
    },
    " where the thoughts keep flowing without a break, thus 1:3-8 and 1:9-16 are considered by most Greek experts to be long sentences (like this one is 😀), however for us as readers, sentences with around a hundred words in them are very difficult for us to absorb, hence this ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "em",
     "content": [
      "Reader’s Version"
     ]
    },
    " breaks those long Greek sentences into a number of smaller sentences, in fact, this kind of adjustment is regularly done throughout the Bible by all major English translations in order to make them easier for us to read, but the disadvantage is that we can sometimes lose whatever the connection was between the consecutive thoughts. The ",
    {
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     "content": [
      "OET"
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    " tries to be more transparent about such adjustments by placing the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "em",
     "content": [
      "Literal Version"
     ]
    },
    " right beside this text so that the serious student can compare the two.\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "iot",
   "content": [
    "Main components of Paul’s letter\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "io1",
   "content": [
    "Introduction ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "ior",
     "content": [
      "1:1-14"
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    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "io1",
   "content": [
    "The work of the messiah ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "ior",
     "content": [
      "1:15–2:19"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "io1",
   "content": [
    "The new life in the messiah ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "ior",
     "content": [
      "2:20–4:6"
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    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "io1",
   "content": [
    "Concluding remarks ",
    {
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     "marker": "ior",
     "content": [
      "4:7-18"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "rem",
   "content": [
    "This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.\n"
   ]
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  {
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   "number": "1",
   "sid": "COL 1"
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  {
   "type": "para",
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   "content": [
    "/s1 Greetings from Paul; Salutation\n"
   ]
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   "content": [
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "1",
     "sid": "COL 1:1"
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    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "This letter is from"
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    },
    " Paul, a missionary of ",
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     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "Messiah¦132527 Yeshua"
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    " by God’s will, and¦132533 ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "from"
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    },
    " our¦132535 brother¦132536 Timothy¦132534.\n"
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  {
   "type": "para",
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   "content": [
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "2",
     "sid": "COL 1:2"
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    "To the people ",
    {
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     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "there"
     ]
    },
    " in Colossae who are godly and faithful¦132542 brothers¦132543 and sisters¦132543 in Messiah.\n",
    {
     "type": "para",
     "marker": "rem",
     "content": [
      "/s1 Paul Thanks God for the Colossians; Thanksgiving and Prayer; Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer; Prayer of Thanksgiving\n"
     ]
    }
   ]
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  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "p",
   "content": [
    "Grace and peace¦132550 to you¦132548 all from ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "God¦132552"
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    },
    " our¦132554 father¦132553 and ",
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     "content": [
      "the"
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    },
    " ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "master¦132556 Yeshua"
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    },
    " Messiah.\n"
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  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "s1",
   "content": [
    "Paul’s thanks and prayers\n"
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  {
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   "content": [
    {
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     "number": "3",
     "sid": "COL 1:3"
    },
    "We thank¦132559 ",
    {
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     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "God¦132561"
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    },
    ", ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "the"
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    },
    " father¦132563 of our¦132566 ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "master¦132565 Yeshua Messiah¦132568"
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    },
    " as we continually pray for you¦132572 all,\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "4",
     "sid": "COL 1:4"
    },
    "after having heard¦132574 about your¦132577 faith¦132576 in ",
    {
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     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "Messiah¦132580 Yeshua¦132581"
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    },
    " and the love¦132584 that you have for all godly people\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "5",
     "sid": "COL 1:5"
    },
    "which arose because¦132592 of your hope in a heavenly¦132600 reward. You all previously¦132602 heard¦132602 about that¦132595 in the message of the truth¦132607—the good message\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "6",
     "sid": "COL 1:6"
    },
    "that’s in you and that’s bearing¦132622 fruit¦132622 in the world¦132619 and growing, just like it did among¦132627 all of you from the day¦132631 that you heard¦132632 ",
    {
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     "content": [
      "it"
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    },
    " and knew¦132634 about the grace¦132636 of ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "God¦132638"
     ]
    },
    " in truth¦132640.\n",
    {
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "7",
     "sid": "COL 1:7"
    },
    {
     "type": "note",
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     "content": [
      {
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       "marker": "xo",
       "content": [
        "1:7: "
       ]
      },
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xt",
       "content": [
        "Col 4:12; Phm 23."
       ]
      }
     ],
     "caller": "+"
    },
    "You all learnt¦132643 that from Epaphras¦132645, our dearly loved fellow¦132648 slave who’s our faithful¦132653 servant¦132657 of the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "messiah¦132659"
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    },
    ",\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "8",
     "sid": "COL 1:8"
    },
    "and he’s the one who made your¦132665 love¦132666 in the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "spirit¦132668"
     ]
    },
    " evident¦132662 to us.\n",
    {
     "type": "para",
     "marker": "rem",
     "content": [
      "/s1 The supremacy of Christ\n"
     ]
    }
   ]
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    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "9",
     "sid": "COL 1:9"
    },
    "It’s because of that that we haven’t stopped praying¦132681 from the time that we heard¦132676 it¦132676, and requesting¦132683 that you all would be filled¦132685 with the knowledge¦132687 of his¦132690 will in all wisdom¦132693 and spiritual¦132696 insight¦132695,\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "10",
     "sid": "COL 1:10"
    },
    "to live worthily¦132699 of the ",
    {
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     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "master¦132701"
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    },
    "—pleasing¦132704 him in every¦132706 ",
    {
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     "content": [
      "kind of"
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    " good¦132708 and¦132710 productive work¦132707. ",
    {
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     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "We pray that you all"
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    },
    " will grow in the knowledge¦132715 of ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "God¦132718"
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    },
    "\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "11",
     "sid": "COL 1:11"
    },
    "and be strengthened with all power, according¦132723 to his¦132728 great power, ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "leading to"
     ]
    },
    " endurance¦132731 and patience¦132733 with contentment.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "12",
     "sid": "COL 1:12"
    },
    "Then you’ll all be thanking¦132737 the father¦132741, the one who qualified¦132745 you all for a part of the inheritance of godly people ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "who live"
     ]
    },
    " in the light¦132757.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "13",
     "sid": "COL 1:13"
    },
    "The father rescued¦132759 us from the power¦132763 of darkness¦132765 and¦132766 redirected¦132767 us into the kingdom¦132770 of his¦132775 dear son—\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "14",
     "sid": "COL 1:14"
    },
    {
     "type": "note",
     "marker": "x",
     "content": [
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xo",
       "content": [
        "1:14: "
       ]
      },
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xt",
       "content": [
        "Eph 1:7."
       ]
      }
     ],
     "caller": "+"
    },
    "the one who buys us out of slavery and forgives¦132787 our sins¦132789.\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "s1",
   "content": [
    "Yeshua is both the first and the highest\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "rem",
   "content": [
    "/s1 The Supremacy of Christ; Christ Is Supreme; The Person and Work of Christ\n"
   ]
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  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "p",
   "content": [
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "15",
     "sid": "COL 1:15"
    },
    "The son is the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "visible"
     ]
    },
    " image¦132792 of the invisible¦132796 ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "nd",
     "content": [
      "God¦132794"
     ]
    },
    ", the firstborn¦132798 of all creation¦132800\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "16",
     "sid": "COL 1:16"
    },
    "because¦132801 it was him who created everything in the heavens¦132811 and on the earth¦132816, both visible¦132818 and invisible¦132821, including¦132812 all authorities¦132829 such as kingdoms and governments. ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "Yes,"
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    },
    " everything was created by him and for him.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "17",
     "sid": "COL 1:17"
    },
    "He came before¦132846 everything and¦132848 everything ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "still"
     ]
    },
    " only exists because of him¦132852.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "18",
     "sid": "COL 1:18"
    },
    {
     "type": "note",
     "marker": "x",
     "content": [
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xo",
       "content": [
        "1:18: "
       ]
      },
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xt",
       "content": [
        "Eph 1:22-23."
       ]
      }
     ],
     "caller": "+"
    },
    "He is the head¦132858 of the body¦132860 which is the assembly¦132862. He is the beginning¦132867, the first of the dead¦132871 to come back to life, so that he would be the first in everything,\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "19",
     "sid": "COL 1:19"
    },
    "because¦132878 ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "God"
     ]
    },
    " was pleased¦132882 to live in him¦132880 in all totality\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "20",
     "sid": "COL 1:20"
    },
    {
     "type": "note",
     "marker": "x",
     "content": [
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xo",
       "content": [
        "1:20: "
       ]
      },
      {
       "type": "char",
       "marker": "xt",
       "content": [
        "Eph 2:16."
       ]
      }
     ],
     "caller": "+"
    },
    "and to reconcile¦132890 everything to himself¦132895 through him—both things on earth¦132910 and things in the heavens¦132916. ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "God"
     ]
    },
    " made peace¦132896 through him by means of the blood¦132899 at the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "execution¦132901"
     ]
    },
    " post.\n"
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  {
   "type": "para",
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   "content": [
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "21",
     "sid": "COL 1:21"
    },
    "Once all of you¦132918 were alienated ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "from God"
     ]
    },
    "—your thinking was that of an enemy and¦132917 your actions were evil¦132930,\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "22",
     "sid": "COL 1:22"
    },
    "but¦132949 now you all have been reconciled¦132935 by means of the death¦132944 of ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "Yeshua’s"
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    },
    " physical body¦132938. He’s able to present¦132946 you as pure¦132948 and blameless¦132950 in front¦132953 of ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "God"
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    },
    "—unable to be charged for any infraction\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "23",
     "sid": "COL 1:23"
    },
    "if indeed you continue¦132957 on in your established¦132960 and firm faith¦132959. Don’t let ",
    {
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     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "anyone"
     ]
    },
    " drive away the hope that ",
    {
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     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "comes from"
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    },
    " the good message that you all heard¦132973 and which has been proclaimed¦132975 throughout the whole world—it’s that good message that I’ve become a servant¦132992 of.\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "s1",
   "content": [
    "Paul’s work for believers\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
   "marker": "rem",
   "content": [
    "/s1 Paul’s Work as a Servant of the Church; Paul’s Interest in the Colossians; Paul’s Labour for the Church; Paul’s Work for the Church\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "para",
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   "content": [
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "24",
     "sid": "COL 1:24"
    },
    "So now I’m happy to be suffering¦132998 for you all, and I’m catching up in my¦133014 body to the tribulations¦133008 of the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
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     "content": [
      "messiah¦133010"
     ]
    },
    " in his¦133018 body, which¦133019 is the assembly¦133023.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "25",
     "sid": "COL 1:25"
    },
    "I became¦133025 a servant¦133028 of the assembly under God’s supervision when he gave¦133035 me the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "work"
     ]
    },
    " of fulfilling¦133039 God’s message¦133041—\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "26",
     "sid": "COL 1:26"
    },
    "the mystery¦133045 which had been hidden¦133047 away from the generations¦133054 over the ages, but¦133057 which was recently revealed¦133058 to his¦133061 chosen people.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "27",
     "sid": "COL 1:27"
    },
    "God wanted them to explain the riches¦133071 of this incredible mystery¦133076 among¦133079 the pagans¦133081: the ",
    {
     "type": "char",
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     "content": [
      "messiah¦133085"
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    },
    " in you¦133087 all bringing the hope of reaching God.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "28",
     "sid": "COL 1:28"
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    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "Yes,"
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    },
    " Messiah who we are telling everyone about as we teach¦133100 and recommend to everyone, so that we might present¦133107 every person ",
    {
     "type": "char",
     "marker": "add",
     "content": [
      "made"
     ]
    },
    " perfect¦133110 in Messiah.\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "29",
     "sid": "COL 1:29"
    },
    "That’s what I’m working hard towards according¦133119 to his¦133122 work as well—working in me with power¦133128.\n"
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    "I want you all to know how much I struggle¦133134 for you and for those in Laodicea¦133142 and for those who’ve never actually set eyes on me.\n",
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    "/s1 Freedom From Human Regulations Through Life With Christ; True and false teaching; Freedom from Rules and New Life in Christ; Fullness of Life in Christ\n"
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    "Every component of the greatness of God lives in his ",
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    "It wasn’t just human hands that circumcised you by ",
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    "You all were buried¦133337 with him when you were immersed ",
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     "number": "17",
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    "Don’t let anyone¦133454 be disqualifying¦133456 you all with their ",
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     "marker": "v",
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     "number": "21",
     "sid": "COL 2:21"
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     "number": "22",
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "23",
     "sid": "COL 2:23"
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    "They seem to be wise and make you more religious¦133549 or humble as you strictly obey them, ",
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    "/s1 The New Life in Christ; Living the New Life; Rules for Holy Living\n"
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "1",
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    "So¦133564 if you¦133565 all were brought back to life along with the messiah, then be concerned with discovering the things from above¦133570 where¦133572 the messiah is sitting¦133581 on God’s right¦133578.\n",
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "2",
     "sid": "COL 3:2"
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     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "3",
     "sid": "COL 3:3"
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "4",
     "sid": "COL 3:4"
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    "When he’s revealed ",
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   "content": [
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     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "5",
     "sid": "COL 3:5"
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    "So¦133621 put your¦133622 earthly¦133628 natures to death: sexual¦133629 immorality¦133629, impurity¦133630, passion¦133631, evil¦133633 desires¦133632, and¦133634 greediness¦133636 which is idolatry¦133639,\n",
    {
     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "6",
     "sid": "COL 3:6"
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    "because¦133640 those things invoke God’s severe¦133647 anger¦133647.\n",
    {
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "7",
     "sid": "COL 3:7"
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    "You all used to do those things when you lived in them.\n"
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "8",
     "sid": "COL 3:8"
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    "But now, don’t let any of these things come out of your¦133681 mouth¦133680: severe¦133673 anger¦133673, rage¦133674, malice¦133675, slander¦133676, or profanity¦133677.\n",
    {
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "9",
     "sid": "COL 3:9"
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     "sid": "COL 3:10"
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     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "11",
     "sid": "COL 3:11"
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "12",
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     "marker": "v",
     "number": "13",
     "sid": "COL 3:13"
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     "number": "14",
     "sid": "COL 3:14"
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     "type": "verse",
     "marker": "v",
     "number": "15",
     "sid": "COL 3:15"
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    " one body¦133801. Make sure that¦133796 you’re thankful¦133803\n",
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