This 65th psalm guides us in praising God for the many different ways that God answers our prayers. Literally translated, he calls God the hearer of prayer , a phrase which is preserved in the ESV and NET translations. But I think the NIV did well to translate the phrase as you who answers prayer. The Hebrew word being translated, shema , means more than just to hear, but to listen and act upon what

Summary The NIV has an excellent translation of the opening words of Colossians 3. Whereas other translations render it "if you have been raised with Christ...," the NIV brings out the Since you've been raised with Christ, your life is different from non believers. Physically everything stays the same for now (which is why it's often so easy to forget you're different ), but mentally and spiritually, you're living in an entirely different world than other people, so it

The Holy Spirit works lots of different ways in you to accomplish your sanctification. Almost every English Bible translation uses a different word here to describe the title given to the With that literal meaning, you can see why all of the English translations are correct!

This is certainly a good translation, but I've come to appreciate aspects of the Lexham English Bible This nuance is captured in the New English Translation (NET): How blessed is the one whose rebellious But if the source of our happiness/blessedness is completely different than the world's source (self-fulfillment ), than the way to experience this happiness will look quite different as well.

Summary Today's passage sets a stark contrast between two different types of God's covenant people. But the second group - the group that you and I are part of: the Church, have a far different experience We too have a mediator, just like Moses had promised, but this One is different; He represents a new The word church is one of our more useful words in English, in that we can use it to mean so many different The word translated as 'church' in our English Bibles is ἐκκλησία ( ekklēsia ).

When John uses the word paraklētos in His gospel, the translators struggle with it because the meaning of it is hard to capture with just one English word, and so it often gets rendered differently into All of those are good ways to describe who the Holy Spirit is and what He does, but all the different versions of the Bible agreed on the way to translate the use of the word paraklētos here in John's epistle

Another way they suggest translating it is "Do not be mismatched ." most fundamental definition of what it means to be a regenerated Christian is that you've been made different cites no less than three Old Testament passages in which God commanded His people to be separate and different But you might think you're different; that somehow you're stronger in your faith than generation after God, and we are His people; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray for the strength and faith to be different

You can see the slight difference in the Greek words. that Simon Peter is the rock that the church is built on, or is 'this rock' that Jesus refers to a different Still less does it support the romantic imagery, sometimes derived from the traditional but incorrect translation

Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 4: The Canonical Books This week we'll be focusing on some of the different criminals, one hanging on either side of Jesus, but both looking at their present situation from vastly different To call them 'criminals,' or even 'thieves' as the older translations put it, is an understatement. Regardless of how they're referred to, they represent two different types of people in this world.

But Jesus was so different. Imagine how different our daily lives, political discourse and international diplomacy would be if we Dig Deeper Yesterday we learned about ἵνα (hina) clauses, which are most often translated with the English