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  • 1 John 3:1-2 - Stop & Behold

    served the Church well for hundreds of years, but our usage of English has changed so much that its translation often needs to be translated. It's good for you to see what great love the Father has given, as the modern translations render it, You see tens of thousands of different things each and every day - far too many to focus on each and What's the difference between seeing and beholding?

  • Psalm104:27-30 - The Giver

    What's the spiritual difference between you and your dog? All throughout the Bible, both in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New (two very different Psalm 104 uses the Hebrew word rûaḥ twice, but all of the English translations properly translate each instance differently: 29 When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit (rûaḥ), they are created, Just as these translators

  • Hebrews 7:23-25 - Complete to the Uttermost Forever

    This is one of those fascinating words that gets rendered differently across various Bible translations Both of these translations explain that Jesus has done everything necessary to redeem and restore you But the LSB adds an interesting twist to the word in its translation: Jesus is able to save forever!

  • Psalm 1 - The Blessed Life

    But the blessed man looks far different. He delights in the law of the LORD! That's why it's important that we translate scripture as closely as possible to the exact words the original using a gendered word like man to represent all people has fallen out of fashion, and modern Bible translations more you do so, the more blessedness you'll likely experience (although it will probably look much different

  • Luke 15:11-16 - Prodigious Deprivation

    Obviously we're using a modern English translation as we use the Canons for our Bible reading guide this But there was one word that captured my attention in today's portion that was different than what I expected But the modern editors simply translated these passages as they were included in the original Latin, rather than the more familiar fallen short of the glory of God , which almost every English Bible translation That's a good translation and we'll stick to it.

  • Leviticus 16:1-10 - Scapegoat

    today happened right after Nadab and Abihu were consumed by fire from the LORD for worshipping Him differently Israel was to look, act, eat, and even groom themselves differently because they were God's holy people - a word that means different, literally, cut apart from the rest of the world. presence of the LORD, who appeared in the cloud over the atonement cover of the Ark of the Covenant (other translations kept Him separated from them, except for this one day a year, which in Hebrew is called Yom Kippur , translated

  • Romans 3:20-26 - The Seat of our Salvation

    differently, yet they're all correct. [as a sacrifice of] atonement This phrase translates one word, and it too is a fascinating one! Other translations use the older word propitiation (ESV, KJV) , which means payment. It's more literally translated as the mercy seat (LEB, NET), as it's the same word used to describe Once again, the NIV uses an entire phrase to translate just two words: through faith.

  • Psalm 65 - The Hearer of Prayers

    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

  • John 1:1-14 - There's Nothing New About the New Testament

    We'll spend the rest of the summer in these gospels, and each day we'll be in a different book as we the four gospels to be written, and right off the bat it becomes clear that his account will have a different These three gospels include many of the same episodes, but each has a slightly different twist or perspective John makes for a smooth transition from the Old Testament to the New (the word testament is a synonym beyond our comprehension, rather His very nature is communicative, which is why our English Bibles translate

  • Colossians 3:1-4 - Already but Not Yet

    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

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