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

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

But turns out the Greeks were pretty interested in this Christ as well (the word Christ is the Greek translation Certainly God's grace manifests itself in a myriad of different ways in different places, but there's

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.

Literally translated, you need to lower yourself so that God may lift you up. But God's exaltation of you (as every other major translation puts it) isn't instantaneous, as we often Translators all felt the need to supply an adjective there: in due time (NIV / NET); at the proper The NET translators explain, "Humbling oneself is not a negative act of self-denial per se, but a positive

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 ).

The motivation that gripped these conceited men in the plain of Shinar is no different than the one This confusion runs deeper than the linguistic differences between English, Spanish or Dutch. Literally translated, the people would not listen to each other.

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