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Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” The Good News: Though the future may feel uncertain ...
How to stop overthinking and trust God.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. The New International Version translates the passage as: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
The Good News: God promises to provide comfort and care to those who believe in Him, similar to how a mother comforts her child. The verse conveys God's nurturing nature, assuring believers that ...
Hilary of Poitiers: "The Apostles salute the house with the prayer of peace; yet so as that peace seems rather spoken than given.For their own peace which was the bowels of their pity ought not to rest upon the house if it were not worthy; then the sacrament of heavenly peace could be kept within the Apostles own bosom.
The Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel, in his standard work The Psalms, believes the structuring of the verses was originally: [12] Verses 2–4: Introduction to and emergence of the poem; Verses 5ff: The actual poem; Verses 5–7 and 12: General considerations; Verses 8 and 13c.d: Return to yourself; Verses 13a.b, 9–11 and verse 14: The ...
Two verses earlier at Matthew 6:26 Jesus told his followers not to worry about food, because even the birds are provided for by God. In this verse Jesus presents the example of the lilies, who also do no labour. Spin in this verse is a reference to spinning thread, a labour-intensive but necessary part of making clothing. Spinning was ...
MacMillan also notes that verse 6 ("Goodness and mercy shall follow me") reminds him of two loyal sheepdogs coming behind the flock. [11]: 82 The header or first verse of the Psalm ascribes authorship to King David, said in the Hebrew Scriptures to have been a field shepherd himself as a youth.