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These Christmas Bible verses for cards and prayers share the true meaning of Christmas. Fill your heart with the peace and joy Christ's birth brought the world
This verse describes wind winnowing, the period's standard process for separating the wheat from the chaff. Ptyon , the word translated as winnowing fork in the World English Bible is a tool similar to a pitchfork that would be used to lift harvested wheat up into the air into the wind.
The verse is similar to Mark 9:47, and a version much closer to that in Mark appears at Matthew 18:9. [1] This verse, along with the next one, is the most extreme part of the Sermon on the Mount. R. T. France notes that the severity of this verse is unparalleled in the contemporary literature. [2] It advocates an action that is extremely drastic.
The nickname Wicked Bible seems to have first been applied in 1855 by rare book dealer Henry Stevens.As he relates in his memoir of James Lenox, after buying what was then the only known copy of the 1631 octavo Bible for fifty guineas, "on June 21, I exhibited the volume at a full meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, at the same time nicknaming it 'The Wicked Bible,' a name that ...
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. The New International Version translates the passage as: 43:"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44:Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. The New International Version translates the passage as: A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.
John 3:16 is the sixteenth verse in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, one of the four gospels in the New Testament.It is one of the most popular verses from the Bible and is a summary of one of Christianity's central doctrines—the relationship between the Father (God) and the Son of God (Jesus).
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: 20: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: 20: teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you.