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4. "We must be our own before we can be another’s." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5. "Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can ...
James Strong (1822–1894) The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, [n 1] generally known as Strong's Concordance, is a Bible concordance, an index of every word in the King James Version (KJV), constructed under the direction of American theologian James Strong. Strong first published his Concordance in 1890, while professor of exegetical ...
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...
Serenity Prayer. A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown). The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to ...
Acts quotes Paul referring to his family by saying he was "a Pharisee, born of Pharisees". [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Paul's nephew, his sister's son, is mentioned in Acts 23:16. [ 55 ] In Romans 16:7, he states that his relatives, Andronicus and Junia , were Christians before he was and were prominent among the Apostles.
The Luther Bible influenced other vernacular translations, such as the Tyndale Bible (from 1525 forward), a precursor of the King James Bible. [156] When he was criticised for inserting the word "alone" after "faith" in Romans 3:28, [157] he replied in part: "[T]he text itself and the meaning of St. Paul urgently require and demand it. For in ...
Apostles in the New Testament. The Last Supper, a late 1490s mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is a depiction of the last supper of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles on the eve of his crucifixion. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Jesus and his Twelve Apostles, fresco with the Chi-Rho symbol ☧, Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome.
In previous censuses, over a third of Southern responders identified as being of English or partly English ancestry [7] [8] with 19,618,370 self-identifying as "English" on the 1980 census, followed by 12,709,872 identifying as Irish, 11,054,127 as Afro-American, and 10,742,903 as German.