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The "truth" here is not just factual accuracy but the ultimate reality of God's revelation in Christ. Historically, the rejection of truth has been a recurring theme in Scripture, from the Israelites' disobedience to the rejection of Jesus by the Pharisees. This rejection is a grave matter ...
Proverbs 2:7 tn The noun תּוּשִׁיָּה (tushiyyah) has a two-fold range of meanings: (1) “sound wisdom” (so KJV, NRSV); “effective counsel” and (2) result (metonymy of effect): “abiding success” (BDB 444 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew...
GOD'S WORD® TranslationI try to please everyone in every way. I don't think about what would be good for me but about what would be good for many people so that they might be saved.Good News TranslationJust do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking...
(3) There is yet another evidence, that which results from putting Scripture to the proof, and finding it made good. If I act on the directions, and find myself a partaker of its promises, I am witness that both are of God. If the Bible tells me that if I pray in Christ's name...
GOD'S WORD® TranslationPeople will wander from sea to sea and roam from the north to the east, searching for the word of the LORD. But they won't find it.Good News TranslationPeople will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and then on around from the north to the east. ...
Proverbs 2:5 tn Heb“find” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV). Proverbs 2:5 tn The term דַּעַת (daʿat,“knowledge”) goes beyond cognition; it is often used metonymically (cause) for obedience (effect); see, e.g., Prov 3:6,“in all your ways acknowledge him,” and...
Treasury of Scripture Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. the third. 2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confi...