Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThen they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”New Living TranslationThen they...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.New Living Translation“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that every...
long time therein, but the Lord shall do away you, (I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that ye soon shall perish from the land that ye shall take, when ye have crossed over the Jordan River; ye shall not live a long time in it, but the Lord shall do you away...
On playfulness in Crispin Sartwell’s “Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality”. To be playful is tolet go; it is to seduce and to be seduced, though perhaps in a small way. Finally, solemnity is the virtue from which we may someday perish, while playfulness is the vice that may yet redeem us...
8 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth? 9 Have you forgotten the evils...
and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my ...
these verses, as we shall see verse 16 is another famously “sticky wicket”. The fact that some sections of the scriptures are difficult to understand shouldn’t phase us. The Westminster Confession points out in Chapter 1 section 7:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, … —John 10:27–28, KJV The asyndeton brings about swiftness and density, or a jerky, rushed rhythm, such as: Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot ...
s power to save outweighs fleeting social discomfort. When a young professional risks awkwardness by inviting a colleague to church or a parent teaches their child biblical values in a skeptical culture, they echo Esther’s resolve: “If I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16). Faith compels ...
Verse 2 echoes Malachi 3:1a: “Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple.” Verse 3 echoes Isaiah 40:3: “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord...