This is what that verse is in the New Living Translation: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough.” I love the swap of “good road from above...
1 The Kingdom of God is Within (Among) (in the Midst of) You by Raymond B. Marcin At no time in history have there been more vernacular translations of the Bible available to the public. The Christian reader has an unprecedented variety of English language translations and paraphrases from...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Versionand saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”New Living Translation“Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”English Standard Version“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”Be...
that the Presence of God dwells with us. i.e FREELY, as well as ETERNALLY. And, not to mention, that it is the basis of our existence and ONLY means of functioning actively and directly in the Kingdom of God. In fact, the Presence...
for no one can do these signs that you do munless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is nborn oagain2 he cannot psee the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a...
St. Augustine described the story as the conflict between "The City of God" and the kingdoms of man. You cannot serve two masters. You must declare your allegiance either to the Kingdom of God, or to the kingdom of man-centered humanism. In the Bible, human government is a rebellion ...
8 Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; 9 cure the sick who are there, and say to them,‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’b 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say,...
“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about 23kg of flour until it worked all through the dough.” A tiny amount of yeast can spread through a large amount of flour and rise to produce a massive number of loaves of bread. Small efforts can have large...
A significant body of material dating back to Muḥammad were very gradually distinguished in the Quran and Hadith, i.e., identified respectively as the Word of God and prophetic traditions. The official Quran, subsequently put under the patronage of ‘Uthmān, might in fact have been ...
” These words were not originated by Jesus. The phrase “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” or, more literally, “the realm of the heavens has drawn near,” was the rallying cry of John the Baptist, and on his lips had doubtless a Messianic meaning. Jesus adopted the phrase, and ...