Forty years I loathed a generation and I said, “A people of straying hearts are they and they did not know My ways”; so I swore in My anger, “They shall never come to My resting place!” Psalm 95:10-11 translation Jack Riemer Loathed – God is love, right? God loves everyone, right? God doesn’t want…
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, [c]if you will hear His voice, Psalm 95:7 NASB Today, – Since the original has no punctuation, how exactly are we to read this verse. Look closely at the NASB translation and compare it to the Chabad translation:…
Your kingdom come. Your will be done, Matthew 6:10 NASB Your will be done – “I’ll be there tomorrow G_d willing.” He replied, “Insha’Allah, ‘by the will of God.’” “Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’” Judaism, Islam, Christianity—all use the expression “the…
Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the [a]west sideof the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Exodus 3:1 NASB To the west side – Sometimes translators of Bibles with Western perspectives alter the text in order to make it sensible to Western…
more desirable than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter than honey, than drippings of the honeycomb Psalm 19:11 Jack Riemer Sweeter than honey – I am often amazed at the ignorance of biblical scholars—on both sides of the aisle. Christian scholars for centuries completely misunderstood the importance of Moses in the background of the Messiah. …
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless. Matthew 22:11-12 NIV How did you get in here – We often read this parable as if it is…
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 NASB Go – I am sure you are aware that even in the Greek text, this is not a command. There’s a footnote to this in the NASB that reads, “Or Having gone (Gr…
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under [a]the Law but under grace. Romans 6:14 NASB Not under the Law – Martin Luther’s mistake cost all of us centuries of spiritual deprivation. Luther read Paul’s words and concluded that the Law no longer applied to the faithful. He did just what the translators of the…
