Today’s Word
Hurrying Too Much
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, and one who hurries [a]his footsteps [b]errs. Proverbs 19:2 NASB Errs – “Err” is a funny word. Just the look of it is odd. In this biblical translation, it’s used for the Hebrew ḥāṭāʾ (חָטָא), the most common word for “sin.” That causes the NKJV…
A Different Blessing
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 NASB To them – This is the first time…
What the Hell?
And if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished. Mark 9:47-48 NASB Hell – Rather than read something I wrote, let’s take…
Written in Stone
Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; Nehemiah 1:8 NASB The word which You commanded – Nehemiah is a personal account of the effort to reconstruct fallen Jerusalem. It’s a vivid, compelling, intensive story of one man’s fervent desire to restore…
Inevitable Consequences
“Who is the wise man who would understand this, what the mouth of the LORD spoke to him, that he might tell it? Why is the land destroyed, laid waste like the wilderness with none passing through? And the LORD said, “Because they forsook My teachings that I set before them and did not heed…
Deliberate Ignorance
Now there was a day when the [b]sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and [c]Satan also came among them. Job 1:6 NASB Sons of God – Some authors have made a lot of the idea that there are multiple divine beings in the biblical account. With verses like this one from the book of…
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