Today’s Word

Why?

You shall also teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.  Deuteronomy 11:19  NASB Speaking – It should be obvious that Moses expects the people to instruct their children audibly.  He doesn’t direct them…
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Rescuing Paul (2)

Then he believed in the Lord; and He [a]credited it to him as righteousness.  Genesis 15:6  NASB Credited – You see that little footnote before the word “credited’?  In the margin of the NASB you’ll find “or imputed.” Now that’s a problem.  Why?  Because the word “imputed,” like the word “credited,” strongly suggests some sort of divine accounting,…
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Rescuing Paul (1)

Then he believed in the Lord; and He [a]credited it to him as righteousness.  Genesis 15:6  NASB Believed – As you know, Paul cites this verse from Genesis to justify his claim that Abraham was not considered righteous due to his own efforts but rather by the free act of God.  He uses this citation in Romans…
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Equality for All

“But all the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”  Joshua 6:19  NASB They shall go – “Social justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth”  (the United Nations).  “Social justice is…
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Get Involved

And Jesus *said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the [a]offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”  Matthew 8:4 NASB 1995 *said – You know that Hebrew and Greek do not have punctuation.  That means authors have to find other ways of expressing surprise, emphasis, questions,…
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Leave Me Alone

Do not become teachers in large numbers, my brothers, since you know that we who are teachers will incur a stricter judgment.  James 3:1  NASB Teachers – didáskaloi.  “Teachers.”  “imparting theoretical and practical knowledge with the highest possible development of the pupil as the goal.”[1]  Oh, how this verse terrorizes me.  I teach.  Frankly, I can’t help it.  It’s…
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