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Those who believe are "especially" saved?
1 Timothy 4:10 (NET, emphasis mine) reads:
In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.
The Greek word underlying "especially" seems to be…
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Did Jesus teach people to literally pluck their eye out and cut their hand off?
The passage from the Sermon on the Mount (and see also Matthew 18:8-9) is a familiar one:
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery…
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Where can I find Greek and Hebrew plain text sources?
Source texts are available with software
There are numerous Biblical source texts available (free, in "public domain") for download into Bible software type programs.
Where else are they available? (in a plain text file type)
I am looking for…
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What does Genesis 3:16 literally say?
I've noticed that sometimes words are repeated in the hebrew text.
Gen 3:16 אֶֽל־ H413 to הָ·אִשָּׁ֣ה H802 Unto the woman אָמַ֗ר H559 he said הַרְבָּ֤ה H7235 I will greatly אַרְבֶּה֙ H7235 multiply עִצְּבוֹנֵ֣·ךְ H6093 thy sorrow וְ·הֵֽרֹנֵ֔·ךְ…
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In Job 41:5 is it cynical of God to mention the young women in his house if they are already dead?
For me the Book of Job is one of the most controversial books in the Bible yet. In chapters 38-41 we see the Lord's unnecessary boasting in front of his slave. Job 41:5 is an example of a cynicism:
Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it…
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Blessed is the man who WALKS NOT or HAS NOT WALKED?
I noticed in studying the Psalms that Psalm 1 in the old Coverdale text reads, "Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful."
Yet most modern…
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Why did the captive Jews refuse to sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?
As I focus on Psalm 137:4; the part of the psalm which relates to where the Jews declined to singing the Lord’s song in their land of captivity; I am still pondering over why those captive Jews said:
How shall we sing the Lord's song
in a…
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Women and chief men stirred up - Acts 13:50
Acts 13:50 says in part that the Jews "stirred up the devout and prominent women AND the chief men of the city" raising up persecution against Paul and Barnabus, causing them to be expelled from the area.
Can we infer from the original…
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Who was Nimrod?
In the middle of an otherwise repetitive genealogy in Genesis 10, one man is especially singled out:
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, "Like…
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Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil?
In my effort to take a survey on the character of Esau, I seem to be running into more difficulties in unveiling why the All-Loving God had to declare hatred for Esau right from the womb when he had done no evil.
10 And not only so, but also when…
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Does Genesis contain a "death sandwich"?
Recently David Musgrave of Amridge University and Gordon Rugg of Keele University presented research that suggests the entire book of Genesis contains an inclusio on the words "life" and "death". Their method seems to consist of searching for the…
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What does John 12:40 mean?
In John 12:40, it is written,
40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. KJV, 1769
Μʹ Τετύφλωκεν αὐτῶν τοὺς…
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What is the judgment in Psalm 1?
The ending of Psalm 1 provides great hope for those who delight in the instruction of the Lord:
Not so the wicked;
rather, they are like chaff that wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not survive judgment,
nor will sinners, in the…
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Why so many different translations of Deuteronomy 32:8?
Deuteronomy 32:8 has an unusually high number of different translations, and the differences aren't subtle. What is the reason for this diversity?
KJV:
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of…
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Naphtali touching the border of Juda?
In describing the borders of every inherited piece of land in the book of Joshua it is said that the border of Naphtali touches Judah at the Jordan on the east.
Then the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and ran from there to Hukkok, touching…
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