Psalms 120:2: “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.” At first reading it appears that the writer is saying: “Lord make those gossiping about me shut up, punch ‘em in the mouth.” But upon closer examination, the writer is not saying that at all, he just wants his
Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return
Job 12:3: “But I have understanding as well as you, I am not inferior than you; yea who knoweth not such things as these?” “Wise men don’t need advice, fools will not take it.” Benjamin Franklin Reading this verse would suggest that Job is really getting annoyed with his friends. It appears he
Luke 11:9-10: And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone asking receives and the one seeking finds; and the one knocking, it will be opened. “That’s all I can stands, cause I can’t stands
Song of Solomon 5:4 “My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.” “My bowels were moved for him…” This phrase alone should send even the most passionate supporters of the KJV scurrying for other translations. The idea that the very presences of one’s beloved has the effect
Psalms 139:23: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: “In the joy of this new relationship I said to Jesus Christ. ‘Lord, I want this heart of mine to be yours. I want to have you settle down here and be perfectly at home. Everything that I have belongs to
א Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” It seems more and more I am being asked about the Nephilim or giants in Genesis 6. I believe much of the interest comes from the discovery of the Dead
Deuteronomy 6:5 “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.” “Love is a canvass furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire Every day every orthodox Jew will recite this verse, in Hebrew. Why Hebrew and not their own native language,
Jeremiah 20:9: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire and shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing and I could not stay.” “One half of mine is yours, the
Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.” “If I do it, I get a vippin,—– I do it.” Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid That is quite a thing for the
