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"And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith...

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and...

"Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both...

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and...

"and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ...

"So to Noah and into the ark they went by twos-all flesh in which was the spirit of life. Those that came, male and female of all flesh, came just as God commanded him. Then ADONAI shut him in."
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"in him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we...

"whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come-all are yours. And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's."

1 Corinthians 3:22-23 (NKJV)
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"For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth-the Lord, the God of...

"You only have I known of all the families of the earth;..."

Amos 3:2 (Darby)

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"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called,...

The post 1978 NIV is something I will not read. I too have Strong's concordance and my grandmother's King James bible, so my bases are covered.

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That is the version I read.

I started out with the NIV and read it for years and years, but I did not find it to be terribly accurate. I then tried the NASB for a while, (I have heard that it...

"Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its...

"Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself...

"And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord,...

"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who...

"The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was."

1 Samuel 3:3 (E.S.V.)

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Thank you for your kind words, they mean a lot to me. I can only hope that someone is encouraged to keep on going with the Lord in a world that just keeps getting tougher every day.

God bless.
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Open eyes, open ears and a closed mouth. Such amazing wisdom there, brother! I struggle daily with all three.

As you quoted some time ago (and I wrote down)

"I am a sojourner on the earth;...

The book of Revelation was written as a warning, to the Body of Christ, to look up, for their redemption is near, and to an unbelieving world, to repent while they still have the opportunity.

In...

"He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak."

Isaiah 59:17 (E.S.V.)
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All four of the gospels were written by a different person with a different cultural perspective on the same events. That does not mean that they are not written for all of us and do not have...