Today’s Word
Benefits Evangelism
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; Romans 10:9 NASB As – This is one of the crucial verses that we had to memorize when I was a child. It is Paul’s statement about how to…
The Beginning of Everything
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” Exodus 20:2 NASB Who – For Israel, everything began with “who.” ʾăšer, used thousands of times in the Bible, is a particle of relationship. Interestingly, contemporary ancient cultures seem to have a different view. “Taking into consideration…
But It’s Always Been Like This
thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.” Mark 7:13 NASB By your tradition – How much of what you do every day is the product of what has been given to you rather than what you originated? The school motto you learned. …
The Invention of Jesus
These served in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest and scribe. Nehemiah 12:26 NASB Jeshua – You will immediately recognize that the Hebrew spelling of this man’s mane is not Jeshua. It is Yeshua. He is not the only Israelite to…
With Emphasis
Consider the lilies of the field Matthew 6:28a NASB Consider – Of course, Yeshua didn’t speak these words in Greek, but even in Greek they demand further investigation. Why? Because even in Greek the verb has an added prefix (kata) to give it emphasis. The root verb is manthánō, “to direct one’s mind toward something.” …
Inflected Variations
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; Genesis1:26a NASB Image/likeness – We’ve spent enough time investigating the two Hebrew words used to describe God’s design for human beings. There are at least a dozen Today’s Word editions on this topic. But it is one of those verses that can be…
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