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We shall see. I haven'r read all 150 chapters of that book in the CEB. Have you read more of the Psalms as rendered by the CEB, or are you basing your appreciation on the three passages of the Psalms that I have posted?

Psalm 20 I pray that the Lord answers you and whenever you are in trouble. Let the name of Jacob's God protect you. Let God send help to you from the sanctuary and support you from Zion. Let God recall your many grain offerings; let him savor your entirely burned offerings. Let God grant what...

Psalm 14 Fools say in their hearts, There is no God. They are corrupt and do evil things; not one of them does anything good. The Lord looks down from heaven on humans to see if anyone is wise, to see if anyone seeks God, but all of them have turned bad. Everyone is corrupt. No one does good...

No,no and no. A thousand times no. It's oxymoronic to pair "a vibrant younger congregation" with "the ESV." I always use a translation other than the one my pastor preaches from. It is insightful to get the import of a text from various angles. In the past two decades under the ministry of...

Psalm 11 I have taken refuge in the Lord. So how can you say to me, 'Flee to the hills like a bird because the wicked have already bent their bows; they've already strung their arrows; they are ready to secretly shoot those whose heart is right?' When the very bottom of things falls out, what...

Well, the KJV had "sup with" so... Here are some other renderings of that verse. NCV : Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you will eat with me. NRSV : Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear...

Revelation 3:20 Look! I'm standing at the door and knocking. If any hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to be with them, and will have dinner with them, and they will have dinner with me.

You may be wondering about verse 19 where a part of the verse reads :" Ha! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble with fear." It reminds me of Tyndale's translation of Genesis 3:4 :"Tush, ye shall not dye."

James 2:18-26 Someone might claim, 'You have faith and I have action.' But how can I see your faith apart from your actions? Instead, I'll show you my faith by putting it into practice in faithful action. It's good that you believe that God is one. Ha! Even the demons believe this, and they...

I do too, "...a sweeping victory through the one who loved us."

Romans 8:31-39 So what are we going to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He didn't spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. Won't he also freely give us all things with him? Who will bring a charge against God's elect people? It is God who acquits them. Who is...

2 Peter 1:16-18 We didn't repeat crafty myths when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Quite the contrary, we witnessed his majesty with our own eyes. He received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice came to him from the magnificent glory, saying, 'This...

I Peter 1:3,4 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! On account of his vast mercy, he has given us new birth. You have been born anew into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. You have a pure and enduring inheritance that cannot perish ---...

Colossians 2:6-8 So live in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way as you received him. Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught. See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception, which conform to human...

Hebrews 12:1,2 So then let's also run the race that is laid out in front of us, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us. Let's throw off any extra baggage, get rid of the sin that trips us up, and fix our eyes on Jesus, faith's pioneer and perfecter. He endured the cross...

Philippians 2:6-11 Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit. But he emptied himself by taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings. When he found himself in the form of a human, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to...

I don't know why I referenced verses 9 to 14. I posted 1:1 to 14.

John 1:9-14 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. Everything came into being through the Word, and without the Word nothing came into being. What came into being through the Word was life, and the life was the...

It's we're led to believe.

I was so shook up that I spelled "Th e" instead of "The" in the header.