Hebrews 4:11-13 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a […]

In the email you sent me concerning James 4:5 you mention Mark 15:28. Well, that verse simply does not exist in the NIV – both in Spanish and English! Would you know why? Carolina A few Egyptian manuscripts form the primary basis for the popular “critical Greek text” favored by many modern scholars who study […]

The meaning of the individual parts of a passage of Scripture (or any other writing) is determined by the larger context in which the parts are found. However, when we happen to have a fixed agenda — a list of things we want to prove from Scripture — we can contort Scripture out of context […]

Hebrews 11:1 – 12:13 (NKJV) 1. Faith projects into the invisible future. 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 2. Faith projects into the invisible past. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed […]

The following series of articles is a study in Bibliology – the doctrine of the Bible. The purpose of this series of articles is to display something of what the Bible teaches about the Bible, but more particularly to display what the Bible teaches about the authority of the Bible. Below is a brief outline […]

Unless marked or noted otherwise, all English translations of Scripture on this website are my own translations. The Translation The English translation used on this website is first of all a literal concordant translation from the original language. Concordant means there is a one-for-one correspondence or agreement between the words (or expressions) in the original […]