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NASB | Jeremiah 7:23 "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 7:23 "But this thing I did command them: 'Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, so that it may be well with you.' |
Subject: Old Testament Law |
Bible Note: Stern: "Neither I nor the vast majority of Messianic Jews are Judaizers." "In speaking of restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel I assume that my readers will agree to the following three points, which are not themselves part of this restored Jewishness but are presupposed by it: (1) Christianity is Jewish, (2) anti-semitism is un-Christian, and (3) refusing or neglecting to evangelize Jews is antisemitic." "It has been pointed out to me that there are Christians who experience this book as promoting the Judaizing heresy which Paul condemns in the book of Galatians. But 'Judaizing' does not mean encouraging New Testament believers to investigate the Jewishness of their faith. Rather, it (judaizing) means one or a combination of the following three things: (1) insisting that Gentiles cannot be saved by faith in Yeshua the Messiah unless they convert to Judaism, (2) requiring saved Gentiles to follow Jewish cultural practices, and/or (3) legalism, i.e., requiring Gentiles to obey a perverted version of the Torah in which God's Law is seen as a set of rules unrelated to faith. Neither I nor the vast majority of Messianic Jews are Judaizers. I think that if this book is read in the light of what "Judaizing" really signifies, any fair reader should be convinced." (RESTORING THE JEWISHNESS OF THE GOSPEL, by David Stern, Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc., 1988) |