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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
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Bible Note: Janae, again I disavow any intent to single you out for the purpose of ridiculing or embarrassing you in any manner. But in your post 149631 to BradK you said this: "I know that you are purists in that if it is not in the Bible then you don't agree with it." ..... You are absolutely right, Janae. Those of us who hold the Bible to be our sole rule for faith and practice definitely and positively do not believe any wind of doctrine whatsoever that is not rooted and grounded solidly in Scripture, no matter who says it, how convincingly they say it, or how many times they say it. We take with utmost seriousness the solemn charge, warning and command that Paul issued to young Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1-5. We believe the words of 2 Timothy 3:16 to be absolutely true. And we assuredly believe in approaching all teachings we hear and read from man's lips and pen in the same "show me" spirit and using the same test that the Bereans so wisely applied in apostolic times, who "received the word with all readiness and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so (cf. Acts 17:11). Indeed, unless one does search the Scriptures daily, he may well find himself following false teachers who, like the people of Israel during the time of the judges, do what is right in their own eyes (cf. Judges 21:25). --Hank |