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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves modestly and appropriately and discreetly in proper clothing, not with [elaborately] braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothes, |
Subject: Rowdy, Rowdy, are you sure? |
Bible Note: Aixen First, I hope you're not suggesting that the study of Gods' Attributes is of no value? I've found the opposite to be true! we get to know Him and His character- who He is - through the attributes. Second, the reference to 2 Tim. 2:15 does not necessarily imply a vain, intellectual excercise. In fact, I see it as far more than just that. You're quite correct that we should not study the Word just to get to know the Word (intellectually), but that we should study it to get to know the Person of the Savior! We study the Word to get to know the Author, as Paul implores us in Phil. 3:10: "that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death" To use the old cliche, "Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater." As James tells us we should be doers of the Word, not hearers only, deceiving ourselves. In that we should agree. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |