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NASB | 1 John 3:24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:24 The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift]. |
Subject: How do we know that we are truly saved? |
Bible Note: In the KJV and NASB the Greek word "sunecho" (Strong's #4912) is translated as follows: KJV (12) - be in a strait, 1; be taken with, 3; constrain, 1; hold, 1; keep in, 1; lie sick of, 1; press, 1; stop, 1; straiten, 1; throng, 1; NAS (12) - afflicted, 1; controls, 1; covered, 1; crowding, 1; devoting...completely, 1; distressed, 1; gripped, 1; hard-pressed, 1; hem, 1; holding...in custody, 1; suffering, 2; I am no Greek scholar. But I have formally studied (3 years) a foreign language and what I do know is that there is more to translating a document than merely translating a list of words in the source language (Greek) into a list of equivalent words in the target language (English). When any individual word is translated, the context must be taken into consideration. Possession of Strong's concordance does not qualify us for the work of translating the Bible. It takes much, much more than that. |