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NASB | 1 John 5:7 For there are three that testify: |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:7 For there are three witnesses: |
Subject: put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! |
Bible Note: I should have known that the response would have come quickly, before anyone would have had had a chance to ponder for a while the post to which he was responding. There is no indication that you even read the first passage quoted, even in your favorite version of the Bible. It seems you think that your eternal destiny rests on the fact you have discovered that most perfect version. Is that not worth thinking of, for a moment? What if you had lived in the time of Abraham when there was no written word? What if you were illiterate or less intelligent now and did not know which version was the best? We must be careful of bibliolotry and worship only the God of the Bible. I am happy these days to see someone simply reading the Gospel of John. If they never knew any more than that, they could have eternal life (John 3:16; John 20:31). If they obeyed the one commandment found there (John 13:34) I understand they would have kept the whole law (Romans 13:9). And love, my friend, is all important. Without it, knowledge only puffeth up (1 Corinthians 8:1). And when one is puffed up, one does not think clearly. He starts to think that he is a teacher and that everyone else is here to learn from him. Nor does he go into all the world to teach those who so need to learn. He withdraws into the cocoon with those who see every comma and semicolon where he sees it. In the will of God we have many brethren in the faith. Let us listen to them all. In the will of God we have many Bible translations. Let us use them all. Let us read Matthew 23 in all the versions, if only to make sure it is not addressed to us. But all of the Bible is addressed to us. Let us read it all. If we do, then I think we will not fret if one statement is not made here when it appears elsewhere. Above all, my friend, I wish you peace and assurance of salvation. A man who found a scrap of scripture in the gutter came to trust the Lord and went out to lead others to him. Like the woman at the well, he did not have all of the Bible and did not know what was missing. He thought he was overflowing. And we have so much! Let us not try to fill up our own store; it is not possible. Let us rather give out what we have, the word of faith, to others. |