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NASB | 1 John 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three are in agreement [their testimony is perfectly consistent]. |
Subject: Can we agree? A case of agreement? |
Bible Note: Hi Rowdy, Sorry, but I am just now looking at my email. It has been a busy week at my home as my one and only graduated from college today. Rejoice with us.:) 1) You wrote of "two basic types of spirit: 1) His Spirit or 2) our spirit." I agree wholeheartedly with your agreement of cases for we should indeed capitalize Deity and leave our spirit in lower case. But if you would say that God does not have a spirit I would disagree with that. For Jesus gave up His spirit when He breathed His last. God also breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath [sic] of life. John 3:8 talks about the wind or the spirit from God. For Ezekiel 36:26,27 I don't know if the spirit occurances there should agree in case or not. John 3:11, NASB, "Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony." John 3:11, NKJ, "Most assuredly I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness." I go with the NKJ for that verse. Can you see the possibility of the spirit and the Spirit as determining a plural of "Our witness"? 1) Certainly the witness of our spirit is worthwhile but the the witness of God is greater. My witness as a man in agreement with the Scriptures, (I believe), is that the understanding should be-- that the authors intended to say-- "For there are three that bear witness, the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement." 1 John 5:9, "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness concerning His Son." What is His witness? That Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 5:6, "This is the One [sic] who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood." And the [One], the Spirit, is the truth. From the heart, Ray |