Summary Today's passage sets a stark contrast between two different types of God's covenant people. But the second group - the group that you and I are part of: the Church, have a far different experience We too have a mediator, just like Moses had promised, but this One is different; He represents a new The word church is one of our more useful words in English, in that we can use it to mean so many different The word translated as 'church' in our English Bibles is ἐκκλησία ( ekklēsia ).

When John uses the word paraklētos in His gospel, the translators struggle with it because the meaning of it is hard to capture with just one English word, and so it often gets rendered differently into All of those are good ways to describe who the Holy Spirit is and what He does, but all the different versions of the Bible agreed on the way to translate the use of the word paraklētos here in John's epistle

Another way they suggest translating it is "Do not be mismatched ." most fundamental definition of what it means to be a regenerated Christian is that you've been made different cites no less than three Old Testament passages in which God commanded His people to be separate and different But you might think you're different; that somehow you're stronger in your faith than generation after God, and we are His people; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray for the strength and faith to be different

Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 4: The Canonical Books This week we'll be focusing on some of the different criminals, one hanging on either side of Jesus, but both looking at their present situation from vastly different To call them 'criminals,' or even 'thieves' as the older translations put it, is an understatement. Regardless of how they're referred to, they represent two different types of people in this world.

But Jesus was so different. Imagine how different our daily lives, political discourse and international diplomacy would be if we Dig Deeper Yesterday we learned about ἵνα (hina) clauses, which are most often translated with the English

criminals, one hanging on either side of Jesus, but both looking at their present situation from vastly different To call them 'criminals,' or even 'thieves' as the older translations put it, is an understatement. Regardless of how they're referred to, they represent two different types of people in this world.

All of the italicised words below are different ways of describing God's Word: Blessed are those... who Another way to translate that would be, Happy is the man who makes God's Word his primary occupation.

We've looked before at the word that Jesus used to describe the Spirit that's so nuanced it's hard to translate Some translations go with Advocate , others use Comforter or Helper , and they're all right! A literal translation of the Greek word means one who comes alongside and calls out.

Many transactions during this period used weights and measures to determine the correct weight of a product Dishonest parties would take advantage of the system of weights and measures by having two different The lighter weight would be used when selling to give less product than the transaction demanded. In using dishonest weights, merchants were stealing a little from their trade partners in every transaction Each business transaction, no matter if it is a multi-million-dollar real estate deal or something as

All of our major English translations render these words slightly differently, so it's good to look at