Jeremiah 17:9-10 |
| | Expanded Bible “·More than anything else [T Above all things], ·a person’s mind is evil [T the heart is deceitful; L the heart is devious/crooked] and ·cannot be healed [T desperately wicked; L it is perverse/sick]. Who can ·understand [know] it? But I, the Lord, ·look into a person’s [investigate/test the] heart and test the ·mind [L kidneys]. ·So I can decide what each one deserves [L …to give to each according to his way/path]; I can give each one the right payment for what he does.” Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Jeremiah 17
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| | King James Version The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Jeremiah 17
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| | La Biblia de las Américas Más engañoso que todo, es el corazón, y sin remedio; ¿quién lo comprenderá? Yo, el Señor, escudriño el corazón, pruebo los pensamientos, para dar a cada uno según sus caminos, según el fruto de sus obras. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Jeremiah 17
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| | La Biblia de las Américas Más engañoso que todo, es el corazón, y sin remedio; ¿quién lo comprenderá? Yo, el Señor, escudriño el corazón, pruebo los pensamientos, para dar a cada uno según sus caminos, según el fruto de sus obras. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Jeremiah 17
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| | New American Standard Bible “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, To give to each person according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Jeremiah 17
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 Bible Gateway God's Pleasure to Do You Good"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." (Luke 12:32)
Jesus will not sit by and let us disbelieve without a fight. He takes up the weapon of the Word and speaks it with power for all who struggle to believe. His aim is to defeat the fear that God is not the kind of God who really wants to be good to us — that he is not really generous and helpful and kind and tender, but is basically irked with us — ill-disposed and angry. Sometimes, even if we believe in our heads that God is good to us, we may feel in our hearts that his goodness is somehow forced or constrained, perhaps like a judge who has been maneuvered by a clever attorney into a corner on some technicality of court proceeding, so he has to dismiss the charges against the prisoner whom he really would rather send to jail. But Jesus is at pains to help us not feel that way about God. He is striving in this verse to describe for us the indescribable worth and excellency of God's soul by showing the unbridled pleasure he takes in giving us the kingdom. "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom." Every little word of this stunning sentence is intended to help take away the fear that Jesus knows we struggle with, namely, that God begrudges his benefits; that he is constrained and out of character when he does nice things; that at bottom he is angry and loves to vent his anger. This is a sentence about the nature of God. It's about the kind of heart God has. It's a verse about what makes God glad — not merely about what God will do or what he has to do, but what he delights to do, what he loves to do and takes pleasure in doing. Every word counts. | | | | | | | | Bible Gateway Recommendations | | | |
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 Bible Gateway Romans 12:3 |
| | Expanded Bible Because God has given me ·a special gift [his grace], I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think you are better than you are. [Instead] You must ·decide what you really are [think sensibly; think with sober discernment] ·by [based on; in accordance with] the amount of faith God has given you. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Romans 12
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| | King James Version For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Romans 12
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| | La Biblia de las Américas Nuestros deberes cristianos Porque en virtud de la gracia que me ha sido dada, digo a cada uno de vosotros que no piense más alto de sí que lo que debe pensar, sino que piense con buen juicio, según la medida de fe que Dios ha distribuido a cada uno. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Romans 12
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| | La Biblia de las Américas Nuestros deberes cristianos Porque en virtud de la gracia que me ha sido dada, digo a cada uno de vosotros que no piense más alto de sí que lo que debe pensar, sino que piense con buen juicio, según la medida de fe que Dios ha distribuido a cada uno. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Romans 12
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| | New American Standard Bible For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. Read at Bible Gateway Read all of Romans 12
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